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steve: this is a fox news alert. the clock is ticking as millions of people are told to pack up and head to higher ground as hurricane florence heads for the carolinas. ainsley: look at that ariel footagaerialfootage. it's a monster as it's surging. all of this water surge expected to slam the east coast and president trump sounding off on the potential catastrophic damage to come. >> they haven't seen anything like what's coming at us in 25, 30 years, maybe ever. it's tremendously big. >> we have live team coverage. todd piro. we begin with our own griff jenkins in atlantic beach, north carolina where people are facing a guam threat this morning, good morning, griff. >> that's right. we have all the components

for a catastrophic, life-threatening weather event that could last for days. let me show you why. hurricane winds 140 miles per hour or thereabouts expected to come across here and certainly the outer northern bands. you can hear rumbling behind me, i think. that's not quite the storm yet. you will get the storm surge here as well. they are saying 9 to 13 feet. that is unbelievable as well as expected flooding because of the low lying inlands. we have four rivers here that was absolutely flooded, devastatingly so two years ago with hurricane matthew. you have the rainfall. if this does indeed stall and put 25 inches it will be extremely dangerous. two years ago there are areas that still have not recovered where the noose river is. areas under 25 feet of water. for the folks try to stay behind and ride it out here. they need to know one thing, they are likely to be

stranded and it's likely to be life-threatening and no one is coming to get them. that's why they have the evacuations here, mandatory. people have got to be out by 8:00 tonight atlantic beach. the mayor pro tem richard porter had this to say. >> we're asking people to leave and those that choose to stay they have to understanding they may not have emergency services available to them to come and rescue them. that's the whole purpose of this mandatory evacuation. get out of town. it's dangerous. it's a huge storm. >> the message is serious. it's time to get out and get out now. if you are in carter county and surrounding areas. even though you may see the track going south. the northern part of, this the dirty side of this storm is going to make it quite a life-threatening situation. guys. steve: griff, thank you very much. the biggest storm surge is just to the north of where the eye goes ashore. ainsley: thank you, griff. that's in north carolina now let's go to south carolina

where highway crews are working around the clock to clear people, get them out off the coast line. ed: officials already warning the shelters are not strong enough to with stand this hurricane's wrath. ainsley: many people are refusing to leave. todd piro picks up our team coverage live in myrtle beach, south carolina. hey, todd. >> good morning to all of you. this place is somewhat of a ghost town. there is a little bit of activity here along 17 right now. but, again, you go for huge stretches, minutes where you don't see a single car. you can hear your voice echoing on a road that is typically filled with people, filled with chores, filled with individuals, hoping to enjoy a golf vacation. that's not happening this week. you can see like many businesses, this business boarded up ready for whatever florence will bring. at least that's what the business owners are hoping. that said, despite the warnings about the storm of a lifetime, people we spoke with said they're not going anywhere. >> i am going to stay at my

dad's house and see what happens. this is home. this is where i feel comfortable and right now i don't see any reason to leave. >> we are staying here. we stayed during matthew and had a ball right here. i think it's going to wipe out up north further than down here. we will stay right here until it washes the building away. we are not scared to leave. todd: those that heeded the advice to leave hit the roads yesterday major back junction. then around noon the state reversed direction of many of the roads to he a lou all traffic to move out of area. an area myrtle beach charleston crosshairs. shear size of florence is the reason why. besides the hurricane force winds a life-threatening storm surge 9 feet along the carolina coast is a huge concern. ed, you alluded to this before people in charleston, county that want to go to

shelters are facing another major issues. the shelters are rated for a category 3. that said, we're expecting something along the lines of a 4, could be a 5. those individuals that are hoping go to a shelter in charleston county could be moved to shelters in neighboring counties. back to you. ed: thank you for those reports. there was somebody on fox earlier saying if you don't heed the warning to get out you literally have to write your name on your limbs. they have got to be able to identify you. ainsley: that is very, very scary. i don't know why people would stay. that's not most of our personalities. my sister lives in charleston. she evacuated to columbia and is actually coming to new york for the weekend. she said a lot of her friends decided to stay. only knows two or three that are actually leaving. charleston is farther south than myrtle beach is. myrtle beach will get hit a lot harder than go.

steve: they don't know where it's going to go. people tried to ride the storm outer and get caught. thought we were going to get a little bit. next thing you know it's a category 3 and category 4. here's the thing when you get in trouble and he was talking about how the shelters are not ready for the really strong storm and this is a really strong storm. when you get in big trouble you call the police to come help you, right? they are not going to come help you because a lot of places once it's above tropical storm force winds they can't go out over the bridges because they would be putting their own lives in peril. can you call the cops and say hey, i need help. as soon as the storm is over we will come out and get you. ed: the governor of north carolina roy cooper coming up live right here 7:30 a.m. eastern time. steve: what he said yesterday was pretty scary. he said even if you have ridden out storms before, this one is different. ainsley: i mean, you see the images of harvey and what it did to the folks in texas and how people were stranded in their houses with no

electricity. water up to the second, third floor. people on their roofs not able to get out. when you see those images, even though it probably is not going to happen in your area, there is always a chance. and why risk it? steve: right. because of the potential for these super storms, storm winds to come ashore, they are suggesting that some parts of the disaster area, and, you know, if it hits hard, it will be a disaster. could be without electricity for weeks and there are 16 nuclear power plants in the zone. they have already started to shutter downtown brunswick plant when shut that down -- ainsley: i had friends in florida last year. harvey. what hit puerto rico harvey? that strong storm they were without electricity for a week. booked plane tickets to get out two days before the storm hit them and they weren't able to get out. they canceled those flights. they weren't able to leave. so they were stuck in their

house, no electricity for more than a week. steve: so if your local authorities tell to you get out of the way of that storm as you look at the eye right there, do it. please. do it. all right. meanwhile, janice is going to have the forecast in a little bit. let's talk politics. we know maxine waters was at an event, giving a speech, receiving an award on saturday. and the president of the united states went after her after some of the things that she said with a tweet. ainsley: 8 hours ago he tweeted this late last night maxine waters after we impeach trump we will go after mike pence. where are the democrats coming from the best economy in the history of our country would totally collapse if they ever took control he had they had might motivate the president's allies ahead of the mid terms. so supporters saying look, this is what is going to happen if democrats take over. damage the economy, impeachment, all the rest.

have you senile nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders privately and publicly say maxine, calm down. win first and say what you want after the election. she can't help herself. here's what she said after the weekend. >> marks seen please don't say impeachment anymore. when they say that i say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. impeachment. [laughter] we had a conversation here today what happens if someone ask what about pence. pence would be worse. i said look, one at a time. we'll be ready for pension, we will get him, too. steve: the thing about maxine waters is she has been pushing for donald trump's impeachment sings before he was sworn. in the new wrinkle is involving mike pence. ainsley: unbelievable to me. she is going to go after the president and they are saying he is actually more dangerous than the president her progressive constituents think that in that small crowd. and then she on stage says now she is going to get president trump first and then she is going to get

mike pence. ed: triple. ainsley: what's after? ed: she wants to impeach the whole. steve: agriculture secretary. ainsley: we upped her cause to tell to you harass the cabinet members if you see them at the gasoline station or at the department store or restaurant. ed: this is serious stuff. we will talk later in the show people facing violence out on the campaign trail because of the kind of thing being stirred up here. steve: sure. ed: political angle republicans nervous about is there a red wave or blue wave. if you have more loose talk like this, it may motivate republican voters ahead of mid terms. steve: we have bill mcgurn in the "wall street journal" coming up next talking about how former president obama was talking about the return to civility in politics. how civil was it. ed: how long did that last? ainsley: we will get reaction from lawyer trump.

and talk about how they are doing. steve: 6:12 in new york city and jillian has the news. jillian: that's right. good morning to you. a bit of a disturbing story here. this is the message: i am coming with a gun. police investigating that chilling message posted on twitter. annual anonymous person threatening a mass shooting at a make america great again event at the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. the account has been removed. and in ceaflg, a congressional candidate uses a campaign sign to fight off a man armed with a knife. >> he would have stabbed me. i mean, he had it out saying i'm going to kill you mfer, i'm going to kill you. i could see his thumb trying to get the knife out. > jillian: rudy peters at town festival when masad attacked. >> rudy giuliani is now on the path to history. eddy edwards winning republican primary for u.s. house seat in new hampshire. could become the state's

first black congressman in november. the political revolution is cancelled again. bernie sanders son levi gets trounced in democratic primary for congressional seat in new hampshire. levi getting just 2% of the vote after his father divided not to endorse him. one of the most senior catholic church officials in the u.s. could soon resign. cardinal donald whirl announcing he will be heading to the vatican to discuss his future with pope francis. the embattled archbishop of washingtohas been heavily critid since the release of a bombshell report last month detailing mishandling of sexual abuse bishop of the pittsburgh diocese. those your headlines. ainsley: 13 minutes after the top of the hour. his mom was killed in the 9/11 attacks and used the 17th anniversary to send a message to the democrats. he is going to join us live coming up: >> just stop. please, stop using the bones

