earlier in the week. finally the ugly, an illegal immigrant busted trying to sneak into the u.s. in its shipment of red chili peppers. he made it about 1 hundred yards before he was discovered in the state of new mexico. >> have a great day. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning. it is monday, september 9, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time today. deadly start to the nfl season. a football fan falls from a walk way at a stadium. details from police. >>steve: the president obama on a p.r. blitz today to get congress and americans on board for more war. and the secretary of state with this message moments ago: don't be weak. >> the evidence is powerful, and the question for all of us is what are we going to do about it? turn our backs? have a moment of silence?

>>steve: where congress stands this morning. >>brian: plus this little girl is a miracle. doctors told mom to abort this sick unborn child but the baby gave mom a different message, and it all started with a kick. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>steve: and in addition to being cable news's number-one morning show -- this one you're watching right here -- we've got the stars from the number-one show on cable. duck dynasty will be here on the curvy couch this morning. >>brian: if you think you know the two who will be here, tweet us. >>gretchen: three. in the meantime let's get to your headlines. while you were sleeping a plane skidded off the runway in bangkok. it happened at the moment the thai airways jet

touched down. passengers and crew evacuated using emergency slots. a deadly start to the nfl season after a fan falls to his death from a walk way at candlestick park on sunday. it happened after kickoff of the 49ers packers season opener. witnesses say the man appeared to be drunk. in indianapolis a railing collapsed, left two fans hurt during a colts game against the raiders. they were reportedly leaning against a barrier when it gave way. both suffered minor injuries. sunday at the fair turns into a nightmare. people watched in horror when a swing ride suddenly lost power throwing 12 kids right out of their seats. >> i heard this crash, all this metal and all these seats clinking together. >> the chains, seats, everything went swinging around swashing into each other. and everything came to a complete halt. kids were falling out of it. >> most of the kids suffered minor cuts and bruises fortunately.

one eight-year-old boy was hospitalized but is expected to be okay. mechanical failure is being blamed. >> to an update to a story we've been following. the daughter of congress woman bootler getting stronger. it is believed she is the first baby to survive a fatal disease. five months into the pregnancy the couple got the devastating diagnosis, told their baby's lungs and kidneys would not form properly. they got an experimental treatment and it worked. >> we get to play with her, hold her, she is doing everything a preemie her age should be doing. >> abigail's lungs are fine but she will need a kidney transplant and dialysis every day until then. >>brian: cbs was able to go over to syria and sit down with assad, and it

turns out he did not come out say -- of course you know he's running things in syria -- that i did not use chemical weapons on my enemies, the rebels, insurgents. but he did say this is no proof that i used that. then comes this german report that says there might be something to that. >>steve: assad said he didn't have anything to do with the attack, didn't even know that an attack had taken place. what's interesting, though, we haven't heard any of the sound bites yet but charlie rose who did the interview said assad does accept some of the responsibility and expressed remorse for indirectly triggering the gas attack that killed 1,400 people. so mr. assad says, look, i didn't order this out. brian, to your point, apparently the intel community in germany says they have proof that assad did not directly order the hit on the gas. >>gretchen: that doesn't mean that he didn't know about it and it doesn't mean he hasn't done it in the past. i don't think this has been the only time they've used

chemical weapons. >>brian: 12 to 14 times. >>gretchen: are we going to believe assad? not that we need to go over and attack them. i'm not sure that's the answer. but i don't believe assad and whatever he says. he's been killing his own people for years. >>brian: germany's c.i.a., their chief said we did intercept a phone call from a high-ranking member of hezbollah telling the iranian embassy that assad made a huge mistake when he gave the order to use chemicals. that according to dere spiegel who took down that quote. >>steve: i think it is extraordinary they've got crazy leaks over there like we do here where they say the germans were listening. they were in a ship off the med listening to the intercepts from syria. they also said that apparently one of the things that they did pick up is elements of his regime, it sound like. not the rebel groups. were responsible.

according to all these sources and including aed, he says -- including assad he says i wasn't in it. according to germans he wasn't directly in on it. >>gretchen: when you're a dictator, you're in on everything. >>steve: that's the great thing about being a dictator. >>gretchen: it is very easy to say he didn't know about it but somebody probably lost their head as a result of some of this information getting out. >>brian: in syria it is known the military oftentimes has more power than assad. he's an opting monthly gist by -- opthamologist by trade. >>steve: if we have our strikes go through and he has to get out of the dictator business, he'll have something to fall back in, you know, the eye business. >>brian: that's true. lens crafters is always looking for somebody to run a good franchise. -l >>gretchen: are they popular in syria? >>brian: if you can get someone to give contact

lenses that don't irritate the eye and keep the cornea free, you've got something. >>gretchen: i have a sneaking suspicion that if he is no longer ruler of syria he will be no longer with us. there's other stuff to report today including something with hillary clinton. >>steve: let's take a look. president obama federal budget off dinner with republicans sat down with -- president obama fresh off dinner with republicans, now he is going to meet with hillary today. it is the full-court press, isn't it? >> it is indeed. the president continues trying to round up support for a limited strike on libya. at the same time a possible presidential contender expected to offer some help to help the president make his case today. former secretary of state hillary clinton goes to the white house today for a wildlife event. and according to to aides, will comment on syria. she is expected to throw her support behind the president's plan for a limited military attack on syria. she has been criticized for failing to speak out after that gas attack in syria

last month. her appearance and her comments come just a few days before the one-year anniversary of benghazi. >> the thing is this administration won't even react when americans are killed in benghazi. they've done absolutely nothing. and so here's the situation in syria that doesn't involve americans and they want to get involved. to me, they've got it backwards. >> president obama has a busy day taping interviews with the tv networks, including fox. last night he made a surprise appearance at a dinner for republican senators at the residence of vice president joe biden. and according to associated press, ph obama plans to meet with the u.s. -- at the u.s. capitol with senate democrats tomorrow just hours before his speech to the american people from the white house. that speech set for 9:00 p.m. tomorrow night. back to you. >>steve: thank you very much. >>brian: he goes over to the vice president's house, stays for an hour and 20 minutes, has some dinner. he was working the phones yesterday. tuesday a huge speech. he is going all on the

offense. however, if you don't lay the groundwork with a relationship, how can you call on people to back you up when you haven't been this for them? case in point, congressman adam kissenger. >>gretchen: what he claimed is here a form air force veteran who is in favor of the plan. yet he said on this show i reached out to the white house more than a week ago. let's hear what he has to say. >> i think it's going to be very difficult for him to get votes. i think this goes back not just to the issue itself but you can't begin to build a relationship with congress for the first time when you need their support on something like this. look, a week and a half ago my office actually reached out to the white house and said we support the strike on syria. we're going to help you round up support if you need it. i haven't heard back from the white house yet. i haven't heard back from anyone. i don't even know who my white house liaison is. >>gretchen: what i find fascinating about that is this president has been so

masterful at campaigning with his team and getting the message out, getting the votes and reaching out to people, it's fascinating to me that apparently that same strategy doesn't work with working out to members of congress or it's not being employed in the same way. it's fascinating you wouldn't reach out to a republican who is in favor of your strike. >>steve: well because maybe -- and i don't know because i'm not working at the white house currently. you know, what they've really got to worry about is the democrats. in fact, the democrats, this apparently is the leverage they're using right now. unless you democrats vote for your president, his presidency will be crippled. nothing is going to get done. he will be a lame duck immediately. what's interesting, right after that interview on abc, the congressman got a call from the white house, and now they are trying to work together to get more republicans and democrats to vote for a strike in syria. >>brian: they always say dig your well before you're thirsty. he is thinker city but there is no well -- he is

thirsty but there is no dug. the president cannot connect one on one. he is not interested in the past, just the president. if you read bob woodward's book, his personal relationships are less than zero with most of these people who are not bailed out and many of them are out of a job because they backed his stimulus package and they backed his obamacare. >>gretchen: then his staff should be in trouble. if it's a known fact that he's not good at personal relationships, he should have a staff who is. this could be the most pivotal point of his presidency and he doesn't have his staff reach -- i don't care if you're republican, democrat, independent or something else, you should have a member of his staff reaching out to you. >>steve: he's the leader. he's the president -- >>gretchen: if he's not good at it, he should have a staff that is. >>brian: a jim baker, sun who has been there -- someone who has been there in the past and knows how to work. >>steve: you combine that

with the calendar, it looks as if the senate is going to be voting this week. the house maybe as early as next week. look what he's got on the calendar. tonight the season kickoff for monday night football and major league football as well is going to be tonight. they are competing for eyeballs. in new york city there is a big primary tomorrow. plus the new iphone is launching, which believe me, a lot of people are worried about and concerned about because they love technology. >>brian: and the gap has new ripped jeans. the iphone coming out, yom kippur, holidays important. the other thing that comes up too is that they say in the past nobody -- and 9/11 of course on wednesday. they say never rule out anything in august. that if you are interested in getting anything across to the american people, no one is paying attention to august. and even as crass as this may sound, in 2002 when it came to telling the american people the need to act in iraq, they waited until september. >>gretchen: the biggest thing standing in the way

of getting attention is parents and kid. parents and kids are back to school. that is what you're focused on. it is tough to get your attention otherwise. >>brian: i don't pay attention to my kids so it is no problem. >>gretchen: coming up on this show imagine seeing this in your yard. a hot-air balloon goes down in a quiet neighborhood and this isn't the first time it actually happened. >>steve: kind of looks like the marshmallow man. then i.b.m. announcing it is dumping 110,000 retirees off the company's health care plan. is your company next? our company's stuart varney is going to tell us all about that. like two ships crossing in the night. ♪ ♪ heart healthy, huh?! ugh! actually progresso's soup has pretty bold flavor. i love bold flavors! i'd love it if you'd open the chute!

