. good morning, earn. it is friday, the 2nd of september, 2016. this is a fox news alert. hurricane hermine making landfall overnight, unleashing on florida's gulf coast, the first hurricane to hit the state in over a decade. winds whipping up to 80 miles an hour, knocking out power, along with it drenching rains and flooding. >> the record storm surge could be catastrophic. >> we have fox news coverage on this early edition of fox and friends, first tracking hermine's track. we start with live in panama beach city, florida. what is the latest there. >> reporter: things are

relatively calm here because we're on the west side of the storm. it is a lopsided storm, and so most of the damage, most of the heavy rains and pounding wind you're going to see on the east side. take a look at the video from tallahassee, the storm pounding the state cam capital overnight. it is first to make landfall in the state in over a decade. in tallahassee the city government reports 70,000 customers are without electricity. take a look at this photo of the florida state university campus, fsu is among those customers without power. now we want to take you to cedar key where fox news producer heather lacy shot this video from overnight showing heavy rains and winds, that barrier eye ra island community located in the northern gulf coast of florida experienced some record storm surge causing damage there in that barrier island community. then i want to show you the scene in tampa bay, and, again,

this is a community that is far east of the eye of the storm and yet over the past couple of days the tampa bay area has been experiencing torrential rain. the video that you see here should be showing an entire neighborhood, but instead you can barely see across the street because of the strong rains. now take a look at this. >> what happened there? >> reporter: this was the scene in brandon, another city in the tampa bay area where the storm caused a transformer to explode. you're going to see power outages in spotty communities throughout the sunshine state, but utility crews in between feeder bands have begun repairing the damage. florida power & light which serves some of the communities tweeted it expects to restore power to most of its customers within 24 hours after the storm

has cleared. florida governor rick scott tweeted florida national guard has more than 6,000 personnel ready, fwc, which is fish and wildlife conservation department has operations standing by with boats and search and rescue equipment. while florida is still dealing with the storm other southern states are bracing for its impact. the storm is expected to cross across -- to cross portions of south georgia, also portions of south carolina. so those states are preparing. and then as the storm is expected to skirt can up the atlantic coast it could continue causing headaches and hazards for many americans going into this long holiday weekend. anna and jackie, back to you. >> jonathan, live there in florida for us. please be careful out there. thanks for that. >> let's go to janice who is tracking latest in the weather center this morning. hi, janice. >> hi, ladies. we had landfall a couple of hours atlantic east of saint mark, florida. we had a caller earlier on from

tallahassee. wind gusts in excess of 50 miles per hour. it is still a hurricane, 75 miles per hour sustained winds. we get a brand-new advisory at 5:00, and sometimes it comes out latest. we will bring you the latest. for now it is still a hurricane and as you mentioned it is the first hurricane to make landfall in florida since wilma in 2005. pretty impressive here. still seeing the cloudest cloud tops, so the strongest part of the storm hitting the tallahassee area right now, the panhandle of florida. we are going to continue to see the wind gusts in excess of tropical storm force up to hurricane force as well as storm surge up to 5 feet. the biggest threat from hurricanes is the storm surge and the fresh water flooding, so this will be an issue ongoing throughout the day today and then into the overnight, and as jonathan siery mentioned we will not be done with the storm because it will last several days as it mates its way up the east coast. there's the last, three hours

again making landfall around 2:00 a.m. the center of the storm making landfall across the big bend of florida. tornados, we have the tornado threat ongoing throughout the day today, not huge, strong tornados but weak tornados that still can do a lot of damage. so a tornado threat is in effect until the next couple of hours. woe do have a couple of tornado worn storms here, ladies. rotation here with the friction of this landfalling tropical system. so weak tornados are a possible throughout the day today. this is the latest track. again, we get brand-new advisory out at 5:00 a.m., sometimes a little earlier, but the take home is we're not done with this storm. it is actually going to come off-shore, the mid-atlantic on saturday and sit and spin and gather strength and become extra tropical, much like a nor' easter off the coast can line. a rough labor day weekend for millions of folks up and down the northeast coast.

