ansun sujoe, >> it's friday may 30th. rocker brett michaels rushed off the stage in the middle of a concert as stunned fans watch in horr horror. details on his medical emergency. >> oh, boy that is a sky deck. 103 stories above the ground and it cracks beneath the feet of tourists. how this happens? >> does this girl's high school yearbook photo look indecent to you? one school going to great length to make sure students are covered up. has it crossed the line? "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning to you. go we have our summer concert for "fox & friends". we will tell you all about that. this is "fox & friends first". i am heather nauert in for ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. nice to have you here. thank you for joining us. we begin with this. brett michaels suffering a frightening health scare. he was three songs into his set when he was rushed off stage at the palace theater in

manchester. he had extremely low blood sugar. his guitarist writing this on facebook, in the nine years i have stood next to him i have never seen a look like the one on his face as if i was a complete stranger. when i rushed to the bus he could barely speak. this is not the first health scare. he has undergone an emergency appendectomy and brain surgery in the lathes few years. no word if his show tonight will be canceled. >> detroit on lock down for more than two hours. a guy forced his way through a security checkpoint without being screened. he had just flown in from little rock arkansas and missed his connecting flight. that lock down triggered the closure of gates at the largest terminal trapping passengers inside. that guy is now in custody. we talked about this, don't look down. take a look at this picture. that's the glass flooring of the

sky deck of the 103rd floor of willis power cracking under the feet of a california family. four men stepping out on the glass ledge to take a better look at the city. they decided to sit down to take a look at the and take a picture. when i put my hand down to push myself up i hear and i feel the glass just crack. i thought we are going down with it. >> can you image? officials say the crack was in a thin layer of flplexy glass tha keeps it from scratches. they say the guys weren't in danger. >> the los angeles clippers have a new owner and it only took $2 billion. former psych soft ceo steve baumer has decided to it would

sign off on the deal and the term. the sale price would be almost four times more than the previous nba high. >> it has taken 20-years for the new york rangers are finally headed back to the stanley cup. >> in game 6 of the eastern conference finals the rangers defeated the montreal canadians 1-0. a dominant board scored a goal late in the second period. from there it was all up to the defense. the rangers will head to los angeles and chicago on wednesday for the start of the stanley cup finals. >> they were still partying in the we hours of the morning. >> all eyes on eric shinseki. they are under increasingly

mounting bipartisan pressure. >> hi elizabeth. what's the white house saying now? >> we heard from the white house. 113 members of congress # 23 in the house and 11 in the senate facing tough reelection battles. that battle after the interim report came out wednesday exposing distem -- systemic problems in the va hospitals. so far no action has been taken. the president found the report extremely troubling. he tasked the secretary with conducting an internal audit, an

internal review and asked for a mru preliminary report from the secretary by the end of the week. he awaits that preliminary report. >> while the president is facing mounting pressure from his peers he will not make the resignation call any time soon. he skirted around many of the pressure filled questions during a briefing yesterday. he emphasized the president is waiting to see the results of an internal investigation led by white house deputy chief of staff rob neighbors. >> he had confidence in secretary shinseki. >> the president believes and is confident secretary shinseki served his nation admirably. >> shinseki will be speaking at the annual conference for the national coalition for homeless veterans. heather, back to you. >> that brings us to look who is

talking judge napolitano. it is time for secretary shinseki to go. >> it is inconceivable he could keep him on the job when his press secretary could not answer the simple question does the president have confidence in the secretary's ability. he answered the question using the word confident but it was a play on words. i don't think any of this was his personal fault. all of this happened on his watch. >> shinseki is a dead man. what you heard today was an invitation for a resignation. i think he's gone by the weekend. >> chained to a bed. the frightening details from a marine sitting in a mexican jail. for the first time sergeant tomorrow tahmooressi speaking to

greta van susteren on the phone. >> they handcuffed me nice and tight to the bed naked i would say multiple times. i was punched in the stomach a few times to the point where i couldn't breathe, i was gasping for air. i hope that it's not going to be much longer. i i am hoping maybe a month i will be out of here. that would be great. >> he facespck7d weapons smuggl charges after making a wrong turn and crossing the mexican border with three guns in his car. she is working with her counterparts in mexico to secure the marine's release. >> we picked up the phone quietly, called. he and his team have been extremely cooperative with us. my concern was that we had a u.s. marine in a mexican jail. >> i she is a floridian and his mother is a floridian and we are

going to do as much as we can to help you get him out of there. >> his next hearing is june 4th. >> it was supposed to be an off the record meeting coming ahead of today's democratic benghazi strategy session. how did the super secret meeting get exposed? "people" magazine treated a picture of clinton in the magazine's washington bureau chief. the tweet said she had a meeting with the president. they later deleted that but the word is out. >> one e-mail that is the extent the paper trail edward snowden made. the nsa leaker said he repeatedly raised concerns about sweeping surveillance to higher ups but a search by the agency turned up just one communication asking for clarification on a legal question about training materials. the e-mail dated april 8th, three months after snowden first reached out to the media.

