expect further details. we can -- it is something that second tillerson just got sworn in, there will be further follow-up. >> the president will meet with prime minister chin zola bay next friday so the president tells us that >> i think there's going to be a lot of trade international security. as we get closer to the meeting i will have further information but as you can imagine there is an economic aspect to this and a national security aspect to thi this. >> reporter: you have referenced this a couple times at the podium and the quote came out today with the cbs has a 40% approval rating, we have seen it drop during the transition period. he talked about polls a good deal and the campaign, what do you think that says about the way the american people are looking at the actions he is taking and what do they get says about his pledge to unite the

country on the eve of his election? >> press secretary spicer: also a rasmussen poll showed he had a 50% approval rating, another poll the other day that i do not have handy, majority of people -- hold on. i understand, i think as the president's policies continue to get inactive for all of the hysteria regarding his efforts to protect the country on the seven countries where we did not have the proper vetting in place to ensure the american people were safe, what we did have was a very high response from the mic and people in support of that. his policies continue to do it, the president understands it is a marathon, not a sprint as he continues to get people back to work, protect the country, the poll numbers will act in accord. >> reporter: do you intend to keep him as the head of that agency? >> press secretary spicer: we don't see that right now, we will look at that again. i think we will have further updates on that, it's an area we

need to work with congress. april? >> reporter: you said something about president trump talking on facebook live, the address, that he was going to talk about black history month and issues pertaining to the african-american community. when you first came a couple days into the demonstration, i asked about the black agenda he has possibly formulated or been formulating as he came out may be the day before with the issue of chicago or the day after, somewhere around that time, chicago and sending the feds in. has he now formulated a plan to deal with the black community, not just with issues of law and order, what is that? >> press secretary spicer: he had a meeting with african-american leaders the other day in the roosevelt room. part of this to your point is not just law and order, jobs, education, healthcare, small business lending, there is a lot

that goes with that agenda. part of these business meetings he has your about hiring, small business and job creation, all of those issues are at the forefront of that community. it is not just a single thing. i think there is a lot, whether it is a crime and law and order, education, healthcare, small-business, job creation, that impacts the entire segment of the population whether they are living in the rural part of the country, inner cities, and i think that is what he is really focused on right now. reporter mike i'm not finished. so he is now formulated in the agenda. >> press secretary spicer: absolutely. >> reporter: second question, what is on the table for cb? >> press secretary spicer: i have nothing to announce on tha that. >> reporter: people are concerned. >> press secretary spicer: we've heard a lot of rumors, but what we have something to announce on that, we will do it. i don't think it should be any surprise that when it comes to reading it radical islamic terrorism which is what that initially was supposed to be

focused on, he's going to make sure it is a major focus of keeping this country safe. i don't have anything further for you on that. reporter mike there are reports -- >> press secretary spicer: there are reports, i don't have anything for you. i just said i don't have anything for you, but i will be very clear this president's commitment to reading out radical islamic terrorism is at the forefront of his agenda and i know there've been a lot of reports about where that program or that effort is going to live. -- i have nothing else, thank you, april. cecelia? >> reporter: tough talk and tough language on iran, should americans be ready for the possibility of military action with iran, is that on the table? >> press secretary spicer: i've said this before, the president has been very clear. he doesn't take options off the table but he understands the impact of something like that. distinctions today are going to be very, very strong and impactful. i hope iran realizes that after the provocative measures they've taken they understand its

president and administration is not going to sit back and take it lightly. john? >> reporter: thank you, several published reports on monday said that it will be a tie in the senate on the confirmation of betsy devos, secretary of education and mike pence will have to cast historic tie-breaking vote as vice president. should we be watching for any surprises, has the congressional affairs office got one more vote from the no camp into the u.s., or do you expect the vice president to be on hand to confirm her? >> press secretary spicer: i would say this, betsy devos as i mentioned before is an unbelievable champion of education for children, teachers, parents. i hope that the vote gets 60 or 70 votes. she is an unbelievable, remarkable woman who has fought very hard to improve our nation's education system and to make sure schools are serving children. i think we're going to make sure we do everything we can, and we feel 100% confident she will be confirmed monday night to be