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>>brian: big businesses breaking for obamacare taking action to cut costs already and the latest victims? retirees. >>gretchen: i.b.m. announcing it will remove 110 retirees off its health plan. what can these former employees expect? stuart varney joining us now. actually the employer is going to give them like a stipend to buy their own retiree health insurance? >> let's get straight at it here. if you work for i.b.m. right now, you get traditional health insurance health coverage. when you retire from i.b.m., you're going to get not the traditional health coverage. you're going to get a lump sum. you take that money and you spend it as you see fit within a private health care exchange. so i.b.m. is cutting its costs. it knows what its future cost is going to be because it knows what that lump sum is going to be to those employees. >>brian: if you're somebody retiring at 65, 67, 71, you're going to get that number, so you've got to project how much you

should spend every year on a policy of your choosing? >> yes. because of the lump sum that comes to you from i.b.m. or time warner. >>brian: do you like this? it's kind of good because you don't have people competing for your business? >> the old-fashioned way of a company providing pension and insurance for retirees, that's going. that's going, going, virtually gone. that's because of the rising cost of health care. companies cannot predict what they're going to be paying in the future. they want to control those costs. they want predictability and this is one way of doing it. it is neither a good thing nor bad thing. it is reality. >>gretchen: let's look at the trend of this. if you go back in time to 1988, 66% of the companies are offering coverage. then look to 2013. i guess my point to you is going to be this was starting before obamacare or do you blame obamacare? >> this started before obamacare came along but obamacare was supposed to reduce the cost of health care coverage. that was priority number one when we went into this

thing and it failed in that objective. plus obamacare makes these generous company-provided health care plans for retirees. makes them more expensive. it taxes them. that's what you've got to remember. >>brian: another story came out today. the american dream still intact but it's a different dream. we're dreaming about focusing on getting out of debt, not maybe getting the dream house or the dream retirement. >> credit.com does a survey of youngsters. 23% of them, their american dream, for them is being debt-free. now there's a shift. only 18% dream the american dream of owning their own home. that is a switch. seems to me that youngsters, most people have been so burned by debt following the great recession that they now want to be debt-free. that's their priority. don't like it. i'm a traditional guy. buy your own home, own it, use it. that's what i think is the american dream, but it's changing. >>brian: varney and company at 9:20 featuring

the varney and company band. will start on the fox business network -- >>gretchen: that's a change. >>brian: it's fantastic. love the music. look forward to seeing you. >> i do too. the music. >>gretchen: all right. see you later. coming up, crucial health information for women watching. we have new information about when you should get a mammogram. >>brian: remember when mitt romney was mocked for his views about russia? >> in the 1980's or now calling the foreign policy bank. the cold war was over for 20 years. >>brian: romney was spot on when he said they are our number one geopolitical foe. a spokesperson will be on to talk about just this. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] when you asked us to remove

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>>gretchen: if you're just waking un, quick headlines. forget the n.s.a. british prime minister david cameron leaving his information in public. a passenger snapped a picture of his briefcase filled with official papers on a train. you can see the key still in it. government officials deny a security breach and say a member of the prime minister's staff was watching the whole time. anthony weiner is on the bottom. a new poll shows he's now last in the race for new york city mayor on the democratic side for the primary. maybe that's why his wife has reportedly refused to campaign with him now. >>steve: or could it have to do with that other stuff? during the presidential debate nearly a year ago, the president mocked mitt romney for romney's views about russia.

>> in the 1980's or now calling [inaudible] the foreign policy bank. the cold war has been over for 20 years. >>steve: turns out romney was right. the russian's involvement with that guy right there, edward snowden, iran and syria causing big trouble for america. what else was mitt romney right about during the campaign? and what would the country look like now if mitt romney were the president? joining us is one of mitt romney's former senior advisors, robert o'neal -- or brian that is to say, joins us from l.a. good morning to you, robert. >> good morning. >> let's start with syria. it looks like mitt romney was right about syria, wasn't he? >> well, it's a little iron i can now that joe biden was running around the campaign trail saying that mitt romney was going to get us into a war with syria. so it's, you know, it's a little funny, looking back

on that now. a little sad as well. early on in the crisis when the obama administration was casting assad as a reformer and saying we could do business with him and sending our ambassador back to syria, to damascus to give him credibility, the governor called for ambassador ford to be recalled. again the mainstream media and the obama team took a very different view and now america is paying the price. >>steve: absolutely. meanwhile something else. when governor romney said russia is america's geopolitical foe, and he was lambasted by everybody, but he was right, wasn't he? >> you see the russians sending war ships to the mediterranean, vetoing resolutions in the u.n. security council not just on syria but iran, the edward snowden asylum? the governor was spot-on. the problem we had is that the governor ran on serious politics proposals. the obama team ran on

slogans. the slogans turned out to be trite but were helpful politically at the time. >>steve: also mitt romney was talking about molly and people were going what's molly. in october they have the he said islamist extremists are capable of taking control of molly. he was right about molly. >> he was. i remember bill maher tweeting out that most americans thought mali was the name of the president's daughter. that got a lot of play. people thought that was funny. a few months later the french along with the canadians transporting them were in mali rescuing the country from al qaeda. when the governor sounded that alarm, no response from other than mocking and slogans from the left. and he was right on that one as well. >>steve: finally, when it came to detroit, romney was right about detroit. he said managed bankruptcy

is more beneficial than a bailout. now of course detroit, the city, is bankrupt. >> it's a little sad. i don't take any pleasure in the i told you so approach here this morning, but again you recall the democrat convention, that famous mantra, osama bin laden is dead and g.m. is alive. well, detroit is now bankrupt. it is getting no help from the white house or from washington. it's in a terrible state. the reports of al qaeda's death given benghazi and mali and last month colossianing 20 of our emabout a -- last month closing 20 of our embassies around the middle east. >>steve: it turns out mitt romney was right about so much stuff. robert o'brien, you knew that. we thank you for getting up early this monday morning to talk about it. >> thanks. have a great day. >>steve: straight ahead,

one year after the attack in benghazi, there's still so many questions but now we're hearing from a diplomat who was on the ground that night. and he says he's being punished for speaking out. >> i don't know why i was punished. i don't know why i was shunted aside, put in a closet, if you will. >>steve: more from greg hicks ahead. imagine seeing this in your backyard. a hot-air balloon goes down in a quiet neighborhood. and this is not the first time it's happened. look out below, baby. ♪ ♪ good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories.

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about one month. i'll meet you back here at 6:33 late september. >>steve: it is unmanned. there is nobody on it. >>brian: so don't call. no one's going to pick up. >>gretchen: and nobody is going to be here to meet you. >>brian: i'm here. >>gretchen: if you're expecting somebody, nobody is going to come out of a space capsule. >>brian: but we'd be able to see the shot. >>gretchen: we will. we've got to bring you up to date on headlines if you're just joining us. ucl a's wide receiver is dead after being hit by a car. the 20-year-old was killed crossing a busy street in san clemente early sunday morning. the freshman was remembered yesterday. >> he'll be sorely missed. i miss him already dearly. >> he had such a bright future. his drive and enthusiasm exceed.

i'll never forget that. >>gretchen: the accident is under investigation but authorities do not believe that the driver was drinking. >>brian: what age should women get mammograms? according to a study many women who died of breast cancer before the age of 50 were never screened. researchers suggest guidelines should be changed to encourage women to screen earlier. >>steve: a miraculous story on survival. a man lost in the andes mountains is found alive four months later. a 58-year-old man from uruguay was rescued yesterday. he had lost 45 pounds and was dehydrated but overall in pretty good health. officials said the man tried to bicycle across the andes and chile and argentina but the bicycle broke down. he tried to make the rest of the trek on foots but got disoriented by two heavy snowfalls. >>gretchen: a hot air

balloon landing in this california neighborhood narrowly missing homes and kids playing in the streets. thankfully no one was hurt but this is not the first time this balloon has done this. it made another crash landing there in the same location? i guess so. just months ago. those are your headlines. time for a little sports action now. a lot of sports to talk about. >>brian: if i'm a little groggy it's because i stayed up to watch the giants game. go ahead with the highlights. guys, i'll tell you when it's over. let's talk sunday night football game. with two minutes left giants tried to mount a come-back. they were down by six. i'm convinced my tweet would have predicted a victory. that tip went off manning's pass to the brandon carr

hand. giants with six turnovers and still almost beat the cowboys 36-31. adrian peterson, first play from scrimmage. 78-yard touchdown run. the vikings still lose to the lions 34-24. how about this? best incredible finish, come on, joel. david, that put on geno which put him 15 yards on to that run. 48 yards to the upright. jets win 18-17. jets win, jets win. jets win. joel, they could see you on camera. giant fan came back to help me. serena williams with her fifth u.s. open championship anything but easy. by the way, azarenka.

williams won in three sets. she might retire as the best ever. wrestling will be an olympics sport but baseball and squash are squashed. seven months after losing olympic status wrestling has been reinstated for the 2020 games in tokyo. coming up on "kilmeade & friends," listen live on the app. >>steve: if you want the weather, listen to maria molina. she is outside our world headquarters where it is chilly this morning. >> currently about 62 degrees here in new york city. it is a little bit breezy so that makes it feel cooler. the wind chill temperature in the 50's. grab a light jacket as you head outdoors. by this afternoon along the i-95 corridors, warming up into the low 70's but still a little bit below average for cities across parts of

the northeast. where it is well above average is the center of the country. take a look at some of these high temperatures. in minnesota, upper 90's. 97 degrees for your high. in chicago, in cities like kansas city, memphis and even down into dallas. if you're over the heat out here, we have good news. we are going to be seeing those temperatures cooling down. specifically here, chicago, your five-day forecast. take a look at friday. you're seeing a significant cooldown dropping down into the 60's. that will be your high temperature. big changes coming up for many people across parts of the midwest. today showers and thunderstorms, flash flooding and severe weather will be possible in sections of the upper midwest. we also have news in the atlantic. tropical storm umberto could potentially be the first hurricane of the season. we'll keep an eye on it. no impact expected for the united states. let's head back inside. >>steve: it's about time we had at least one.

