seven miles. >> you got to run. can you do seven miles? >> no. >> two miles? robert: we are heading into a critical week in washington. president trump preparing to host the president of china as the senate careens towards the ultimate showdown over supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. i'm robert schmitt in for harris faulkner. this is "fox report". president donald trump with tough talk on north carolina ahead of this week's summit with the president of china. mr. trump telling the financial times the u.s. will take action to eliminate north korea's nuclear threat with or without chinese assistance. china is one of north korea's sole allies and largest trading partner. supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch is expected to take a major step toward

confirmation tomorrow. the senate judiciary committee to move his nomination to the full senate. republicans say gorsuch will be confirmed this week but democrats say they have the votes to filibuster, and that means something will have to give. >> gorsuch, i think, is the kind of nominee that our democratic friends really haven't been able to find any real fault with, except he was nominated by this president, and realize this is their last gasp to prevennfirmed. but they won't, and judge gorsuch will be confirmed one way or another. >> it looks like gorsuch will not reach the 60-vote margin. so instead of changing the rules, which is up to mitch mcconnell and the republican majority, why doesn't president trump, democrats and republicans in the senate, sit down and try to come up with a mainstream nominee. robert: slow process continues. a lot to get to as we begin a big week in washington. kristin fisher live at the white house tonight.

start with president trump's meeting with the chinese president, a lot of eyes on that. how optimistic is he he will be able to cut a deal with china to deal with north korea? >> reporter: rob, in the interview, president trump said that he is hopeful, but he also made it very clear that he believes that the u.s. can take on north korea all by itself without china. he told the financial times that, quote, if china is not going to solve north korea, we will. that is all i'm telling you. remember, north korea has already successfully test fired five ballistic missiles since president trump took office. first one happened when japan's prime minister shinzo abe was at mar-a-lago. there is a chance north korea could try something similar when president xi jinping is there next week. as for president trump using leverage about north korea. he told the financial times, trade, it's all about trade. rob? robert: president trump certainly bolder with kim jong-un than president obama was. the president putting out a

tweet today in another story updating the repeal and replacement of obamacare. he had a rough one last month. what's the update on that? did he have success in the golf course meeting? reporter: yeah, despite that first failed attempt, president trump says that he is continuing to try to make good on one of his signature campaign promises. he said today on twitter that, quote, talks on repealing and replacing on obamacare have been going on, and will continue until such time as a deal is hopefully struck. president trump spent the day playing golf with two people, mick mulvaney, director of the conservative house freedom caucus, the group president trump blamed for the bill's failure and republican senator rand paul, one of the vocal critics. you may remember, rand paul went so far as to hand out copies of "the art of the deal" in an effort to give them an edge during negotiations with the book's offer. so listen to what rand paul

said today after playing golf with the president. >> we had a great day with the president today. we did talk about some health care reform. i think the sides are getting closer and closer together, and i remain very optimistic we will get obamacare repeal. >> reporter: you know the saying in golf, it's the follow through that makes all the difference? well, president trump clearly trying to follow through on his campaign promise despite whipping on that first attempt. you see what i did there, rob? you like that? robert: i like that, doing business on the golf course, i like that. we hear he has a very good golf game. >> reporter: apparently. robert: that's what i've heard. in the same "financial times" interview, the president was asked a big question a lot of people have for him, if he regrets any of the tweets he's put out in the last year or two. how did he respond to that? >> reporter: he said he does not regret anything, especially the things he says on twitter. he said without twitter he would not be president.