it is going to be a huge story, already a big story with the hurricane making landfall, but the fact we're going to have a very intense nor' easter like storm heading into sunday and monday? forecast rainfalls big totals. over a foot of rain across north florida, could potentially see six, eight, even 10 inches across the carolinas. this will be hurricane streng off the coast of the mid-at lactic and northeast. beach erosion will be a huge issue along the beaches, jersey shore, long island. this is the rpm model, forecast wind gusts in excess of 90 miles per hour off the coast on sunday and monday and the forecast models are not budging this system. it will be with us well into next week. there are your advisories, hurricane advisories still in effect for big bend and panhandle of florida, tropical

storms warnings across the coasts of carolina, up towards new jersey as we think it has potential to become a very strong, what we call extra tropical storm in the come canning of days. this is the steering that we have right now, kind of rare to see this. so high pressure right there. there's our low, there's our hurricane hermine that becomes extra tropical and it just sits and spins along the northeast coastline, potentially very dangerous situation monday and tuesday. there are your tropical models as we go further out in time. good agreement across the carolinas up towards the coast of north carolina, and then watch what happens. just sits and spins, and we have a lot of warm water here, ladies. so, you know, the potential for it to strengthen again. this is going to be a huge story. already a big story for florida, but the fact that this is going to be off the northeast coast for perhaps a matter of days. >> that's what i wanted to ask

you about, janice. on that weather map you showed a moment ago where the big bend, where the elbow kind of meets the peninsula, the state's panhandle meets the peninsula there looks to be a real hot spot right now. but because it is labor day weekend folks up and down the east coastline are really bracing for impact. what do you think it is going to do for travel on a holiday weekend, janice? >> it is not going to be good. i hope people are really listening right now because florida, of course, florida is the big story today, but it is going to be a long holiday weekend. people need to pay close attention to the weather forecast, because this is going to have an effect, a big impact on, you know, potentially tens of millions of people as we head into saturday, sunday, monday. a lot of folks are going to have to unfortunately perhaps, you know, postpone or cancel their plans. we're going to have to watch this area of low pressure. it is going to be off the coast and sit and spin and bring potential for heavy flooding, gusty winds, storm surge, beach erosion. all of that will be an issue,

not only monday but well into the workweek. >> you know, janice, you were saying it's been 11 years since a hurricane hit florida. that's kind of hard to believe. what's the difference between what we're seeing this morning and 11 years ago? >> well, it's been- -- we call it -- it's been lucky florida has it no been hit in 10 years. i want to show you this graphic. these are atlantic hurricanes since wilma back in 2005. these are all of the hurricanes that we have had. i will show you shaded here, there's the sunshine state. none of which has made landfall in over 10ers use. -- 10 years. they've been lucky and their luck is over now because we now have a hurricane. >> you can rebuild a home, you can rebuild a property, but as governor rick scott said you can't rebuild a life. we hope everyone is heeding warnings. we will check back with you in a bit. nine the minutes after the hour. donald trump doubling down on

his plan to make mexico pay for a border wallace he prepares to receive his second intelligence briefing today. chief national correspondence ed henry is in washington, d.c. with more on this. good morning. >> good morning. good to see you. donald trump cutting into hillary clinton's lead nationally in the polls so he was in battleground ohio yesterday to try to continue his surge, but he's back in new york this morning, as you mentioned, getting ready for that second official national security briefing as the republican nominee. clinton -- hillary clinton has also been afforded that opportunity, but for trump this is a unique chance to push back on the notion he is dangerous and try to show off his credentials as a potential commander in chief as he did in mexico a couple of days ago. if you'll remember, donald trump hook heat over whether or not he used the meeting with the mexican president to discuss how to pay for the wall he wants to build on the border. trump went on the o'reilly factor last night to try to