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contributor joins us live on the big circle on the floor. we heard from the former president the united states, barack obama over the weekend where he was talking about the good old days when people were really civil in politics. >> right. and they didn't talk about people bitterly clinging to guns and religion and so forth, right? steve: wait a minute. did he that, right? and what about hillary clinton with the deplorables. >> deplorables and irredeemable not just de flocial but irredeemable. >> i'm reminded of mark twanel quote the louder he talked of his honor the more people gather their spoons. look at civility the more they might want to look at their own behavior on this. steve: when you examine the events of the last week, bill, in addition to the former president coming out and saying i didn't want to talk about politics but i kind of got dragged into this, you had the kavanaugh hearings which were not very civil and then you had the mccain funeral as well. >> look. that's what i look at, the mccain funeral. john mccain was a hero. president trump was just

flat out wrong about that. i have been to the hanoi hilton, it's just incredible what he went through for his country. that funeral was a disservice to him because it became a week long insult to president trump. all these people congratulating themselves on their exquisite sense of decency turning back at kavanaugh hearings. shattering norms. i think it's find to talk about donald trump being incivil and shattering norms, but aplight standard across the board. steve: hold up a mirror. >> right. apply it to everyone. i mean, really, the violation of, accusations. he didn't start -- judge work's family if they think that incivility started with the election of donald trump. steve: what about sarah huckabee sanders, she is going out for a bite at supper time. >> mitch mcconnell and his wife trying to get into a car and accosted by a group of young men. it's incredible. it doesn't count as

incivility if it's directed at donald trump or someone else that works with him. i mean, congresswoman maxine waters is saying, you know, accost these people everywhere you see them in a restaurant, in a department store. is that really the civility project? steve: then you hear the news about that guy out in california running for congress gets slashed in the face by somebody yelling about donald trump. >> also, if you wear a make america great hat somewhere in the wrong place you are likely to get punched in the nose. steve: sounds like there is a double standard. >> right, right. i think there is i mean, look, an allhouse blogger attempts at civility is an attempt in politics is to shut down people with whom you don't agree. steve: read in the "wall street journal" bill mcgurn. >> thank you. steve: what do you think about that? friends@foxnews.com meanwhile his mother was killed on 9/11. yesterday he used the time

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him a job at the appeals board. the former choir teacher will be making nearly 148,000 bucks a year ainsley? ainsley: thank you so much, ed. the son of a woman who died on 9/11 speaking out at yesterday's memorial with a very strong message to those who politicize the tragedy. listen. >> this year a representative of the house referred to our loss as just another incident. and last week a senator attacked a supreme court nominee and called him a racist for alleged comments after 9/11. stop. stop. please, stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props in your political theater. their lives, sacrifices and death are worth so much more. ainsley: that man, mr. nicholas harris jr. joins us now with more of his message. good morning to you, nicholas. thank you for being with us. >> good morning, ainsley. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. what provoked you to say those words yesterday?

>> well, i was thinking about what i might say my mom yesterday. and in the background were all kind of noises that were the kavanaugh hearings, there was the incident at the u.s. open. university in wisconsin. a group of students tried to get the 9/11 memorial display removed there. so, with the background i said, you know, i have had enough. people are hurting. and i just wanted to ease my mom's death and love as an opportunity to just ask people to calm down a bit. ainsley: if you read the response on social media, a lot of people agreed with you. what was your reaction when you read some of those responses and what were some of the comments that people were making? >> well, immediately after my remarks yesterday my social media started buzzing up. by the end of the day i had

gotten hundreds of nice letters of support. and if i can say a common thread the first thread people acknowledged the fact that it was courage, to say remarks as i did. and the second aspect of it and this pleased me the most was that my mom must be very proud of me today. and i think that basically summed up the aftermath of the remarks yesterday. ash ash tell us about your mother. >> my mom francis was a loving mother. there are -- she had three children. and it is so funny. she probably was the oldest one at the trade towers who died. she was 76 at the time. and she just loved going to work. she didn't want to retire. she worked at the firm of

kiefer whit and woods. her job was a receptionist. she used to love monday mornings because the young traders used to come and share their weekend with her. ask her advice whether it be romance or whatever. she was there for everybody. ainsley: that's great. what floor was she on? >> she was on, i believe, the high 70's. she was above. and she was also working 10 years previously when the first bombing occurred. and then she was 66 but she had a very hard time going down the steps. and her greatest fear was that she didn't want to go through that again because she required medical attention. that period earlier. so, if she didn't have to walk down those steps and as we know was said, you know, stay at your desk,

everything's all right, my mom did it. ainsley: nicholas, you were supposed to be there that day, right? didn't you work in the world trade center. >> yes. i was working in the world trade center at a different company but the night before i was called to, at that time, our baltimore office to give a presentation in the morning. it was supposed to start at 9:00, and we had the tv's on sort of to kill some time when the news broke. so i wasn't there, but if i could share with you the tremendous amount of survivor's guilt that resulted after that. i not only lost my mom i lost my business and over two hundred lifelong professional colleagues and friends and people who worked for me during that period. ainsley: it's something most of us can't relate to or imagine. but i do know that god kept you alive for a reason and he has a big plan for your life. thank you so much for

sharing your story. and i think you are right. it's a solemn day. a day to remember and not a day to be political. >> thank you so much, ainsley. i really appreciate the opportunity. ainsley: you are welcome. thank you. here comes florence. the hurricane that's bearing down on the carolina coast now and the track just changed overnight. janice dean with the latest on that path coming up next. and his investigation led to the impeachment of former president clinton and now he is sharing something explosive about hillary. ken starr is live next. but, first, happy birthday to our friend kelsey ball ler reason any, she turns 25 years old today ♪ ♪

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>> this storm is a monster. it's big and it's vicious. it is an extremely dangerous life-threatening historic hurricane. steve: there you have the governor of north carolina. we're back with a fox news alert. hurricane florence inching closer to the east coast at 17 miles per hour. incredible video showing hurricane hunters flying right inside the eye of the storm yesterday. look at that. ainsley: wow. the category 4 storm heading toward the carolinas where millions are now being urged to get out. forecasters are predicting up to 13-foot storm surges. ed: some are simply not heeding that warning and choosing somehow to ride out the storm. and janice dean, you have covered some of these not a smart idea. janice: no. absolutely listen to local officials. the hurricane hunters by the way are out there right now getting statistics on this storm. we think that it's going to be a strength storm in the

8:00 a.m. advisory. we are stale category 4. this storm has been a category 4 for many days now. the forecast models are uncertain. we are pretty sure we know what happens today and tomorrow and then a stall. where does the stall happen? does it happen before it makes landfall? does it happen after it makes landfall and then does it move southward? we are not sure. all we know is we have got to watch the forecast models and you have to listen to your local officials. south carolina, north carolina even georgia needs to watch this. this is the euro. this actually doesn't even make landfall and then it moves back and then pushes in to georgia. so that's one of our reliable forecast models. that gives you the uncertainty that we are dealing with but we still have hurricane warnings in effect. we are still going to feel hurricane force conditions. major hurricane force conditions on the coast. if it stays off the coast, that is going to be a prolonged event of hurricane force winds, storm surge, and heavy rainfall where

does that storm stall out? we still don't know. storm surges as you mentioned 6 to 12 feet. we could see higher totals depending on where that eye comes ashore. the northeast side of the storm is where we will get the highest storm surge and the rainfall, again, we believe will be the legacy of this system depending on where it makes landfall. if it stalls, we are going to be talking about this storm florence for days into the weekend and next week. stay tuned. next advisory combings out comet 8:00 a.m. ainsley: still a category 4. janice: stale dangerous potentially deadly storm. steve: a lot of variables we still don't know? janice: absolutely. steve: keep it here. ainsley: thank you janice dean. it has been two decades since the star report was released leading to the impeachment of president clinton. ed: now ken starr is speaking out with his perspective on the investigation antsd clintons and new memoir full of explosive new information including the r. that he considered perjury charges

against then first lady hillary clinton. steve: we haven't heard about that. let's talk to ken starr, independent counsel and author of the new book contempt, memoir of the clinton investigation. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. steve: you considered charges of perjury against hillary clinton. why not? >> i will always remember that day because we all sat in a room. we had a draft indictment. we had a very elaborate production memo in the tray trae we call a pros memo laid out all the facts and charges. we simply didn't have sufficient evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. steve: when you interviewed mrs. clinton when she was interviewed, didn't you get some answers then? >> we got primarily, not that i recall, i don't recall. i don't remember. and we got it much more frequently than one would reasonably expect. ed: something you regret not moving forward you think now? >> we did the right thing, ed. we really did. we made a judgment. we were around the table

very experienced prosecutors saying do we have the evidence to prove it? and that's a great protection of the country. charges should not be lightly brought if you cannot prove the charges you shouldn't bring it. ainsley: you were like the robert mueller. something that shocked me monica lewenski when she realized she was set up by linda tripp. they were supposed to go to lunch together and what happened? >> first of all, as i describe in the book, monica was encouraging linda tripp to file an affidavit filled with lies just as she had done. and so we record what's happening realtime. it's clear that she is, in fact, involved in a criminal effort to encourage others to lie. so, then she is invited to a room at the ritz carlton hotel, two adjoining rooms and we gave her the opportunity to get an immunity deal right on the spot. she was pretty angry about