maria, thank you. >>gretchen: this week coming up on wednesday, the one-year anniversary of not only 9/11 but benghazi and what happened there. hard to believe it's already been a year. remember the whistle-blower gregory hicks. he was the former deputy chief of the mission in libya who worked with the state department. he testified in congress about the 9/11 attacks. he was very forthright and he believes now he has been punished as a result of that. really what his mission is that he believes that we im justice for those four americans who were killed. he also said in an interview yesterday that he believes that the last two americans killed, the two former navy seals, didn't have to die. they died apparently eight hours after the initial attacks. he believes their lives could have been saved. >>brian: here's gregory hicks. >> i feel that i have been punished. i don't know why i was punished. i don't know why i was shunted aside, put in a

closet, if you will. we need to make sure that those people going out into the world on our behalf have the tools that they need and the resources they need to do the job that they have been asked to do for the people of the united states. because the american people need to have the story and ambassador chris stevens, sean smith, ty woods and glenn daugherty's names are names that should be remembered by every american. those are the sacrifices that they made. >>brian: he thought help should have been there and he thought it should have been there in time and there should have been more help on the way. and this whole thing unfolding and he hopes we all learn from this. but people are exiled because nobody at the state department knew he was going to do that interview with george stephanopoulos and he says that will probably -- >>steve: he thought the benghazi attack was terrorism from the get-go. when he saw susan rice on

those sunday morning shows saying it was about a youtube video, he could not believe it. he was probably also the last person to talk to the ambassador alive. chris wallace yesterday sat down with the chief of staff for the president of the united states and said it's a year later. where are the arrests with benghazi? >> why is it that reporters seem to be able to find this guy who the government is charge are for involvement in benghazi, but our law enforcement can't find him? >> you know what the united states does? we track every lead until we find and can accomplish what we say we will do. >> not to belabor it but why can a.p. find him, why can "the new york times" find him and not our government? >> the united states government does what it says and we will do what we say in this instance as we do in every other instance. >>brian: those two people having totally different conversations. not even getting close to answering. >>gretchen: how could it be in a press report this morning the guy's name is right here on a piece of

paper. it is that easy to find. charges against libyan militia leader. though he's been on major news outlets he's not been taken into custody. >>steve: his name has been out there for awhile. i get the red line that the president drew with regard to chemical weapons. i get that. but isn't killing one of our ambassadors a red line as well? where's the payback? where's the justice? >>brian: the i.r.s. is serving up new regulations that could kill tips. details coming your way. some say it's next. >>gretchen: it's been on the streets for nearly 50 years but this morning big news about an iconic bus. did the partridge family have that one? >>brian: i'm not sure. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ here, try this. mm, ok! ching! i like the fact that there's lots of different tastes going on. mmmm! breakfast i'm very impressed.

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page. one problem, nobody can see it because the government banned facebook. cabinet members have to use a proxy server in tehran to access the site. you can say goodbye to the volkswagen bus. brazil is the only country where the iconic 56-year-old buses are still being built but not for long. this december the last v.w. bus will roll off the assembly line. >>brian: the i.r.s. is serving up new regulations that would end automatic gratuities at restaurants. can you believe this? you might think this sounds like a good idea until you hear their side of the story. joining us is one of the owners of the e & e grill house at 49th and broadway in manhattan. what is your reaction to this? >> i don't think it should be. i think it is a good law, a good thing to have automatic gratuities because it protects the

servers. for a small business like us, it's very helpful to have the servers protected when they're working very hard. >>brian: when you're with a big party people don't understand, might not do the math or know the math. or you might have a lot of internationals and they have no idea what they should be doing. >> we are located in the heart of times square and we get a lot of tourists and they don't know how to tip a lot of time. so with the larger parties, it says on the menu that we include the tip. it protects the server who works for two hours for them from getting stiffed. >>brian: how does the government benefit? are they taxing coming and going? >> with this new regulation they'll be taxing the employee on the tip and then they'll be taxing it as taxable income to the restaurant so our payroll taxes will go up. for a small business that is a little bit difficult. >>brian: if this is the reality, you as an owner, how are you going to pass on the cost? >> we're not going to pass

on the cost because it is such a delicate balance for how we're priced out. but what we will do is do creative ways of suggesting gratuities to the different tables so that, so it's not an automatic gratuity. >>brian: now you go anywhere with a big size party you expect it automatically in. >> that is true. most people expect there is an expectation of it. i think if it is done with transparency and good will and it's not sort of slid in there, then i think it's a good thing. it definitely protects. for us, if the service isn't impeccable we won't include it. >>brian: right now what is your policy? >> policies of six or more we add an 18% gratuity. >>brian: when will you know if this goes through? >> in a few weeks. >>brian: you're already getting killed with obamacare? >> we might be. that hurts as well. and with small businesses, particularly in the

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>> steve: the president of the united states has a busy day, sitting down with all the tv networks, sitting down with chris wallace for seven minutes. >> brian: i don't know if he has an outfit yet. >> steve: he probably picked it out or his wife could have picked it out for him. going to sit down for seven minutes, talk about syria. the president really needs to convince the american people, but even more than that, he needs to convince democrats because right now if he had the vote in the u.s. house of representatives, the president would lose because of democrats and now a bunch of lefty groups, including things like code pink, moveon.org are coming out against the president. >> gretchen: moveon.org have spent five figures to run a new ad against an attack against syria and equates it to what happened to president bush in iraq. i think what would be more accurate is if they equated it to what happened in libya, which was still under president obama.

remember, that whole situation was just a couple years ago, folks. that was because we were going to get rid of the dictator, gadhafi, right? you were going to support the rebels and maybe have democracy in libya. look what happened there. those rebels were not to be trusted and now you just basically have factions of militia there trying to run some sort of a country there and not very well. is that what would happen in syria? >> brian: you want to see the moveon.org ad? >> steve: yeah. >> we never set out to spend eight years at war in iraq, or to be mired down in more than a decade of fighting in afghanistan. so what should america expect if we rush into syria alone with no real plan for the consequences? we already know. it gets worse. congress, most americans oppose missile strikes in syria. don't lead us down this road again. call congress and tell them, vote no on military action. >> brian: you might hear republicans giving president obama a hard time again, you you

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. it's monday, september 9 already, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. hope you had a great weekend. fox news alert, the president kick off his biggest campaign blitz in months, going to happen today selling his strike on syria. but some of his biggest supporters are still against it. can he change their minds? donald trump is on deck with some advice coming up. >> brian: a deadly start to the nfl season off the field. a football fan falls from a walkway at the 49ers game. the breaking details from police, what they say happened. >> steve: and they are the most popular family in america for a reason. maybe it's their life lessons. >> i've learned one thing from this.

>> what? >> i ain't going to be buried. i want a taxidermist to stuff me. >> steve: they know a guy who can do that. the guys from "duck dynasty" here live this hour. "fox & friends" hour two for this monday starts right now. >> steve: here is one of the reasons i hate twitter. i just did a tweet that we were going to have on some of the guys from "duck dynasty," including willie and sy and i wrote si to s, and it auto corrected. >> brian: you and sent it? >> steve: of course. >> brian: that's why -- >> gretchen: can he show me how to do that later? we both got iphones and i have some sneaking suspicions we're both bad at it. >> brian: right. i can't work the keyboard. >> gretchen: i can't either. last night i texted my baby-sitter something and she wrote back, what?

[ laughter ] >> steve: we've got si, we got willie and jeff. they will be with us within the half hour right here on the "fox & friends" program. "duck dynasty" program is a phenomenon. >> brian: they might be late, they have to comb their beards. >> gretchen: let's get to your headlines. a plane skidded off the runway in bangkok, leaving 14 people hurt at the exact moment the thai jet touched down. everyone was evacuated. fun kay at the fair turns moo a nightmare. people watched as a swing road in norwalk, connecticut, suddenly lost power, throwing 12 kids right out of their seats. >> this crash of all this metal and all these seats clicking together. >> the chains, the swings, everything went completely swinging around, crashing into each other.

everything came to a complete halt. kids were falling out. >> gretchen: most of the kids suffered minor cuts and bruises. one eight-year-old boy was hospitalized. but he's expected to be okay. mechanical failure is to blame. deadly start to the nfl season. a fan falls to his death from a walkway in san francisco's candle stick park. it happened just after kickoff of the 49ers season opener. witnesses say the man did appear to be drunk. moving to indianapolis, a railing collapsed during the colts-raiders game, leaving two fans hurt there. they were reportedly loaning against the barrier when it gave way. their injuries, only appear to be minor. eminem involved in a bizarre interview during the michigan-notre dame game this weekend. >> brian: watch this. >> gretchen: take a look. >> folks, i want to take tout world premiere of one of his new videos called "berserk." >> yes, of what the question? >> what are you most excited about with this new album? >> nothing. >> you, my friend, are the

legend. >> i'm really uncomfortable right now. >> gretchen: he said he's really what? >> steve: uncomfortable. >> gretchen: oh the awkward encounter has gone viral. eminem was trying to promote his new song "weberserk." he admitted live tv freaks him out. >> brian: they asked him about the lion, he's big lions fan. what do you think they're going to do? i don't know. we have a fox news alert. secretary of state john kerry calling on syrian president al assad to hand over his arsenal of chemical weapons by the end of the week? >> gretchen: steve has the latest for us. good morning, steve. >> good morning. as the president continues his push for a strike on syria, the secretary of state speak in london this morning says the solution to this stand-off is in the hands of syrian president alice al

assad. >> in the next week, turn it over, all of it. without delay and allow the full and total accounting for that. but he isn't about to do it. >> the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, goes to the white house today lending support to the president's push for military action. clinton has been criticized for not speaking out after that gas attack in syria last month, but her aides say they will speak on syria today. her appearance comes just one year after the attack on benghazi that killed four americans. the white house chief of staff was grilled yesterday on fox news sunday about why nobody has been arrested for that attack. >> look, we've been very clear that we will hold those people who carried out this heinous attack against our people. >> it's been a year, sir. >> it has been a year. you know what the united states does, chris? we track every lead until we find and can accomplish what we

say we will do. >> meantime, a busy day for the president. he'll sit down for interest views with the tv networks, including fox. last night he dropped in on a dinner for republican senators and tomorrow he'll reportedly meet with democratic senators on capitol hill and that's just hours before his televised appeal to the american people for action in syria. gretchen, brian, steve, back to you. >> gretchen: thank you. >> brian: chris wallace, i cannot wait for that interview tonight. >> steve: it will be terrific. in the meantime, you don't have to wait 'til tonight to hear from donald trump. he joins us on this monday morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: okay. so here we've got this president who is famous for being on message and being able to sell things to people who might not necessarily want to buy it. he's got trouble with his own party. democrats don't want to go along with striking syria. >> number one, simple reason, it's a bad idea. we have a lot of problems in this country. we owe $17 trillion. you have russia putting ships all around syria.