that next secretary of education. thank you, guys can't have a great weekend where the president is about to sign executive orders. i hope you have a great weekend to those of you cannot travel to florida, we will be gatling on the plate on monday. thank you, have a great weekend. >> jon: you have to do without your daily briefing from the president's spokesman sean spicer martin for a couple days, it is the weekend, he was touching on the new sanctions announced against iran and some of the other issues that this white house has been dealing with in these first couple of weeks. still ahead, more executive actions by the white house, as you just heard. this time we will talk about financial regulations, looking to the second hour of "happening now," i am jon scott. >> jenna: i'm jenna lee, i'm waiting for news that president trump has assigned those documents which was expected within the past hour, they will address the dodd-frank reforms and rollback regulations for financial planners to work in the best gist of their

clients. after a strategy and policy forum meeting this morning, president trump tweeted his satisfaction with the discussio discussion: "meeting with biggest business leaders this morning. good jobs are coming back to u.s., health care and tax bills are being crafted now!" let's get to the latest to talk exactly about what the executive orders, it's hard to generalize until we see them in writing, but what do we know? >> some of these burdensome, and his view, burdensome regulations enacted in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. regulations that the white house maintains are absolutely strangling the bank's ability to lend money. today, the white house trotted out its director of economic counselor to describe how some of these banks especially small banks are really being strangled by the regulations. >> all banks have been under such regulatory scrutiny where they have been forced to literally build capital and build capital and instead of lending capital into their

client and allowing their clients to grow their businesses and hire people and create jobs, they have been taking those reserves, taking that capital in hoarding it to meet the regulatory requirements and pay for additional regulations. >> the executive signing ceremony has been pushed back a little bit by another packed day for president trump but in reality, it is somewhat limited in scope because the president cannot undo by executive order legislation that was passed into law and signed into law by the former president. he can only hinder some of those regulations imposed by godfrey and other laws by relaxing enforcement of them. the real action on regulatory reform, financial regulatory reform is on the hill where the house financial services committee is planning a complete rollback of dodd-frank and replacement of it. done democrats are throwing up whatever obstacles they can do hinder the action by republicans, elizabeth warren for example, massachusetts senate democrat announcing dairy

cohn should recuse himself from any financial regulation and doing because he took a $285 million payout from goldman sachs before going to work for the trump administration. bottom line, whatever the president does today is largely symbolic, it can accomplish some things but not to the extent the house financial services committee and other committees on the hill are doing right now. back to you. >> jenna: important perspective for us, and if we get video for the signing which we have over the last several days of executive orders, we will bring that to our viewers. thank you so much. >> jon: with more of trump's plans to cut financial regulation, calmness at the "washington examiner" and republican poster, marjorie is a former consultant for the obama campaign and a principal of clifton consulting, welcome to both of you. kristen, to you first. there has been a blurry of activity from this white house, is this a taste of president trump simply doing what he promised he would do during the campaign? in other words, is he satisfying

his base with some of these actions that he is proposing? >> taking action on dodd-frank and financial regulation is something that republicans have been hungry to do for a long time. so president trump by tackling this priority is doing something republicans, right in line with something they've been itching to do. what is going to be interesting is that a lot of folks who voted for donald trump for president are not necessarily traditional republicans, not necessarily limited government types, in many cases, they are sometimes skeptical of the financial industry and do not love big banks. so for president trump he's going to have to make the case for why this is good for economic growth and why it is good for the little guy, why it is the sort of thing that is still going to allow him to make sure that we are doing what financial regulations should be doing in protecting the little guy from things like predatory lending. >> jon: i think i heard marjorie agree with part of what you had to say there. >> i actually agree with all of what she is saying, the beauty

