first on this once morning. i am abby hunts man in for ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you for starting your day with us. donald trump is out of the fox news debate. the republican frontrunner is refusing to take the podium. >> the by cot coming days before the first vote of the iowa caucuses. we are in des moines iowa with the latest this morning. good morning, john. >> outside of the building in des moines by the way where the debate will take place tomorrow night. as far as i can remember it's unprecedented for a frontrunner to bail out of a debate at all let alone one that will occur four-days before the very first nominating contest. last night's trump's campaign made it official saying he was pulling the plug on the center stage appearance. the reason he didn't like the way fox news was treating him. >> they can't toy with me like they toy with everybody else. let them have their debate and let's see how they do with the

ratings. >> fox news last night put out this statement in response saying quote we are not sure how iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute, but it should be clear to the american public by now this is rooted in one thing, megyn kelly whom he has viciously attacked since august and has spent four-days demanding to be removed from the debate stage. opening the show megyn kelly said she is going to be here. >> i will be there. brett's already there. i think wallace is coming today, i am not sure. but the debate will go on with or without mr. trump. >> this could be a boom for trump with supporters but this is where he gets into political problems. he's in a neck and neck race with ted cruz. what he is going to do by removing himself from the debate stage is hand cruz an unimpeded microphone from which he can spew to anything he wants about donald trump.

he is giving cruz a huge iowa corn stock to beat him with all of the way through to the monday caucuses. listen to this. >> if he doesn't expect he's telling the men and women of iowa he can't defend his record, he is admitting he cannot stand the scrutiny. that means he is not up to the job of being commander-in-chief. any one scared of mig gwen ke-- megyn kelly is not going to be able to stand up to hillary clinton or vladimir putin. >> what trump will do instead hold a competing event a fundraiser for veterans and wounded warriors which is a noble thing to do. veterans and wounded warriors can get all of the help they can get. certainly he will be able to raise a lot of money for him. this also is a very, very important debate. there are a lot of people in iowa who are undecided. who knows abowhat they will thi

about not being there. >> i like the line you use a huge corn stalk to beat him with. reaction to trump skipping the big iowa debate pouring in from competitors. hoping it means more time for them. kristin fisher is live for us in washington, d.c. with that part of our coverage. >> they are had all jumping at the chance to take a shot at the republican frontrunner. jeb bush accused him of being scared of tough questions from megyn kelly. chris christie said is this really the way to react when things don't go your way. mike huckabee offered to take his place in the main debate. >> hard for me to understand. if this is the year an americ pn win the iowa caucuses by raising money and going in with blasting tv ads it could be the end of the iowa caucus as we know it. >> it doesn't matter whether he is there or not. i would be surprised if he is not there, though. >> you think he will show up in

the end? >> i do think so. >> whether he does or doesn't show up one thing not in question is trump's dominance in the polls. a poll shows trump at 41 percent. a new high. the closest rival ted cruz is 22 points behind. that is a huge gap. no other candidate has double digits. marco rubio at 8 percent. carson at 6, jeb bush at 5, everyone else is at 3 percent or less. this race is significantly tight in iowa. new poll has trump and cruz 2 points apart 31-29. mrashg co rubio at a distant third 13 percent. he has picked up quite a few endorsements des moines register and former rival george pataki. this is turning into a tight two man race in the state with the caucus five days away. heather, back to you. >> too it will be a different

dynamic. kristin, thank you for that report. >> trump's announcement coming 48-hours before the big debate. fox news contributor and former speech writer for president bush and brit hume explaining why they did i he did it. >> he's run a very smart campaign up until now. this is his first major miss step. he looks like a big baby. his whole premise of his campaign is that he's tougher than all of the other candidates out there, democrats and republicans alike. a few months ago when bernie sanders had black lives protestpro matter protestors come. how can he handle this if he can't handle black lives matter. how can he handle being president if he can't handle fox news. he is going to leave the debate stage entirely to ted cruz a few days before the iowa caucus when 40 percent of voters haven't