it she was especially angry at linda tripp. expressed that anger in very colorful terms. ainsley: screaming and going crazy? >> she had a rant but don't under estimate monica. she is extremely smart. and she is very, very clever. she cepghts a group of prosecutors and fbi agents just sort of standing by much of the day. her mother arrives from new york. it was really very dramatic day and i try to give a sense of that drama in the book. ed: what about brett kavanaugh? because he may be confirmed soon to the high court. you saw what happened at those hearings it got pretty contentious and all these protesters. pretty uncivil. also there has been this charge in recent days that somehow when he worked form you as independent counsel he was hatchet man and leaking information to the media? >> partisan attacks. untrue. a person of total integrity. did he deal with the press on authorization? yes. did he leak grand jury information we were totally exonerated of any charge

that we had somehow stepped across the line. prosecutors talk to people. and, in fact, one of the things that people i don't think appreciate is, the press brings very helpful information to prosecutors. ainsley: have you great respect for judge kavanaugh, don't you? >> oh, absolutely, ainsley. he is just a plus. is he a person of great character. coach k is just terrific u. steve: you have great regard for robert mueller as well. however some of the partisan democrats on his team you worry about. >> i do. we tried as i described in the book when the assault came that you are just a partisan republican. i said what do we do about this? i attracted a very re -- recruited a very well known lawyer, great lawyer, former prosecutor, but a registered democrat who had supported bill clinton to be the deputy in our washington office. steve: for balance. >> exactly for balance. because of the appearance in response to the white house charge that this had become partisan. most famously i recruited the iconic sam dash of

watergate fame who headed a democratic effort to impeach richard nixon. steve: do you see balance on the mullen steam? >> i don't, no. steve: is that bad. >> yes, it is bad given the nature of the investigation of the president. you want to that i can that appearance into account. i do have great respect for bob mueller. ainsley: how is that going to end up? what's going to happen. >> i don't know. your gues guess is probably better than mine. the two russian organization and 11 individuals organization. i read the indictments very carefully. not one suggestion of collusion with the trump campaign. ed: george papadopoulos got 14 days after all the hype. >> i think we will hear more about george papadopoulos. i'm following that with great interest and so we will see. he has kind of suggested that there may have been collusion but it was not with the government of the united states. but with the brits. steve: judge, do you have confidence in the inspector general at the department of justice that he is going to root out all these bad

actors? >> total. steve: do you. >> i do. michael horowitz is a person of great integrity. steve: is he looking at strzok and page and all these names in the news. >> stay tuned. but there are checks and balances in place. it's one of the things that as i describe in the book we didn't have with the independent counsel statute. we are actually in a better place. ed: good luck with the book. >> thanks, ed. ainsley: congratulations. steve: brand new it's called contempt. thank you, sir. >> thank you. steve: ahead, a republican congressional candidate speaking out after fighting off a man trying to stab him. >> he would have stabbed me. i mean, he had it out saying i'm going to kill you mfer, i'm going to kill you. ainsley: steve scalise is a victim of political hate. reacts next hour. ed: what a story. millions being told to get out of hurricane florence's path heroic first responders are going in. we are live with them next. ♪ ♪ (avo) help control cravings

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jillian: good morning to you. back with quick headlines now. peter strzok is striking back. the fired fbi agent's lawyer insisting the bureau was trying to stop leaks and not coordinate them. it comes a day after a new text message between strzok and former fbi lawyer lisa page was revealed saying, quote: i had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you i want to talk to you about media leak strategy with doj before you go. and elizabeth splatter tells the release of her kidnapper incomprehensible. wanda barzeey will walk out of prison next week six years earlier than expected. the board of pardons and parole failed to give her credit for time served in federal prison. barzee and her husband brian david mitchell were convicted of kidnapping smart from her utah home in 2002 and holding the teen hostage for nine months. mitchell is serving a life sentence. a look at your headlines. send it down to you guys.

ed: thanks, jillian. a fox news alert. millions leaving the carolinas as hurricane florence barrels toward the coast as we speak. ainsley: some are driving right in to the storm's path. steve: lawyer blanchard heroes answer the calls for help. lauren, as people get out, they go in. >> yeah. that's right. good morning, ed, steve, ainsley. the national weather service says right now 5.4 million people are not only hurricane warnings but also hurricane watches. take a look at this. this is board here in wilmington. someone wrote this board on pray for wilmington. information on shelters and scripting. emergency management warned people finish those storm preps by tonight because that is when the weather is supposed to get worse. here is a store in wrightsville beach using boards from all the of the past storms they have been through. bracing for 500-mile wide category 4 hurricane. >> we're escaping what could

be a disaster for us and we are protecting our family. >> i'm really concerned about this hurricane and that's why we are leaving. >> while many are leaving there are those heading. in the national guard is ache at this vaghtd in states all along the east coast and florida, which was just a year ago dealing with hurricane erma, sending first responders to help with evacuations and the flooding aftermath. and those first responders are also helping to evacuate places like hospitals and assist you had living homes because, of course, those families or those elderly, those patients need to get out of this area where they're at risk and get to some more of these safer, inland areas. a very big day ahead of these folks as florence gets closer to the main land, ed, steve, ainsley? steve: all right, lauren. you are right about that. live report from north carolina. meanwhile, coming up, president george w. bush following in barack obama's footsteps today. what he is up to that's grabbing some headlines. ed: kamala harris tried

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politifact calling her out and rating her tweet false. steve: joining us now to react is fox nation host tomi lahren from the west coast. good morning to you, tomi. >> you have to love our california democrats, right? steve: well, you are in california. what do you make of the fact that kamala harris put out this very selectively edited piece to make brett kavanaugh look awful? >> i think it just strengthens the case for brett kavanaugh's confirmation, quite honestly because of all the democrats have is lying and deception and selectively editing clips like this. it just goes to show that he is a great nominee. he should be confirmed. this is all they have in the toolbox. if this is all they can do i think what they are really telling us is they actually like brett kavanaugh and they are ready for his confirmation. ainsley: over the weekend maxine waters took to the stage she got an award she was doubling, tripling, guam ling even more than tha grad dey

bring. they say maxine please don't say impeachment anymore when they say that, i say imimpeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. ainsley: then someone says if we impeach the president then what about the vice president? they said he is even worse than the president? she said just wait one at a time. >> of course have you mad maxine and every time mad maxine openings up her mouth reminds us why we should vote for republican notice upcoming elections furthermore democrats are calling on maxine waters to stop talking about impeachment, they know every time she talks about it, not onlies did it weaken their party but it weakens her as a candidate and future candidate and weakens the democratic party. i don't know how they see her a joke. i do. that's all she has in her toolbox is impeachment and trump derangement syndrome.

ed: indoctrination going on. anti-trump rhetoric and sources and the like. we found a math course and believe it or not it's math at a popular university focusing on, a course on hillary clinton's quote, unquote, strong character. you have to wonder about that. hillary 101. what do you think, tomi? >> well, first of all, when we are talking about hillary clinton's strong character the math doesn't add up there. when we are talking about universities and professors that are teaching children things like, this teaching college students things like this and we wonder why kids aren't able to get jobs after they graduate this is why. teachers are spending more time with liberal indoctrination than teaching things very important like math. it's a disservice to the student. i hope at some point students and parents and teachers will call out their fellow administrators or fellow professors and end this because it's louisville ridiculous at this point. i mean, my goodness a class on hillary clinton's strong character despised as a math course? ridiculous.

steve: i don't know how exactly the professor's name is mark fibrini finite mathematics and talks about hillary clinton. i don't get it. ed: what's the connection? steve: tomi, thank you very much. have a great week out there in california. ainsley: reading writing and arithmetic has changed. florence is a once in a lifetime storm. steve: how do you prepare for something like that. north carolina governor roy cooper and fema administrator brock long join us with what millions of people need to hear in the next day. ed: plus, eric trump here live in the 8:00 hour. big show rolls on.

