look at this. they renamed the theater just for us. isn't that perfect? ben carson saying that he won't be here. he sees no path forward for him to win the nomination. we'll hear from him probably officially in the next few days that he is dropping out of the race. he'll tell us about his plans for the future. looks like we're down to four now be on the debate stage. it's a big day for the republican party. not just the big night debate in detroit. mitt romney, a major speech at 11:30. one of the reasons the

republican establishment is in cle complete freakout mode. the polls showing donald trump 18 points ahead. the recent detroit free press poll had coalesce around him to stop trump. listen. >> as long as the field is fractured, that benefits donald. it allows him to win state after state after state because there are multiple opponents dividing. it is my hope we will see more and more unity, more and more candidates coming together and more and more of the voters. >> marco rubio who held a big predebate rally said much of the same thing as cruz did of course. he would like the party to coalesce around him. >> it's a very unusual frontrunner, donald trump. usually when you are the frontrunner everyone is saying please get out of the race so we can unify around the frontrunner. what people are saying please

everyone come together so we can keep the frontrunner from winning and destroying the republican party. >> as you can image donald trump not particularly thrilled about the idea of mitt romney coming out this morning. trump expects romney will be critical of him. here's what donald trump tweeted out about that. just another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten barack obama, barack being misspelled by the way. see if rubio makes hey of that. how they will react about mitt romney coming out. the parties decided if he is going to come out to say you have got to work harder to defeat donald trump that's not going to go over too well. jackie and heather. >> i guess he doesn't have auto correct. it does auto correct it with the correct spelling. thank you so much, john. winning 7 out of 11 bling the total number to the caucus numbers to 10.

>> senior editor at national review says it's not too late for others to step it up but it's not going to be easy. >> you think all of this talk about how there's a civil war coming is to the point that the civil war is already here. i think that the not trump forces are galvanized and moving in a way that a lot of people didn't think could happen. there wasn't a lot of time left for it. i think the central battlefield will be florida. i still think there's a chance that the not trump forces will prevail. if you add up his returns in all of the primaries the hostile takeover of the party amounts to 34 percent of the vote. there's still room in there for the not trump forces to prevail. but it could be very hard. the candidates will make their cases tonight. fox news gop debate in detroit hosted by megyn kelly bret baier and chris wallace. 9:00 p.m. eastern. don't miss it. the person responsible for

setting uphill ry clinton's private e-mail server granted immunity by the justice department. garrett tenney is live for us with the breaking developments. good morning, garrett. >> this is big news for the criminal investigation of hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. many will remember the former state department staffer who set up the private server of clinton's home in up state new york in 2009. back in september pagliono set up a congressional panel and refused to answer any questions on the server invoking his 5th amendment rights. now according to the report in a "washington post" citing the senior officer they have granted pagliono immunity. the clinton campaign continues to down-play the investigation and a campaign spokesman says they are pleased to hear

pagliono is working with prosecutors. they are trying to spin the e-mail cscandal into a positive. >> i saw this remarkable story by a woman who said, you know, i didn't support hillary in 2008. i never liked her. i never was enthusiastic until i read her e-mails and it made me appreciate how good she is as a human being as well as a public servant. >> on monday in an interview with her on bret baier attorney general loretta lynch said there's no deadline for concluding the investigation into the clinton e-mails. that's answer with the presidential election just a few months away. jackie? >> garrett tenney live in washington this morning. thank you. >> another show of force from north korea. south korea says they fired several short range projectiles into the sea. not clear if it was rockets or

missiles. it came hours after the u.n. approved the toughest sanctions of north korea in decades nuclear test in january and another rocket launch in march. a search in mississippi for a dangerous murder suspect. rafael mccloud escaped from a jail while wearing a county as uniform. he took a guard hostage before taking his clothes and keys. mccloud who was charged with murder and rape is considered armed and dangerous. aaron andrews trial briefly delayed after a very disturbing revelation. marriott rep kneel penske is accused of showing the nude video of andrews to friends at a restaurant. the case was copying millions of dollars so he was going to show the video to everyone. he denies the claim but restaurants said workers had to ask him to stop at one point. they are suing the hotel for

letting the stalker book the room next door where he filtered through a people -- filmed her through a peephole. >> the civil liberties union filing a friend of the court brief saying the ruling could have catastrophic consequences. at odds is the fbi's request for apple to unlock the phone of one of the san bernardino killers. the aclu believes if the government wins they will turn over information in other criminal cases. president obama could be close to filling the supreme court opening left by antonin scalia. they have been conducting background checks on background james kelly a federal judge in iowa. senate republicans said they vow to block any candidate saying the president should make for the next president to make a nomination. he's expected to announce his selection in the coming weeks. all right the eagle has

