s >> it is fry february 6th. fighting back. president obama fighting against isis following the brutal murder of a jordanian pilot. he will not call it islamic extremism but we will still take jabs against christians. >> during the inquisition they had a terrible beating in the name of christ. >> is this the right message to send to our enemy as we prepare to staepep up to this fight. >> breaking overnight brand new information about what caused that terrible trance asia air crash. what investigators released about the second right after takeoff. >> a major health alert.

babies with measles. the outbreak is now spreading to our infants too young to be vaccinated. new message for adults who have had their shots. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning to you. you are watching "fox and friends first on this friday morning. thank you for joining us. i am heather childers. it is national wear red day. >> we are making sure you are aware of heart disease and how important it is to stay healthy. we are going to start with the fox news alert and the fight against isis. president obama expected to use

military force to battle the military militants. >> jordan makes good on their threat of revenge. dozens of fighter jets launching air strikes on isis targets in syria. leland vittert is here with the war on terror. >> good morning to you. there is broad bipartisan agreement more needs to be done against isis on capitol hill but the how and when and paying for it are still to be worked out. authorization for the current military action goidz back to the bush era and congressional legislation. he has authority for various military operations. right now he wants congress to gave him and his generals father more flexibility. republicans are calling foreground troops and wanting clear deadlines and want a way to pay for it. >> how can he not have asked congress to support him? it is exactly what a president

would want as a congressional approval the last quarter century. eventually he will. his reluctance is simply staggering. >> in light of isis burning their pilot alive jordan struck isis. they had heavy support from the united states. in a new twist jordan released a video about the bombing raid complete with music and pictures of people writing messages on the bombs to be used many around paying honor to the pilot that was killed. >> leland vittert live from washington. >> president obama facing melting pressure to admit we are at war with radical islam. at the agosnational prayer breakfast he warned christians not to get on their high horses saying

there was a time christians killed in the name of religion, too. >> lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place remember during the crusades and the incan i significance people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. this is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> that brings us now to look who is talking. former speech writer saying the president mentioning those crusades is just what our enemy wants to hear. >> who wants the crusades? the catholic church. he is basically saying the catholic church was the al qaeda of its day. i would like to see him explain that to pope francis when he comes to washington. to provoke the crew aids and

deeds done during the crusades that brings it right to isis. it calls for jihad against jews and crusaders. the leader of isis calls our campaign against isis the crusader campaign. when the president of the united states steps up in front of the cameras and has film of him talking about the terrible deeds that were done in the name of christ during the crusades that is a propaganda gold mine for our enemies. >> let's keep talking about this. what message do you think it is sending the president refusing to send islamic extremism but comparing isis to the crusades nearly a thousand years ago. log on to fox book after the-- facebook for a live debate. a top defense department official telling the senate 30 percent of released gitmo

detainees are suspected of going back to the battlefield to wage war against america. they will have to consider using the detainees to close down gitmo. this as of now 122 remain but only 54 are eligible to be transferred to other countries. in other news five babies at a suburban chicago kay daredaycare center sick with the measles. 15 more are at risk of contracting the highly contagious virus. all are under a year old and caught the disease because they are too young to get vaccinate the. some vaccinated adults could be at risk. >> any time an adult in the family gets measles because somebody from that person doesn't have immunity or is compromised because they are sick or elderly those are the

people at risk. >> the cdc says any one born before 1957 who may have received only a single shot vaccination could need a booster. they suggest he can ching with your doctor especially if you have a weak immune system. >> twin engine failure. officials say flight data show the first engine went idol 37 seconds before the plane took off. then they believe the pilots turned the other engine off in an attempt to restart them both. it was too late. seconds later that plane plunged into the river in taipei. this goes along with what one of the survivors has said he heard moments after the takeover. the 72-year-old knew something was wrong because the engine didn't sound right. 35 people were killed and ith are still missing. >> brand new images showing the devastation from the train crash

that left 6 people dead in new york. look at the inside of the burned out car. the windows are completely melted. federal investigators say the engineer slammed on the emergency breaks and blew the horn twice before the train hit the suv. the mother behind the wheel had 39 seconds to avoid the collision. her funeral is set for today. investigators plan to look at her cell phone records to determine if she was distracted at the time. >> new reports about the mystery surrounding bobby christina. there are reports she was only discovered because an ex finxfiniti cable worker showed up. when the cable worker showed up his friend knocked on bobbi's door to let hoarer know. she is in a medically induced coma. bobby brown said if we issued a statement every time the media