clarify. >> there are many ways they can pay for the wall, but you have to understand we have a massive trade deficit, beyond believe. we have a massive trade deficit, and that makes the cost of the wall pale by comparison. >> vice president joe biden teed off on comments like that. the vice president on the campaign trail himself in ohio, charging it would be a script for saturday night live if it were not reality. he was campaigning for hillary clinton, and biden said it, quote, matters what this guy says. trump fired back that the vice president is launching attacks because he can't defend clinton's ethics on issues like the clinton foundation. it appears trump will be stepping up his scrutiny in the final days of the campaign with clinton's controversies with the announcement he is hiring david bossy of citizen united. he has been all over the

clintons since white water and other scandals. declared overnight, bossy being brought on to the staff shows he is putting right wing fringe in driver's seat of the campaign. trump advisers say they believe it is a good sign he is coming on, a sign in the final days of the campaign trump will take the ethics issues directly to clinton. back to you. >> henry live in dc. thank you so much. thank you. >> we will know the details of hillary clinton's daily meetings as secretary of state. moving up the timetable for releasing the schedule next month. it comes as judicial watch releases a brand-new bombshell batch of e-mails showed blurred lines between the foundation and state department. one asks her aid to request a diplomatic pass fort for a charity officials trip to north korea.

abedin responding, okay, i will figure it out. the two nominees will square off in their first forum of the presidential race. nbc's matt lauer will be the moderator. >> i think matt lauer has a good track record of being tough on all political guests. donald trump has complained to me about past conflict with cnn, msnbc, fox, et cetera. he has never said a word about being unhappy with lauer. they tend to list any journalist who was in the audience and went on the panel or something like that. as far as the risk can involved, the playing field and the subject might seem to favor former secretary of state except for this. donald trump has done about 5,000 interviews this year. he's pretty well honed his skills at dealing with and deflecting these kind of questions. if anything, hillary clinton, who hasn't held a news

conference all year and has given fewer interviews might be rusty. >> media buzz there and the one-hour commander in chief forum become donald trump and hillary clinton is next wednesday on nbc. switching gears, colin kaepernick keeping his promise not to stand during the national anthem. he sat it out again last night during the chargers' salute to the military. fans greeting the 49ers' quarterback with boos. he didn't stop there, and patricia you starke has the latest on kaepernick's protest. good morning, patricia. >> good morning, anna and jackie. yep, colin kaepernick once again enraging fans by disrespecting the red, white and blue. despite being surrounded by dozens of military men and women ♪ for the land of the free

♪ and the home of the brave this time kaepernick was joined by team make eric reid protesting perceived american racial injustice by police officers during the national anthem sung by a black naval officer. before the game, more outrage after photos surfaced of kaepernick practicing while wearing socks depicting cartoon pigs wearing police hats. the quarterback saying on instagram, quote, i wore these socks in the past because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments not only put the community in danger but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust, end quote. the santa clara police department who keeps kaepernick safe during the games taking the high road by saying, quote, our mission to keep everyone safe and to provide an enjoyable

environment at levi stadium will not be affected by what any individual says, does or wears. fans may not have to put up with kaepernick much longer. experts agree his future is in doubt due to poor playing. jackie and anna. >> patricia, social media is buzzing about that saying, you know what, if you don't like america get on out of here. thanks. incredible video of a massive disaster on the launch pad at cape canaveral. check it out. unbelievable. spac spacex rocket erupts into a blast. it destroyed a $2 million satellite facebook planned to use to send internet service from space. this is the second major setback

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look at that. we're back with the fox news alert. while you were sleeping hurricane hermine making landfall along the panhandle packing winds up to 80 miles an hour. here in st. pete beach flood waters are causing a major problem. you can see the water creeping to the front door of this home right here. more than half a million people are under a hurricane warning, florida, georgia and north carolina are under states of emergency this morning. >> the timing could not be worth r worse with labor day and everybody wanting to go to the beach. joining us is laura murphy, tallahassee resident. thanks for joining us. i understand you were huddled