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to higher ground as hurricane florence heads for the carolinas. >> evacuation orders started yesterday at noon but have you got to be noon by 8:00 tonight. >> man arrested for attacking a republican candidate running for california's 15th congressional district. >> he would have stand me. he had it out saying i'm going to kill. >> you about the closest have in my life to i am spartacus moment. >> democrats politicizing the tragedy. >> i have had enough. people are hurting. ainsley: hurricane florence is barreling towards the east coast show nothing signs of slowing down at least for now. millions of people in its path. they are told to get out as that storm shedding toward the carolina coast. ed: mandatory evacuations in place lining the east coast. the president sounding off on the potential catastrophic damage that we may see. >> this is a storm that's

going to be a large one. far larger than we have seen in perhaps decades. steve: we have live fox team coverage on this wednesday morning. todd piro screen left is in myrtle beach, south carolina where many people are planning to stick it out, ride it out in their houses. janice dean is live tracking the the storm for us. start with griff jenkins in atlantic beach, north carolina where people are facing a gua quadruple threat. griff, explain that. >> that's right. there is mandatory evacuations in this area atlantic beach. it started yesterday. people have got to be gone by 8:00 tonight. the bridge on atlantic beach closes at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. it is because of the threat. the mayor pro tem of atlantic beach here richard porter had this to say. >> get off the island. don't put our first responders in harm's way. don't put yourself in harm's way. get off the island. honor the mandatory

evacuation and get out. >> hard to overstate that guidance because of the quadruple threat. here is what it is, steve. hurricane winds, cat 4, unbelievable 1954 cat winds towards this island. have you storm surge expected to be 9 to 13 feet. that is very, very dangerous. very deadly. and you've got extreme flooding which areas just south and north and east of here like kansaston in jacksonville. they flooded two years ago in matthew and they are going to flood again. it is undeniable what is headed this way and on top of all of that the fourth component and that sex tended rainfall. if this storm hovers it could to three days. each if you survive getting out of it is going to take days if not weeks. and that is a very deadly situation. but we talked to one resident in jacksonville in one of those flood threat areas chris stevens says

nevertheless he is going to ride it out. listen. >> we were going to evacuate but now we're deciding to kind of stay it out just feel like don't want to get trapped in the gridlock, you know. a little worried about that. we have generators and, you know, all that type of stuff, coolers and everything. it was really about boarding up last-minute windows. so what makes this is a catastrophic life-threatening weather event are all four elements divinsd. they are expecting that here. if you are waking up and hearing me for the first time if this you are in this area you need to get out, guys? steve: good advice. ed: thanks, griff u highway crews working around the clock to clear people from the coast. ainsley: officials warn shelters are not strong enough to withstand the hurricane's wrath. steve: many people are refusing to leave. todd piro picks up our live team coverage from myrtle beach. todd, the problem is if people get in trouble when the hurricane hits, the police, the fire folks are not going to be able to come get them until it's over.

todd: that is the huge concern in all of these storms. and so many of these first responders put out warnings saying, look, if you decide to stay, we don't know if or when we are going to be able to come to you. and when could be weeks away. that said, take a look. there is a sentiment that most people feel here in myrtle beach, south carolina. it is as follows: as written on these boards, that are trying to prevent some damage here, go away, florence. that said, there are a number of people who have decided they themselves are not going to be going away. they are sticking this thing out. listen. >> i have been through many hurricanes before, but i have never been to one that they say this is going to this strong. we are going to ride it out. we are going to see what happens. and i hope everybody comes out okay. >> drama. it is drama. but, you know, i keep -- i just watch the turn to see

where it's going and then we will decide as it makes its move, we will make ours. >> those that heeded the advice to leave hit the roads yesterday leading to major backups along the south carolina coast. around noon the state reversed the direction of many of its roads allowing all traffic to move out of an area. an area from myrtle beach past charleston is in the crosshairs and the shear size of florence is the reason why besides the hurricane force winds a life-threatening storm surge up to 9 feet along the south carolina coast is a huge concern. also another concern for folks in charleston county the shelters. shelters only rated to with stand a category 3 storm as janice and other meteorologists have been pointing out this storm expected to be a 4 with parts of a 5 potentially in there. that means those individuals are going to have to go find shelters in other counties, possibly taxing those other shelters in those counties as well. obviously another layer of problems on top of an

already difficult situation. ed: absolutely. todd, thank you for your reporting. official earlier on fox saying if you don't get out. write your name on your limbs. put it on your arm and your leg they have to identify. ainsley: that is so scary when you know what happened with hurricane katrina and harvey. we saw those images. we all lived through it people of south carolina lived through hugo it could be very damaging. the problem is janice, when it's this big and we don't know exactly where it's going to go. a lot of people are saying until i know for sure i am going to stay where i am. ainsley: we might not know for sure until we they're a few hours out. this storm is forecast to slow down. right now it's on a buzz trail towards the coast. look at this storm. i think we are going to see a stronger storm in the 8:00 a.m. advisory. i mean all four quadrants are filling out here. nice open wide open eye. so this is a very strong dangerous potentially deadly storm. the problem is our high that's making it beeline towards the coast is going to break down. the storm is forecast to

slow down. but, does it slow down before it makes landfall? does it make landfall and then stall? does it make landfall and then move southward? all of these models are starting to indicate that. yesterday they were all tightly packed. we knew exactly where this was going. and then last night it got bigger. the computer model spread. look at this was we go further out in time. we might not even have a landfall until saturday. and this forecast model as you can see that cone gets wider. sunday and monday, one of the forecast models actually makes it landfall and then go towards georgia. while the other ones some of them just show a coastal hug for hundreds of miles. here's the domestic violence model, one o -- gfs model.movesh carolina and then it dissipates. we will be talking about this. the problem is i can't tell you the exact pinpoint of landfall. it could be a long duration event. hurricane force winds, storm surge, heavy rain along the coast for hours, even days.

pay attention to your forecast. we will give you the latest details but also pay so close attention to your local officials. steve: sure. janice: they will tell what you to do. janice, we see super powerful storms like this impacting florida and gulf coast it seems like every year. i just read something in the "the washington post" this morning, if this makes landfall as a category 4 in north carolina, it would be the strongest storm to come ashore that far north in recorded history. janice: yes. it has the potential to be historic but today we're not quite sure if it's going to make even a landfall. ainsley: thank you, janice. yesterday the president was in oval office with a lot of his cabinet members and talking about. this. steve: getting ready. ainsley: preparing everyone. hurricane florence is looking bigger than anticipated. it will be arriving soon. fema, first responders and law enforcement are supplied and ready be safe. steve: that's right. according to the national

national hurricane center center they say the triple threat to the carolinas in addition to the fresh water flooding with all the rain and when it stalls out and the big winds, the first one is scary. and they say it is a life-threatening storm surge at the coast. they say it could be a tsunami-like rise in ocean water over normally dry land. ainsley: it's a monster. even if you don't get the direct hit you will still get a lot of rain and could be a lot of flooding. i know my sister moved her car she drove inland two hours and catch a flight to visit me. dad said get the car out of charleston because we lost one car there in downtown because it just has a tendency to flood. it's right there on the water. ed: governor coming up later this hour as well as the fema chief a little bit after that. we will be all over this story. for now we will go to jillian. jillian: good morning to you guys and to you at home as well. the five new mexico compound suspect also face a judge today. the muslim extremists are

accused of transporting firearms and ammunition from georgia to new mexico last year. they were arrested in august but briefly released after prosecutors missed a deadline to present evidence. the group is accused of training starving children to carry out school shootings. the remains of a 3-year-old boy were found at that compound. a navy vet backed by the president's lawyer rudy giuliani is on the path to history. eddie edwards winning a republican primary for a u.s. house seat in new hampshire. he could become the state's first black congressman in november. the political revolution is cancelled again. bernie sanders son lee via gets trounced democratic primary for a congressional seat in new hampshire. levi getting just 2% of the vote after his father divided not to endorse him. bush 43 looking for a w. in november. the former president is following in barack obama's foot stepping and hitting the campaign trail today. he will be in texas stumping for republican congressman will herd, who is seeking re-election. he then heads to florida on friday to rally for governor

rick scott who helps t hoping tn a senate seat in november. amazing moment at 9/11 memorial tribute. take a look at. this look what landed on top of the aerial on 9/11. isn't that unbelievable? jillian: that right there, folks is a wild bald eagle landing on top of a fire truck ladder during a flag display in minnesota. it stopped on the basket for just a few moments before taking off. incredible video has been seen more than 2 million times. isn't that cool? ed: that is cool. ainsley: you saw the flag in the video too a little bit. that was on 9/11? it happened yesterday? jillian: yes. steve: very symbolic. coming up on wednesday, republican congressional candidate fights off attack erranting about republicans and president trump. >> he would have stabbed me. i mean, he had it out saying i'm going to kill you mfer. i'm going to kill you.

steve: congressman steve scalise as you know was shot because of his political beliefs. the house majority whip is going to join ed live next with reaction. good morning. ed: does the term illegal alien offend you? twitter thinks it may. now it's been labeled hate speech. really, seriously. that's coming up. ♪

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♪ >> he would have stabbed me. i mean, he had it out saying i'm going to kill you mfer. i'm going to kill you. and i could see his thumb trying to get the knife out. >> republican congressional candidates rudy peters speaking out after fighting a suspect armed with a knife who began attacking him while ranting against president trump. here live is the house majority whip steve scalise. he, of course, was attacked over his political beliefs when a gunman targeting republicans left him in critical condition at that baseball field last year. he joins us now to react. good morning, sir. >> good morning. great to be with you. ed: when you see that what's your reaction about how months and months later we're still so divided? >> yeah. i get angry when i see that because there is no place for that in american politics. you know, we have got this great country that our

founders created where we can disagree with our government, with each other. but have you got to do it in a civil way. we resolve our differences at the ballot box. that's what separates us from most other countries. ed: what responsibility do democratic leaders have. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and others. maxine waters saying i'm going to threaten trump officials. i want to not just impeach them but go after trump officials. what responsibility do democratic leaders have. >> they need to be denouncing that kind of activity. there is no place for it if somebody on the right was doing it we would be vocally denouncing it they need to be denouncing it on the left. you should not insight violence or any kind of assaulting people based on political views especially somebody working in the administration and you are attacking them because of what they do and what they believe in. that's not what american ideals are about. ed: let's talk substance about what you want to get to the president's desk before the mid terms. obviously historic tax cuts passed on your watch. the president's watch. a lot of people said this couldn't be done. you brought the corporate tax rate down big time.