reported false on this matter that's what we would be doneing 24-hours a day. tiles blown off roofs when a tornado blows through boca raton, florida. they reported 90 mile per hour winds. several homes left with broken fences and toppled frees but fortunately no one was injured. >> the feds know who was mind a cyber attack. they are linking state sponsored hackers from china. they say the best of 80 million social security records, birthdays and e-mail addresses followed a similar pattern of previous hacks by that country. chinese officials are not jury selection about to get underway in the american sniper murder trial. now a bombshell report. could impact the defense's entire argument. we have more on the explosive

allegations on what happened in court. good morning, patricia. >> good morning, heather. despite the concern of the popularity 151 potential jurors remain in the pool for the trial. more than a dozen were released because they claim to have made up their minds and don't believe the suspect's insanity is de -- an insanity defense. 27-year-old iraq war vet is accused of killing former u.s. navy seal chris kyle and chad littlefield at a shooting range outside of fort worth texas in 2013. chris kyle's widow says ptsd does not cause someone to snap and shoot two men. >> i understand the need yawmedia reporting that that they would like to believe it as an excuse to hang the murders on. it was a double homicide. >> a bombshell report could have a huge impact on the case. a veteran's group says chris

kyle's accused killer may not have ptsd. according to documents obtained eddy ray ralph was never in combat when he served one tour. he never even left the base. once the jury selected the trial is expected to take two ex wouldn't. because of the high profile of the case the small city of stevensville texas is paying more than a million dollars for added security around the courthouse. ainsley, heather? >> thank you patricia. >> bone chilling cold. more snow is on the way for the weekend. maria molina tracking it for us. we are looking at additional accumulation of snow. that will continue into early next week. before we get there take a look at the current windchills. it is another cold one out there

for oweso many of you across the midwest and the plains. well below zero in places like boston and massachusetts. further quest you are looking at relatively warm temperatures. temperatures making it into the 60's across parts of colorado and texas. heather and ainsley? >> thank you maria. it is 12 minutes after the top of the hour. new details are emerging about president obama and muslim leaders. >> basically these are muslims that don't care that much about islam. >> who were they? we know who was there. >> kidnapped to learn a lesson? when why a family had a little boy taken with a gun in his face. >> inside an avalanche a amazing video as a snow takes over the snowboarder. how he survived buried in the snow.

>> welcome back to "fox & friends first". president obama's meeting with american muslim leaders include radical sharia reporters. we know who was on that list. a representative for the muslim affairs council was at wednesday's meeting. the group has previously rejected the u.s. calling hezbollah and hamas terrorist organizations. also there a professor who once gave a lecture about a once quote call to battle between the midwest. >> they don't care that much about islamism. the filter seems to be groups that are apologists for islamism or those that want to think of our community as victims and those that are racializing islam as a race rather than ideology

who needs reform. >> the white house is not confirming these or any attendees. can pope francis bring a divided washington together? the pontiff will make a historic address to congress during his fall visit to the united states. francis will meet with president obama september 24th before speaking with em ins of the senate and house on september 24th. he will be the first pontiff to address the u.s. congress. his message peace and compassion. the open's other spots new york city and philadelphia. >> the irs is sacking tom brady. he owes the government agency more than 60,000 dollars for winning the super bowl. he has to pay 47,000 on the share of the 97,000 he won for the super bowl. the truck he won add another 18,000 to the mix. he gave it away for being the mvp he thought malcolm butler de

served it after winning the game winning interception. a billion dollars for people who were not proven to be criminals. >> it is a harsh report from the institute of justice. it says the irs sees almost a quarter billion dollars from 2500 bank accounts over a decade often without proof of any criminal wrong doing. structures violations for making small deposits for federal reporting requirements but the report says the irs used the raul to target innocent bank accounts instead. in a statement to the "washington post" it will no longer indiscriminately find bank accounts. after 94 years of selling electronics radio shack cuts the cord. they will also become sprint

stores. they will be able to wrap up soon other parties will swoop in here and radio shack employs almost 30,000 people worldwide. they plan to show off camrys and corollas at next week's auto show. this is the 18 inchal low wheels the moon roof and some have the blue print you just saw. it will be limited to 12,000 cars. then you have the new corolla it has steering wheel paddle shifters and rear disc breaks. you can place your order in august. >> they are completely flas but the dow fordow is looking test best in more than 3 years. >> don't miss lauren in the fox business network. log on to foxbusiness.com/channel finder. the time is 19 after the top of the hour. terrifying situation for a 6-year-old boy when he is

kidnapped. >> his family set the whole thing up just to teach him a lesson. did this go too far. we report you decide. >> the power of prayer. a boy is dead until his mom starts praying. this incredible miracle straight ahead.