with your kids riding out the storm in a closet. where are you now and what are you seeing? >> caller: that's right. we were about an hour or so ago when the winds were really, really strong, we got in the closet. you know, i can't tell you a it lot of what i'm seeing because i'm like, some of the crazy reporters who like to get out in the weather, i'm inside hunkered down. but the winds are whipping, you can hear them a little bit. it has died down some, but things are still hitting the roof. we're still -- you know, riding out the storm. >> how many kids do you have? you had them in the closet with you? >> i have two. >> must be so surreal inside that closet. what did you take with you? i can only imagine how long you're going to be in there, what you're going to do, when you're going to get out. >> we took cell phones, a bottle of water, my charger, backup battery charger, and the kids are sleeping. they have slept through the entire storm. i don't know how, but they have slept through the whole thing. you know, i was a nervous wreck

with high anxiety, wondering if a tree was coming through my roof at any minute. i got a pillow to lean up against. it is a big closet, don't picture a little closet. it fit four of us. >> i slept all the way through hurricane hugo when i was a little one at well in charlotte, north carolina. you rode out hurricane katrina, i understand, you survived that one. how does this compare? when you hear the word hurricane and florida hasn't dealt with one since 2005 when wilma hit, have you been a nervous wreck? >> caller: i was a nervous wreck. you know, with katrina i was out of town because i evacuated, i watched on tv a lot of way. i stayed in new orleans through category one storms before, category one hurricanes i have ridden them out before. i was at my parents house and i knew what to do and to be prepared. this is my first one if

tallahassee. the difference is that tallahassee is nothing but trees. you do not cut down trees in tallahassee, you leave them up. we have canopy roads. that's our biggest concern in the city is trees. that's why i was in my closet, i'm afraid a tree will fall on my house. >> after katrina, what did you do to prepare for this one? >> caller: i hit the grocery store, the typical water, supplies, you take ice out of your freezen and dump that and let the ice maker remake ice as many times as you can before the storm comes. i filled up the bathtub with water, made my coffee yesterday evening when i still had electricity, that's in the thermos ready to go. i have one in thermos, one in yeti. i cranked my air down to about 67 i think so it is cool in here even though i'm sitting in the dark. i'm a pro. >> so you're in the dark. i know 100,000 residents at the moment, probably more, are without power.

you're without power as well? >> caller: yes, yes. >> thank you so much. laura murphy, live in tallahassee this morning, riding out that storm. our prayers are with you and your two small children. thank you. >> caller: thank you. >> from a mass shooting at nightclub to police officers assassinated in cold blood, we are switching gears here, americans feel less safe than ever before. according to a brand-new fox new polls 54% of voters feel less safe than before 9/11. other concerns of majority of voters a major terrorist attack is in the future. the u/iran deal made us less safe. the $4 million paid was ransom, the $400 million paid to iran. says he can prove hillary clinton lied about the attack. he says he new it wasn't part of a protest because she and

president obama watched drone video of the assault live as it happened. >> if they want to squash the conspiracy theories, release the consulate video. they have it. we have seen it. >> what did it show the public does not know? >> there was no protest. >> four americans including ambassador chris stevens died in the 2012 attack before help arrived. the romanian hacker known as guccifer who targeted the bush family and exposed hillary clinton's private e-mail will spend four years behind bill. he leaked e-mail from the sister of president george w. bush. it is 26 after the hour. tracking hurricane her main as it hits florida. storm moving north for holiday weekend. not ideal at all. what it means for your plans. >> it has been over 270 days since hillary clinton held a press conference, and now the main street media you is fed up.

>> when will we see hillary open the floor and take questions from reporters at any event? >> however, her running mate answered that question coming up next.

good morning, friends. it is friday, september 2nd. this is a fox news alert on a special early edition of fox and friends first. hurricane hermine making landfall overnight, unleashing on florida's gulf coast g that's right, jackie. roaring winds whipping up to 80 miles an hour, knocking out power across the region, along with it drenching rains and flooding. >> a record storm surge could be catastrophic in what is called a potentially life threatening weather event. >> tracking hermine's path, but we start with jonathan serie live in panama beach, florida. good morning. >> good morning to you. things are relatively call here because we're on the west side