what he said exactly is without the tweets, i wouldn't be here. i have 100 million followers between facebook, twitter, instagram. over 100 million, i don't have to get on fake media. so not a shocking admission, but it's pretty stunning to hear a sitting pretty attribute that much of his victory to social media. rob? robert: certainly is. when we watched it all develop from almost nothing. amazing. kristin, thanks so much. even more serious, a fox extreme weather alert tonight, a very violent storm system bearing down on parts of texas, mississippi and louisiana. the system unleashing several reported tornadoes including one in southern louisiana. demolishing a mobile home there, killing a woman and her three-year-old daughter. governor john bel edwards warning everyone to be on alert. meteorologist adam klotz is in

the fox extreme weather center, first to louisiana's governor held a press conference. what did he learn there? >> reporter: tornadoes, hail, flooding, high winds, all a threat. why governor john bel edwards put louisiana on high alert until at least tomorrow. take a look at this. at least two tornadoes reported in louisiana like this one in tioga. the governor is telling folks this is a rare and powerful storm system that could pack hurricane force-type winds. he's urging folks to stay off the roads, stay indoors and if need be, find a safe and secure room with no windows, preferably a bathroom in the event of an emergency. >> people should know that the storm system moving across louisiana is just getting started. this is a very significant storm event. these forecasts of this nature occur very infrequently across the country each year, and we

don't know there's ever been a time in the state of louisiana where this particular forecast has ever been issued for so much of the state of louisiana to be at high risk of severe weather. >> reporter: this storm is bringing flash flooding, this is instagram video from lafayette, louisiana earlier today. the governor warning that this type of flooding is possible throughout the entire state. the governor is advising people to sleep near their cell phones, have them charged, so that people can hear national weather service alerts sent to their mobile phones overnight. and rob, this isn't just a threat to louisiana, texas state trooper reported seeing a tornado touch down near sensor port, northwest of san antonio. robert: it's that time of the year, unfortunately. more sad news, the mother and daughter that died, what do we know how that happened? >> reporter: tragically a mother and daughter died as a result of this storm in brew bridge, louisiana. high windser to this moeshl

home apart while francine gotch and her daughter were sleeping inside. they were crushed to death. the woman's 12-year-old son tried to wake both of them up before running out of the mobile home to his grandmother's home next door. a suspected tornado is thought to have hit the mobile home but the governor said it was a straight line high winds. he's urging all people in mobile homes to seek shelter elsewhere. rob? robert: that's a rough storm and could be a rough night ahead. thank you very much. for the latest on forecast, over to meteorologist adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center. going to be a long night. >> reporter: really is, rob, we're in the heart of this one as we continue to get more information coming in. the tornado watch that originally struck from texas into louisiana has been extended. so now includes areas of mississippi, really much of the state. so still a long way to go before we eventually wrap this one up. here's what we're looking at. this line of storms packing the biggest punch for now, if

you're on the back side of the area. shreveport is calming down a bit. this is going to sweep off through the east throughout the rest of the evening, eventually the overnight hours. take you in on a couple of the cells that have been particularly powerful. this is a tornadic storm uplifting towards the mississippi area and these are moving that direction. all of these red areas, the spots we're looking at tornadoes were in cells. popping up better if i drop off actual rainfall totals, everything in the yellow color or the orangish color that is severe thunderstorm which means winds up to 60 miles an hour, still means hail. the initial line that will track off towards the east that will bring the most powerful storms in the overnight hours. right in the heart of louisiana, we see it stretching into mississippi, that's what we'll be looking at the next couple of hurrs. you see the heart of this, stretching across central

louisiana putting it into motion, not a real quick mover. so if you're in the way of this, it's something you have to be aware for the next couple of hours, moving into the mississippi area overnight until 2:00 a.m. this thing is going to be lasting there. and the bad news is, if you're farther off to the east this is going to continue to push on through the overnight hours, and by tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon, we shift this entire system over, rob, just a couple more states, so then we're talking about alabama, stretching into portion of georgia and the florida gulf coast, all areas tomorrow afternoon that are looking at severe weather. robert: quick question, do we have indication that this is an overly active tornado season? >> so far, january and february have been a little more active and certainly starting off april that it's been an active one too. robert: a fluid situation across much of the nation. we're going to continue to monitor these conditions throughout the evening and the

night. keep you updated on anything we learn on fox news. coming up, we're going to go back to politics as republicans and democrats set to face off over supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. democrats vowing that filibuster with republicans saying the so-called nuclear option is on the table. we'll have the latest from washington, that's coming up. safe drivers who switch to esurance could save money on car insurance. in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. so if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. at crowne plaza we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. 'a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly.