landed folks. astronaut scott kelly arriving in houston overnight after a record setting stay aboard the international space station. he has looked back on his time in space as he was surrounded by friends and family. listen to this. >> no greater privilege than serving your country however and wherever you might do it. this mission is the latest achievement in our country's space program but it's not the last. there will be more. it's in our dna of our country to explore and we must never stop. >> what an experience. can you even image? scientists will compare kelly and his identical twin brother to see what effect long space has had on their body. so far they say kelly grew two inches and is slightly younger. >> oh. that's a good result of space. >> rain he snow and temperatures 25 degrees below normal. >> maria molina, is it spring

yet? i am done. >> we are starting to see temperatures eventually warming up. we are going to share the temperatures around northern new england. that's where temperatures are colder than 15 degrees below average. you can see places like care beau, maine, temperatures are below zero out there. a lot of pink showing up out there in parts of new england and the great lakes region. you have two regions where vr very cold temperatures. overall the rest of the nation in the 20's and 30's at this early hour and even warmer as you head further west across places like california. hey temperatures today relatively warm and even hot across parts of texas. 88 degrees for the high temperature in dell rio. in the northeast you will be on the chilly side not making it out of the 30's. we have snow around places likl

we have potential for a couple of inches of snow to i a accumulate. it swings eastward and we could be looking at snowfall accumulating in mid atlantic tonight into tomorrow. let's head over to you. >> we will ask her how much she means by accumulation. thank you, maria. the time is 10 minutes after the hour. no guts no glory. a female clerk fights off a robber with a gun pointed right in her face. >> what's college football with a little tackling. >> the ivy league school trying to tame the game. >> how you can brew coffee, jackie, right from your phone. >> hmmm. >> chris christie stood right behind trump in his victory speech last flight. a lot of people thought christie sdoont sem too happy about it. >> the win was just a great win.

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50 weapons were stolen in less than two minutes flat. three arrests have been made this morning. also caught on camera the dramatic moments a teenage the robber points a gun in a clerk's face at a georgia convenience store that come refusing to breakdown. she grabbed him by his hood de smacks him in the head with the cash drawer all the while the weapon is inches from his face. that's my girl right there. she is very, very lucky, though. >> mex dan drug lord el chapo guzman wants to come to the u.s. to get some sleep. he is desperate to leave his maximum security prison in mexico where guards he says wake him up every hour or every four hours forehead count. el chapo has twice escaped from mexican prisons. inged be extradited to the u.s.

within two months. >> donald trump showing no signs of slowing down. the attention is going to maliamalia trump who could be our next first lady. she talks about why it was easy for him to make a decision. >> he could say i will be fine my family will be fine. i don't care about america. he is not that way. he sees what potential america has and he wants to help. >> when it comes to the possibility of being the first lady mal lan ymelania says she perfectionist. >> i like to put 100 percent into what i do. if the american people would select my husband to be president, i would support him and i will support the united states. >> melania says despite 20-years

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>> the gop presidential candidates move on to michigan for the fox news debate. >> maybe mitt romney with a major announcement coming up today. >> we will see what that happens. off the job the school police officer seen doing this on camera kicking and slapping a student. the criminal investigation now underway. >> the favorite fizz not a healthy option. the bad news about proseco. fox news continues right now.

♪ >> it is going to be a great day out there. good morning. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday morning. i am heather childers. >> i am jackie ibanez. thank you for starting your day with us. we love having you here. then there were four. ben carson stepping out of the fox news debate signaling he may soon suspend his campaign. >> shrinking the field. it is what the gop candidates want. john roberts is live with the very latest. >> jackie and heather. good morning to you. we are expecting another sharp debate tonight. we are getting down to sharp strokes if anybody wants to stop donald trump at the fox theater in downtown detroit. the republican establishment to a large degree is in near panic mode ore the fact that donald trump went 7 for 11 on super

tuesday. there are a lot of republicans saying they would never ever vote for donald trump. what the republican party needs some are saying at least a temporary third party split to put forward an alternative candidate but that would lead to defeat in november on the campaign trail. marco rubio only won one state on tuesday and is in danger of losing florida to trump urged voters to come out for him. >> if we lochoose donald trump will lose in november. we will put in charge of the conservative movement someone who is not really a conservative. if we choose donald trump of our nominee he will have carried out the most elaborate con job in the history of american politics. >> ohio governor john kasich who is aiming for a big win in ohio on march 15th says he's the one for the establishment to rally around and resisted the notion that he's only stealing votes from marco rubio.