says the search is incomplete. >> george h.w. bush honored at harvard. you can see the 89-year-old wearing a crimson robe in cambridge, massachusetts. the university rewarded him an honorary doctor of law degree. president bush is an alum of yale, not harvard. wonder what yale thinks about this. >> one thing we do know for sure it is supposed to be a great weekend. >> maria molina has a look at that. >> good morning heather and heather. across some areas we are looking at a beautiful weekend including right here across the northeast which temperatures very pleasant and a lot of sunshine. other areas not so much. there are areas of low pressure meandering across the gulf coast. it produced more than 6 inches of rain across parts of mississippi, louisiana even the state of alabama. this has been a concern for

flooding. we have flash flood watches in effect right here the rain will continue today with several more inches of rain expected. further west we have a storm system exiting the rockies. it will produce a risk for storms. over the weekend we could see a return to severe storms by sunday you are looking at the texas panhandle into parts of nebraska and also kansas. otherwise heather and heather relatively warm and into the 80s. cooler come tomorrow behind a storm system that will be producing temperatures from the 80s today from the 70s tomorrow. >> well, a major air carrier forced to pay up after offering a deal that was too good to be true. >> lorne simonetti with the top business news. southwest airlines fined 200,000 dollars for advertising

$59 fairs from -- fares from new york to atlanta and chicago. it didn't make any seats available at that time. southwest says it was a copy mistake in its advertisement last october. issuing four separate recalls covering 1.3 million vehicles this to fix steering, rust and floor mat problems. the biggest recall covers 915,000 escaped and mercury mariners from 2008 to 2011. another recall involves 196,000 explorers from 2011 to 2013. then recalls for rusting around license plate lights which can cause a short and then a fire and then you have fusion, lincoln mkzs recalled for sticky floor mats that can jam the gas pedal. there have been 20 accidents reported. all systems go for virgin

galactic the company owned by richard branson has clearance from the u.s. government to begin planning space flights for you and me. we have to go to new mexico to space port. that's where the flights depart from. we have to bring 250,000 dollars. more than 600 people already signed up. the flights will begin later this year, ladies. >> i will sign up. of course we get a sponsor. >> let's work on it. >> it is 13 minutes after the hour. coming up we have disturbing video of children who are being forced to fight. >> right now. punch him in the face. do it again. turn around. come here. do it again. >> oh, boy. a father is now under fire again. he is in trouble with the law. >> it's the day that is going down in history. there's only one contestant that will have you talking all day. >>

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fuel ton. >> trying to save a sued need women after she refused to denounce her faith. along with her new born daughter and newborn son. ibrahim who married a christian man is set to be hanged for apostasy. her execution has been delayed for two years so she can nurse her new baby. tony perkins president of the family research council says it is time for the white house to stop abandoning american citizens. >> at one point in time it meant something to be an american citizen. no matter where you were no matter what you faced you were not alone. that's not true. pastor ab dini has been in iran

for two years. now we have a woman in a prison in sudan. we left americans behind in benghazi, libya. this is a tragedy. we are seeing a direct correlation between this increasing religious hostility here at home by the hands of our own government and this rising persecution abroad manly of christians. >> a petition is calling on the white house to fight that sentence. it now has 600,000 signatures. heather? >> shocking video of a dad egging on his son during a schoolyard brawl. >> right now. punch him in the face. there you go. do it again. no, no, turn around. do it again. >> child welfare officials are looking into the home life of an 11-year-old boy and his father after this video surfaced that shows the father urging his son to take a swing at a fellow classmate. the father and the son met with school officials. the students now facing disciplinary action as police

are deciding whether to press charges. >> that is so awful. female student spewing after a high school alters photos that they believe showed too much skin. they posed for pictures in sleeveless or low cut shirts. extra clothes were photo shopped to cover them up. not only was it done without their permission but only some pictures were altered. >> i feel like they put names in the hat and pick and choose who. they are plenty of those that wore thicker tank tops half of them got fixed half didn't. >> the rules were not applied to everyone. they insist students were told the pictures didn't follow the dress code. if they didn't they would be altered. >> did the school take appropriate action or did the photo shopping go too far? what do you think? >> send the comments to facebook at "fox friends first.com.

we will share them later in the show. did the bus driver get stopped all because of something he saw in the road. >> the surprising new vacation trend that is separating married couples.