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democrats have presented a mostly unified front against gorsuch so far. earlier today, joe donnelly was the authority democrat to announce his support for gorsuch. nomineeing north dakota's heidi heitkamp and west virginia's joe manchin, that leaves gorsuch five votes shy of 60 and avoiding the filibuster. caroline shively has more from washington. >> reporter: hi, rob, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says monday judge gorsuch will be confirmed this week, no matter what. >> exactly how that happens, chris, will be up to our democratic colleagues. it is noteworthy, no supreme court justice has ever in the of the had of our country been stopped by a partisan filibuster, ever. >> senate minority leader chuck schumer points out there's a first time for everyone. he says the conservative judge doesn't have the votes to get to 60 to break a planned democratic filibuster and

republicans need to drop gorsuch and pick another judge with input by the democrats. >> our republican friends are attacking like a cat on the top of a tree, and have to jump off with all the damage that entails. come back off the tree. sit down and work with us and we will produce a mainstream nominee. >> reporter: almost impossible to find someone who says gorsuch isn't qualified to be on the court. the senate voted unanimously for current position on his circuit court of appeals. democrats turned against gorsuch during testimony this time around saying he refused to answer the most rudimentary questions about court cases. the democrats say it is highly, highly unlikely gorsuch will get to the 60 votes, that leaves them with the nuclear option, requiring 51 votes. it's never been used at the supreme court level. rob? robert: caroline shively tonight. president trump's

ambassador to the u.n. sharing strong convictions about russia and the 2016 election. what she says will happen once the investigations are finished. that's ahead tonight on the "fox report."

. rob: president trump's ambassador to the united nations saying there's no question moscow was involved in the 2016 election and that the administration will address those actions once lawmakers present their findings. meanwhile president trump calling the whole thing a witch-hunt touting allegations of incidental collection against his team. the president firing off a tweet saying --

all this as we learn that the president's former national security adviser general michael flynn has offered to testify before congress in exchange for immunity. we're told that lawmakers think it's too early in the process to consider that request. the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee says he's skeptical about granting it at all. >> flynn failed to report the money that he received from that r.t. propaganda on the kremlin and two other russian entities and requested the background security documents that general flynn filled out to find out whether he similarly failed to disclose work he was doing as a financial agent of a foreign power. rob: garrett tenney is following all this from washington. garrett, congressman schiff took shots at the white house today, huh? >> reporter: he did, for the last week, rob, congressman schiff very critical of both the white house and his republican counterpart on the house intelligence committee devin nunes for working together to undermine the house

intelligence committee's investigation. well, on friday, schiff had the chance to look at the same intelligence reports nunes was shown by white house staffers last week, after reviewing those documents, schiff said he didn't see any justification for the white house leaving the full intelligence committee in the dark and only sharing it with the republican chairman. instead, he believes even more that the administration is doing anything it can to distract from the actual investigation into its ties with russia. >> it certainly is an attempt to distract and hide the origin of the materials, hide the white house hand. the question is, of course, why? and i think the answer to the question is this effort to point the congress in other directions. basically say don't look at me, don't look at russia, there's nothing to see here. >> reporter: despite the criticism, it is noticeable that schiff did say after reviewing those intelligence reports like chairman nunes, he

also has concerns with the surveillance of trump transition officials taking place after the election, rob? rob: yeah, i'm sure. well as we've heard this week, growing calls for a special independent commission to take over this investigation, but today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell pushed back on that, right? >> reporter: he said at this point, that would be a mistake. while the house intelligence committee has been caught up in all kinds of politics, the senate intelligence community is moving right along with the investigation. and with the bipartisan effort under way, this morning mcconnell told our own chris wallace he has no worries. >> it's just not necessary, based on what we know now. we've got a bipartisan investigation under way, it's called the senate intelligence committee. we don't need yet another investigation. we know the fbi is looking at it from their perspective. it's being handled appropriately and will be handled well. >> reporter: in fact, the next week the senate intelligence committee will look at first of

the witnesses and that's the beginning of a long road ahead. rob: this is a messy one. we're going to talk about it in the next block with a couple of our guests. thank you so much. >> reporter: you got it. rob: busy week ahead in washington as neil gorsuch takes another step toward confirmation tomorrow. and the white house weighs in on the russian investigation and president trump prepares to sit down with china's president. president.