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>> four people are under arrest accused of staging the kidnapping of a 6-year-old to teach him about stranger danger. the missouri family hired a friend to snatch the little boy.

what happened next is disturbing. >> he takes him out for a ride of terror which the other boy starts immediately crying when he is told he will never go seewill see his mother again he will never see his house. he shows him a gun and says if you don't be quiet you won't see your mother again. >> do you think this lesson is fine or over the line? send a comment to us on facebook twitter to fox friends first.com and we will share them in the show. a texas inmate ising an extension on his life. lester bower was convicted of quadruple murder back in 1983. the supreme court put an indefinite hold on his execution. the court giving no reason for

their ruling. >> what is the first thing this new mexico man is doing after winning half a million dollars? heading to court. john wines is suing the mexico lottery after winning 500,000 dollars on a scratch off. but they won't give him a dime. the state says that his ticket is missing some numbers and is therefore null and void. now he is fighting for the money he says is rightfully his. >> he was dead for 45 minutes. but now an amazing story of the power of prayer. 13-year-old john smith had no pulse for 45 minutes after he fell into an icy missouri lake and trapped under the water for 15 minutes. doctors performed cpr for close to 30 minutes with no success. that's until john's mother went to the hospital to say her final good-byes. doctors say she started spraying and moments later his heart started to beat again. three weeks john is home from the hospital and he is doing just fine. >> great story for this friday.

>> the time now is 25 after the top of the hour. coming up inside an avalanche some amazing video snow over takes a snowboarder, how he survived the dramatic moments he spent buried in the snow. >> more holes this morning in the nbc news anchor story about surviving enemy fire in iraq. what's the pilot of his plane is now reporting.

oo >> it is friday february 6th. a fox news alert. fighting back. president obama planning to act against isis following the brutal murder of a jordanian pilot this as he won't call it islamic extremism. he will take jabs at christians. >> remember during the crusades and the inquisition people

committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. >> is this really the right message to be sending to our enemy as we prepare to step up the fight? >> a major health alert. the measles outbreak now spreading to infants two young to be vaccinated as doctors are warning adults who have already had their shots you might need to get them again. >> it is a story everyone is talking about incredible act of kindness caught on camera. a teen on his way to the job interview and the target employees changing his life forever. "fox & friends first" continues right now.

♪ >> wake up. rise and shine. it is friday. you have almost made it. one more day to go to work. good morning. welcome to "fox & friends first". i am ainsley earhardt. we are wearing red because it is wear red day. >> to fight heart disease. >> it is half past the top of the hour. jordan making good on its threat of revenge for their murdered pilot. dozens of fighter jets launching air strikes on isis targets in syria. >> this as president obama is expected to step up our assault against the militants and asking congress to out rise military force. doug luzader is live with the war on terror. >> good morning. took like that is going to happen and the white house will ask congress for authorization of the use of military force. the timing is still in question. here is josh earnst. >> i believe at that point we would be in a position to make

that language public and i will be in a better position to actually discuss what's included and why it is included. >> relatively soon is what we are hearing from the white house. we don't know what the wording or strategy will be to go after isis targets. how can i knotted want to have congressional approval. eventually he will. but his reluctance is simply staggering. >> writing this authorization is going to be kind of threading the needle for the white house. democrats want a narrow kind of resolution. republicans would probably be willing to offer a broader authority. heather? >> doug luzader thank you, doug.

president obama still facing pressure to admit we are at war with radical islam. he warned christians not to get on their high horse there was a time christians killed in the name of religion, too. >> unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. this is not unique to one group or one religion. this is a tendency in us a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> that brings us to look who is talking. john bolton says we need to focus on what's happening now

not 1,000 years ago. >> there were hundreds of brutalities some in the crusades some by muslims because it was 7 to 900 years ago. this happened yesterday. the president started that remark by saying let's not get on our high horse other religions have been abused, too. fine so what. let's talk about where the abuse is taking place today. this is another example of the president showing how well educated he is but not demonstrating leadership. rhetoric is important but fundamentally the problem here is the president doesn't believe his own objective he is certainly not doing what he needs to do to achieve it. until he does something more than change his rhetoric we will be here night after night saying we are failing in the mid eels. -- middle of this. >> comparing isis to the

crusades nearly a thousand years ago, what message does it send. >> a minnesota teenager accused of trying to join isis now also charged with lying to the fbi in that terror probe. they are saying 19-year-old has ma ahmed and three others took a bus to minneapolis to jfk together to board flights overseas last november. all four were stopped. even made it on the plane and headed to turkey before being arrested at the gate. he lied about knowing the other men even though they exchange twitter messages. the other three have not been charged. >> the measles outbreak now spreading to infants who were too young to get vaccinated. more than 100 cases of the con daying gus virus has been reported coast to coast. the latest taking place at a daycare near chicago. >> measles cases across the country are on the rise. health officials reporting a number of illnesses in the chicago area.