you have russia sending different things and sending lots of bad messages and not that russia is supposed to scare us, but what are we getting out of this? this will be another disaster like iraq potentially. it will be another disaster like so many things we've done in this country. you look at what's happening in iraq, it's disgraceful. it's blowing up around us. any day now, iran will go, they've already taken it all -- >> brian: all of two do is leave a skeleton force there and it wouldn't happen. but this president was determined to do it. >> they blew iraq, let's face it. bush was no help either 'cause we shouldn't have been there. but here we are going into a situation where we're going to bomb people. now, if one of these missiles lands in the wrong location, lands in a neighborhood and civilians are killed, it's something this country is never going to live down. it's going to be a disaster. here is the problem, i mean, the great general mcarthur, the great paton, general patton, we don't broadcast -- look, i feel we should do -- i don't think we should do the attack.

we are other problems. we're fighting for rebels who hate us. we're fighting for rebels who kill christians. they go around killing christians and we're fighting for them. this is what we're doing. number one, we shouldn't be doing it. but if you are going to do it, did you ever see stupidity like we're doing right now? general mcarthur would be spinning in his grave. we're going to attack you. it's going to be a light attack. >> gretchen: it will be on tuesday at 10 a. but donald, since you have -- you're the master of selling things, if you were advising president obama, how would you tell him to sell this? >> again, it's a very hard sell. but the problem that he's got is that for five years, he's abandoned a lot of these people that he's now calling and all he can do is continue to do what he's doing. it's like i was watching the congressman before where he called in to the white house and nobody ever got back to him. it's a tough sell for somebody that hasn't treated these people very well over a five-year

period. all he can do is do what he's going to do. he's going to make a speech tomorrow night from the oval office. he's going to do -- i think it's going to be a very, very tough sell. this country is tired of fighting for people that hate us. >> steve: you know with what? this country -- the white house people and top democrats are saying to democrats that the presidency depends on your yes vote. unless the democrats vote yes, he will be crippled when it comes to his agenda. nothing is going to get passed. that could be one of the reasons why the representative from washington, d.c., eleanor holmes norton, said she would vote yes even though she doesn't think it's a good idea. listen to this. >> if he gets saved at all, i think it will be because of loyalty of democrats. they just don't want to see him shamed and humiliated on the national stage. >> yeah, right. >> at the moment, that's the

only reason i would vote for it if i could vote on it. >> brian: is that a reason to vote? >> i know eleanor holmes norton. in fact, i'm going to be with her tomorrow because we've been awarded on pen pennsylvania. i like her a lot. my daughter likes her a lot. what she's showing is she's a very loyal woman. she disagrees with it, but she's a very loyal woman. i fully understand that. she's being loyal to the president. >> brian: i got to ask you something, conrad black is making a lot of news with this statement. he's evidently an astute foreign policy observer. he said notice's the disintegration of the soviet union in 1991 and since the falling of france in 1940 have there been such a swift erosion of world influence of a great power as we are witnessing now with the united states. is that overstating what's happening before our eyes? >> only conrad black could say it so well. i will say, i think it's exactly true. we are not respected. i've been saying this for a while. we are not respected as nation,

like we once were. we are going down and we're going down rapidly. we're a country with tremendous deficits, with tremendous debt. we just -- it's a different deal. you have a general now, our general, our patton is saying oh, no, it doesn't matter. we don't need to talk about -- doesn't matter when we attack. you know. there used to be a thing called you don't want to give the enemy any warning. i've never seen anything like this. >> gretchen: be sure to watch chris wallace's interview with the president tonight. in the meantime, the irs apparently doing a parody of your hit show? they spent 10 k on this. watch this. >> i make stars out of everything. but in this case, you're fired. >> steve: nice hair. >> gretchen: i don't know if you can see the screen or not, donald. >> wow. >> gretchen: scared to find out what you think. >> i don't mind the acting, burr the look. do i look like that? wow, i'm in trouble.

if i look like that, it's time to pack it in. that is a tough one. i don't know, i guess i'm being targeted by different groups of people. but that's okay. maybe it's an honor. i wish they could have picked maybe tom cruise or somebody. >> brian: you talk about me, by the way, that's nothing compared to what i deal with on snl. >> what they do to you, and you're not a fat person. >> brian: thank you. >> what they do to you is just incredible. no question about it. whenever i watch that and i see you and i say -- i say brian must be going nuts. >> gretchen: he is. >> steve: that would be accurate. >> it's the not acting also, it's the weight in your case. >> gretchen: brian doesn't even care what the guy says he's saying. he only cares what he looks like. >> look is important. but they didn't get you very well. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: all right. that guy didn't get you very well either. thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> brian: i'm sure donald trump will be watching chris wallace tonight. coming up, he's a congressman

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>> steve: fox news alert. while the white house makes a major push to convince congress and the american people to launch an attack on syria, one member of congress, a republican, is already sold on the idea. >> brian: we're not talking john mccain. we're talking mike pompeo, just returned from a trip to the middle east and joins us now to tell us what he learned there. president?, why are you in and >> good morning, thanks for

giving me a chance to be on the show. those two big take aways i had on my trip to the middle east, the first is that across a broad range in the middle east, folks believe that our president's failed policies put news this place and put us in a really difficult spot in the middle east where radical islamist terrorists are on the rise, hezbollah and iran and the russians are now controlling much of what takes place in syria. the second thing i saw consistently was they realized american in action -- further weakness after benghazi and our failure to do anything in response and all the things this president has failed to do. if we fail to act here, you'll continue to see the threat to america from the rise of global jihadis throughout the middle east and that risk continue to increase. >> steve: sure, everybody is watching the united states deather and russia and iran. >> precisely right. >> steve: they're moving. but do you, congressman v a good feeling in your heart that this administration has a good strategy with what we're going to do with this pin prick operation? >> not at all. this president -- >> steve: why vote for it?

>> we have an independent obligation as members of congress to try and behave in a way that's consistent with american national interests every day, every single day. so the task that we have as members of congress is to communicate that we think this president's current plans are not the right one, that he needs to conduct an operation that recognizes what the real american threat is, and i and a handful of my colleagues are work every day to convince the commander in chief to behave in that way. >> brian: your reaction, john kerry says you have 'til friday, al assad, to hand back your chemical weapons. how do you feel about this deadline? >> too little, too late. much of what this administration has done. you can't consider syria outside of the context of what's going on in the broader middle east, continued threats. forget that there is still fighting going on in yemen and radicals running around in pakistan and america is engaged there trying to keep pressure on al-qaeda.

those are the kind of things americans can take to continue to protect christian minorities throughout the middle east, continue to make sure israel, our ally, is appropriately aided by an america that has important interests of its own in the middle east. >> steve: one of the things -- apparently mr. assad sits down with charlie rose and one of the things he says is if the united states strikes us, we got friends who are going to retaliate. we're talking it could be russia. it could be iran. and congressman, the worry is, little wars start big wars. >> steve and brian, we're in this war whether we like it or not. the president doesn't think so. he said al-qaeda was on the run. he said this war is winding down. i wish it were so. it's simply not true. reagan had it right, when america is prepared to demonstrate resolve and act in a way that demonstrates strength, we maximize the chances for safety in the home land and i'll work every day between now and -- this isn't going to end over this little issue here in

syria. this is a long battle against global radical islam and i continue to make sure america protects its national interest in that important fight. >> steve: all right. congressman mike pompeo, a republican from might home state of kansas, thank you very much. >> good to see you. thank you. >> brian: coming up straight ahead, ten minutes before the bottom of the hour, a veteran tries to help a boy being bullied and he becomes a victim himself. but that retired marine says he would do it all over again. he will join us next. >> steve: then this sunday's game between the manning brothers is the hottest ticket in the nfl. just how much are fans willing to pay for a ticket? you're not going to believe it. watch this. >> brian: archie gets in free, i think [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting advil. with an ultra-thin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology, it stops pain before it gets worse. nothing works faster. new fast acting advil.

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>> brian: time for news by the

numbers. first, 55. that's how many stories people will be carried on the brand-new high roller ride in las vegas. the world's largest ferris wheel expected to be finished today and open early next year. let's hope they're done. next, $18.7 million. that's how much the new movie made at the box office. making it the number one movie in america. turns out americans like action movies. i had no idea. finally, $4,000. that's how much tickets are selling for the much anticipated manning bowl, sunday, 4:35 kickoff. met life stadium. sibling show down. don't be surprised if denver plays really bad. gretch. >> gretchen: seven touchdown throws last game? >> brian: very lucky. >> gretchen: okay. thanks, brian. a hero attacked while defending a 14-year-old being bullied and we warn you, this video you're about to watch is hard to watch.

>> gretchen: retired marine viciously beaten by those three men. now three months after the incident, shows violent attack railroads behind bars. and that hero joins me now. good morning to you, captain. >> good morning, gretchen. how are you? >> beth: doing fine. you look a lot better than some of the images i saw directly after that attack. you were an innocent bystander. we're look at that image right now. i eye, i understand you had to have surgery, pretty badly beaten. horrible concussion. how did you get involved in this situation? >> well, i just happened to be leaving the beach with my family and happened to see this incident occurring and felt that i needed to step in and do something because there was about to be some violence occur to both this gentleman and his son. >> gretchen: this was a young man. i believe he was 14 years old and his father and these other three young men were -- what were they doing? taunting them? about to get into a fight?