made up their minds yet. >> trump has never gotten over that first question you asked him which, you know, to me and to any other reasonable journalist was a completely fair question. but he never seems to have been able to get past that. i think it's also partly about the fact that he may feel now, megyn, he caught up and passed ted cruz who is leading him in iowa and he can afford tois debs chance to take him on in a way that might be risky for trump. he might believe he can win such an exchange but he may feel he's in a position where it is not worth taking a chance. >> prime time coverage of the debate starts right here on fox news channel thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern hosted by m megyn kelly bret baier and chris wallace. a bloody end to the oregon wildlife refuge standoff. one rancher killed in a group

shootout and bundy is among several arrested. we have the breaking details. good morning to you. >> good morning, abby. this all went down during a traffic stop on a highway north of had a refuge. ammon his brother ryan and three others were heading to a community meeting. they were stopped by oregon state police. it is not clear why. moments later a shootout began. group spokesman lavoy was killed. ammon and his group were arrested. the other three happened in separate incidentsment all 8 are charged with conspiracy. ammon from the back of the police car called her and told her that they had been arrested, that my son ryan had been shot in the arm and that lavoy

finicum was murdered. they shot him with his hands up and just literally murdered him. >> tensions have been growing ever since with many in the community demanding the group leave. it is not clear how many people are still at the refuge. the fbi will hold a news conference later this morning. heather? patricia stark live for us. that's around 10:30 a.m. >> oo a muslim man now under arrest for planning a massacre at a masonic temple. the man from milwaukee told two under cover fbi agents said they should kill everybody in the temple with machine guns. he hadn't been under investigation since september. he was raised after buying machine guns from the under cover agents. >> ethan couch could be back in the u.s. by the end of the week. the 18-year-old just dropped an appeal against deportation in mexico and is preparing to come

back to mtexas to face the charges. couch and his mother fled to mexico after he possibly violating the terms of his probation after he have sentenced to probation for killing a man in a drunk driving accident. a woman is lucky to be alive after being buried in snow in her car. >> the death toll from the big blizzard now stands at 48 along the east coast as they continue to dig out of the snow. federal agencies will open three hours late in washington. schools in the dc area will also reopen today. >> good morning. we are expecting to see the temperatures climbing here but they are going to be a little bit on the colder side during the nighttime hours at least coming up over the incomes few

days. that will be something to watch for. right now we have temperatures that are above freezing in places like new york and washington, d.c. and places like baltimore and philadelphia. welcome news. we need help from mother nature to continue to melt the snow. as we head further mess we have had the cold front sweep through the midwest and cold er temperatures are in minneapolis. colder temperatures in the teens. forecast high temperatures staying cool across northeast even cooler as we head into tomorrow and the following day. let's head over to you heather and abby. maria molina. thank you. the time now is 10 minutes after the hour. under trained and out of control. the nation's busiest air traffic control tower. >> a massive storm engulfed an suv full of people. the dramatic moments caught on camera. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan.

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>> authorities comparing the inmates to the twisted movie character han ill lector. when asked he said quote they let hannibal lecter out. he may be responsible for planning the escape. trying to figure out how it took more than 15 hours to even realize the three were gone. prison records show the three men cut through deal bars and used a bed sheet to gain access to the roof. they have quadrupled the reward from 15,000 now up to 200,000 dollars. recently captured mexican drug kingpin el chapo not getting much sleep these days due to guard dogs and hourly checkups. he hasn't seen his family since being recaptured several weeks

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with hillary clinton who is likely to be the democratic nominee that you are part of the war on women? >> senator ted cruz is now calling out trump for bowing out. correspondent john roberts is live for us with more. good morning, john. >> good morning, heather. this does go back to august. pfdz a completely legitimate question. clinton will hit him with everything they have got. that will be one of the central lines of attack. you heard about that on the campaign trail. for that not to be asked would have been a missed opportunity. i am not sure what's at work here looking at this from a political standpoint. i don't know if he's worried megyn kelly will bring up something he doesn't want to talk about or he's afraid of