of these times. i concerns as exactly as kristen was pointing out is how does this impact the people who voted for him? a lot of those people in the pockets of the midwest and others who come from lower income districts were hit hardest by that subprime market crash in 2008 and 2009, so how is this going to impact their pocketbooks? a lot of the regulations they are willing back require that banks and require advisors to give the safest advice to consumers, give them the lowest rates possible on their retirement plans, for example. what that does is help the average consumer who does not understand all the intricacies of the financial market, different options out there. i think the other criticism coming largely from democrats and others is trump's cabinet is stacked with people who come out of the financial services institutions like cohn coming from goldman sachs in a lot of the advisors he has come from jpmorgan and other banks that will benefit greatly from this so is it ultimately looking out for the people as he is

claiming? >> jon: dodd-frank regulations were designed to rain and abuses at banks, kristen, and given what wells fargo was doing recently, you can see why some of that might be warranted. but the big complaint from the community is that it was the sort of mom and pop banks, the small community banks all over the country, farm country, smaltown, small small cities, those are the ones who are really being crushed by the regulations of dodd-frank. >> this is all about unintended consequences. you can be someone who wants to see financial regulation really protect consumers and put forward laws you think will achieve that but they wind up having these unintended consequences where you are hurting small banks or in the case of this regulation that says you have to -- if you are a financial advisor come you have to invest only in the lowest fee option, and in some cases that is taking some investment options off the table, so it's all about mitigating these unintended consequences. i think that is why you have president trump wanting to take this action so quickly because even laws and regulations that

have good intentions can somehow might sometimes go astray when they are implemented. >> jon: i'm sure that we will hear that elizabeth warren is going to be unhappy with any rollback of dodd-frank, but is it possible that when the dust settles, you step back and see what the president intends to do here that some democrats might be on board? >> i think there are a lot of people, especially in the middle who would like to see overhauling and efficiencies put in place as kristen talked about the unintended consequences addressed in a lot of these policies like the affordable care act, like dodd-frank. i think the question is are they able to replace? that is the debate you are seeing within republican circles, do we just rollback and not replace or is there an alternative solution we bring to the table? that is where the devil is in the details, and as we have seen in these past policies, the question is what comes in the future? >> jon: absently, marjorie n kristen, have a great weekend both of you. >> jenna: doubt back over the

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>> jenna: paris landmark closed for the day after a terror attack just outside its doors, authorities say a man with two machetes attacked a french soldier guarding the louvre museum. one soldier opened fire, hitting the suspect, at least five times come he remains in hospital. another soldier received a minor injury to his head. the french president saying there is no doubt the attack was of a "terrorist" nature, we are learning more rates are underway because of it. witnesses say that that man shouted "god is great" in arabic during the incident. louvre will remain closed until tomorrow when it will be open. >> jon: mexican drug lord el chapo appearing in eight new york city courtroom this money, u.s. marshals put him in a high security jail cell today, he is charged with running a massive drug trafficking operation which included kidnapping and murder.

they think he should hand over $14 billion in assets. reporting live from the courthouse in brooklyn, brian? >> hi, well joe quinn guzman or el chapo came here for his pretrial hearing in federal court in brooklyn, u.s. authorities are accusing that el chapo spent 30 years running a multibillion dollar multinational major drug empired kidnapping and the killings by hit men of thousands of people. he is facing 17 federal charges including monday money laundering, drug smuggling in the continuing running of a continual criminal enterprise. he is pleading not guilty, and if he is convicted, he faces life in prison. at a news conference after the hearing today, his lawyers who are public defenders said that the extradition from mexico to the u.s. could be illegal, they cited the fact that the documents may have been done

inappropriately, not citing charges that were made here in the new york district court. also his wife that is seen in the yellow scarf there, 27-year-old emma, she is a beauty queen originally from california. she was in court today, both of them smiled at each other. she said she is doing well. ariel shows this morning that he was transferred from the high security jail in downtown manhattan here to brooklyn. the judge originally wanted him to have a videoconference because they had security concerns, but he insisted that he wanted to be in court today in person. remember, this was a surprise extradition that happened on january 19th, right before president trump's inauguration. as part of that deal, he is not allowed to face the death penalty, and he has also not facing any murder charges. take a look at these photos, these are photos on the night when he was extradited here to the united states, one immigration officer said you can clearly see that surprised and the fear on his face.