>> apparently they had been menacing this boy and the father came running up to them to protect his son at the same time when that happened. they surrounded him and began to get close to him and it was about to get violent. i felt that it was the proper thing to step in and try to stop that from happening. >> gretchen: in this situation, it was an african-american boy who was the victim. we were looking at the three suspects there. do you believe race was involved in this? >> i can't speak to what their motivations were. i do know -- obviously what they were doing was wrong and i stepped in to help, just because i thought it was the right thing to do. >> gretchen: so many people, captain, in this day and age don't step in. the idea that you did it, was it your military training? was it something in your gut? what was it? >> you know, like i said, i've been fortunate to be surrounded by a lot of leaders and a lot of people that do do the right

thing, so perhaps it came from that. when i think about what happened and i see the messages that i've gotten mullet today of messages since friday when the story was released about what happened and the thanks and congratulations, what i'd like to see happen out of this is a lot of the messages talk about how people have used this to have a teaching moment with their families or in their schools and i'd love for that to be the message that comes out of this, that you can stand up to bullies. it's okay to do the right thing and that we need to be partnered together to do that. at the end of the day, hopefully we can be a more color blind society, use this as an inspirational moment to have dialogue between friends and family in classrooms, like i said. hopefully that can come out of that over the next week and possibly affect a few people a few families, then that would be worth it.

>> gretchen: wow. well said. my only question now is, i know the father eventually came to your rescue with a baseball bat from his car, which probably saved your life. but avenues small man, so he could not have done what you did. what was his reaction about you stepping in to help not only himself, but his son? >> he was very thankful. he came to thank me in the ambulance and had some really positive and nice remarks to say about me and i certainly appreciate him coming back and pulling my bacon out of the fire as well. >> gretchen: i know you say you'd do it again and hats off to you. former marine captain who stepped in to help somebody in trouble. most people would not do that anymore. you set an amazing example. thanks for your time and glad to see you've healed. >> thank you, gretchen. >> gretchen: amazing story, isn't it? there are still people out there who will do something good. imagine seeing this in your backyard. a hot air balloon goes down in a quiet neighborhood and this isn't the first time that it's happened. not only the same balloon, but

the same neighborhood. and they're america's favorite family. "duck dynasty" is here next. >> si is going to count it down. >> three, two.as >> don't overthink it. >> pull real cheddar cheese. !

♪ >> steve: good dog. it's your shot of the morning. canine catching some waves off the coast of california. it was the annual surf dog

surfathon in san diego. some of them were competing for a chance to be adopted. the event raised more than $70,000 for a local animal shelter. >> brian: i don't care if duke surfs better than me, but when a dog outsurfs me, that's very depressing. >> steve: think about it, he has to hang 20. >> brian: absolutely. >> steve: 27 minutes before the top of the hour. ucla's wide receiver, one of them, is dead this morning after being struck by a car. 20-year-old nick pasquale was killed cross ago busy straight in san clemente early sunday morning. the walk john freshman was remembered yesterday, on sunday. >> he will be sorely missed. i miss him already. >> i know he had such a bright future and his -- just his drive and enthusiasm exceed. i'll never forget that. >> steve: the accident under investigation. but authorities do not believe

that the driver was drinking. >> brian: imagine seeing this in your yard. a hot air balloon landing in this california neighborhood narrowly missing homes and children playing in the street. they should be playing video games and not playing with each other. residents were having a block party when it happened. thankfully no one was hurt. get this, it's not the first time this balloon has done this. it made another crash landing there just months ago. >> gretchen: four men lucky to be alive after getting caught in a flash flood. >> holy cow! here it comes! >> gretchen: the group was hike not guilty zion national park inity hut a massive rainstorm pound the area. the only option was hiding behind a boulder hoping it would protect them. after an hour, the first signs of hypothermia set in. they're all okay, but they can not believe they survived.

>> steve: sometimes being first isn't all it's cracked up to be. for one new york city police department officer and single dad, bei 50 millionth toyota customer proved to be the better spot. >> just to say thank you is a brand-new 2013 -- >> steve: fantastic. severe mike dee got a 2013 camry in march, but it took the company a while to figure out that he was the lucky 50 millionth customer in their contest. in addition to giving him a free suv, toyota also paid for his camry. and those are your news. >> brian: he's got four kids. that's fantastic. >> gretchen: i hope they paid the taxes. is it like one of those gift things where you have to pay the taxes? i hope they did that. >> brian: that's why i never did "let's make a deal." you win all that money. >> steve: door number one, two, three. too many choices! >> gretchen: you really wanted

the goat behind door number three? >> brian: i did. i wanted the cans of tuna or clams. >> steve: maria is live. >> brian: hi, maria. >> hey, brian. that's all the questions i have. it's all good to see you. good morning. good to see you this morning. hello, everyone. happy monday. if you live across the northeast, you're actually going to experience chilly conditions. in new york, we're in the 60s. there is a little bit of a breeze as you can tell from my hair blowing. that actually makes it feel a little bit cooler. so you may need that jacket as we head out the door early this morning across the entire northeast. we've actually even had frost advisories in effect across the interior section of the northeast, especially up into new england. look at the high temperatures. middle 70s for new york city. farther west, it is going to feel a lot hotter. like in minneapolis, upper 90s for you. a little bit unusual. you could be setting a record high temperature out there. otherwise upper 90s for dallas, kansas city, for the city of

memphis, and even into the 90s in the city of chicago. new york city, while you were on the cool side today, take a look at tuesday and wednesday. you're talking 90s by the middle of the week. so we are going to be seeing a significant warm-up. then a significant cool down because by friday, your high temperature could just be at 70 and other areas in the northeast could actually just be in the 60s. so expect that cooldown coming up by friday for the city of chicago. otherwise flash flooding, severe weather possible in parts of the upper midwest. we have tropical storm humberto which could become a hurricane by early wednesday morning. let's head back in to the studio. >> steve: thanks very much. >> gretchen: their close-knit family charmed america and turned "duck dynasty" in a phenomenon. >> i've learned one thing from this. >> what? >> i ain't going to be buried. i want a taxidermist to stuff me. look, hey. you can keep me a week.

>> i ain't keeping awe minute! >> and the whole family can share in it. they'll keep me for a month. >> what better way to honor a man than immortalize him as a redneck statue. i'll be like this. >> you're grabbing your rear end? >> from the heat from the fireplace! >> that's what you want to be immortalized by? >> steve: joining us now are willie, si, with his very famous teacup. >> brian: and his best selling book now. >> steve: that's right, and jeff. all joining us live. good morning. >> good morning. >> steve: do you really want to be stuffed by the taxidermist to be a redneck statue? n think about it, they could have me for the rest of their lives. >> brian: that would be great. >> every morning, he can come up and say hi. >> it's a nightmare. >> gretchen: he didn't seem so psychd about it on camera. but how would you feel about it? >> he'd probably do as much

work. [ laughter ] he's like a statue right now. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: you got to admit, si, that's funny. >> they don't realize, okay, he's a ceo, he's so far from where the work really goes on. okay? >> the man that makes the wreaths is the man that makes the business. >> gretchen: that's you. >> steve: it's a duck call business. i love the fact -- what brought you to new york city is fashion week. >> the next logical step, right? [ laughter ] >> brian: after the cma's, you come right here. >> come into fashion week. no, sadie has a dress line, prom dress line and so we're going to go and check it out. >> steve: it's daddy approved because when she was looking for a dress, had a little trouble finding something that you felt was appropriate. >> right. that's kind of the trouble with -- especially my teenage girls, you know. making sure everything is covered up. so yeah, we're here and excited to be here. >> brian: are you at the point now, and i ask the younger

brother, do you guys fit in in new york? at the beginning when you became these rock stars, killing it in reality television, you felt different. but now do you feel at home here? >> well, i went to the yankees-red sox game. i found out we got a lot of fans in new york. >> brian: you do. absolutely. >> i ended up in sign brenner's -- steinbrenner's box watching the game. >> gretchen: a perk, right? >> yeah. >> gretchen: so jeff, how do you fit into the whole situation? we haven't seen you as much. are you going to be featured now more? >> i've definitely been on this season a lot more. it's kind of me against the older brothers, always picking on me. i'm kind of holding my own now. >> gretchen: how do you like the newfound fame now? >> it's awesome. i mean, you know. >> brian: si, for you, you don't even know you're famous because you don't watch the show. >> right. [ laughter ] i live it, so i don't need to

watch it. >> brian: what's amazing is you have managed to have that tupperware cup in your pants without a top. >> gretchen: what? >> i used to drive -- this tupperware glass. this particular glass. all through my military career, i come off formation and he'd look and say, robertson, what's that glass? i'm going to put it in my pocket when you call us to attention. and i'd put it in my pocket. >> steve: willie, for so many people looking in, they see glimpses of "duck dynasty." this has become an overwhelming television phenomenon this year. you're closing in on 20 million cable viewers per week, which is extraordinary. what is it about your show that has struck a cord with america? >> i think it's positive and it's funny. so you put those two together and i also got some characters, like this right here. >> brian: what is that? how dare you?

>> you are the character. i didn't know you were so funny. >> i am the favorite uncle. that ain't a character. [ laughter ] >> steve: o e-mails are saying they like you because you're real. a lot of people can identify with you because -- particularly at the end of the show, you end things up with a meal, with a supper meal and you pray. >> yeah. we weren't bashful about our faith and putting it on there. just a simple prayer, but that's really touched a lot of people. we hear it every day. it's that part of the show where we all come together and even if families -- if they don't live together, they like what they see and they can strive to be like that. when it comes there, we let everything go and say all right. tomorrow is a new day and start it back over. >> brian: with face time, you can get together every week. you get to sit there and stare at somebody wherever they are around the globe. if you can't get to your table. >> yeah. si, you use face time? >> yeah. [ laughter ] i'm all over that.