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. rob: i'm rob schmitt in tonight for harris faulkner. this is the "fox report." the senate set to consider president trump's supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. a committee vote is expected tomorrow before a full showdown in the senate. democrats are preparing for filibuster but republicans say all optionsor the table to get the judge confirmed. appropriate actions will be taken once investigations are complete. the fbi as well as congressional committees are looking into whether the russian government coordinated with trump associates during the campaign. president trump at the white house after a beautiful day to play golf with kentucky senator rand paul and white house budget director mick mulvaney. the three spent a lot of time talking about repealing and replacing obamacare. the president tweeting out earlier today he's working toward reaching that deal to fix health care in this country.

for more on all of these topics and maybe a little more than that, i'm joined by boyd matheson, former chief of staff to utah senator mike lee and president of the sutherland institute, and also judith miller pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and fox news contributor. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. rob: we're going to start with gorsuch. as far as the confirmation goes, there is almost no support from democrats until the last few days when we got three in red states on board. i guess my question is, what is the real issue that they have with gorsuch? or is this a payback from the merrick garland knocking out obama's lame duck appointee thing? >> that's it. that's it exactly. this is payback. because chuck schumer is normally a very pragmatic politician, but he has to respond to the outrage that so

many people in the senate feel about what happened to merrick garland. even though neil gorsuch should be replacing conservatives justice, of course the death of antonin scalia, the republicans are watching the democrats to figure out what to do about this, and i think that mitch mcconnell says, you know, the filibuster won't work. i don't think that chuck schumer's going to be able to get the votes if you have three senators already saying they're going to vote for neil gorsuch as confirmation, so it's going to be a nail biting last-minute vote. it will be fun to watch. rob: will be fun to watch. it's baseless, getting even, no reason not to put this guy in. >> look, and if you really watch the 20 hours of hearings. neil gorsuch is a very, very moderate, modest man. rob: and accomplished.

>> yes, and he's just not the kind of guy that it's very easy for the senators to kind of -- the democratic senators to rally around and say we've got to stop them at all costs. next one, not this guy. rob: boyd, one more democrat today that joined in, indiana democrat senator, it's a red state, usually a red state, once blue for obama, normally a red state and worried about their re-election, of course. you still need five more to get gorsuch in without the filibuster. chuck schumer saying you can't do this, you can't pull the nuclear option on this, does he have any room to talk on this? the democrats opened up pandora's box in this regard. >> that's right. rob: does he have a leg to stand on here? >> that's exactly right. irony of ironies would be it would be harry reid that laid the groundwork for this nuclear option to be deployed.

not just on judge gorsuch because he's going to get through no matter what. it's the next one that really matters as judith was saying, and the interesting gamut that schumer has to go through in his head is, is it worth it? you will have democrats peel off the red states. they're going to say why should i walk the plank for chuck schumer on should, when i know that this judge is going to be approved in the end anyway. if that breaks on this vote, then chuck schumer's power in the senate and his ability to influence is going to be greatly diminished because if he's got five or eight democrats in the red states peeling off on the nomination, what are they going to do on taxes, on health care, on a number of other things down the road. rob: i think it is tough to get any democrats behind the president because he's largely unpopular. that's a big part of it, too. move onto russia and spying and the mess that's been created that is so complicated. judith, start with you.