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>> image this. you are driving and you see a 2-year-old walking barefoot.

what do you do? a bus driver slams on the brakes hops out and grabs the toddler. >> i would hope anybody when you see this video anybody who sees what you are going to see would do the same thing. my job that day was saving a little boy. >> so lucky. police tracked down the boy's parents two hours later by the way. their son was able to get out of their apartment while dad was sleeping. the parents not charged. >> they are sneaky little guys. >> hundreds of people returning to their home after a fertilizer plant goedz up in flames in texas. this happening in athens, texas. the fire appears to be burning itself out. it shows little more than smoky ruins. no one was hurt. the fert liedzer was the same fert liedzer exploded. it killed 15 people.

>> a massive sink whole. 30 feet hide and 5 feet deep it is now 70 feet wide and 15 feet deep. it is way too unstable to do anything right now. >> for the first time in 52 years the national spelling bee ends in a tie. >> whatever. however you say it. just spell it. >> f-e-u-i-l-l-e-t-o-n-? >> correct. >> ansun sujoe and sriram hathwar they are the 20014 national spelling co champions. the first since 1962. plus the answer that's going

viral not the one you would expect. >> cabaragoya. >> i know it. i know it. c-a-b-a-r-a-g-o-y-a. cabaragoya. >> what? oh. >> jacob williamson he captured hearts during the competition with his epic celebrations, but he was ousted with seven spellers remaining. still a good job, though. >> oh. >> the time is 26 after the top of the hour. we told you about the outrage over this novelty of the 9-11 museum. the plate th>> /* /- the cheese. >> see how they were eventually caught by the cops. >> let's take a live look outside of the plaza. the charlie daniels band is right now setting up. they started setting up last

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>> it is friday may the 30th. will he say or will he go in eric shinseki on both sides of the aisle. today he's addressing the cites

sis crisis amid the gwing call to step down. >> gwyneth paltrow under fire for saying it is like going to war. they have a message for the actress. >> a preschool graduate shows he is wise beyond his years. >> i want to be batman. >> "fox & friends first" continues right ii&mnow. ♪ >> good morning. it is friday. you made it to the weekend.

the sun coming up in new york city. you see central park there in the background. i am heather childers. thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning heather. i am heather nauert in for ainsley earhardt today. it is now half past the hour. eric shinseki will speak to the national coalition for homeless veterans. it is there that he is expected to acknowledge there has been a serious breech of trust between veterans and the va. >> all of this as the president is under mounting bipartisan pressure to relieve the secretary of his command. >> doug zoo laider is live in washington with the latest. doug luzader. >> now the white house will no longer say the white house has confidence in shen sinseki's leadership. he was asked the question again and again in about every way possible. this is about all he would say. >> the president addressed this

question off the podium. >> he wasn't asked directly but he has confidence in shinseki. >> the president believes in his c and is confident he served his country. >> once the facts were known about va patient delays and waiting lists that may have cost the veterans and their lives. >> we got a report yesterday and the president found the report extremely troubling. he tapped the secretary with conducting an internal audit and internal review. asked for a preliminary report from the secretary by the end of this week. he awaits that preliminary report. >> canwhich could in theory com out today. he wants to see two additional reports before making some kind

of a decision way may buy him some time but not much. he joined many republicans saying shinseki simply must go. heather and heather, back to you guys. >> doug luzader in washington thank you so much. >> overnight brett michaels suffering a frightening health threat. he is diabetic wrohad extremelyw blood sugar. in the nine years i have stood next to him i have never seen the look on his face as if i was a complete stranger. when i rushed to the bus he could barely speak. this is not the first health scare for michael. he has undergone emergency appendectomy, heart surgery and brain hemorrhaging in yeent yre years. >> in a few hours casey case

sim's wife is expected to appear in court in washington state. if she doesn't show up she could be arrested. a judge wants to know if jeanne kasem is giving her ailing husband adequate medical care. something the stepchildren are questioning. they indicated his whereabouts after his wife took him from a medical center without telling any one. >> listen to this, one e-mail and that is the extent of the paper trail that edward snowden left for the nsa according to agency officials. the nsa leaker says he reportedly raised concerns about sweeping surveillance from higher ups. there is just one e-mail about a question about training materials. that was dated april the 8th three months after snowden first reached out to the media. snowden says that search is simply incomplete. >> the governor of the state of oregon is taking on the second largest software corporation in

the world. he wants to -- oregon paid them 134 million in federal funds but the site is full of glitches. >> i expect they will fight us tooth and nail but i will not allow that to stop us from recouping dollars that were sent where technology did not work and technology that was not delivered on time. >> oracle says we are not responsible for the failed launch. we will hear more about this story. >> they deployed the last soldiers to afghanistan. 150 guards man on this repaired work. president obama announcing plans this week to leave a forlead a of 190,000 in afghanistan after the end of this year. >> switching gears completely here's a chance to own a piece of the king of rock and roll.