also, individual rates. there is talk about tax reform 2.0. can you get that. what is it and can you get it done before the mid terms? >> the main idea behind tax cuts 2.0 is working with president trump. we want to make these tax cuts permanent. they are working incredibly well. we are seeing great economic growth. president trump led the way and he said we want to rebuild our middle class and stand up for forgotten men and women who had been lost and left behind the last 8 years because of such a slow and weak economy. despite what president obama wants to do, trying to take credit for it now, it did not happen under president obama's watch. our economy was in the tank. president trump helped get it out of the tank. and some of those tax cuts expire in a few years. we document make that permanent to remove any of the doubt and uncertainty in our economy. ed: pass that by the end of the month. but the it in the senate's lap. there is talk may keep in the senate not the house in october when they want to be out campaigning. what is a joe donley and joe

marchen some of these democrats who were not with tax cuts 1.0 what are they going to do when they have to vote up or down to make the tax cuts permanent. >> you can't call people a moderate if they voted against giving people their own money. they have worked every time they have been tried. when bill clinton cut taxes the economy got going. when president trump cut taxes working with us, the economy got going again. people are hiring workers. people are getting off the couch that had given up looking for work for years to become part of the american dream again. this is what we go to work for is to help improve the lives of people. and we are seeing it happen. for those people who voted know because they believe the lies of bernie sanders and others. only going to help the millionaires and hurt the middle class, the opposite has happened. the middle class is actually benefiting the most. president trump wanted to make sure that the middle class, those hard-working taxpayers left behind were the ones who benefit the most and they're. ed: economic growth. >> let's keep this growth going. let's do more and keep growing our economy and

creating more opportunities for people that want to be a part of the american dream. ed: congressman we started talking about violent attack last year. you were telling me over the weekend you were with your 9-year-old son bonding time. you are inspiration you are still here. >> god has been good to me and people that prayed all across the country those prayers work and truly lift us up. ed: god bless you and your family. >> god bless. ed: prosecutor in the case is outraged kidnapper about to get out of prison years early. she may have taken her own advice, not so smart because now she is behind bars. s out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10-25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take.

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of job openings in the month of july that positive economic indicator the result of president trump's tax cuts, they say. plus deregulation efforts as well. next, 131. that's how many illegal immigrants were picked up in a texas border patrol raid in just over 24 hours. the illegals apparently were traveling in two groups from el salvador, guatemala, and honduras. 22 of them were unaccompanied children. and finally, $2.6 million, that's how much the biggest gold nuggets in history is worth. that's it right there. the nearly 200-pound stone was found down under in australia. all right. that's some of your news, ainsley. ainsley: good deal. thank you, steve. the kidnapping of elizabeth smart back in 2002 was one of the most notorious cases in american history. we all remember it. and in a shocking development, one of her

captors is about to walk free. wanda barzee convicted of helping her husband brian mitchell kidnap elizabeth smart will be released in just seven days. that's years ahead of the schedule. joining me now is bret, a former u.s. attorney for utah and a prosecutor in the elizabeth smart kidnapping trial. he currently represents elizabeth. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. how. >> good morning, thank you. ainsley: in the world did this happen? will explain where the mistake was? >> well, what have you really is an unfortunate and really devastating gap in the law. she was convicted of both federal and state crimes. but, remember, she was also claiming to be incompetent. that time, when she was in the mental hospital, unfortunately is nearly six years that she is getting credit for, which really is bringing her out of the system much earlier, certainly much earlier than elizabeth would every want. ainsley: six years. she was supposed to be in

federal prison for 10 years, right and then state. >> she could have been up to 30 years combining the state and federal system. she wasn't scheduled for a parole hearing until 2023. but in recalculating it and under utah law, with all the credit she is getting, she is going to get out next week basically. ainsley: that's crazy. this is what elizabeth smart said. this is her statement. uncome prehence cybil how someone who nasa not cooperated with mental health evaluations and risk assessments and did not show up to her own parole hearing can be released into our community. if she didn't follow all the guidelines, the evaluations, the assessment, if she didn't even show up, why is she getting out? >> that's right. she refused any of the mental health treatment. she refused to even attend or participate in it. and what we have is because of this gap in the law, the credit she is getting, someone who refused to have mental health treatment is going to get out early and years earlier than she

should have. ainsley: why though? who is letting her out? is it the parole board that's to blame here? >> that's right. you are exactly right. the parole board says its hands are tied under statutory construction here in utah that they have to give her credit for her federal time that she served and the mental institution time. so combining all of that, they say our hands are tied. they can't even have a parole hearing. the tragedy here is elizabeth never even gets to voice her opinion or to give her reasons why she doesn't want to see this individual out years early. ainsley: right. her life was forever changed. we all watched this unfold. we teach our kids that justice will prevail and then this lady gets out years before she is supposed. to say and didn't even do what she was supposed to do when she was in the institution. it's just unbelievable to all of us. well, thanks for coming on this morning. we wish you all the best. >> thank you. ainsley: give our best to elizabeth. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. what's so bad about the phrase illegal immigrant?

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ainsley: but some are not heeding the warning and choosing to ride out potentially life-threatening storm and stay in place. steve: let's bring in the governor of the great state of carolina roy cooper joins us right now from raleigh. governor, good morning to you. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning, guys. steve: i was reading senior meteorologist at the national weather service said this is the storm of a lifetime for the carolinas. and that's your message, isn't it? if you can, get out now. if you are in the affected area. >> this storm is big and it's vicious. we know the storm surge is going to be significant. there will be high winds and flooding. north carolinaens are a hearty bunch. we have ridden out a lot of storms, hurricanes, nor'easters, other events on the coast. this storm is different. we're telling people to obey evacuation orders. it can save your life. yesterday we honored all of

our first responders. you don't want to put those same first responders at risk trying to save you when you should have obeyed the evacuation orders. so, we're urging people to leave now and those further inland need to hunker down, get their family emergency kit together and be ready. the best defense is preparation and common sense. i think we're ready for this storm. but it's going to be a tough one. ainsley: governor, when we hear mandatory evacuation, what exactly does that mean? my sister is in charleston, south carolina, she says a lot of her friends are deciding to say the governor says it's mandatory. you have to leave. is there any repercussion for those who decide to stay. >> you are ordered to leave but sometimes you have people who will stay despite that order. and when you have that kind of situation, you can't physically doing is we have activated 2600 national

guard troops, we're working closely with our local and federal partners. we have established emergency shelters where people can go. and we're making sure -- we have done something unusual. we are distributing supplies and equipment across the state now instead of waiting for the storm to pass because we know that this big storm is going to be widespread, almost every nortnorthnorth carolinean has bn affected. we are getting ready for this thing. we will get through it but we know it's going to be a tough few days and weeks and, of course, there will be long-term recovery ahead. ed: you arat times like this you drop party affiliation and nation tries to come together for the carolinas and up and down the east coast. talk about your contact with president trump. we're going to have the fema

chief, his fema official, top official on in a little while. what do you need from the federal government right now? >> i talked to the president. he promised to help. he said that the federal government would be there for north carolina. and we are certainly going to depend on that. i also talked to the fema administrator, brock long. we're pretty much in constant contact with him and other fema officials who are embedded with us in north carolina. i visited fort bragg yesterday which is one of the fema staging areas. we had trucks of equipment and supplies. we're going to rely on the federal government to help us significantly as we respond to this storm and recover from it. also, our local officials as well. you know, we are talking about some massive flooding here. and that's where a lot of people die is in flooding. so, we're trying to get people to high ground and get them safe. and the rain we're talking

about in some areas it will be measured in feet instead of inches. that's the kind of storm we're talking about here. so, this storm is different. it could be historic. so we have got to be ready for it. steve: all right. governor roy cooper joining us today from raleigh. thank you very much, sir. ainsley: thank you so much, governor. we are praying for all residents in the carolinas. >> thank you so much. steve: all right, janice. we just heard from the governor. this storm is different, isn't it? >> yeah. every storm is different in its trajectories and how big it is. the tropical storm force winds extend 170 miles per hour from the center of the storm, so we're going to be feeling at least tropical storm effects all along the coast. not just north carolina but south carolina, perhaps georgia. new advisory coming out before 8:00 a.m., we will make sure have you that. here's our advisories, hurricane warnings for much of the coast of north carolina down towards south carolina. we actually might have to extend those. storm surge as we mentioned 6 to 12, maybe 15 feet depending on where the

northeast quadrant comes. in that's where we see the worst storm surge. the worst winds, hurricane force winds and potentially the worst rainfall. this is the euro model. pay attention because this is one of our reliable forecast models. this one doesn't even have it making landfall. it does have a major hurricane moving southward towards south carolina and then potential impact to georgia. so i need everyone in the southeast to pay attention to this storm system. that's just one reliable forecast model. the bottom line is we know where the storm goes in the next 12 to 24 hours, beyond that the models spread. so people need to pay attention. here is the domestic gfs model. depending where the storm makes landfall comes ashore and look at tropical models. really good agreement as it comes towards the northeast coast line and then we have no clue. so that just gives you -- this could hug the coast it could make landfall, it could push southward, it potentially could make