>> maybe he's taking votes away from me. if he would have dropped out i would have had more votes. if he hadn't sent one of his hit men up to vermont i would have beaten trump up there. >> kasich referring the hit man is senator corey gardner of colorado who was campaigning for rubio saying some nasty things about kasich. then there's the big mitt romney speech. romney not going to announce he's getting into the race not going to endorse any one he is going to give a statement on where he thinks the party is and will likely be critical of donald trump. donald trump not taking too kindly do that tweeting out that mitt romney is a two-time loser and should not be telling the party how to do anything. >> john roberts live for us. thank you. >> the candidates will buick it out tonight at the fox news gop debate in detroit hosted by megyn kelly and bret baier and

chris wallace. coverage starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> now to a fox news alert this morning. the person responsible for setting uphill ry clinton's private e-mail server granted immunity by the justice department. garrett tenney live in the nation's capitol with the breaking developments. good morning, garrett. >> the man who was there from the beginning of hillary clinton's e-mail scandal is cooperating with the fbi investigation. according to a report from the "washington post" siting a senior law enforcement officer says they have granted immunity to brian pag leeapagliono askinr his help. they are he set up her e-mail making him a crucial part of the investigation into the server. until now that wasn't happened. he appeared before a congressional panel and refused to answer if i questions on the server invoking his 5th

amendment rights. they were considering offering him immunity but ultimately deciding not to. a clinton campaign spokesman says they are pleased to hear pagliono is cooperating. they are putting a spin on the scandal saying last night in a rally that it is actually helping her. >> i saw this remarkable story by a woman who said i didn't support hillary in 2008. i never liked her. i was never enthusiastic until i read her e-mails and it made me appreciate how good she is as a human being as well as a public servant. >> it is one way to look at it. attorney general loretta lynch said the justice department had no deadline for the investigation. >> either a major pivot or a

spin. garrett tenney live for us. >> one of baltimore's top cops showing one slapping a teen posted on-line. the cop is also on leave and under investigation for assault and misconduct. the confrontation escalated after they asked the 16-year-old to leave the school saying he wasn't a student there. he refused because he does go there. baltimore city public schools have not confirmed the teen's status but to say that it is investigating. >> a florida man arrested for a massive gold bar heist nearly a year to the day. perez and two other armed men stole 5 million worth of gold from an armored truck. it was on its way from miami to boston. one of the gold bars was recovered last year in florida. they are due in court today.

the two accomplices are still on the lose this morning. a scary warning on the deadly zika outbreak. the cdc says hundreds of thousands of cases could pop up wi if something isn't done. they approve the $2 billion funding proposal to fight the moscow born virus. without the money new research and vaccines will not happen. >> uncle sam wants you to hack the pentagon. they are asking hackers to try to find gaps in cyber security in the military beb siweb site. it will save the government time and money by avoiding mill lish malicious security breeches. they would have to undergo a background check. she is back. apparently the rain, snow and temperatures up to 25 degrees below normal for some. maria mal lena back in the

weather center tracking the latest forecast. we want to know about accumulations, maria. >> hello everybody. i am home and it doesn't look like much will be accouple laua. we' we are talking 3-5 inches in places like virginia taking a southern track take a look at the temperatures across places like new england. temperatures below sdmreer row. only in the teens and 20's across parts of the great lakes. eye cross the plains across texas and southwest in parts of that state. 88 degrees for the forecast high in dell rio. it will be toasty out there. across parts of arizona already feeling like summer out there. 91 degrees in the forecast high temperature in the city of phoenix. the clipper system bringing snow across the mid atlantic tonight into tomorrow.

already moving in snow showers across places like indiana, western parts of ohio and also into kentucky and it's going to be a very fast mover. not a lot of moisture with it either. not anticipating a lot of moisture across the midwest. then it comes east. we could be looking at accumulating snowfall and winter advisories across parts of south carolina lane gnaw and this is the corridor that could be looking at heavier snowfall totals. 3-5 inches possible. locally higher ams will be possible especially as we get into the higher elevations. new york city staying south. we will be getting snow showers here in the big apple. >> just enough to be pretty. >> thank you so much maria. the time is 39 after the hour.

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with anti police. cops not welcome here. blue lives murder. it was plastered on the front door this year. the rink took it down calling it offensive and disheartening. ice skaters thought it was the work of the rink. it is not so and patrons are speaking out. >> i lo the guys in blue around here. they do a great job of protecting us and i think it is also the kids, they even like that. >> they are working with police to find out who is responsible for the hateful rhetoric. jackie? >> thanks heather. a veteran's group has come out with a new ad on the stance of the iran nuclear deal. >> since the iranian nuclear deal they have gone on the offense against the middle east. they illegally detained our sailors, tested ballistic missiles and continually fund terrorists that killed american.