fumbling a question with four-days left or perhaps he does genuinely feel fox news slighted him by making a little fun of him. it appears that at this point he is not going to be here tomorrow night. w what he is doing politically is handing ted cruz three points behind him an unimpeded mega phone to take the stage on thursday night and have senter stage all to himself. listen to the way ted cruz is playing it. >> i didn't like the press releases that fox put out. it is like they are playing games. i don't like it when people play games. >> you know, donald is a fragile soul. if she asks him mean questions his hair might stand on end. >> ted cruz is now making fun of him. he's got as i said at the

beginning of this at 5:00 he's giving him a big corn stock to beat him along the way until monday. ted cruz is doing everything he can. he said he's afraid but he is going to try to make him look chicken, heather. >> trump's followers one of the reasons they like him he listens to them and he tells them how it is. he asked them what he should do on instagram. correct? >> he did. he put out a question on instagram and twitter should i appear at the debate should i not appear at the debate. i think for the last count 57 percent of his followers said he should appear at the debate. you are darned right. he's the frontrunner in iowa. there's only five days left until the caucuses. more than 30 percent of iowans polled said they should change their minds or they are undecided. there's a lot of people who will be looking at the debate to say which is the one that measures up that i want to vote for in

this is the time when those people will be making up their minds. for him to bail out i think it can really hurt him. >> his followers and supporters says he should do it. with he will see if he changes his mind again. >> thank you so much, john. the time is currently 19 after the hour. the zeta virus spreading in the united states. which airlines are offering a refund to travelers with tickets going to infected areas. >> they are told not to make their prayers public. they are now ready to go to court. ♪ are you ready? are you ready? i mean, really ready?

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>> it is wednesday january 27th. donald trump is at the center of all of the drama. he is getting strong reaction from rials. >> i am going to have something else in iowa. we will do something where we raise money for the veterans. >> if donald is terrified of any moderator he and i can debate one-on-one. >> will it help him or hurt him in iowa? political analysts weigh in. >> it is a deadly ending to a week's long standoff in oregon. >> enjoy your morning latte may be good for you. pour another cup. "fox & friends first" continues right now.

>> good news this morning. welcome to "fox and friend first. i am heather childers. >> i am abby hunts man. it is 30 before the hour. the show will go on with or without donald trump. he is backing out of the debate just ahead of the iowa caucus. >> john roberts is live in des moines iowa with the latest. good morning, john. he has been threatening this today. he has been trying to get megyn kelly booted as a moderator. when he couldn't do that he decided he's going to take his ball home. he didn't like the fact that fox news was making fun of him for not wanting megyn to ask questions. >> they can't toy with me like thick toy with everybody else. let them have their debate and see how they do with ratings.

after the trump campaign pulled the plug we can't give in to terzations of any of the employees. trump is still welcome and will be treated fairly just as he has been during his 132 appearances on fox news and fox business. he cannot dictate the moderators or the questions. megyn kelly says she is looking toer ward to tomorrow night. >> i will be there. brett is already there. i think wallace is coming today. i am not sure. the debate will go on with or without mr. trump. >> politically what donald trump has done is handed ted cruz the opening that he was desperate for just five days before the caucuses. they are running neck and neck. cruz is literally making fun of trump calling him afraid throwing down the gauntlet on mark levin's radio show to the donald. >> i tell you what, if donald is terrified of any moderators he and i can debate one-on-one with an iowa town hall. he can invite half of the people

and i will invite half of the people and we will answer questions from iowa. >> they would like to see their candidates stand up and be counted. will it hurt him in the long run? perhaps not. ronald reagan skipped the debate george h.w. bush won the caucuses but ron in aed reagan won the nomination. des moines airport motorcade because that podium will be available for him right up until the debate time. >> it will be interesting to see how all of this plays out. john roberts live for us from des moines. trump's rivals hoping to stand out on the stage now that the frontrunner is ditching the debate. kristin fisher is live for us with reaction coming in. good morning. >> good morning, abby. this is exactly the kind of opening that many of trump's republican rivals have been waiting for.