landfall in south carolina or georgia. so the bottom line is we need to pay attention to every single forecast. we might be into a situation of now casting once this storm comes very close to making landfall. next advisory coming up. steve: that's right. so unpredictable because there are these great big high pressure domes that are pushing it certain ways and we just don't know yet. ainsley: once it hits land and if it's a 4 now and it hits land. steve: slows down. janice: weaken but it's going to be a slow move and dump tons of rain and potentially effect more than just coastal north carolina. steve: like the governor said it could be measured in feet of rain. j.d. thanks very much. ainsley: thanks, janice. ed: jillian following a whole lot of other stories. jillian: that's right abulbasher of in stories today. including this a man grieving the loss of family members is begging people to stop politicizing the september 11th attacks. >> stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as

props in your political theater. jillian: nicholas harris jr. mother's died when the twin towers fell. earlier he explained why he spoke out at the memorial service. >> i have had enough. people are hurting. and i just wanted to use my mom's death and love as an opportunity to just ask people to calm down a bit. jillian: top democrats nancy pelosi and cory booker have both come under fire recently for comments about 9/11. the author of an essay called how to murder your husband now accused of, you guessed it, murdering her husband. you can't make this up. romance novelist nancy prophy arrested for shooting and killing her husband of 27 years in june. she has not entered a plea. in the essay published in 2011 she wrote, quote: if the murder is supposed to set me free, i certainly don't want to spend any time in jail. the term illegal alien reportedly considered hateful on twitter.

center for immigration studies saying quote twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase illegal alien citing it has hateful content. however the phrase illegal aliens has been used in both federal law and by the supreme court. this comes days after jack dorsey testified on the hill insisting twitter doesn't censor based on politics. teens would rather text than talk. >> lollipop, toilet, ghost. apple, alarm clock. acorn. >> according to new study by common sense media, 35% of teens ages 13 through 17 prefer to communicate via text. that's compared to 32% who would rather speak in person. me personally i'm all about have as much conversation as i can with gifts or like emojis. steve: the irony is it's a phone that you are originally supposed to talk on people would rather now.

ainsley: so much faster. some people they have really long conversations and you can't get off the phone with them. it is easier. ed: all right. steve: last time we call you. ainsley: i know. steve: send you a text. thanks, jillian. his county rejected a million dollars in border funding grants just to defy the put apparently. now that arizona sheriff says the entire county is less safe and so is the country. is he going to join us live coming up. ainsley: and he has been at every apple announcement since before the original iphone. and now kurt the cyberguy is preparing for today's big event. is he going to join us next with what we can expect from the new line of smart phones. he in cooperteen know, california. cooper -- tino california. how can we say when you book direct at choicehotels.com

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jillian: good morning to you. quick headlines from margaritaville to mainville. singer jimmy buffet is getting into the pot business ♪ wasting away again in march go ritaville. ainsley said is he getting into the pot business big? he scored a major licensing deal with medical marijuana giant. he will allow the company to use his coral refer brand name on a line of cannabis products. grab tissues the cdc is warning about the upcoming flu season. get vaccinated by the end of november. more than 700,000 people were hospitalized with the flu last year. back to you. ainsley: it's that time again? steve: meanwhile from bigger screens to rumors of three new iphones apple is set to unveil latest and greatest products later on today in cupertino, california. ainsley: cupertino? ed: here is a preview from

cupertino of what else you can expect is kurt the cyberguy. where is that again? ainsley: that's in kuper teecupertino. >> hours away the doors will open up behind me in what looks like a spaceship but really is a spectacular piece of architecture if you ever make it to the bay area and this apple campus. we are at the apple's brand new campus the doors will open and the rumor is three brand new iphones will be introduced. the names? they are being tossed around maybe iphone xs or would it be 10 s. kind of funny. anyway, rumored look at one of phones right there much larger. if big is better, this will be it. 6.5 inches of rumored screen size of a new big iphone. and then perhaps even a less expensive model could be coming to town. ainsley: finally. >> but expect the newer,

bigger, better one to be the most expensive iphone ever. >> that's no doubt. ed: what about the ipad? what can we expect there? >> you know, rumored that an ipad pro might be shown today. not confirmed. and that would mean much bigger screen size, longer battery life. usually faster. and then also apple watch 4. the fourth version is expected to be debuted here and even, perhaps, the rumor uv sensor on it. so it would tell you how much time you spent in the sun and when you are over exposed, for example. steve: very good. kurt, i was reading online today regarding this launch or rather the unveiling of these new products and apparently folks are all atwitter that there could be a new color of the iphone they might actually introduce a brown iphone. ainsley: brown? >> there are a lot of rumors about colors. the only ones that we have

seen repeated a lot would be three colors and the newest one being that rose gold being introduced. and what we have also heard rumored is that the screen on the two newer iphones, the high end ones would be oled so they would be much more high resolution, more beautiful. will they be stronger? i would like to know that because when i drop my iphone it's expensive. ainsley: i know. i'm surprised they don't have more colors. because it's always black, white, silver, champagne, rose gold, and that's it. and can you buy the fun pretty case. ed: kurt the cyberguy. thanks for the preview. >> all right. i will keep my eye on it for you. ed: his county rejected a million bucks in border funding just to defy the president. now that arizona sheriff says the entire country is less safe. he joins us live coming up. ainsley: maxine waters launches another attack on the trump administration.

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napier joins us live from tucson, arizona. sheriff, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. i'm a little puzzled, it's a head-scratcher. usually when the federal government offer as county free money, they take it. what is your board of supervisors saying with the rejection? >> well, it is puzzle lick, puzg because they have accepted the grant 12 prior years under republican and democrat administrations this year they have rejected that grant. that grant is fundamental to me de ploying resources into the rural areas of our county that we can't get to very often that are traditionally exploited by transnational crime drug traffickers and human traffickers. steve: one of the things, sheriff about this particular grant boost cooperation between the locals and the feds and apparently your county board of supervisors doesn't like that. >> no. they find it very objectionable.

nothing about that relationship has changed. it's just the funding. i still fully intend to cooperate with our federal partners. we have a great relationship as we have to. i'm the largest border county in the united states. my county is 9,200 square miles. i have 125 linear exposure to the international border. it's fundamental that i cooperate with our federal partners, border patrol and ice to keep my county safer. it isn't about the issue of illegal immigration inasmuch as it is about the public safety of my county. steve: it was $1.4 million, a county like yours could certainly use that what would have you used the money for? >> well, that's the tragic thing. i was going to use about a million dollars of that money for deployment of my personnel on overtime basis to areas of our county that are traditionally underserved. about 300,000 of that was going to be used for equipment. now, over the 12-year life of this grant, we have received about 10 million in overtime funding. but an additional 6 million in equipment. now, that equipment is used for operation stone guard and border operations but also to the benefit of public safety in our county

in its entirety. so to turn your nose up at this fund something just really unthinkable especially in the age where we know have opiate crisis and here we are trying to deter and interdict those traffickers and now i have less resources to do so. steve: you know, sheriff, the vote was 3 to 1 to reject the $3.4 million. how many democrats on the board of supervisors. >> you can imagine there are three democrats on the board of supervisors. we have two republicans. steve christie and alli miller have both been very supportive of public safety. unfortunately supervisor miller was ill that day. supervisor christie voted in favor of public safety but the three democrats voted against that. steve: so, sheriff, this is just a flat out anti-trump thing. >> i think that one of the supervisors made that clear from the i do ease when he said what has changed is washington, d.c.

the obvious question we have accepted last 12 years and nothing has fundamentally changed about the grant what has changed? the only answer is the current administration. this is jeopardizing public safety for making the statement to our president and the current border policies. steve: and you don't get all of that overtime money that you were going to use it on. sheriff, thank you very much for joining us from out in tucson. >> thank you. steve: by the way we did reach out to the pima county board of supervisors, they have not yet called us back. meanwhile, if you are a small business owner, you're in luck thanks to the trump economy. stuart varney joins us to break down the good numbers behind this big boom. and the president's son, eric trump, live on the couch. is that a beard? ♪ head on my shoulder ♪

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>> never seen anything like this on the east coast, everybody should get out. >> millions told to pack up and head to higher ground as hurricane florence heads for the carolinas. we studied yesterday at noon but you have to be gone by 8:00 tonight. >> hurricane people. >> arrested for allegedly attacking a republican candidate running for the 15th congressional district in california. >> he headed out. there is no place for that in american politics. >> called down. >> maxine, please don't say that. when they say that, i say impeachment. brian: a race against time, millions in the path of hurricane florence trying to get out of the way of the category 4 storm which is headed straight for the carolinas.

mandatory evacuation orders in place as storm surges are expected, donald trump warning about catastrophic damage. >> hurricane florence is fast approaching. it will be here over the next 48 hours and they say it is as big as they have seen coming to this country and certainly the east coast as they have ever seen. ainsley: live fox news team coverage, janice dean tracking the hurricane in the studio, griff jenkins in north carolina, a quadruple threat. what is the latest? >> reporter: people should listen to donald trump. by friday morning in atlantic beach it will be underwater. the quadruple threat is not only hurricane wind and storm surge expected to be 9 to 13 feet but

also the extreme flooding they can expect like it was two years ago in hurricane matthew, inland areas devastated by floods for days and the fourth element is extended rainfall from 36 to 38 hours, 25 inches of rain, a deadly mess which is why governor roy cooper this morning, take a listen. >> the storm is big and vicious. we know the storm surge is going to be significant, there will be high winds and flooding. north carolinians are a hardy bunch. we have weathered a lot of storms, hurricanes, nor'easters and other events on the coast but the storm is different. we are telling people to obey evacuation orders. it can save your life. >> you see a few people on atlantic beach enjoying the sun, they will get out the evacuation orders, people have to be gone by 8:00 tonight.