the democrats saying this is about trump and russia and the election, mr. trump saying that this is, you know, a witch-hunt, saying it's more about obama spying on transition team and the leaking of michael flynn's name which is a felony. my question for you is what will the democrats do if this comes to an end here, and there is no definitive proof that there was any coordination between trump's team or mr. trump, and the russian government, and maybe the russian government didn't want hillary clinton in there. what will the democrats do about this after making such a hubbub about this? the issue is are the republicans going to get their act together? you had the ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley take the democratic line today say yes, it's absolutely true russia was involved, and they will pay an appropriate price. rob: but to be pair, she said -- she did say that russia was

involved and i think even mr. trump is admitting it at this point. it's a big difference between a collusion between a guy running for president and another country to win the election. >> yeah, but we don't know at this stage what the basic facts are. we still -- all we know for sure is that president trump's former campaign manager and now mike flynn, his former nsc adviser were forced to leave because in part of their russian connections, and there's clearly enough smoke there to merit an investigation, and that's what congressman schiff has been calling for. i think, you know, congressman nunes has done a great disservice to his committee and to his party by making such a mess of this. so that the push for an independent committee has gotten some steam up because of nunes's handling, mishandling of this. but i think it's dangerous to

jump ahead to conclusions when we don't even still know the basic facts. that's what i'm focused on. the facts. rob: waiting on the investigations to get through. to be fair, complaining about the attention on russia, if it was the other way around, the republicans would be jumping all over this too. that is fair. boyd, over to you for a second, the michael flynn thing, in my opinion, asking for immunity in this thing, and a lot of people's opinions, it just looks bad, regardless what he knows, regardless what he, did what comes out. at this point not knowing what he's going to say but asking for that, it looks terrible, the optics of it. what do you say? >> yeah, it looks horrible as judith said, it all looks horrible from the house side, hopefully the senate will restore order to the process in terms of how they're going about this investigation, and hopefully follow the facts where they lead and move it forward from there. i also think it's interesting and something for the viewers to watch for in the coming days is not just obviously everyone

would like to hear what michael flynn knows and what happened, there is interesting signs that would be about a pivot, a russian reset so to speak, and that is what happens with ambassador-to-be jon huntsman, jr., he has been nominated and he's going to accept that appointment, and it's been radio silent for about three weeks now. and it may be they're trying to keep him out of the prop wash flynn investigation of this and some other things. they may want him to be the pivot point moving into the summer and things they want to do hopefully with this in the rearview mirror. >> go ahead, real quick. >> i really wonder who's making foreign policy at the moment now. is it nikki haley or donald trump? because everything she said today contradicted to a certain extent what president trump has been saying. i found it a very interesting performance and also they chose her to put the message out. >> i want to get to health care, i think that's one of the

biggest issues we've got right now. a beautiful day to play golf and other president was out today out with rand paul and mick mulvaney and people he needs to get on board here to get this thing done. judith, to you now, is there any shot that the democrats would work together with the republicans on this outside of them saying they wouldn't repeal at all, and fix issues inside of obamacare, or are they done with it? >> look, i think they're done with it, and frankly, i think the republicans should be done with it for a while, after the mess. what a difference nine holes makes. when you have people coming off the golf course and saying, you know, i was against, i was against the president's plan, but you know, i'm really persuaded now that we can make some progress on this. i don't think it's going to happen. why? why? this was such a loser for move onto an issue where you can win.

rob: to correct you, i'm pretty sure they played 18 holes. >> oh! i stand corrected on golf. rob: if we have time, boyd, trump may not need the democrats, right? he could pull it together. >> that's right. maybe we'll call that the mu mulligan at mar-a-lago. rob: that's a new one. >> they'll have faith in the american people in this whole process and obviously, the first round had nothing to do with health care outcomes for the american people. if they can pivot back to that, if they can recognize that it's not just the democrats they need, it's the republicans getting their act together and recognizing this isn't about the freedom caucus or the tuesday group. this is about putting faith in the american people and doing what they promised in terms of repeal, and moving towards something that will deliver health care outcomes for the american people. if we can have faith in that process week can make something happen. rob: the president needs to get