>> the auction will be held during elvis week in august. it will be the first auction of fs kind at the house termed museum. >> the store's owner spent more than an hour trying to coral the year. the other one crashed through a glass door in an adjoining shop. >> what to do. maria molina is live outside to get ready for the "fox & friends" all summer concert series. charles lees daniel band is gearing up.

>> the summer concert series for "fox & friends" will be kicking off in a little while. we also have free barbecue. if you are in town in new york city stop on by on 48th and 6th. take a look at the weather conditions. if you look live in the northeast we have great news for you beautiful weather a lot of sunshine and pleasant temperatures. along parts of the gulf coast we have the area of low pressure that continues to move slowly eastward. it already produced 4-6 inches of rain across several states like louisiana, mississippi and parts of alabama. we have a number of flash flood watches that remain in effect out here. severe weather could potentially make a return as we head into the weekend. tomorrow we are making a threat across parts of the plains and continues to move south and eastward as we head through sunday. back inside. >> we will check in with you later. >> 38 minutes after the top of the hour. talk about being long over due. one veteran now getting his

benefits. but there's one big problem. wait until you hear that war he actually fought in. >> blindfolded and led on to the edge, the bachelor party frank that has everybody but the groom laughing. captain: this is a tip. bellman: thanks, captain obvious. captain: and here's a tip. when you save money on hotel rooms, it's just like saving money on anything else that costs money. like shoes, textiles, foreign investments, spatulas, bounty hunters, javelins...

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>> welcome back. a world war ii veteran on the ultimate wait list. after 68 years milton rack em finally gets the benefits he earned in battle. the 89-year-old was told by the veteran's administration his records were lost in a fire. for decades he filed claims to get the benefits. in 2011 his writer friend submitted detailed stories to the va of the vet's service. two months ago he started getting payment. 800 a month by the way plus $7,000 in back pay. good for him. he certainly deserves it. >> now this. the national 9-11 museum yanking this controversial cheese plate from the gift shop. the museum coming under fire for offering the platter in the shape of the u.s. with hearts where the hijacked planes were crashed. the memorial ceo now saying the

gift score managers will seek guidance from family members on appropriate items going forward. >> thanks heather. the faa is now treating tanning beds like cigarettes and start to require manufacturers to attach new warning labels. a number to reduce the rising rates of skin cancer linked to the devices. any one under the age of 18 should not use a tanning bed. >> like a vacationnal loan and leave your spouse at home? >> when are you going to go? >> i don't know. when can you all be free? you didn't think i was going without my doubt. >> 27 percent of people in england polled are taking time away for friends or me time. the majority taking time alone ladies. >> the reasons are not being able to agree with their spouse on a location, the cost or other commitments like work and taking care of the kids and the kids always the key word.

>> i thought that would be a big one. >> a possible deal to sell to los angeles clippers $2 billion setting the stage for what would be the high he is price ever paid. let's go to lori rothman. she is breaking down the deal. 2 billion. that's a lot. >> former microsoft won the bidding with aer for the la clirps. he will buy the team for 2 billion. the wife of embattled owner donald sterling. that's the record price for a professional basketball team. he ousted several other investment groups one that offered 1.6 billion another group 1.2 billion another group that included oprah winfrey and wife of steve jobs. it still needs approval by the nba and donald sterling who was banned from the league for life after being recorded making

those racist statements. before the nba signs off on the deal it wants mr. sterling to agree to several things including to not sue the league also 2 and a half million fine for making the statements and a lifetime ban from professional basketball. it is unclear whether sterling has or will accept these terms. >> baumer who owns microsoft stock worth $13 billion says after two attempts from bringing nba teams into seattle now says since he stepped down from microsoft he is willing to own his team outside of seattle. the saga continues. back to you. >> lori, thank you very much. >> gwyneth paltrow is under fire she is being teased on-line for saying, going on-line and being criticized on-line is kind of like going to war. >> no you one woman whose family knows what it's like to be on the battlefield has a serious message for the actress.