>> steve: willie and si and jeff, we thank you very much for joining us. and you can check out "duck dynasty" wednesdays at 10 over on a and e and of course, they'll be at fashion week this week. >> brian: why wouldn't they be? si, congratulations on your book. good job. thank you for joining us. straight ahead, you guys like football? >> oh, yeah. >> brian: john lynch will be coming up and he's one of the most coveted magazine covers in the world and just told miley cyrus to go scratch. >> gretchen: and football season is back. so who are the big losers? unfortunately, some of our teams? super bowl champ john lynch joins us coming up next. >> brian: how do you know? >> gretchen: there he is !

>> steve: aflac answer, born on this day in 1949, this nfl quarterback won the super bowl with the redskins back in 1983, be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer. you'll be our winner. mr. kilmeade? >> brian: football, ready or not, it's here. who is good? who is bad? who played downright ugly yesterday? here is nfl commentator, former all pro and super bowl champ himself, john lynch. welcome to our studio. >> nice to be here. >> brian: first off, your game, you got written up and i can't show this 'cause some weird rule. but the headlines on the tv section of the daily news, lynch not lost in oslo. the jet game, unbelievable finish. that was the game you called yesterday. >> yeah. it really was. comedy of errors at times, but i tell you, gee know smith, the rookie quarterback, he played poised, gave his team a chance to win at the end. there was a dumb penalty on the side lines. gave the jets an opportunities.

they kicked the game winning field goal. >> brian: you're known as a hard hitter, but you have to be aware with the side line is. if you're going out of bounds, you can not hit the quarterback. >> yeah. they might as well put a skirt on these quarterbacks these days. >> brian: even more than five years ago? >> particularly with all the focus on the concussions and what not. player safety is an absolute premium, particularly with the quarterbacks. >> brian: let's talk about clay matthews, packers, clay matthew, linebacker says i'm going to hit him hard. he's going near the side lines and clay matthews hit, no doubt about it, out of bounds. good call? >> no doubt. he was out of bounds. a good tussle here. it was a battle of two big boys. i thought a tremendous football game. kaepernick, everybody talks about him as a running quarterback. i think the ravens missed him against the broncos.

>> brian: the wide receiver who won with the ravens last year ends up going to the 49ers this year. that penalty gave them another chance at a touchdown. they would score and it would be the difference. the other big news was the late game. giants, six turnovers and still almost beat the cowboys sunday night late. >> yeah. the cowboys in the past have found a way to lose that very type of game. this game it was the cowboys forcing the key turnovers. the giants, it's one game and now we got the battle of the manning brothers coming up this week. it's going to be a tremendous battle. >> brian: what do you think will happen? the giants look to turn things up. >> i think denver is the team. eli and the giants will give them a big match. but the broncos are looking really strong. >> brian: spoken like a true ex bronco. come on, john. watch this guy on fox sports one. the football daily show. it's at 6:00 o'clock. they are wearing him out. you run the score board show in times square. you'll be at the super bowl and then calling the games.

congratulations on your career. >> thanks. >> brian: as good as you were as a player, you're turning out to be better as a broadcaster and your dad has to be proud. >> i'm sure he is. >> brian: meanwhile, you may recognize these faces. they are killers who gunned down innocent victims in cold blood. but there is another terrifying link. each one addicted to violent video games. keith ablow here. he wants to tell parents something. but on this day, 1986, "take my breath away" by berlin was my number one song. i never liked it [ male announcer ] even ragu users a. chose prego traditional over ragu traditional. prego?! but i buy ragu. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made. [ pop muzak plays ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.

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performance, editor in chief decided she had to scrap plans to feature foo miley, even though the photo shoot was done. today's aflac trivia answer, joe theisman. our winner, laura in new jersey. congratulations. gretch, over to you and the doctor. >> gretchen: thanks very much. important information for all parents watching. new research suggests there is a terrify link between video games and violent behavior. join meg is dr. keith ablow from our fox medical a team with his thoughts on that. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: when you look back at some of the recent and terrible situations of shootings in town and i'm thinking of the movie theater situation in colorado and gabrielle giffords in tucson, arizona, all of those men who committed the crimes had this sort of addiction to video games and violent ones, did they not? >> absolutely. adam lanza in newtown, connecticut. if you look in august when we had an eight-year-old boy kill a

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. today it's monday, september 9, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. hope you had a great weekend. president obama about to hit capitol hill now to sell his attack against syria and the syrian president already issuing a response and not ruling out a retaliation with chemical weapons. bret baier live with us from washington with the very latest coming up. >> steve: a deadly start to the nfl season. a football fan dead after falling from a ledge at california's candle stick park. what police say may have gone wrong. >> brian: plus, this little girl is a miracle. doctors told mom to abort the sick, unborn child. but the baby gave mom a different message and it all started with a kick of the we'll explain because "fox & friends" final hour on this monday starts now. >> steve: you know what? we've had a lot of celebrities

on the program, but the guys from "duck dynasty" are getting as big a crowd outside our building. everybody is waiting to get a picture. >> gretchen: 'cause they're so loved, but so recognizable as well. hard to get away camouflaging, even though they wear camouflage. >> steve: loved and recognizable, the same way we describe bret baier, the host of "special report," 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on the fox news channel. he joins us right now. hey, bret. >> good morning. maybe i need a big beard or something. >> gretchen: yeah. be careful. by the end of the segment, they may place one on you on a picture. "fox & friends" has been known to do stuff like that. let's talk about the selling campaign that president obama has to do starting today. he's going to start today hitting capitol hill and doing interviews with tv outlets, like fox. do you think it's going to work or what's going to happen to this selling campaign? >> it's really an uphill battle, gretchen. he's looking at votes right now that are upside down in the house and the senate actually.

you have the president and vice president having italian style dinner with six republican senators last night, passing around the spaghetti and meat balls, but it is really i think democrats that are the big question mark for this president and this administration. even though there is this pressure that this week is monumental for this president, not just on syria, but for the rest of his agenda, there are many democrats looking at constituents, 80-20 against saying this is the wrong move. >> brian: he doesn't even have the congressional black caucus in his corner or moveon.org, or his premiere grassroots organization who would even tweet for him! how does a presidency five years old misjudge so greatly? >> he hasn't up until this point that much talked about it. he was reluctant to go forward with this as evidenced in that

rose garden speech. but now is doing a full chord press. ed henry wrote in our fox first politics note, i'm sure the white house wishes they had a few more dinners in years one, two, three and four, instead of just year five. >> steve: sure. what do you think of -- it was on politico that apparently hyped the scenes, the last ditch effort to try to get these congressional democrats to get on board, even though they're squarely against the president, is to say, you know what? if this does not pass, his agenda is doomed. anything you want to get past is doomed. but the last time all the democrats followed him and many of them walked the plank essentially with regard to the stimulus, with regard to the health care, a lot of those people facing that tough vote, got voted out of office. >> yeah. and look at that and those lawmakers look at that experience and they say, what is happening here? not only do i not like it

because most democrats don't, this action, they also look at their constituents and they're calling in left and right saying don't do this. you mentioned politico. there was this article that said one house member got a call from his mom saying that she never called about policy and she said as a constituent, vote no. there will be a lot of moms calling lawmakers. >> steve: i think the mom weighs more than the constituents. >> gretchen: i wond hour the mom stacks up against secretary of state john kerry? >> steve: mom wins. >> gretchen: let's listen to john kerry overnight urging congress to get on board. >> the evidence is powerful, and the question for awful us is what are we going to do about it? turn our backs? have a moment of silence? >> gretchen: all right. so turn our backs -- here is what i'm amazed at. >> brian: just to finish up, he does say he wants assad to turn over his chemical weapons by friday, setting that whole deadline thing, like -- maybe

look back at president bush when he said to saddam hussein, you got two days to leave with your son. he didn't and they're all dead. >> gretchen: now he's threatening to use chemical weapons if we actually attack. but bret, back to the messaging for a minute, what i'm stunned about is that one of the most positive things about this administration and the way in which they ran campaigns was their messaging. they were brilliant at getting votes. they were brilliant at selling the president when he was up for election the first time and reelection. so what is the disconnect into selling to members of congress? >> it's just what you're selling. it's not an appetizing order. they just don't want to sell it, i don't think. organizing for action, brian is right, ofa essentially is staying out of this whole thing. that's his grassroots effort. it was used in health care. it's been used in immigration reform, his tax plan. a lot of other avery much datums. it's not being used now. there is a full core press on the left as well, susan rice,

national security advisor, going up to the house black caucus, democratic black caucus today for a briefing. there are democrats coming to the white house. again, it's an uphill battle for them. >> steve: surely. and as we look at congress over your shoulder, a lot of people on capitol hill on the left and the right, do not trust the president. in fact, there is a fellow who is a republican congressman, adam kinkinger. he said i'm for striking syria. nobody will get back to me! here is the sound bite. >> look, i think it's going to be very difficult for him to get votes. i think this goes back not just to the issue itself, but you can't begin to build a relationship with congress for the first time when you need their support on something like this. look, a week and a half ago, my office actually reached out to the white house and said, hey, we support the strike on syria. we're going to help you round up support if you need it. i haven't heard back from the white house yet.

i don't know who my -- i haven't heard back from anyone. i don't know when my white houselyian son is. >> steve: they did call him after that interview. but it shows you the problem and the disconnect. suddenly he needs congress, but has no relationship with them. >> it's a big issue for this white house and this president. it's been talked about numerous times about the disconnect between the white house and congress, not only republicans, but democrats and that's a perfect example. he did get that call, congressman kinzinger. >> brian: let's look at the calendar. while the president talks about syria, america has got this thing called their own life. for example, monday night football, i know i usually go to your house, bret, but you'll be watching chris wallace's interenvironment they're focused on that. week one of the nfl season. new york city, primary elections, america looks to new york to see who the next big star is. wednesday is 9-11, also a center on new york, but the whole country reflects back.

and benghazi anniversaryies. >> gretchen: the jewish holiday coming up. one thing i'll add in there, when you're parent, you got kid stuff! they're back at school and that's what you're thinking about. so how does the president kind of get through all that? we keep coming back to it. how does he sell it? >> he's doing everything he possibly can to try to sell it, i think. these network interviews today, that prime time address tomorrow. it's interesting, the president has not chosen to do an oval office address -- he's only done it twice. one was. bp oil spill and the other was the closing of combat operations in iraq. this white house has not felt that that vehicle for communicating is the best. whether he goes into the oval office or does it from the east room like he did the bin laden announcement, look down cross hall, we'll see. but they think, i think, that the grassroots effort, getting out and about is better for this president than those speeches.