of the storm. if you look at radar you can see how lopsided it is. the heavy wind and rains are focused on the east side, kaktly where tallahassee, state capital was. tallahassee was pounded by what is the first hurricane to make landfall in florida in more than a deck the aid. the city government is reporting more than 70,000 customers, not talking about just residents but customers, businesses, houses, are without electricity right now. and then take a look at this photo of the florida state university campus, fsu is among those tallahassee customers that went through the night without electricity. now i want to take you to cedar key where our fox news producer heather lacy shot this video from overnight showing the heavy rains, the pounding winds there. also that barrier island community has suffered a huge storm surge. in fact, this storm has set some records there, and so that's been causing some serious

flooding there, as well as other parts of the sunshine state. now take a look at this video from clearwater. there's been some street flooding from the heavy rains and also storm surge in this part of the tampa bay area, and then elsewhere in the tampa bay area take a look at this video. this was the scene in brandon where the storm blew up a power transformer. in fact, it's been causing power problems throughout much of the state. utility crews are going to restore power in between feeder bands. they've already made a lot of progress, and anticipate getting most of the power back up within 24 hours of the storm leaving florida. but the southeast is not in the clear yet. the storm moving into southern portions of georgia, expected to move into portions of south carolina before moving up

the atlantic coast, likely causing problems and headaches for residents going into the long holiday weekend. anna and jackie, back to you. >> jonathan serie, stay safe out there. thank you so much. >> tracking the latest in the weather center, good morning, janice. it is getting bad out there. >> absolutely. i've seen rainfall estimates of over 22 inches across the big bend of florida. that's going to be one of the main concerns. we had landfall around 1:30 eastern time east of the st. marks area, and as you can see we're still dealing with the hurricane. new advisory comes out at 5:00 a.m. they're going to give us a new track and we will be watching this because it is not over yet. we will be tracking hermine well into the holiday weekend. wind gusts in excess of 40, 50 miles per hour still along the big bend of florida here. this is going to be really ongoing throughout the day. the tropical storm force wind probabilities, here is a graphic showing you at 90 to 100% will see at least tropical force

winds through florida, georgia, south carolina over the next 24 to 48 hours. we have a tornado watch in effect because a lot of times with these land-falling tropical systems, we have the friction at the surface and then the twisting with height with those winds in the upper levels give us potential for tornado-born storms. we don't have any warnings just yet which is good news but we've seen a few warnings ongoing throughout the morning and certainly into the the afternoon hours. future radar, okay. so we're going to watch this storm creep up the coast, hug the coastline. if the center stays off-shore the waters are very warm here, so it could maintain it's strength for the next 48 hours, and then we're going to see it move off the coast and transition into what we call an extra tropical system, almost like a nor' easter. then it is going to continue to sort of sit and spin off the coast for days to come. so here is the track. again, dealing with the hurricane, probably within the

next six to twelve hours becoming a tropical storm we think and then moving off the coast of the north carolina, del mar peninsula area sometime on saturday. this is the take away right now, obviously watching florida, but as we get into the long weekend this storm will be off-shore, just off-shore of the jersey coast as well as long island and massachusetts for the next couple of days. some computer models are forecasting until thursday, an extra tropical nor' easter type storm off the coast, bringing battering waves, gusty winds, heavy rains and we're into a long holiday weekend and millions of people will be affected. that will be a big story as we go through the next couple of days. want to show the sea surface temperature here, the warm water the storm needs to continue to fuel itself, warm off the coast here. if you have the center of

circulation off the coast, it is going to continue to maintain its strength, perhaps strength the ena litt the -- to strengthen as we go through time. we have to watch the strak. of course, ladies, the big threat will be the flooding, close to 2 feet of rain reported in florida. we could see in excess of 10 inches through the path of the flood. >> flooding, storm surge, toppling of trees causing power outages. we are focusing on florida and as the storm creeps up the east coast wethere too. do you think it will be a complete washout for everybody? >> i don't think so. i think we're going to get through saturday, but starting on sunday as the storm starts to gain it's extra tropical characteristics, if you will, like a nor' easter that's when things start to go downhill on sunday, monday, and depending on how close it tracks to the shore, it could potentially be a really damaging system for not just a day or two but several