>> a preschooler shows he is wise beyond his years. >> i want to be batman. >> who doesn't want to be batman. >> he is so smart. first let's check in with steve doocy. >> good morning. >> good morning ladies. hope you are hungry. >> payment day is getting set up. it is friday in the summer and you know what that means, the tour buses are here and the stage is set. they just did a sound check. coming up on the program today we are going to have chris wallace talk about the news today. geraldo rivera. why no criminal charges yet in the va scandal? who is our performer? he is in that bus right now. we have the world famous charlie daniel's band. they will be on this stage on "fox & friends." stick around, folks.

did you hear about this one? the wife of arizona senator john mccain is really fired up over gwenyth paltrow's latest controversial comments. the actress compared mean on-line comments to going to war saying, quote, you come across on-line comments about yourself and your friend and it is a very dehumanizing thing, almost like through war you go through a bloody and dephaou mannizing thing and you get something out of it. mrs. mccain tweeted what a joke. my two sons serving in the military should talk to her. indeed. heather? >> she should go visit them on the front lines. the number of measles cases, the highest in the past 20 years, the c.d.c.

says there's been 288 confirmed measles cases in the u.s. since january 1. the contagious respiratory disease was eliminated from the country 14 years ago, so experts say most u.s. outbreaks are traced to unvaccinated people traveling internationally to areas where the disease is common. >> have you ever been called cynical? well then you may have a hard time believing this one, a study that says cynical thinkers are more likely to develop dementia later in life, three times more likely. the researcher interviewed senior citizens and engaged their level of cynicism and then talked to them eight years later and found the more cynical of the bunch were more likely to have dementia. >> there is a new study that finds women appear prettier if a pleasant smell is around them.

the study concerned fish oil and rose oil, which of course is pretty good smelling to test this theory. the results show odors change the way we perceive one another. no surprise this. >> now it's time for viral videos. >> look at this one. a bachelor thinks he's taking the leap of his life. [screaming] [laughter] >> his buddies told him he was going bungee jumping but it was really a quick swim in the pond. not so bad. a chatterbox baby and her father trading a babble that's got the internet buzzing. one preschool graduate with super aspirations.

>> and i want to be batman. >> good choice. jason's three-second speech a big hit on-line. ben affleck, you better watch out. >> it is seven minutes before the hour. can you tell the difference between these two yearbook photos? see the difference between the pictures? we asked you to weigh in. >> talking about going above the call of duty. this police officers lending a helping hand to one veteran. like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards even cash back. and my rewards points won't expire. so you can make owning business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can.

three minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house, here's what's happening for you today. in a few hours v.a. secretary eric shinseki will speak to the national coalition for homeless veterans where hcted to acknowle there has been a breach of trust between veterans and the v.a. brett michaels rushed off stage in new hampshire with extremely low blood sugar. michaels is diabetic. no word yet if his show tonight in pennsylvania is canceled. later today casey kasem's wife expected to appear in court in washington state. a judge wants to know if jean kasem is giving her ailing husband proper medical care. if she doesn't show up, she could be arrested. >> time now, let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first, the good. two san diego police officers pushing an elderly veteran all the way home after his scooter breaks down. they push him one mile to his house.

good for them. and the bad. apparently all the news is fit to print. that includes a big typo. can you catch it there on the front page? "the new york times" misspelling the word "response" in yesterday's edition. and the ugly. >> at least he won. >> a cyclist celebrating a little bit too early in new jersey but he still managed to win. >> time to brew on this. your responses to female students fuming after a utah high school photo shopped their yearbook photos because they showed too much skin. but only some pictures were altered. school officials admit the rules were not applied to everyone but insist students were told that pictures that didn't follow the dress code would be altered. so we asked, did the school take appropriate action or does this photo shopping go too far? susan says if the students violated the dress code, don't take the picture.

photo shopping without permission is wrong. kelly says good, too many youth dress inappropriately. i say kudos to the school. antonio tweets, yes, too far. why photo shop students who wore clothes they chose? thanks to everyone who responded. >> happy friday. >> "fox & friends" starts now. >> hey everybody. good morning. it is friday, the 30th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. a health scare for rocker brett michaels, why he was rushed off stage and sent straight to the e.r. >> v.a. secretary eric shinseki about to speak this morning as more democrats are calling for him to step down, but one democrat says hey, in florida, everything is just fine. >> i get my reconnaissance in florida. i can tell you we're doing fine in florida. >> guess what? we've done some reconnaissance in florida, and congresswoman, you're wrong.