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missiles used by hezbollah. it is very impressive. includes israel's iron dome. that one designated to counter longer range threats. afghanistan's president sitting down exclusively with fox news to talk about the relationship between his country and the u.s. president ashraf ghani speaking out as the taliban continues to overthrow the afghan government. conor powell has more from kabul. >> reporter: rob, as the trump white house debates options in afghanistan, afghan president ashraf ghani wants advisers to remain in the war-torn country. the u.s. spent $700 billion and lost thousands of lives here. while american combat operations ended in 2014, the fight against the taliban is far from over. afghan troops continue a deadly fight against insurgents, with an eye towards afghan's

long-term prosperity, afghan president ashraf ghani wants american businesses to be part of developing afghanistan's rich mineral resources. >> we want a partnership that the way we've worked and fought shoulder to shoulder, we would be able to develop this country, we don't want to be a burden on you. >> reporter: the pentagon estimates afghanistan has more than a trillion dollars worth of mineral wealth. much of this is years if not decades from making it to market, and corruption is rampant and hindrance to economic growth. afghanistan's infrastructure is improving. roads, agricultural yields and hydroelectric power are getting better. the trump administration proposed slashing the foreign aid budget. both about afghanistan's long-term economic prosperity, but also keeping the trump administration engaged here. rob?

rob: all right, connor, thank you so much. members of a texas church remembering the 13 people from congregation who died in a terrible bus crash wednesday. today was the first sunday service since that wreck. the bus was returning from a church retreat when it collided into oncoming traffic service and just a terrible scene. 12 passengers died right, there another died at the hospital. one passenger survived along with the driver of the pickup truck. will carr has more from los angeles. >> reporter: the investigation continues this week and as the first victims are laid to rest, here's what we know, witnesses reported seeing the white pickup truck swerving just before the crash, one driver says the truck kept driving into oncoming traffic and veered back and forth for 15 minutes. take a listen to an emergency call from another driver. >> there's a white car all over the road, all through traffic, off on the right side of the road.

i don't know if he's drunk or what the deal is. somebody needs to stop him. >> reporter: the truck crossed the yellow line and crashed into the bus. they were returning from a three-day retreat. 13 people killed. ages ranging from 61-87. the 21-year-old driver of the truck survived and is in the hospital. investigators are looking into a report that he was texting and driving as the community continues to mourn. >> many ask the question why would god allow this to happen? i can't answer that question, but i am confident of this, i am confident of god's perfect plan. >> reporter: authorities did not charge the driver of the truck and tell us the investigation could take a month or longer. rob? rob: okay, thank you so much. severe storms and reported tornadoes pummelling the south today, leaving two people dead. we'll have a look at the radar

and why louisiana's governor says the worst could still come tonight? massive floods and landslides killing more than 200 people in southwest colombia. the effects of a m

. rob: more than 200 people are dead and many more missing after heavy flooding in colombia. torrential rainfall caused a mud avalanche friday in the city of makoa in southwest colombia. people spent the day digging through ruins of homes looking for relatives and friends missing. there is no power and very little clean drinking water, adding more complications for search-and-rescue operations. the death toll is expected to rise. sticking with weather and a fox

extreme weather alert on that southern storm, storm system that turned deadly killing two people in louisiana. that system spinning off multiple reported tornadoes this afternoon and evening as it now heads into mississippi. the governor of louisiana warning people to be safe and be aware. >> people should know that the storm system moving across louisiana is just getting started. this is a very significant storm event. these forecasts of this nature occur very infrequently across the country each year, and we don't know that there are ever been a time in the state of louisiana where this particular forecast has ever been issued for so much of the state of louisiana to be at high risk of severe weather. rob: meteorologist adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center as we watch this develop today. we see severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the united states, this system is particularly dangerous, right? >> reporter: yeah, we had a