days into the new workweek. we're going to have problems with travel, air travel, certainly a lot of folks are going to be trying to get somewhere on labor day, and that's going to be difficult if not impossible in some locations sunday into monday. >> janice, we are seeing hundreds of thousands of power outage also in florida. are we going to see the same throughout the weekend up the coast as well? >> there's certainly potential of that. we're going to continue to see this storm track along the coastline, and as i mentioned, if that center still comes off-shore it is going to still the gather strength from the warmth of the atlantic ocean. so that's my fear. of course, with at least tropical storm force winds you're going to see potential for trees down, power outages, a lot of flooding issues. so this is going to be an ongoing situation not only for our friends in florida but georgia and the carolinas and all the way up towards the northeast coast. so tens of millions of people are going to be affected by this system.

>> yeah, you hate it so much, everybody is trying to get one last beach holiday in before the end of summer and these beach communities depend on tourism dollars so it is unfortunate. janice, we will check back in with you. >> appreciate. >> now, donald trump is gearing up for his second intelligence briefing as you doubles down on his plan to make mexico pay for a border wall. chief national correspondent ed henry live in washington d.c. what is the latest? >> good rng mo'. donald trump cutting hillary clinton's lead nationally. so he was in battleground ohio yesterday to try to continue the surge but he is back if new york this morning, as you mentioned, getting ready for his second official national security briefing as the republican presidential nominee. hillary clinton has been afforded that opportunity as well by the intelligence community, given the candidates a chance to get up to speed on classified matters. for trump this is a unique chance to push back on the notion that he's dangerous and to try to show off his credentials as a potential

commander in chief as he did in mexico a couple of days ago, but you will remember trump took heat. the clinton campaign said the trip turned out to be embarrassing because of those different stories emerging from his meeting with the mexican president over whether or not the issue of mexico paying for the wall came up. he joined the o'reilly factor last night to try to clean that up. >> first of all it was a very successful day for myself and for the united states, and hopefully for mexico, too. we can absolutely work with them, and we have to stop the drug trafficking, the human tracking. you look at what's happening at the border, it is incredible. and the wall will get built, and he disagrees on who is going to pay for the wall but that's a negotiation and i will tell you that the united states will not be be paying for the wall. mexico will be paying for the wall. >> now, also campaigning in ohio vice president biden teed off on trump charging it would be a

script for saturday night live if it were not actual reality. biden said it, quote, matters what this guy says. trump fired back biden is launching attacks like that because he can't defend clinton's ethics on issues like the clinton foundation and it appears trump will be cranking up scrutiny with clinton controversies with announcement he is hiring david bossy as deputy campaign manager. he has been all over clintons since the white water and other scandals. he is putting, quote, the white wing fringe in driver's seat of campaign. there are trump advisers who believe the hiring shows the republican plans to take it to clinton in final days of the campaign. >> henry live in washington dc. thank you. >> we will see know the minute by minute details of hillary clinton's daily meetings as

secretary of state. state department officials moving up the timetable to release schedules to next month. they were originally slated to go public after election. it comes as judicial watch releases a bombshell batch of e-mails showing blurred lines between state department and the clinton foundation, judicial watch showing one where she asked abedin to request a passport for a trip. >> it's been 272 days since she held a press conference. the mainstream media you are even head up. vp pick tim kaine not worried at all. >> when will we see hillary open up the floor and take questions from reporters at any event? >> you see hillary take questions from the press every day. she talks to press everywhere she goes. she did a press conference at

the recent -- she did a press conference at the recent meeting of the african-american and hispanic newspaper publishers. >> it was the first time in a long time, senator. she doesn't do it that often. >> well, look, i don't see what the massive difference is between a press conference and talking to the press everywhere you go. >> you know, she may take some questions but she doesn't take very many. when asked why clinton doesn't allow press on her plane, kaine replied, that will change soon. time for lo who's talking. this morning cofounder and publisher of mech real clear poll tishs" says the clinton campaign is choosing to suffer if silence. >> i think the campaign has made the tradition to suffer in silence as the drip, drip of the stories of her e-mails and clinton foundation continue to come out. i think their calculation is if she goes out and is peppered by reporters with questions about all manner of these things that