they are wasting mow time. you know who else is afraid of tough questions from megyn kelly and fox? barack obama. >> it will give us more time to talk, that's the way it will effect it. it will be good for me and others on the stage. i tell you this, the american people should wonder if you are not willing to show up when everything isn't going your way exactly the way you want to that's not how the way the job of governor goes. >> this may not be going the way trump would like but he has been ahead in the polls. trump is at 41 percent and his closest rival ted cruz 22 points behind. that is a huge gap. no other candidates hit double digits. carson is at 6. jeb bush is at 5. chris christie is at 4.

everyone else is at 3 percent or less. the race is tighter in iowa. a quinnipiac poll has trump and cruz two points apart, 31-29. marco rubio is a distant third. he has picked up quite a few endorsements. he picked up an endorsement from the des moines register and his former rival george pataki. the democratic candidates haven't responded to trump boycotting the debate. i am sure it is only a matter of time. >> i have a feeling we will hear some today. trump making the announcement do boycott the debate coming before ta day before the first votes at the iowa caucus. charles krauthammer weighs in on the impact it could have. this will not hurt him a bit among his hard-core followers. as far as they are concerned he could take off all of his

clothes and rundown broadway tomorrow they would say look, it shows he's not politically correct. this won't move the needle with them at all. my question is whether it is a smart move by the voters in iowa who may be looking at this and expecting to see him in the debate and perhaps those who are undecided and there are some number of those are hoping to get a better sense of him and of the other candidates. if he doesn't show up i don't know how well this will go down with him. it is impossible to say. >> the genius of a reality tv show is that it has to be constantly changing. you can't have the same story line week after week when the show dies. he kept his going for 14 years. he keeps changing the story. when he makes an outrageous statement and he's waiting for incoming. he makes another outrageous statement so that all of the attention is focused on the second. he is used that i think again

brilliantly for six months to maneuver himself at the top and i think i suspect in the end he will make some concession. he will get a donation from wounded warriors so he can look mag nan mouse. as of now he's succeeding in doing what he wants which is to make him the center of all attention all of the time. >> prime time coverage of the debate starts right here on the fox news channel thursday night 9:00 p.m. eastern hosted by megyn kelly, bret baier and chris wallace. >> he has shaped the conversation so far. now to a fox news alert another one a deadly end to the oregon wildlife refuge standoff. one rancher killed in a shoot-out ammon bundy is among several arrested. patricia stark is here with the breaking details. >> this all went down during a traffic stop on a highway north of that refuge. ammon his brother ryan and three others were heading to a community meeting. they were stopped by oregon

state police, though it is not clear why. moments later a shootout began. group spokesman lavoy fiticum was killed. all eight face a federal felony conspiracy charge. ammon's father cliven bundy says his sons are good kids and the feds over reacted. >> they weren't threatening nobody. they were trying to do good things. they were out trying to teach and support, and now they are in jail. >> the armed occupation beganed 26 days ago to protest federal land policy. tension has been growing ever since with many in the community demanding that the group leave. it is not clear how many people are still at the refuge. the fbi will hold a news conference later this morning. heather and has bebby. >> all right patricia stark live for us.

we will monitor that story. a maryland woman lucky to be alive after being buried under snow for four-days in her car. the woman suffering hypothermia was rescued the national guard. >> the death toll from the blizzard stands at 48 as communities along the east coast continue to bdig out of the sno. schools will reopen and federal agencies will open three hours late. maria molina has more on what will be next. >> good morning abby and heather. we are tracking the temperatures because everyone wants to know if mother nature going to be helping out with the cleanup effort? for today is looks like great news. temperatures are making it into the 40's. it will be above the freezing mark. we have relatively cool temperatures across the midwest. temperatures only in the low 30's. we had a front sweep through bringing in the slightly cooler air mass. because of the cooler air moving through parts of the great lakes we have snowfall.