good lead-up knowing all the ingredients were going to be there. that's why such a large area we're talking about a high risk of severe weather, it continues to spread. now we're looking at tornado watch stretching into large portions of mississippi. we have plenty of time and space where the tornadoes could spin up. the majority of the activity happening along this main line. you see the darker colors there, that's where we've been seeing the tornadoes spin up. particularly strong cell along 20 in the vicksburg area towards jackson. this is lifting off to the north and east. may head north of jackson. this is the line where we've seen the most severe weather. i killed the radar so can you see the warnings. yellows and oranges are severe thunderstorms, winds 60 miles an hour, hail as well. at least 60 miles an hour and the red polygons, tornado storms. these are popping up throughout the entire afternoon and evening hours and could

continue to do so, this is an area where we've been bull's-eyeing, this is mostly over louisiana but stretching over portions of mississippi as well. we can continue to see the ingredients in place where we can see more tornadoes firing off in the next several hours. that's going to be the case. here is hour-by-hour forecast. there is time stamp in the corner so you can see how it moves along. a slow mover, there is going to continue to be thunderstorm activity in louisiana in the evening hours and does obviously slowly track its way into mississippi. and, yes by early tomorrow morning, a little break. but this is going to keep moving along the coast. eventually as we heat back up tomorrow, we're going to shift this entire thing off to the east and another round of severe weather by tomorrow, maybe including pensacola and alabama, stretching up to alabama and portions of georgia as well. this tornado activity is happening, but happening as well tomorrow. rob: we have people watching the system, and crews heading to that area to check it out.

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. rob: the country's first revolutionary war museum opening to visitors in philadelphia later this month. the public getting a chance to see hundreds of artifacts, weapons, uniforms, even the declaration of independence. rick leventhal takes us inside the new museum. >> reporter: rare pieces of history, some never before on public display, carefully positioned by the museum of the american revolution preparing for the grand opening, the chance to tell the battle for independence from the british that formed and shaped our nation more than 240 years ago. >> we're on cloud nine. this is absolutely euphoria to see the dream finally take shape. >> i can't believe it. have to pinch myself in the morning as i walk through. >> reporter: dr. scott stevenson spent ten years collecting and archiving weapons, uniforms and other relics dating from the late

1700s, including one of the only two known copies of the declaration of independence printed in philadelphia in german after july 4th, 1776. >> must be worth a few bucks, right? >> no idea what it would be. >> irreplaceable. >> reporter: general george washington silver cups are here and the actual war tent he lived in on the battlefield for more than seven years. >> it should not be here today. for this tent to have survived not just the revolutionary war, it was used in the 19th century, regularly set up and played a role in unifying americans and the definition of what the new republic would be like. it was caught up in the drama of the american civil war. at any point along that journey this very fragile fabric could have disappeared and it's still here bearing witness. >> reporter: the revolution was fought before the invention of the cam ramp the museum turned

to modern technology to bring the exhibits to life. more than a dozen theaters and interactive exhibits allow visitors to experience the battles and the tools used to fight. >> many places that preserve a portion of it, a battlefield, a tavern, a home. but this is a place that gives the whole story, and given that this is the most important event in our history, it's rather remarkable it has taken this long. >> reporter: this museum cost $120 million to build but will only cost you 12 bucks to get in. tickets are good for two days in case you want a second look. rick leventhal, fox news. rob: very cool stuff. that is how "fox report" is this april 2nd. i'm robert schmitt in for harris faulkner. thanks for watching. have a great week. "watters' world" is coming up next. we'll see you later.

chris: i'm chris wallace. congress' investigation into links between the trump campaign and russia get sidetracked by questions of whether a committee chair is working to help the white house. ♪ ♪ >> there's no question that there is a cloud over the investigation. >> what occurred between chairman nuñes and coming here was both routine and proper. >> it's very mist rouse to me, though, why all of a sudden general flynn is out there saying he wants immunity. i don't think congress should give him immunity. chris: the latest on what the president calls a witch haunt and what some democrats are calling a cover-up when we sit down with senate majority leader mitcmc