>> steve: i know you were out and about and speaking of parenting, i do follow you on twitter. over the weekend, i saw this picture right here, and you tweeted, paul, that would be bret's son, paul. paul just scored his third goal this morning. i couldn't tell you the score because there isn't one, but i know he has three. >> yeah, exactly. i'm not a huge fan of the no score thing. i can tell you there is not supposed to be a score, but it was 9-6. [ laughter ] >> steve: dads always seem to keep score. >> gretchen: 'cause your kid was running up the score and that's not allowed anymore. >> brian: i love the choice. keep the golf clubs out of his hand and keep the soccer ball. >> he's doing golf, too. >> gretchen: all right! you'll is a busy week with the kids and your work. but we'll check back in with you. thanks so much. >> have a good one. >> gretchen: let's get to your headlines. while you were sleeping, a plane skidded off the runway in bangkok, leaving some people

hurt. it happened when it touched down, when the nose wheel collapsed, sending it studying into the grass. 288 passengers evacuated. all are okay. fun day at the fair turns into a nightmare. people watched in horror when a swing ride in norwalk, connecticut, suddenly lost power, throwing 12 kids right out of their seats. >> i heard this crash of all this metal and all these seats clinicking together. >> the chains, the swings, everything went completely swinging around, crashing into each other. everything came to a complete halt. >> gretchen: most of the kids suffered minor cuts and bruises. one eight-year-old boy was hospitalized, but is expected to be okay. the mechanical failure is being blamed. deadly start to the nfl season. a fan falls to his death from a walkway in san francisco's candlestick park. it happened after kickoff of the 49ers season opener. witnesses say the man did appear to be drunk. in indianapolis, a railing

collapsed during the colts-raiders game, leaving two fans hurt. they were leaning against it when it gave way. their injuries are minor. david cameron leaving his secret information out in public. passenger snapped this picture of his briefcase filled with official papers on the train. you can see the key is still in it. quite a beefcase. government officials deny it's a security breach. they say a men of his security staff was watching the whole time. those are your headlines. how does he carry that thing around? that looks more like -- remember in the olden days, ladies, you had silver in a chest like that? doesn't that look like a wooden chest? >> brian: yeah. it maybe goes back generations. maybe it's churchill's. king george. >> steve: maybe they don't have something more modern. >> brian: like a man bag. >> steve: that's the ultimate man bag. made of wood. tough like you. >> brian: yeah. i have genuine pleather.

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>> gretchen: 14 minutes after the top of the hour. fox news alert. a high stakes week for the white house as members of the administration continue to push the case for striking syria. >> this is not iraq. this is not afghanistan. this is not an extended air campaign like in libya. this is a targeted effort and it's reasonable and absolutely understandable for the american people, after the last 11, 12 years we've been through, to be

asking tough questions and we intend to answer them. >> gretchen: our next guest says a series of missteps is making it difficult for the president to gain enough support for military intervention. joining me to explain, fox news contributor, murdoch a media fellow at the hoover institution. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so your headline is that a waiverring president obama is no leader to follow into war. why? >> i think there is unfortunately, an unsettling sense of unseriousness about obama's approach on foreign policy. he could use the war powers act to go into syria. this could have been taken care of already. instead john kerry goes out and gives a speech, which the headline could have been bombing begins in five minutes. the next day the president surprises his staff and says basically debating begins in five minutes and rather than going in, we'll have the congress vote on this and not even bring them back from vacation. we'll let them enjoy their vacations vacations and come back this week and have a vote.

he could have gone into the oval office, phoned up members of congress and say this is very important, please support my policy. i think we with have said good. instead, and he biden go off and play golf. what kind of a message does that send? it's so important, but hey, we're going to play golf. >> gretchen: the optics were terrible. >> terrible. >> gretchen: let's look at the time line of some of missteps. august 21, ambassador absent from the syria meeting. august 30, certificatey says the u.s. will not let assad get away with chemical weapons. september 4, the president says i didn't set a red line. much to the surprise of many who heard him say it a year ago. september 8, kerry says, global red line has been crossed. one thing i've been thinking about a lot is what if the president had not ad libbed that red line comment last year? do you think that he would have a different position? i hate to even ask that because you would hope the president would have a similar position.

>> a lot of people make fun of his teleprompter. i don't. i think it's very good if you have something to say about something important to have a teleprompter. he went off script and look what we have. i think he painted him new year's eve a corner on this. he could have taken decisive and swift action earlier, but instead, we get the evasions and reversals and even going back to the bin laden raid, it was revealed during the raid, obama got up with several his aides and played cards. according to a group called government accountability, he skipped 58% of his presidential daily briefs where he's supposed to hit down with high level people and find out what the threats are against america. 58% of those he has skipped. this does not signal any sense of confidence on the brink of -- >> gretchen: the waiverring and indecision seemed to be not work in his favor right now because more americans don't want to strike syria this week than last week. my exit question to you is, if

congress votes this down, will this be the most important decision the president makes in five years? >> i think so. i think the stakes on this are huge and he's put a whole lot on the line. the morgue he argues on -- more he argues on this, the weaker his situation seems to get. it's a shame we've ended up in this situation with very badding on. >> gretchen: such a serious situation. great to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: veteran tries to help a boy being bullied and becomes a victim himself. despite the beating, he said he would do it all over again. hear from this hero coming up. plus, the new trend from retailers. prank vertising? that's a new one. do these ads work? what happens to those actor as soon as do they get extra pay? hazard$ç$= er multivitamin every day.

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>> steve: it's exactly 22 minutes after the top of the hour. we got some headlines. a new study raising the question, what age should women get mammograms? 71% of the women in the study who died of breast cancer before the age of 50 were never screened. the current government recommendation is for women to get mammograms starting at age 50, but the americancancer society recommends starting at age 40. anthony wiener is on the bottom. a new poll shows he's now last in the race for new york city mayor. a new report out this morning says his wife has refused to campaign with him. the primary is tomorrow.

good luck! >> brian: i'm going to look at this camera. it's a brand-new trend called prankvertising. these hilarious tv ads are going viral. like this commercial for lg's big screen tv. (scream). >> brian: but how well do they stand up as commercials when they, for example, compare to the ones that tug at the heart strings like this one from guiness? >> friendship, the choices we make reveal the true nature of our character. >> brian: the pr expert and author of this book, what is better? the first one where you are laughing or the second one when it tugs at your heart strings?

>> well, it's all about breaking through the clutter. you've got the internet now. you've got youtube ads. 500 channels. the pranking ads are momentary. they're fleeting. the guiness ad is a classic. it is memorable. it is a great commercial. >> brian: i'll push bacon a little bit. i don't see the beer until the end. i don't see the product until the end. i don't see the word guiness. but still if you close strong, it's more effective? >> what happens with this ad is this, it's an emotional ad. it performs every requisite of an emotional ad. not to fawning. the ending is a complete surprise. you never see it coming. five guys get up out of their wheelchairs. one guy stays in the wheelchair. this is about friendship and character and people will remember guiness as a result. >> brian: some of the things, when a client comes up and says,

i need to cut through the clutter of on-line, tv, product placement, traditional 30 second ad, how do we cut through the clutter today as opposed to the 80s or '90s? >> it's very difficult because you got to be unique. we got reality programming and everybody has advertising. >> brian: which is prankster is based on. >> what the pranksters do is get through in a fleeting way and then you forget it. the hard part is being unique. in other words, mean joe green, remember, with the coke commercial. >> brian: still work today? >> still work today because it hugs at your heart strings without being coy. this guiness will be remembered as a classic ad and the great part of it, they didn't even use one gecko. >> brian: that's true. geico an example, great product. they're doing fine of the but they are everywhere. do you think that's an example of maybe an advertiser that needs to pull back? >> what you have to do is you either be volumenou as mcdonald's, burger king, coke

and pepsi do, or you're iconic, like guiness. you do an ad like this and people remember. >> brian: and also go daddy. >> absolutely. go daddy, another ad that pulls at your heart strings. >> brian: thanks so much. >> thanks. >> brian: trying to stay up with the times in today's multi media environment. coming up straight ahead, this little girl is a miracle. doctors told mom to abort the sick, unborn child. but the baby gave mom a different message and it all started with a kick. cheryl casone is here with a special edition of our job series. today she has five companies that are hiring veterans right now. meet frazier. do you know him? [ female announcer ] it balances you...

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♪ >> gretchen: all right. your shot of the morning, five-year-old jacob of florida, he can't even reach the pedal, but being called a piano prodigy. he started reading music a year ago and can learn an entire

sonata in an entire afternoon. love to see that. >> steve: he's got good fingers. wait 'til he's old enough to start texting. >> brian: i wouldn't be surprised if the eastern corbin band tried to add him and they'll be coming up in 15 minutes. let's see if they need a child keyboardist. >> steve: they've got the set-up all right there and he will be performing one of his new hits for you coming up in a minute or two. 20 minutes. in the meantime ucla's wide receiver, one of them, dead this morning after being struck by a car. 20-year-old nick pasquale, pictured there, was killed crossing a busy street in san clemente, california early sunday morning. the walk on freshman was remembered yesterday in a service. >> he'll be sorely missed. i miss him already dearly. >> i know he had such a bright future and his drive and enthusiasm to succeed, i'll never forget that. >> steve: the accident is under investigation. but authorities do not believe that the driver was drinking.