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tomorrow's fox news debate. donald trump, he's not going to be there. the donald refusing to participate days before the iowa caucuses. doug luzader is life for us in washington. doug, good morning. >> this was the debate lineup. the question is will that be an empty podium. is donald trump going to show up? he says no and he says he's serious about it this time. >> mr. trump we will see you thursday night, right? >> we will be talking. >> i didn't like the press releases fox put out. they are playing games. >> we will all be there. >> i am sure you will be there. >> trump seemingly has two issues one a press release that he mentioned there. the other has to do with the fact that megyn kelly is one of the debate moderator. she will still be a debate moderator tomorrow.

the question is whether trump will show up. will it ultimately hurt donald trump or give him a different kind of attention? donald trump has broken just about every rule in politics you can think of and still continues to do well in the polls. he has flirted with the idea of skipping out of debates before but this one is so close to the iowa caucuses. this is something we haven't seen before. >> doug luzader is live for us. thank you, doug. >> they have problems sleeping at night if you use social media before bed. >> a study shows caffeine does not cause heart problems but it is good for you. researchers say a good cdose of

caffeine in the morning can boost your heart without sending it racing. caffeine does not disrupt your heart rhythm which skeptics believe can lead to other health problems. >> now for what is going viral and the video you will be talking about all day. an adorable toddler is caught on camera counting her blessings before bed. look at this. >> thank you for my daddy. thank you my mommy. >> so sweet. little sutton's parents sharing the moment they turned monitor 2-year-old praying in her crib. we'll hear from the family live on "fox & friends" in a few minutes. 6:30 eastern. love that story. >> cute. the time is eight minutes until the top of the hour. a christian school, speaking of prayer, tackling the right finish their -- for their players to pray. is it okay to separate religion and school, or is their faith being censored?

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think of it as a seven seat for an action packed thriller. three minutes until the top of the hour. before you leave the house, here's what's happening today -- the oregon refuge standoff coming to a bloody end. one rancher killed in a police shoot-out. group leader amman bundy and seven others under arrest.

president obama calling for the development of vaccines and treatments against the dangerous zika virus has the cdc warn again travel two dozen locations in the caribbean and latin america. 18 people are now infected in the u.s. and donald trump refusing to attend tomorrow night's fox news debate. the move coming days before the first votes in iowa. we want you to keep talking about that. how do you think skipping the debate will impact trump in iowa? log on to our facebook page for the live debate, #keeptalking. time for "the good, the bad, and the ugly." first on the good, a brave dog risks her life to save her puppies under a flooded house. look at this. [ whining ] >> so sweet. the mama dog crown jewelling under the home -- crawling under the home in israel. when she heard the puppies crying, she saved all of them. next, the bad. a mad dash for freedom caught on camera. streams of prisoners making a

run for it after a bomb ripped open an external wall. most of the 40 escapees are back behind bars. two were killed after a shoot-out with police. finally, the ugly. a massive 16-foot wave overturns a government suv on the coast of chile. the wave coming out of nowhere hits the car broadside. several bystanders rushing to help the driver and passenger. luckily, no one was hurt. >> i can't believe no one was injured. time for your "brew on this." a fight for faith. a school in tampa demanding an apology from the high school athletic association for not being allowed to broadcast a prayer at a football game or the case could end up in car. >> in september, the group said it was against the law to use the lou speaker for prayer because they were praying on public property. we asked, does the school have a fair point, or is it a violation of free speech? an overwhelming majority in favor of praying. dennis says, you can pray any time. i pray all day for many reasons. >> another, it is unconstitutional to tell any

individual that they cannot pray anywhere they want and at any time they want. source, first amendment. thank you for joining us. we'll continue to show your comments on live. "fox & friends" start now. bye. hey, everybody, good morning, wednesday, the 27th of january, 2016. i'm anna kooiman. this is a fox news alert -- donald trump is out. he says he will not be debating on fox news tomorrow. why now, and tell help or hurt his chances of winning in iowa? it's been over a year since we went to the v.a. for answers on that wait list scandal. >> how long have you been waiting, sir? >> two years. >> you feel like the president cares about this scandal at v.a.? >> negative. >> think it's any better now? today we go back. wait until you see what we found. and think your dog does cool tricks? think again. come