>> the governors when they announced the evacuation days in advance, so smart of them because the high winds never got flooded with people, wasn't bumper-to-bumper back to back traffic. >> the president approved emergency declarations before the storm has hit so they can get resources. >> where is it going? exactly where we don't know. >> we know the next 48 hours. beyond that we need to pay close attention. category 4, just got the latest coordinates, still a category 4 storm, 130 mile-per-hour sustained winds for the satellite presentation looking really good, colder cloud tops in orange and a well-defined i at this point so there's a chance this becomes a 5 before approaching the coast put our steering, we have an area of high pressure allowing the storm to continue to move northeast or northwest at 17 mph but then it

will slow down and what does it do then? we don't know. it is not going to have those steering current so it will sit and potentially spin and bring hurricane force winds, storm surge and heavy rain not only for the coast of north carolina but potentially south carolina and now even georgia. the bottom line is if you live across the southeast and mid-atlantic you need to pay close attention to your local forecast and local officials. the gfs model doesn't make landfall, lingering and potentially making landfall in south carolina. it will be a situation as the storm moves closer to the coast. we need to pay close attention to your local forecast and listen to your local officials. if you are told to evacuate you need to do so. feet of rain and storm surge. >> eric trump, executive vice president of the trump organization and son of our

president, your wife is in north carolina, one of the rallies, the reason he won north carolina on the campaign trail, her parents live on the beach. >> right on the beach in that area. they are up here for luke's birthday, my son's birthday. it is a serious storm and crazy what is happening to see this move to land and it is scary but they got out of dodge and iraq and a lot of people do the same. steve: you have a family home in florida. when big storms come people don't want to leave because they think if the lights are out, there could be looting. i want to protect my stuff but it is not worth it. >> the government has done an unbelievable job. they were there days and days ago, i have seen it personally, all they have been talking about, they are as prepared as you can be. they are as prepared as they can be which is nice to see. steve: we will have the fema

administrator with us. >> your dad was in the press conference, looks like psa, he was with a message to the country with the coast guard doing a good job, the governor, in talks with the governor getting people out quickly well in advance of the storm. steve: something the president is paying attention to. we are a few weeks from the midterm election. politics not stopping maxine waters, she has been warned by democratic leaders to calm down the talk about going after the president and his cabinet but she is not heeding the call. >> please don't say impeachment anymore. when they say that i say impeachment impeachment impeachment. a conversation here today when someone asked what about this? if you are able to impeach, this will be worse. one at a time. we will get him too.

>> if you cut that into 30 seconds to be more democrats or republicans? >> definitely republicans. people are tired of this nonsense. joe scarborough said the president was worse than 9/11 with 3000 americans died, her saying impeach impeach impeach. what is their message? they don't have an economy the best it has been, the lowest it has been, gdp growing the fastest it is overgrown, manufacturing coming back to this country, stock market at all-time high, 401(k) at all-time highs and this is their message they are taking? that is not going to win. the anti-law enforcement high taxes and elimination of plastic straws is not a message that will win in november. steve: the other side from you in between bob woodward and this

anonymous person the administration is in chaos though if the administration is in chaos they are getting a lot done. >> you can write sensational nonsense, cnn will have you on because they love trash, make 3 extra -- at the behest of the american people, at the behest of our country and the president doing a phenomenal job by every quantifiable metric. is that where we are? people get through this. steve: i know people are shocked somebody in the administration supposedly would talk to the new york times and say the president doesn't know what he is doing but thankfully i am in my job doing what i'm not supposed to do. >> they are cowards. they are holdover people, 3500 people are part of the white house apparatus. a senior official, people know better. look at every quantifiable measure of our economy and our

country, we are doing so unbelievably well. he has compassed more in the first 24 months than any president in history. ainsley: yesterday 9/11, your dad with the first lady, we interviewed a man whose mother died on 9/11. he was one of the ones, they read the names at the memorial, he used it as an opportunity to talk about how he is tired of everything becoming political, everything is an attack. we interviewed him earlier on the show this morning. we put two soundbites together to get a reaction. >> this year a representative of the house referred to our losses another incident of last week a senator attacked a supreme court nominee and called him a racist for alleged comments after 9/11. stopped. stopped. please. stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props in

your political theater. their lives, sacrifices and death are worth so much more. >> i was thinking what i might say for my mom yesterday. in the background were all kinds of noises, the brett kavanaugh hearings, the incident at the us open. i had enough. i wanted to use my mom's death and love as an opportunity to ask people to knock out of it. >> in support of your dad, keep america great. >> watching tv when he did that, i thought it was beautiful and spot on. people don't like to see anymore, the hysteria. there are sacred things in society whether it be children or 9/11 or our great heroes, the 340 firefighters who lost their lives running to a building

knowing they were probably going to parish trying to save lives, the greatest heroes of all. what corey bookie -- what corey booker said, stop. he is right. you have to stop. there have to be limits. steve: there should be no politics. thank you very much. jillian: happy birthday to luke. >> ice cream, what else do you do for a one-year-old. don't tell his mom. jillian: congratulations, your life changed a lot year ago. good morning, happy birthday to everyone at home, investigation underway after someone

threatened a mass shooting as i make america great again event. anonymous person tweeting about an attack at the trump international hotel in washington dc. that account has been removed. in california congressional candidate uses his own campaign sign to fight off a man armed with a knife. rudy peters was attacked a festival by a man renting about the president. the suspect is under arrest, that drew criticism from steve scalise who was targeted and shot for his political beliefs last year. >> i get angry when i said that because there is no place for that in american politics. this great country where we can disagree with our government and each other but you've got to do it in a civil way. ainsley: scalise was nearly killed in that attack at a congressional baseball practice. new hampshire will make history, a navy that backed by rudy giuliani could become the first black congressman. eddie edwards running a primary for u.s. house seat. democrat chris thomas could be the first openly gay congressman. defeating bernie sanders's son by a landside, levi sanders getting 2% of the vote after his father decided not to endorse him.

andrew cuomo and cynthia nixon making the final push for vote after the democratic primary days after cuomo opened a new bridge, the timing of which the new york times says is no coincidence. is a ministration pushed the contractor to speed off the contractor and would not be responsible for accidents or damage. he said it had no influence on the timeline. those are your headlines. steve: it is the cuomo bridge. straight ahead, peter stzrok and lisa page part of a scheme to leak stories to the press, pretty much looks like it in their latest text but he says there is an explanation. that is coming up. if you are a small business owner you are in luck thanks to the trump economy. stuart varney says the boom is here to stay and has the proof. when you rent from national...

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>> have you heard the expression sugar high? it has been related to our current economic growth. it is a sugar high. 3 indicators suggest this is a boom and has legs. you just detailed it. small business optimism, record high better than in reagan's days. number 2, small business formation absolutely huge. the entrepreneurial spirit is back. the first month of the year 876,000 startup business, and that is gigantic. 6.3 million job openings, there aren't enough workers to fill

6.9 million jobs. it is not a sugar high boom through the end of this year. we are in good shape, expanding up soft. >> you mentioned ronald reagan, in 1984 to find similar job growth in rural communities, the blue collar area job growth is up over the moon. >> the two presidents in the earlier are similar in economic policy, both dislike regulation and got wind of regulation where they could but both really cut taxes and off we go. >> i was talking to a guy in new jersey.

>> is that acute name? >> my dad used to be the stock boy back in the day. he told me he cannot find enough people to work there. there are more job openings than people available to take the job. >> i talked to a guy who runs 43 apple biz, they have a problem delivering fresh food to their stores because they can't find truck drivers. all kinds of connections to get the stuff in the right place at the right time. >> we do not have a job opening at 9 am on foxbusiness. >> thank you very much. brian mack romney manual's parting gift to chicago, not a safer city but a push for universal income. how would that work? we have details. ainsley: 56 years ago today president john f. kennedy

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>> 8:24 this wednesday morning with quick headlines, chicago takes one step closer to universal basic income. mayor romney manual forming a task force to give 1000 families $500 every month. the program would provide monthly payments without any preconditions. it is seen as a way to combat poverty. echoing liberal governor jerry brown, handing out a goodbye gift in the form of 6-figure

salary, admitting to the san francisco chronicle newspaper his friendship with the governor landed him a job at the worker's comp. appeals board. the former choir teacher will be making $148,000 a year. that is some of the news. >> reporter: 56 years ago today john f. kennedy challenged america to go to the moon. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> eight years later that mission was accomplished. >> that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. >> the upcoming film first man omits the key moment neil armstrong and buzz aldrin

armstrong was 8 years old the thing he wanted more than anything was to climb a big tree in his backyard. it is like a puzzle, one branch and then the other and had to engineer a solution and one thing that happens is he grabs a dead branch and lands on his back.