it is going to draw more attention to it and she may potentially say is go to make matters worse as she has a couple of times in the past. i think they're going to bide time until pressure becomes such that their hand is forced. >> and now has a lot of people talking, colin kaepernick keeping his promise to not stand during the national anthem during the chargers' salute to the military. >> and greeting the 49ers quarterback with boo ones from the fans. and patricia starke has the latest on kaepernick's protest. good morning, patricia. >> good morning. yeah, colin kaepernick once again enraging fans by disrespecting the red, white and blue, despite being surrounded by dozens of military men and women ♪ for the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave

>> this time kaepernick was joined by teammate eric reid, protesting perceived american racial injustice by police officers during the national anthem sung by a black naval officer. before the game more outrage after photos surfaced of kaepernick practicing while wearing socks depicting cartoon pigs wearing police hats. the qb be request saying on instagram, quote, i wore these socks in the past because the rogue cops allowed to hold positions in police departments not only put the community in danger but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust. the national police union blaming the nfl. quote, it is ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the dallas football club from honoring slain officers in their

community stand silent when kaepernick is dishonoring police officers with what he is wearing on the field. the nfl making no attempt to stop him even though it denied the dallas request to wear a decal on helmets to honor the fallen police officers. can't make this stuff up. >> it sure is. the mother of a former sailor sentenced to prison for mishandling classified information has a few words for hillary clinton. >> it seems there's a clear double standard. i think he was treated unfairly because his name is not clinton. i would sit in the front row while she tries to explain to the american public she is not held to the same standard my son, a united states sailor heavy rains. >> he will will spend a year in jail for taking pictures of a navy submarine. he tried to use a so-called

clinton deal to get out of trouble, saying his pictures were classified as less of a security risk than clinton's miss handled e-mail. >> a terror plot topped in its track. 18-year-old keon cook was planning to blow up two concert venues killing thousands of people pack inside. authorities say he was talking to a terror group, but haven't revealed which one. you can see him there. they say he was capable of carrying out a mass casualty attack. >> found alive, working as kim junk un's personal tutor. officials say he was kidnapped to teach the north korean leader english. he is married, has two children and no word on why he never reached out to his worried parents. >> 46 after the hour. tracking hermine as it hits florida. we are are live with the very

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life-threatening. we are going to hope for the best and we're going to prepare for the worst. >> it's now 50 after the hour. we are back with a fox news alert for you. hurricane hermine just downgraded to a tropical storm. hermine made landfall as hurricane one category overnight. >> causing pouter outages, closing schools and closing roadways. tracking for us at 10 minutes before the top of the hour. when we hear it has been

downgraded to a tropical storm doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried still? >> you took the words out of my mouth. it doesn't mean it is not packing a punch. we still have winds of 70 miles per hour, still dealing with close to 2 feet of rainfall. you can see the colder cloud tops, a lot of the rainfall and gusty winds moving into tampa, tallahassee right now, up to georgia and the carolinas. so do not let your guard down just because this is not categorized as a hurricane. it is still a very powerful, life-threatening situation. tornado watch in effect until 8:00 a.m. for parts of florida, the panel handle, up stored georgia and south carolina. we have tropical storm warnings and watches that extend up to the new jersey coastline. so that's the takeaway after this, ladies, is that this is going to move off-shore and be a big headache for the northeast and the mid-atlantic coast line

well into next week. back to you. >> thanks for looking out. live from the weather center. we will check back. >> a continuing alert to tell you about overnight. if you have a samsung phone the battery could explode. the company is now recalling the highly anticipating galaxy note 7. the phone could catch on fire while charging. the recall costing samsung some $7 billion. wow. >> and if you have a problem with american airlines, listen up. the company says it is your fault for being a pad passenger. how about that? >> could i maybe get that head set, please? >> do not raise your voice to me. >> i wasn't raising my voice. >> okay. just calm down. >> a good movie and good passage. american airlines facing lash back, say the greatest passengers bring noise cancelling headphones. critics say they feel they are being lectured. the airline says it is not to

tell passengers how to behave but to start a conversation. >> i agree. >> fox news alert for you. 52 minutes after the hour, we are continuing to track hermine as it hits florida. the storm downgraded to a tropical storm, latest next. >> and should injured war heroes have to play for purple heart license plate? brand-new fight next.