remember, he escaped twice from maximum-security prison in mexico. he is now being held currently at the metropolitan correctional facility, a very ultra high security prison in a way known as shu which used the to hold mob bosses as well as associates to a osama bin laden, listen to what his public defenders had to say after the hearing. >> he is locked in a cell for 23 hours a day, only permitted out to speak to limited members of our office and one hour of exercise a day. it is extremely restrictive. we believe he should be allowed permission to eventually visit with his wife. >> he is due back in court and make. >> jon: bryan llenas and brooklyn for us, what a story. >> jenna: it seems every day we get another leak from a so-called insider and government. with revelations about the president's conversations with global leaders, perhaps his unorthodox diplomacy, why

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fox news media analyst. there's been a lot of news this week in it's been tough to sort through those on the record comments and those completely on background comments that are feeling different narratives about that trump initiation, have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, and this is it urinary to have senior officials because very few people have access to what the president says to foreign leaders, so perhaps the state if i'm actually leaking this case did that "washington post" and ap, private conversations in to their president of mexico or prime minister of australia, i've never seen anything like it. it is an act of disloyalty because the president can't expect some confidentiality and those conversations, does reinforce the notion of secrecy. it is that he is the president come he won our election, you may not agree with his politics but to hide behind the curtain of anonymity and leak the stuff is really troubling. >> jenna: what do you think

the trump administration should do about this? >> obviously, it is very hard to catch leakers, but they can conduct an investigation. i do think with james mattis taking over the pentagon, rex tillerson taking over at the state department, they have to instill a sense of we are all on the same team, and you heard rex tillerson say this in the speech to his troops, you may not agree with the outcome of the election, we have to work together. there is room for dissent, but when you go to the press to say this is what this stuff is, i have the transcript, that is disloyal. >> jenna: that is something i want to talk about more especially when it comes to issues of national security which we will get to in a moment. one of the things president trump has done over the past week is showing himself on video during these executive orders and saying something as well, we are going to listen in here. >> come over here, guys. over here. great shot.

>> today we are signing core principles for the united states system, does not get much bigger than that. [cameras shuttering] [laughter] speak of what we are doing is returning the american people, low in middle income investors and retirees, their control of their own retirement savings. this is about main street, and i -- it's been a labor of love for me for over four years as chairman. this is a big day, big moment

for americans who invest and safe. >> she means that so much. chairman, i think we should hanl person, absolutely. >> thank you, sir. thank you. i am grateful. >> do you have anything to say about iran? >> they are not behaving. >> thank you, guys. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> jenna: we did not catch the full question at the end but it was asked about iran come you can see president trump saying "they are not behaving" referencing them here that is a great example because the iran story has been one that really developed over the last week or

so, and you have the initiation saying one thing very forcefully then you have all of these insiders saying they are doing this without coordinating with the state department, they are going rogue, and casting doubts on the administration from the inside. >> it seems like it is trump versus the insiders, convicting narratives of what he says to the cameras whether he is talking about very important baking regulations with so much news being made that gets swallowed up, and other great example of that is this piece by routers after the raid in yemen that unfortunately and tragically claimed the life of a navy seal, you have unnamed u.s. military officials essentially drawing president trump under the tank so to speak to say he did not have enough intelligence, hasty and ill-conceived, he's the commander in chief and there should be a federal review of wt went wrong when someone loses their life, but to hide again behind this curtain and undermined the commander-in-chief commander-in-chief shows that there are major pockets of resistance in his government that donald trump took over two