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>> get out of its way. don't play games. it is a big one. may be as big as they have seen, tremendous amounts of water. the storm will come and go. we want everybody to be safe. >> we are back with a fox news alert. the president warning people to evacuate from hurricane florence which barrels for the carolinas. millions being urged to pack up and head for higher ground. forecasters predicting a 13 foot storm surge and catastrophic flooding with a category 4 storm.

ainsley: janice dean is tracking the hurricane. >> the 8:00 am advisory still a category 4 storm, so it is bidding a category 4 storm as it approaches the coast in the next 48 hours and looks like the storm is strengthened. there is a window of opportunity to see a category 5 before potentially impact the southeast coast line. we have advisories outcome hurricane warning for north carolina, south carolina and that could extend, watches could extend towards of carolina and georgia depending on the track of the storm which is yet to be determined by friday. looks like we could have potential of the storm either hugging the coast or not making landfall until saturday or sunday. storm surge parts of north carolina should prepare for potential of a foot to 16 feet of storm surge depending where the core of the strongest wind moves ashore, the right front quadrant is what we're looking at in terms of where the storm makes landfall.

there is the track, very different from yesterday because we think there's the potential for the storm to slow down. doesn't slow down before it makes landfall or as it is making landfall and southward. reliable forecast models saying there's a chance the storm could scrape along the coast and bring prolonged hurricane force wind, heavy rainfall, prolonged storm surge not only for north carolina, down toward south carolina, possibly georgia. listen to your local officials, listen to your local forecasters and we will keep you up-to-date but all along the southeast coast you need to pay close attention to your local forecasters. >> after the hurricane hits in time to pick up the pieces that is the job of fema. the minister brock long joins us from the nation's capital. we know the storm is headed to

the carolinas and you have taken the initiative to pre-position supplies. tell us about that. >> the past 72 hours we have been pre-positioning supplies and we are in a position waiting for the storm to make impact. emergency management works best when federally supported. we have been in contact with all the governors, they could be impacted. we understand their response and recovery goals and any gaps in their ability to respond and we pre-position teams, commodities from emergency communications to water, food, whatever we think they will need. heather: what do you do in situations like charleston which is surrounded by water, when you have a hospital on the tip of the peninsula, what do you do with patients in hospitals or nursing homes? >> i think you lost the audio

portion of our program. because we are having a technical we will plug something back in. let's go to jillian. we got back. before don't know if you heard my question but we were asking what do you do with folks in the hospital? on the peninsula surrounded by water, a hospital down on the peninsula, what do you do with the patients or the elderly in nursing home facilities? >> when it comes to hospitals and private care facilities the private sector is responsible for maintaining evacuation plans and pushing forward. fema does not issue evacuations for jurisdictions, we backfill the capability to execute their plan if needed. fema has large-scale transportation contracts for ambulance contracts that we pre-positioned and activated in support of any evacuation but

largely the evacuation of hospitals and assisted care facilities is on the private owner and local government and our job is to help them execute their mission. steve: anytime you have a storm like this you try to learn lessons, lost us again. can you hear us? obviously we want to get this information to as many people as possible so the administrator can hear us and then we come back and get the administrator. ainsley: elizabeth smart's kidnapper will walk out of prison next week six years earlier than expected. the parole board failed to give her credit for time served in federal prison. smart calls the release of her kidnapper in comprehensible. her attorney joined us earlier. >> the tragedy is elizabeth never gets to voice her opinion

or give her reasons why she doesn't want to see this individual out two years early. ainsley: she and her husband were convicted of kidnapping smart in 2002 and holding the teen hostage for tween 9 months. peter stzrok striking back, the fbi agent's lawyer insisting the bureau was trying to stop leaks and not coordinate them. the day after a new text message between stzrok and lisa page was revealed saying, quote, i have literally just gone to find the phone to tell you i want to talk to you about media leak strategy before you go. donald trump tweeting his frustration saying, quote, so terrible, nothing is being done at doj or fbi. a student pilot makes an emergency landing on her first solo flight. the 17-year-old taking off from massachusetts, somehow managing to take off. >> basically i heard something and felt something was wrong

instantly. bad things happen all the time and can't deter you from doing what you love. >> the flight instructor told her what to do and she landed safely. the faa is investigating. fox sports teaming up with the royals to honor the troops, their september 11th broadcast titled this one for you was shown to servicemembers overseas, the tv crew calling it one of the highlights of the year. >> my father was in world war ii so this is a big night. >> they are watching the stadium, some getting a chance to watch video messages from their loved ones. mike -- >> that is terrific with the anniversary of 9/11, men and women in uniform. thank you very much. the story of a lifetime, florence headed for the east

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ainsley: hope you having a good morning. some quick headlines, drug executive says it was a moral

requirement to take drug prices by 400%. the chief executive of nostrand laboratories defending the decision to raise the cost $2400 a bottle saying he is in the business to make money, it is considered an essential medicine by the world health organization's. today is almost christmas morning for iphone lovers, apple unveiling its latest iphone model and they are expected to be bigger and more expensive than ever. the tech giants may release a new smart watch. something to look forward to today. steve: big story in the carolinas, crews working around the clock to evacuate the carolina coastline is monster hurricane florence is inching closer. >> going from charleston, south carolina into columbia which is an hour and a half away. the category 4 storm expected to bring catastrophic damage. steve: the question is where? myrtle beach on the northern

shore of south carolina where some people are refusing to leave. >> reporter: that is right. a little good news if you can call it that. we are on n. ocean blvd. in myrtle beach and behind me you don't see a lot of cars. wednesday morning right before 9:00 am you would imagine a lot of people going to the beach across the way behind these homes here but you don't see anything but emergency response vehicles and utilities. one thing that surprised my photographer and i can look at these beautiful homes. the leland: boarded up is this one. the rest don't have people inside but they don't have boards on the windows. folks say we will protect ourselves and our homes, what will be will be. the flip side of that, we spoke to a number of individuals who said we are staying no matter what.

>> i am in a condo and will stay upstairs. we have never flooded out but we have never had a category 4. >> we will stay and see what happens. >> we feel if something happens like a window breaks we can take care of things from the inside and hopefully less damage. >> reporter: those that heeded the advice to leave it the roads leading to major backups on the south carolina coast. at noon the state reversed the direction of many roads allowing traffic to move out of the area. the area from middle beach pass charleston is in the crosshairs. the sheer size of florence is the reason why, this is a massive storm. besides hurricane force winds, life-threatening storm surge up to 9 feet along the south carolina coast is a huge concern. also people in charleston county thought they would not get hit by the storm, all indications they will get hit.

shelters only rated to a category 3 and all indications is the storm could reach 4, maybe even 5 when it does hit. those individuals in charleston have to seek shelter in shelters outside that county forcing, leading to stress on the system on those other counties, a situation we should be watching for the next couple days. >> is there a possibility the couple you talked to who said they are going to stay, window gets broken or something, if it is taking a bead on myrtle beach they will see the winds are 130 miles an hour, we got to go. will they still be able to get out of town if they take the highway behind you? >> reporter: if they have 130 mile-per-hour winds hitting them they shouldn't be going out in that. that is the reason you heard first responders throughout the hurricane about to be impacted area, at some point if you

decide you are not leaving, you are stuck. you can't be venturing out. you got to grin and bear it. on the flipside, when everything is done we don't know when we will get a chance to get to you. ainsley: if it hits friday, they closed the schools tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday so everyone could get out in time. >> thank you very much. ainsley: army veteran and nascar hall of famer darrell waltrip have something in common, they are working to make america even greater and are here to talk about how coming up. >> sandra smith, what kind of program is cooked up for three hours starting in 12 minutes. >> good morning. hurricane florence we are watching closely, it is barreling toward the southeastern coast of the united states expected to make landfall possibly friday.

update from fema is expected at the top of the hour. we take that live when it begins. million residents of the carolinas told to get out. the latest on evacuation efforts as donald trump follows a major response from the federal government. a jampacked show for you this morning, following florence and more. join us in america's newsroom in moments. ♪ to err is human. to anticipate is lexus. experience the lexus rx with advanced safety standard. experience amazing.

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>> daryl and dean, thank you very much. they'll join us in the "after the show show". >> have a great day. we'll see you tomorrow. >> bill: thank you, fox news alert now and we're only minutes away from the latest briefing from fema, monster cat 4 hurricane barreling toward the eastern seaboard. a big part of our show today and the days to come. i'm bill hemmer. here we go with florence. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. more than one million people have been warned to head to safer ground. states of emergencies have been declared across four states as hurricane florence moves through the atlantic heading for a collision coast with the east coast. >> bill: millions of people are told to evacuate saying florence could be an historic event. >> this storm is a monster. it is big