>> currently this cluster includes five children all under the age of 1. >> all of the infected children attend the same daycare center in the village of palitine in cook county. parents and teacher have been notified. those not vaccinated ordered to stay home for the next 20 days. >> they are fearing the worse. >> we expect there will be more cases associated with this daycare. >> measles is contagious spread through the air by coughing or sneedzing. >> when they sneeze or cough droplets spray into the air and they remain active and contagious in the air on surfaces for up to two hours. >> there are a large number of cases in california linked to the disney land theme park. health officials say the two ought breaks are not connected. the national immunization rate for measles is near 92 percent. doctors say if that number falls

the outbreak could turn into an epidemic. >> if less than 90 percent of the population is vaccinated measles could once again become a regular disease. >> that was fox's rich denson reporting. breaking overnight twin engine failure that's what investigators believe is the cause of the plane crash. flight data shows the first engine went idol 37 seconds after takeoff. the pilot turned the other one off in an attempt to restart them. but it was too late. a plane carrying 58 people plunged into a river in taipei. this goes along with what one of the survivors said he heard moments before takeoff. the 72-year-old said he knew right away something was wrong because the engine didn't sound right. 35 people are dead 8 still missing. images showing the devastation from the train crash that left 6 people dead in new

york. look at the inside of the burned out car. the windows completely melted. federal investigators now say the engineer slammed on the emergency brake and blew the horn twice before the train hit the suv. the mother of three behind the wheel had at least 39 seconds to avoid the collision. witnesses describe the horrifying scene in new 911 calls. i have a car that was struck by a train. the car is on fire there are people in the car. >> the car just exploded. people are jumping out of the train. >> ellen brody's funeral is set for today. they are looking at cell phone records to try to determine if she was maybe distracted at the time. >> more trouble for nbc news anchor brian william the. earlier this week he admitted to lying about being affordboard the plane. he said he was flying behind the helicopter that was hit. now his pilot is speaking out and claims they were never near any of those explosions and the

only thing that hit them was a dust storm. fox news contributor bernie goldburg says as the lie unfolds he is quickly losing credibility. >> it is a special kind of lie. i will call it the celebrity lie. celebrities go on television every night of the week usual ooly on the late night shows and they lie. but when a newsman who is also a celebrity cannot do that, because when he does when he does you have to wonder what else he is making up. >> nbc is still not commenting on this ordeal. check out this amazing video a first-hand look at what it is like to be caught in an avalanche. >> it found itself in a scary

spot on a romanian mountain. go pro captured that entire experience. you can see the slow spitting before he walked away. >> bone chilling cold in the northeast this morning. >> more snow is on the way for the weekend. maria molina is tracking it for us. >> new england could get another round of accumulating snow this weekend and early next week. >> cold temperatures will be in place next year as we head into the weekend as well. further across the midwest it is also on the chilly side this morning single dig get windchill temperatures in chicago and minneapolis. if you head through parts of the plains and the midwest temperatures are mild out there reaching the 60's not bad at all for the winter months. if you look at the forecast

model you can see snow coming out across parts of new england. it will be a long period of time before they dealing with snow. it will be heavily through sunday night and early tuesday morning. >> thank you, maria. >> the time is 20 minutes before the top of the hour. the irs making another mess thousands of bank accounts ceased for no season. >> it is a story everyone will be talking about this morning in an incredible act of kindness all caught on camera. a teenager on his way to a job interview and the target employees changing his life forever.

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>> make it to one more workday and put the jeans on. thanks so much for waking up with us on "fox and friend first. let me tell you what's happening in the news. department of justice is well aware what they were doing was totally illegal when they bypassed congress and swapped army fighters for bowe bergdahl. testifying in front of the senate admits eric holder gave the go ahead without granting congress the required 30-day notifications. he claims they had to be secretive in order to secure bergdahl's safety. the attack on sony taking down one of the most powerful women in hollywood. amy pascal stepping down from her coveted post as chairman of sony pictures she became the center of the scandal after they showed her making racist jokes against the president. she is starting her own production company.