weeks ago. >> jenna: you have to wonder what national security threat that produces. over at the pentagon, our team has gone through the report point by point, and through their reporting showed that it was not the case in the picture of this operation. tough deceit, how do you know what to believe? >> it is tough for journalists because we have inside leaks, what the president and his top people say, then so many stories whether it is iran, mexico, australia, where he says about arnold schwarzenegger, they're only 24 hours in a day, so it's a challenge for journalists and consumers to sort out what is important and try to cut through particularly some of the self-serving leaks and dueling spin. >> jenna: we have to do the best job we can hear, we appreciate your help with that paired look forward to "media buzz" sunday right here on the fox news channel. >> jon: is the beginning of a new economic era as we get the first jobs report of the trump

presidency. what the numbers say about hiring in america. plus, mixed messages on russia as the conflict in ukraine heats up, not everyone in the new administration is reading from the same page. a discussion on that ahead. rt w. i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. painter: you want this color over the whole house?

>> jenna: some new numbers on the jobs market showing that u.s. employers stepped up hiring according to the labor department, 227,000 jobs were added in january, the biggest gain since last september. unemployment rate went up a tent

of a percent but that is because more americans jumped back and looking for work which is actually a good thing. peter barnes of the fox business network is live in our washington bureau with more. >> first jobs report for president trump. he liked it and promised more. >> 227,000 jobs, great spirit in the country right now, so we are very happy about that. i think it is going to continue big, we are bring a bag jobs, bringing down taxes, getting rid of regulations, it's going to be a really exciting time. >> the un-employment rate did take up to 4.8% from 4.7% in december but it was for a good reason possibly, more people wrote returning to the labor market because they are more optimistic about job prospects since president trump's election but not all of them have found work yet last month. job gains were broad-based, retailers asked adding 46,000,

businesses providing services like advertising added 39,000, construction firms hired 36,000 more workers, financial services jumped 32,000, the big disappointment in the jobs report, wage growth last month. wages rose just $0.03 an hour, just a 10th of 1% to $26 and average, that is well below expectations for a three tenths of a percent increase. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: even as the trump administration eases some economic sanctions on russia imposed by president obama's white house, a senate subcommittee is launching a new investigation into alleged hacking during our 2016 electio election. as fighting exploits between rebel and government sources in the ukraine condemned by the new u.s. ambassador to the united nations, listen. >> we do want to better our relations with russia. however, the dire situation and eastern ukraine is one that demands clear and strong

condemnation of russian actions. the sudden increase in fighting in the eastern ukraine has trapped thousands of civilians and destroyed vital infrastructure, in the crisis is spreading, endangering many thousands more. this escalation of violence must stop. >> jon: let's talk about this, a reserve intelligence officer with the office of naval intelligence and a senior fellow in the program on national security at the form policy research institute, also have a great deal of familiarity with russian xp or nosh and how it operates. thank you for being with us today. so you suggest that the administration has been a little, they've sent conflicting messages about how to handle or about how to deal with russia, what do you mean? >> i think it is a great question. i am heartened by what ambassador nikki haley said, what we are finally seeing as a pivot here, clearly the

president ran a campaign of making isis, the defeat of ice is the cornerstone of his administration, and i think he was very clear in saying he might consider russia as a partner for that battle, now that he is in the white house and surrounded himself with good people like general kelly, general mattis, i think what we are seeing is perhaps the realization that russia is really not a friend of ours, and perhaps their capability in helping our country with that battle isn't there, so it's a welcome pivot. >> jon: what did they do in the last election, what were their intentions? >> that is a very good question. i think the word hacking, we have to be very careful here. what the russian state is essentially steel data. in intelligence, that is collection, that is what intelligence agencies do. they have a file on world leaders, in effect i often joke when i'm on tv, probably there is some russia enlisted kid writing about what i am saying. it is just something that they do.