>> brian: imagine seeing this in your yard, a hot air balloon landing in this california neighborhood, narrowly missing kids playing. the kids were playing, the home was by the yard. residents were having a block party when it happened. thankfully no one was hurt. get this, it's not the first time this balloon has done this. it made another crash landing a few months ago. maybe they should try helium that. would keep it up, wouldn't it? >> gretchen: hero is attacked while defend ago 14-year-old being bullied. retired marine captain was viciously beaten by the three months you see here. now three months later, the violent attackers have been arrested. retired marine captain told us earlier why he stepped in and the message he hopes that it sends. >> what i'd like to see happen out of this is a lot of the messages talk about how people have used this to have a

teaching moment with their families and their schools or and i'd love for that to be the message that comes out of this, that you can stand up to bullies. it's okay to do the right thing and that we need to be partnered together to do that. >> gretchen: well, the captain says he would do it all over again. >> steve: now to an update story we've been following. the daughter of a congresswoman believed to be the first baby to survive a fatal disease known as potter's syndrome. five months into the pregnancy, the buellers got the devastating diagnosis that their baby's lungs and kidneys would not form properly. doctors suggested they terminate the pregnancy, but the baby gave mom a different message. she kicked her at that very moment. the family decided to try an experimental treatment instead. >> we were in shock immediately and it probably took a day for that to -- literally, the doctor said there is nothing you can

do. being born without or not having kidneys from the very beginning is always fatal. so it took a few days. >> steve: abigail is about to turn eight weeks old. her lungs are fine, but she will need a kidney transplant and dialysis every day until she receives it. >> gretchen: brian, let's talk a little football, big day yesterday. >> brian: it's just a great weekend to have football back and get your mind off whatever else is going on, like war in syria. let's talk about last night's sunday night game 'cause you probably nodded off getting ready to pick out an outfit for today's show. under two minutes left, the giants trying to mount a come back. down 6. it's overt cowboys at home win 36-31. it's amazing it's this close when the giants had six turnovers. 49ers, packers, game of the week. great day for kaepernick.

scrambling. the late hit by clay matthews who wears an extremely tight jersey was able to give him another shot. he would take advantage of it. bolden on the receiving ends. final score 34-28. tennis, se -- serena williams may be the best ever. playing in the finals, she would go on to win in three sets. drop the second set. this is her 17th grand slam. her opponent yells every time she hits the ball. it drives me crazy. the olympics, way to wise up, people. you put the wrestling back in the olympic games, it sits there. bad news for baseball, which should be an olympic sport. the whole world plays it. squash, which i don't get, but i hear it's fun, they have lost. it is fun, steve? >> steve: it is. >> brian: seven months later, wrestling is back in. now you got to modernize the sport, make it more exciting.

and this one time in which russia was on our side. and iran was on our side. they like to wrestle, too. >> steve: it was in the original olympics, right? >> brian: right. it was the greeks who said, let's just grab each other and roll around. >> gretchen: it's lasted that long. >> brian: yes. that's how it started. it's a much longer start. reaction to this, let's bring in maria. what is your wrestling background? >> i'm an expert. >> steve: i bet you are. >> brian: right. >> gretchen: definitely would be a lightweight. >> yeah. or featherweight. >> brian: i saw you with a sumo wrestler. >> that's true. we had that here on the plaza. we were wrestling. >> steve: you're lucky to be alive. >> another normal day at work. >> brian: right. >> yeah, speaking of work, let's get to work and talk about the weather conditions across the country because in the northeast, we are looking a little bit chilly. it is september, though. we're starting to switch gears from summer into fall and it is normal. a little below average for this time of year. looking at the high temperatures that we're expecting, we should be making it into the 70s in new

york city. right now you're in the low 60s. it's breezy, so it feelings chilly. grab the jacket. a light jacket as you head out because again, by the afternoon, middle 70s in new york city. farther west, take a look at some of these highs. well above average. actually could be setting some records across parts of minnesota, like in minneapolis where you're expecting a high at 97. hot day for you in chicago. but take a look at the five-day forecast. by friday, you're talking 60s. so there is a cooldown in store for you coming up over the next several days. meanwhile, showers and storms forecast across parts of the upper midwest and the upper great lakes as well. severe weather will be possible and steve, we also have tropical storm humberto over parts of the atlantic. it could be the first hurricane of the season by early wednesday morning. >> steve: all right. thank you very much. meanwhile, nearly 12 years after the september 11 attack, our nation's heros are facing a different kind of battle now that they're back home. the unemployment rate for veterans jumped from 7.7% to 10%

last month. to help bring that number down, "fox business" network's cheryl casone joins us with five companies looking to hire vets today. >> 10%. and it is horrible. it's higher for female veterans. there is a virtual career fair happening this wednesday, 1 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time, 50 companies, including our company, 21st sentry fox, going to be participating and i wanted to highlight five companies. toxic chemical, this is perfect for somebody that was in iraq, afghanistan, and you're worried about handling nitrous dioxide. but this is a company, publicly traded, stock up 20%. several jobs available. drivers, and again, if you want to work in that type of field, it's perfect. >> steve: excellent. xerox is look for vets. >> this is about 2,000 jobs. big initiative from xerox last year. i want to commend them. they hired 1700 vets in 2012.

one of the things that jobs available, data analyst. if you were out there, analyzing computer data out in the field and you were looking for the enemy, this is a skill that can transfer to somebody like xerox. they have also got other jobs. they need engineers and things like that. >> steve: western and southern financial group. >> this is insurance. may not be as exciting as serving in the military, but hey, it's a really good company. >> steve: it's a job. >> it's a job. they've got 600 jobs. also this could be great for people that are military spouse, reservists. everyone is welcome. not just active duty. also spouses. you could have been a vet 30 years ago and still apply to all of these jobs. they need engineers -- excuse me. that is data analyst. my next company is a railway company. you may not have heard it, bnsf railway. engineer, mechanics, conductors. i always thought that could be a fun job. >> steve: of course!

>> 1,000 trains they operate every single day. they're look for people. they're also one of the top 100 military friendly employers that are out there. i always think it's good to point that out, that they're looking for vets and trying to get our vets back to work. >> steve: the final feature company today is west corporation. >> okay. a tech company. it's a communications company. again, they are name as one of the top 100 military friendsly employers, as well as for military spouses. they are very good. 500 jobs. 50 locations. this is all across the country. this can be an internship, senior management, there is a range of jobs on this. i want to say again, that you want to participate. this is great if you can afford to go to a job interview, or if you're disabled. this is why i like the virtual career fair opportunity. you have to register ahead of time. it's vetcareers.com. if you register ahead of time, you can get a sense of the companies that are there. then you can be face-to-face -- it's all on the pure, but face-to-face with these companies. there you go. >> steve: virtual career fair

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good-bye to the volkswagen bus. brazil is the only place they're being produce produced. but this december, the last one will roll off the assembly line. oh, say it isn't so. >> brian: if you don't know our next guest, you are definitely missing out. finding fame in their 90s, by literally sweeping the nation with their commercial. >> i do the cleaning. >> there is only two of us. how much dirt can we manufacture? >> more than you think. >> this is not a safe thing to do. be careful. >> look how easy it is. >> almost like dancing. ♪ >> it has truthfully never been as clean as it is now. morty, are you listening? [ laughter ] >> steve: they've been viewed

millions of times on youtube, and this morning, we're delighted to have them in person, the adorable couple and virtual swifferk, lee and morty. good morning. >> good morning. >> steve: i watched the commercial and the extended version, your husband could fall asleep anywhere! >> yes. standing up. [ laughter ] >> brian: incarial. you let him have his naps, but i'm more curious on how -- you're a couple, your relationship with was picked out for swiffer. how did they pick you? >> brian: it fell into our laps accidentally. my daughter suggested that we were a suitable, mature couple to a friend who was a casting director. and we fell into it. we didn't know better. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: with all the fame that comes with this now. >> it's a whole new career. >> very surprising. >> gretchen: what i loved about it was that you had no rehearsed

lines. there wasn't a script. >> no. >> gretchen: they basically just followed you and saw what you do in your house, right? >> that's about it. >> they would ask a leading question or something. >> a little prod. >> we just did what comes naturally. >> steve: there you go. >> we were really on our own. >> steve: you were on your own. in watching the commercial, i think it is safe to say that the swiffer changed your life. >> oh, you better say that indeed. >> this is quite unknown to us. >> gretchen: the other thing is you met a little bit later in life. you both were widows? >> yes. in our early 40s. >> yes. actually he was a parent conference. >> steve: you were a teacher? >> yes, that's right. >> first grade teacher. >> his youngest boy was in my class over that summer. and you are required to have a parent conference. and he walked -- >> scotty can't read for beans.

what are you going to do about it? not be happy. [ laughter ] >> steve: the next time you came back, you asked her out on a date. the rest is history. now you're selling swiffers. >> that's the story. >> brian: how are you doing with the fame? has it changed you? >> it's very surprising and almost stimulating 'cause everybody is very nice to us. everything is positive. i haven't had a negative remark about us yet. >> steve: it's been great having you. lee and morty. the stars of swiffer. thank you very much. >> we're enjoying the limelight. >> brian: you're a great couple and great example of how a great relationship can work. >> oh, yes indeed. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: they say i love you every night before they go to sleep, which is a great piece of advice. >> very true. >> steve: morty goes to sleep all the time. >> gretchen: coming up, one of the hottest country songs on the charts.

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>> gretchen: it's off the cd that shares the same name. you're playing with your full band? >> i know. we're all here. >> steve: now that you're a big star, you can get a new guitar. >> that makes it sound better, right? >> steve: you could fix it because didn't you used to work at ace hardware? >> i did. but i tore up more things than i fixed. >> gretchen: is that center strumming? >> it is. i'm just kind of rough on them. >> brian: why keep it then? >> why keep it? >> brian: yeah. you started at 14. when did you realize you could do this for a living? >> i always wants to do do this, since i was a small kid. i just love country music and it's always just spoke to me. >> steve: what are you going to do today? >> i'm going to do my hit "all over the road." >> steve: we're getting out of the road. ladies and gentlemen, easton corbin.

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