hi, everyone. we are back with a fox news alert. moments ago hurricane hermine downgraded to tropical storm. it made landfall as category one hurricane overnight. >> the storm causing major problems for folks in the sunshine state. a transformer exploding in a ball of fire. this morning more than 70,000 people without power in tallahassee alone. >> and that's just tallahassee. storm surge flooding, tornados now a major concern. more than half a will million people are under a hurricane warning, florida, georgia and north carolina are all under states of emergency. janice steen is tracking the latest. hitting in florida but moving up the east coast. >> that's the takeaway. obviously friends in florida were watching carefully. close to 2 feet of rainfall across the big bend of florida. we could be dealing with hundreds of thousands of people without power over the next 12

to 24 hours. tornado watch in effect until 8:00 a.m. for parts of florida and orju ageorgia and that will ongoing. that will be the story, that it will sit across the east and sit and spend and bringing storm surge, battering waves, beach erosion, strong winds and heavy rainfall not only monday but tuesday and wednesdays. we have advisories up and down the coast, so tens of millions of people will be affected by this stormy as we get into the labor day weekend. back to you. >> we hope everybody heeds the warning. janice, thank you. instead of watching a three-year-old boy, police say this babysitter right here was drunk and high. his mom says she hired the woman off nanny.com, but neighbors in sarasota, florida say she was anything but a nanny. instead called police when they

saw her stumbling in the street. the little boy she was supposed to be watching, he's okay, thank goodness. she is charged with child endangerment. >> i guess so. >> a world war ii veteran in a brand-new battle. he is fighting for a free purple heart license plate. the 91-year-old is waging a campaign against the new hampshire dmv asking them to wave the $180 feet. >> i think it is super wrong. i don't think it is right, and, you know, that's why i'm fighting this. >> the state denying him, saying the only free plates provided are to disabled veterans. >> he was temporarily blinded and suffered third degree burns in the battle of okinawa. he says it is not about the money but the memory of other fallen heroes. also this morning's target coming under fire for this bad girls to do list tee shirt. outraged parents complained it is offensive and insulting to

women. the pink shirt details her duties as dry cleaning the cape, washing the batmobile and fighting crime. they say it suggests a female must complete her chores before getting out to do more meaningful work. target has apologized and pulled the shirt from its store. >> bat boy in our house does those things as well. >> that's right. thank you for watching this special early edition of "fox and friends first". >> coverage continues. >> good morning. if you are waking ip u it is friday, september 2nd, 2016. we have breaking news. hurricane hur mean makes landfall in florida overnight. it has been downgraded to a tropical storm but roaring winds, heavy rains and storm surges causing devastation? it is far from over. live on the ground and tracking more trouble ahead. >> and donald trump doubles and

triples down on his plan to build a border. this morning we have a better idea about how he plans to have mexico pay for it. >> then, 49er's quarterback colin kaepernick continues his unpatriotic protest, refusing again to stand for our national anthem, this time on military night and to a chorus of boos. >> if you look at your screens, he's openly bashing police as pigs. fox & friends first starts right now. >> hurricane hermine has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but the trouble is just beginning. it is bringing rain and flooding all across the gulf. it is hitting up and down the

east coast on this holiday weekend. >> we are tracking what is ahead in panama beach, florida. what's happening there? >> good morning. things are relatively calm here because i am on the west side of the storm. most of the damage, most of the heavy winds on the east side. that's exactly where tallahassee, florida is. the state capitol city taking a beating overnight. the storm knocking out power to more than 70,000 customers including the entire florida state university campus. now we have some new video i would like to show you have some power lines on fire. the storm has been causing power outages through out many portions of the state here. crews have been going back out in between feeder bands to restore power as quickly as possible. as the storm moves out of florida utility companies say they are