they change here was not so much the collection but rather they're releasing it to wikileaks, i think it is the troubling part. i don't actually believe their intent was to get mr. trump, now president elected but i think it was friendly just to embarrass us. it is not so much the hacking but rather that release of information which is really troubling and the connection with julian assange is doubly troubling. i think we have to look at that connection. >> jon: he said the russians were not the source of the information that wikileaks received. you discount that? >> absolutely. again, just to underscore this, there is absolutely no evidence of the numerical value of actual voting was tampered, so thankfully, the russians did not hack, which is now a critical infrastructure, our election system so voters should have confidence that the physical vote numbers were not changed. i do think someone is holed up in an embassy in london, i don't think we should give much credibility.

>> jon: in some respects, some of the antiquated voting systems that this country still uses are the toughest to hack. we'll one of those big old-fashioned voting machines into a county precinct somewhere, people punch cards with it. pretty hard to hack into that, the muscle. >> [laughs] it is a good visual, i agree with you. i think when you have technology that is better for buying groceries with a chip in your credit card, there is something that can be done here with voting. again, it comes down to americans having confidence in the sacred thing that we do. there is no reason not to use technology, especially -- even though they did not hack into this, it is clear going forward that people may want to do that and there is no reason we should not invest in protecting this infrastructure so americans can have confidence that their votes actually count. >> jon: there been questions about how tough the trump administration would be on russia. giving those questions, are you

surprised or at least heartened about what nikki haley had to say at the u.n.? >> i am certainly happy to hear that. i think it is a welcome pivot. look, it is so important that the u.s. both remains credible and as a sort of guiding force here. the ukrainians came out to say we are worried america is not backing us and as a result, we are going to start ratcheting up the violence, and that is not a benefit to anyone here. i think a peaceful solution is everyone's best interest. having the u.s. come out and say to russia, this is not going to stand, i think that sends a very clear message. i want to think them russians misjudged this president, and you cannot get a clearer message than that. >> jon: a lot of people misjudged this president. thank you. >> thank you. >> jenna: the uss cole returns to the waters in yemen years after the deadly bombing that happened when they patrolled the same area, we will tell you what is going on there plus fighting

in the ukraine is escalating and why that could impact relations between the u.s. and its nato partners.

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♪ >> jon: a u.s. warship returns to the coast of yemen amid growing tensions in that part of the world. the navy sending the uss cole to the gulf of aden following an attack earlier this week on a saudi warship, u.s. defense official says the attack was carried out by iranian backed houthi rebels, foxes learned that the same group placed mines in the water not far from the side of the u.s. attacked or they were that target of an al-qaeda attack back in 2000 while patrolling that same part of the world. 17 u.s. sailors died in that attack. >> jenna: the new secretary of state is still the new guy as he describes himself, but rex tillerson is already facing his first challenge as the fighting escalates in eastern ukraine between government forces and russian backed rebels. rich edson is life with more.

>> good afternoon, it's been an objective of the trump administration and president trump to try to create better ties with the russian government and over the last become a road events continue to get in the way. intense fighting continues in the eastern part of ukraine, and it has led to the point where as you mentioned earlier, the newly minted u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley made her first remarks to that body specifically td russian interfen those events. and the white house began this relationship, it started a week ago with a call between president trump and president putin of russia. the white house of the call said it was a conversation on mutual cooperation and a significant start to improving the relationship between the u.s. and russia. here we are a week later officially condemning them. as for coordination between the united nations ambassador and the rest of the administration, white house official says that

nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador did cornett at the white house level with the national security council, state department official said essentially the coronation are what happens at the u.n. and the message from the u.s. at the u.n. all remains on the same page. reporters also asked to date at the white house press briefing as to whether or not the administration was still considering relaxing sanctions against russia, even after all that has been going on over the last week. that white house press secretary sean spicer said that nikki haley's comments make the admissions concern clear, and he would not officially say or specifically reference whether or not the u.s. was going to do anything in regards to those sanctions on russia. the u.s. speaking of sections today also increased sanctions on iran which is an ally of russia, blaming iran for destabilizing activities and ballistic missile launch and on top of that, continued support of what the u.s. in officials have called terrorist activity in the u.s. but around unnoticed for the admission officials