>> controversial moves now coming to light. >> ashley webster here with the full story. ashley? >> good morning ainsley and heather a revolt by the institute of justice using money launderers and terrorists to indiscriminately cease bank accounts. they look at patents of small bank deposits they suspected of using bank accounts. law abiding citizens who did nothing wrong are having their money seized without any criminal charges being filed. the report says the irs practices a cease first ask questions later strategy. $242 million were seized four out of five of those cases were civil ntot criminal. nearly half of the money was not forfeited but it took a year of legal wrangling to win the money

back. another report shows 1 in 10 former employees rehired the u.s. left before performance and conduct issues 7000 plus former employees rehired between january 2010 and 2015. more than 800 had prior disciplinary issues. included some who willfully filed their own tax return. irs manager said the hire can practices are adequate. heather, back to you. >> thank you ashley. >> thank you on the fox business network to find it all you have to do is log on to foxbusiness.com/channel finder. it is now 47 minutes after the top of the hour. a $21 billion bombshell. president obama's new student loan lan coming at a major cost to all tax paying americans. day two of jury selection about to get underway in the american sniper murder trial.

now a bombshell report could impact the defense's entire argument. >> first let's check in with steve doocy to find out what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> we are all wearing red because it is wear red day. as you get dressed for the day put on something red. coming up on "fox & friends" president obama equates christians who have done terrible things in the name of christianity to isis at the national prayer breakfast. dr. robert jefrers reacts to that. he is not happy. sports illustrated swimsuit model the aaron heatherton and anna ferguson going to stop by on the curvy couch. the entire crew will be in attendance. he has been nominated for his 5th grammy awards. country star hunter haze joins us live because mornings are better when you wear red.

changes president obama made to the federal student loan programs are going to cost you the taxpayer, more than $20 billion. a $21 billion black hole has been created now that students are now -- and now that changes -- now that changes to the student loan payments have been put into place. this is the biggest student loan in history increasing the federal deficit by 5%. >> if you need to talk to someone about bullying the federal government wants it to be a robot. the national science foundation spending nearly $400,000 in taxpayer dollars to see whether children will talk to robots about bullying. a study says children get uneasy talking with adults.

their hope is they feel more comfortable sharing with a robot. the widow of navy seal chris kyle is insisting ptsd did not accuse her husband's killer to snap and shoot him. >> that is what the media would like everybody to believe. it was a double homicide. >> while she might be right, this after a huge bombshell just revealed that could impact the defense's entire argument many a veterans group says eddie ray ralph might not have ptsd. reports show he was never in combat. in fact, he never left the base. jury selection today. opening statements next week. >> seattle seahawks richard sherman is a new dad. sherman taking to twitter to welcome his son. this is what he says: my

son knows how to make an entrance. 2/5/15. is that a coincidence or is he just that clever? either way i'm ecstatic. >> coming up a kidnapping lesson. a woman has her six-year-old nephew taken all to teach him a lesson. is this fine or over the line? your e-mails pouring in. >> an incredible act of kindness caught on camera. a teenager on his way to a job interview and a target employee changing his life forever. ♪

now it is time for your brew on this responses. four people under arrest accused of staging the kidnapping of a six-year-old to teach him a lesson about stranger dairng danger. >> police say a missouri family hired a friend to snatch the little boy and then threatened him at gunpoint to say he'd never see his family again. his mother says she wanted to teach his son not to be too nice to strangers. is this fine or over the line? >> scott says they need to spend time in the slammer. >> wayne writes what these people did was wrong. there is a different tweens training your child and terrorizing them. >> george on facebook says so he learns that people

who do wrong get punished? works for me. >> now to an act of kindness that has everyone talking this morning. this picture is going viral. >> a teenager went into a target to buy a clip-on tie for a job interview but they didn't have any. instead he bought a real tie but didn't know how to tie it. these two target employees showed him high. they even prepped him for the interview teaching him how to give a firm handshake. >> we were here helping the young man. >> the interview was at a chick-fil-a. the manager says they will let him know by the end of the week if he got the job. >> surely they will. if you're watching this morning, chick-fil-a, hire this guy. >> that's right. if they don't target should. >> maybe we will if they

don't. >> we hope you have a great weekend. thanks so much for joining us. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. >> good morning. it is friday, february 6. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. jordan launching a new round of airstrikes, revenge for their murdered pilot. this as president obama compares radical islam to the christian crusades. >> unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. >> what message does this send to the enemy? >> that we have a high horse? >> yes, i guess. >> a veteran turned senator lays a smackdown on the administration over gitmo. >> the only problem at guantanamo bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. we should be sending m