the ballpark with these. heather: it is friday october 12th and this is "fox & friends first" happening right now at 4:00 a.m., fox news alert for you, the american pastor held captive in turkey is in court right now. will he be set free? we are live with potential deal being reached overnight. >> when i put this hat on made me feel like superman. heather: yeezy in the oval always, has everyone talking and hollywood fuming. the rescue caught on camera as

firefighters drag a man right through a window of burning building, you have to see this, "fox & friends first" starts "fox & friends first" starts ♪ ♪ heather: it is friday, wherever you are, you're waking up to the rainy streets in new york city. lots of people on the east coast recovering from michael as it blew through. we will have more on that. good morning to you, you are watching "fox & friends first", i'm heather childers, thank you so much for starting your day and beginning your week with us.

right now american pastor brownson is in turkish court and hope that he could walk free today after being captive for two years. >> heather, good morning, pastor brownson arrived to hearing. perhaps a deal worked out to win brunson's freedom, he faces terror and espionage charges, he strongly denied. vice president mike pence talking about brunson's case. >> the president has made clear, our administration has made clear that we will continue to stand strong until pastor andrew brunson is free and back home in the united states with his family and with his church.

>> brunson's case sparked great deal of tension with u.s. and turkey with possibility of u.s. sanctions if he is not released. the fourth hearing for brownson who has lived in turkey for more than 20 years if there's not a deal he does face in theory up to 35 years in prison, heather. heather: we will keep an eye on the developing story. we appreciate it. u.s. treasury secretary will despite increase pressure over the fate of missing journalist, steve mnuchin attending investment conference that attracts techs from around, several pulling out, saudi arabia crown prince ordered operation to detain critic jamal, last seen entering the consulate in istanbul, turkey has audio and video recordings

that show he was killed there. president trump promise today get to the bottom of it. heather: killing one firefighter and injuring several others, helping people involve in a two-car crash in virginia when it was rear-ended, lieutenant clark dying at the scene, three other firefighters rushed to the hospital, one with life-threatening injuries, the driver also being treated for serious injuries after being pulled from the cab, police now investigating if rain was a factor. at least 7 people are dead after shopping mall suddenly collapses, rescuers in méxico frantically searching through rubble of nine people who are still missing, the structure under construction without proper construction when concrete slaps cave in and fell, at least 15 workers injured. calling a gold digger a goal

digger, kanye west holding explosive conversation with the president at the white house, the parodies cussing everything from prison reform to new kind of airplane, todd piro, reaction from hollywood and not a big stretch people can guess what that was. >> shocker, the west-wing meeting that broke the internet. the president of the united states and the rapper currently known as ye. >> this hat gives me power in a way. there was something when i put about the hat own that made me superman. >> unconventional and entertaining dialogue, personal business dealings, ending stop frisk in chicago, north korea and manufacturing here in the u.s. >> we have to bring jobs into

america because our best exports is entertainment ideas but when we make everything in china and not in america then we are cheating on our country and we are putting people in position that is have to do illegal things to end up in a cheapest factory ever the prison system. >> kanye's statement lasted 10 minutes before chiming in. complements was not what west received from fellow entertainers, in fact, from it. rapper and actor ti this is the most repulsive disgraceful embarrassing act of desperationing and auctioning off of one soul to gain power i have ever seen. at one time it was a pleasure to work along side, now i'm ashamed to have ever been associated with you. but really, ti, what you think? chelsea handler tweeting, kanye west says he thinks of trump as a father, guess who doesn't think of kanye as a son, and

chelsea perety, collective who, hell on earth, kanye's relationship with source had been major source of criticism in hip-hop community comes in heels of kanye's wife kim kardashian sitting down to get clemency to a grandmother that got life sentence or drug charges, heather. heather: amazing things on the meeting, main ones for me was that the president let him go on 10 minutes before he interrupted him and had something to see. >> when you have seen that ever? heather: i know. fox business alert for you, the stock market getting rattled once again hitting stretch, the dow jones dropping 545 points, tech company shares, apple, netflix not able to rebounded.

experts blame rise on interest rates. senator mcconnell is attempt to go get $5 billion for the border wall by the end of the year, senate majority leader telling washington examiner that the senate wants to up the $1.6 million previously approved after the midterms, now, currently the wall funds are part of the homeland security budget which expires mid-december, some democrats already plan to go shut down that proposal. president trump is taking to ohio for third america america great again rally this week, he's expected to stomp for republican jim renacey, is facing democratic incumbent brown in a tight senate race and the president will rally at eastern kentucky university tomorrow. he's opinion very fussy. super bowl champs helping 34-13

victory over struggling new york giants. fourth straight time the eagles have beat the giants, their division rival. well, the time oh is 8 minutes until the top of the hour, hurricane michael destroyed an entire town left in splinters after the damage. plus, the founder of the firm that put together the dirty antitrump dossier pleading the fifth, should congress subpoena him to get answers, attorney david bruno live to break down all of the legal actions, good morning, how are you? and kid rock, we have too talk about that too going viral for shutting down a reporter, stay with us.