saying they are prepared to examine and continue further acts, so these incidents continue happening in this relationship that the administration is trying to improve. whether it comes from those who are allied with iran or russia, excuse me, and russia specifically continued creating a problem for this administration in any change in relationship. the state department also is pushing the criticism of the romanian government. there have been protests ongoing within romania because of the law change that government has made, freeing those who have been convicted of corruption or to that, the state department says the u.s. is deeply concerned about the government of romania's recent measures that undermine the law and corruption crimes. a lack going on in europe in the middle east and a laffer circuitry of state rex tillerson as he says the new guy has to deal with it in his second full day at the state department. back to you. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: as you know,

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>> hello, everyone, i am sandra smith. brand-new sanctions announced against iran just hours after the president said all options were on the table. plus, for the second time in as many days, violence breaking out on a college campus in response to a conservative speaker. what about free speech?

and the white house meeting with business leaders today as the trump team moves forward with scaling back on business reforms. we will check out how that is going on "america's newsroom hq." see you in a minute. >> jon: the super bowl posing a unique challenge for security officials because of its close proximity to gas and oil refineries. for more on how they are adapting, let's go to houston correspondent catherine harris. >> security is a massive undertaking and relies on the defense department and homeland security assets, earlier this week fox news went inside the air operation with customs and border patrol teams from their base in suburban houston where they weaved our team on securing the skies which is a multiagency effort. during the super bowl, the faa is going to put in place a 30-mile ring centered on nrg stadium, this is known as you would as a pilot as a temporary flight restriction area or a tfr

appeared no aircraft are allowed to enter this area unless they have air traffic control permission. there's a radar site based in riverside, california, that can detect any aircraft gearing toward the stadium. aircrews are that notified to intercept the flight and steer it away. >> we are going to have our aircraft with radar and intercepting air traffic, the we will fly alongside them on the radio and contact them to steer them away, radios are working, it will be able to have that. >> the security zone as you mention also extends to a petrochemical complex that is one of the largest if not the largest in the country. i have to say, this would have been the story just for you to report, not me. >> jon: you did it well, we appreciate it. >> i did my best, thank you. >> jon: we will be back in a moment.

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overseas will get a taste of home this sunday thanks to pizza for patriots a nonprofit now in its ninth year. ship chicago style deep dish pizzas to military bases in the middle east. the group shipped 170,000 pieces since 2008. good for the super bowl. >> that's great. an update on one of our favorite families. sergeant charles geiten and his wife. ft. campbell, kentucky. kayla gave birth to quadruplets december 30th, a month earlier than she had hoped because her hodgkins disease returned and she's had to resume chemotherapy. the good news, the babies are starting to come home today. charles and victoria will be first. michael likely will join his siblings today or tomorrow and hreulian should compete the set in just a couple days. kayla is back in chemo. she's exhausted but we're told she's doing well. those quadruplets conceived without fertility drugs doing

well. >> we'll keep her and the family in our prayers this weekend. >> absolutely. have a great super bowl weekend. thank you for joining us. >> "america's news hq" starts now. >> sandra: a chief destroyer heading off the coast of yemen to protect waterways from an iranian backed militia. hello everyone i'm sandra smith. this coming just after that same militia attacked a saudi ship in the same area. also follows the white house announcement on more sanctions in iran as punishment for a recent missile test. u.s. central command putting out images showing a glimpse of our operations now under way in yemen. the trump administration tries to put al qaeda on its heels. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon for us. why did the u.s. military release what they said wrr videos captured by the yemen raid earlier today? >> reporter: well, sandra, pentagon officials have been frustrated that news organizations have called it a botched raid. today, as y