>> i have heard a lot of people say they are going to rip up the deal. tough to say rip up the deal. >> the ad of vets against the deal they praise hillary clon ton's handling of iran. robert bartlett who was badly wounded by iranian missile says trump needs to clear things up right now. >> is he going to put the sanctions back on iran and financially hurt them or is he going to still side with putin. if he is saying he's not going to rip up the deal he is a no go on my vote. >> there's no comment from trump so far. waste management when it comes to your tax dollars. lawmakers are preparing a bill requiring federal agencies to file detailed reports on union employees right down to the square footage of office work space. it is designed to monitor the activities of federal employees who deal with union business, cracking down on time and resources wasted paid for you the tax payer. >> if you are short on cash, believe it or not, you can save

$1 million without even trying. that's what we are talking about. cheryl casone from fox business is here to explain how all of this works. americans have not been saving for since the recession. for the younger generation good news. a 25-year-old earning 45,000 could accumulate a million dollars by investing raises and bonuses over the course of a career. first you want to avoid the creep. when you start making more money instead of spending more on eating out or buy ago new car make more don't spend more. split the difference when it comes to spending the extra raises or bonuses you begin to achieve in your career. strike a compromise and you can have a raise for fund money. when you get a bonus that you can spend if possible p you tell it into your savings account. you want to put some percentage of salary into a savings account

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to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> it is going to be a huge day. in detroit we will have the latest debate. before we do that we are looking back at all of the previous debates some of the highlights from the past six months. it will be great. we will have a chance to talk to the former governor of arizona, jan brewer, why? she is part of the establishment jumping on the trump train. what about the war against donald trump from the right? it begins as mitt romney has a major speech at 11:30. we will get a preview of where it is going. we will talk to the former running mate speaker of the house paul ryan. we will be dealing with him live. he has a major announcement, a major lawsuit and what about the overture from donald trump that came to him yesterday. will he return the call today? all coming up on "fox & friends." three hours. please get dressed.

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♪ welcome back "fox & friends first." it's a big night in detroit, definitely. presidential candidates facing off on the debate stage as new polls show trump with a significant lead ahead of next week's michigan primary. >> anna cornyn is live in detroit. good morning. >> good morning jackie and heather. more politics over pancake societies same as we did yesterday on super tuesday, we'll be doing the same here in the motor city where gop voters are going to be descending ahead of tonight's fox news debate ahead at 9:00. 50 delegate, up for grabs here's. i want to show you polls. donald trump has a sizable lead dominating by double digits. 29% supporting donald trump.

19% for senator ted cruz, 18 prt for senator rubio. in single dichls, carson and kasich, carson said he will not be taking the debate tonight. the neighboring ohio has been been trying put a dent here in michigan but doesn't seem to have been able to do so. let's take a look at the number two choice. you know, the trump alternative. that's kind of been the big battle for the number two, the trump alternative. and we 18% undecided in that first poll, it's pretty important. that number two right now is senator marco rubio. and, you know, michigan's going to be voting on tuesday, so that's it a very important vote. and then you've got the winner take all states of ohio and florida coming up just a week later. a lot could change tonight because of that undecided number of 18% that we just mentioned. tonight, big fox news debate kicks off at the fox theater at

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two minutes until the top of the hour, before you leave the house, here's what's happening for you today. former presidential nominee mitt romney expected to target donald trump in what's being called a major announcement this morning just hours before the fox news debate tonight in detroit. the department of justice granting immunity to brian pagliano who set up hillary clinton's private e-mail server. and back in court on arguments expected over whether a judge's decision to throw out tom brady's initial suspension was handled correctly. and now the good, the bad and the ugly. the seeing eye dog helped his blind companion marcy get around her pen. and next, a wheel landing right in the windshield mig both of them. finally, a florida couple finds

a nine-foot alligator at the bottom of the pool. took a professional to get that alligator out of there. a 300-pound beast. thanks for being here. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day. >> bye-bye. >> bye. good morning. it's thursday, march 3rd. 2016, a flight on fire, a plane packed with passengers on fire. we have those breaking details. >> it's a big day for motor city. four candidates gearing up to take the debate stage. and we're certain sparks will fly. but do you remember how we got here? >> you're never going to be president of the united states. >> yeah. let's see i'm at 42, you're at 3. >> doesn't matter. doesn't matter. >> so far, i'm doing better. so far, i'm doing better. >> we're live in detroit with a preview of tonight. >> i'm going to