heather: fusion gps cofounder said to plea the fifth as house committees continue demanding answers on antitrump dossier. the committee's inquiry is not design toddies cover the truth. the obvious goal of this committee to discredit and otherwise damage witnesses to russia's interference in 2016 election. despite simpson unwillingness to cooperate, should congress subpoena him to answer questions, here to weigh in criminal defense attorney david bruno, thank you so much for joining us, we certainly appreciate it. >> good morning. heather: simpson has testified before senate judiciary committees, he's say nothing-go to this one. >> that's why it's surprising, he's given statement twice under oath, now what has happened is bruce ohr has testified

inconsistently with glen simpson, that's the issue, he said he met with bruce ohr after the election, ohr says no it was before and after, so that misrepresentation, the perjure statement could bring criminal liability. this is about the fact that glen simpson could be in trouble. heather: he did not tell committees that he met nelly ohr, bruce ohr's wife who is apparently going to testify next week possibly. >> right. there's a reason for this, you don't take the fifth, you've got problems. attorney is giving advise for good reason. heather: should he be subpoenaed? >> he should be subpoenaed, should be brought before the committee and he could then take the fifth publicly.

in that event, the congress can get immunity if they wanting to down that route or try to hold him in contempt if they do not believe he's appropriately invoking the fifth amendment. heather: give him immunity -- >> that's not what they are going to do. if you get immunity, you can't plea the fifth, you lost potential for criminal liability and you can be compelled. i don't see them doing that. i think they'll dispute the fifth and say you're not taking the fifth for legal reasons, could take that to district court and challenge him by holding him in contempt. heather: let's talk about the other thing that's going on, deputy director andrew mccabe and deputy attorney general rosenstein apparently fighting over recusals and what this tension means for ongoing investigation, so one saying to the other back and forth in this meeting apparently that, you

know, you should recuse yourself from mueller investigation, oh, no, you should recuse yourself from mule e investigation. >> it's being reported as angry tension as well and provides context to the issue about the wire-tapping conversation. apparently that was during the same meeting where rod rosenstein says it was made in jest, right, that's what the president said yesterday, he was surprised that rod rosenstein canceled his meetings and even rudy giuliani said -- heather: those were suppose to happen yesterday. >> right. fbi general counsel james baker testified, cooperating with the committee and said no, it wasn't in jest, two people in the meeting, probably one being mccabe, no, that was a serious comment about wiretapping the president and invoking the 25th, this provides context to those specific comments and also provides gasoline on the arguments that rod rosenstein

should have rescued himself. heather: that the mueller investigation should never have begun with? >> not necessarily. arguments are that because he wrote the memo about firing comey that he shouldn't be a part of it, right, that is the dispute that apparently rosenstein had with mccabe during the early parts. heather: you are rod rosenstein if he had rescued himself, where would we have gone? >> yeah, who knows? there would have been someone else. heather: goodness. >> should have came early enough maybe mueller wasn't even appointed. that was a may 17th appointment. if these conversations occurred before then he would not have had the authority to appointment mueller. heather: could change everything.

it's been a long time and cost a lot of money so far with no answers really. thank you so much, david-appreciate it, have a great weekend. time now is about 17 minutes after the top of the hour, people returning home to ruins after an entire town is just wiped away by hurricane michael. >> it would be a long time before it was what it was in the past. heather: griff jenkins, shares personal connection live with us up next and -- and you see them give out big money on wheel of fortune and now pat is giving out political advice, his miami to voters ahead of midterms. place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

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heather: welcome back, you're watching "fox & friends first", total devastation in parts of florida, it could take months to clean up from hurricane michael in the panhandle, griff jenkins surveying the damage 500 feet in the air and joining us live from tallahassee and understand that you have a personal connection to the hard-hit area, what is that? griff: i, do heather, good morning, i'm sitting in tallahassee, one of many dozens of roads obstructed from wind damage by hurricane michael but paled to comparison in mexico beach, i grew up playing in the beach in dustin nearby mexico beach, it was heart wrenching, take a look. quite something to see having covered a lot of hurricanes, this is definitely the worst wind damage i have seen in a

small ocean-front town. it's unbelievable. looks like something that i've only seen in tornadoes in rural oklahoma, this whole beach -- entire houses literally lifted, the foundations we are looking at, house that is used to be ocean front, some of the best profit in mexico beach thrown a black or more back and completely turned upside down, an entirely empty lot where dozens of houses, the boats torn, absolutely crushed in every possible way here. you can see where the storm surge came in this channel but you can really see the wind damage that just got everything in his path.

that was one of the hardest i've had to take. people won't be coming to mexico beach for a long time. slice of heaven for so many families, it is tough to see the devastation there. i mentioned the oklahoma tornado, my camera man john wallace were in oklahoma, winds of 210 miles peak winds but such a small quick touchdown, this is equivalent tornado coming on a very large area, of course, you see the damage there, heather. heather: it really is devastating, i understand they are still going home to home. a lot still yet to discover in terms of the devastation from hurricane michael. thank you so much, appreciate it, griff. has done a lot of work for us out there. seems wheel of fortune host pat

may be taken jab at celebrity friends, i would encourage you to vote next month but if you need a game show host to remind you then you probably shouldn't. that tweet coming a few days after taylor swift, of course, broke her political silence on instagram encouraging followers to vote and bashing tennessee republican senate candidate marsha blackburn. kidd rock at the white house shutting down reporters as he heads inside. listen. >> should trump fire jeff sessions? >> he should fire you. [laughter] heather: signing for modernization act, the new law strengths copyright laws. quite a sight at the white house for sure. 25 minutes after the top of the hour, urgent terror warning from the fbi, terrorists are planning

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heather: we are back with extreme weather, at least 6 people confirmed dead in the wake of hurricane michael, it's now a tropical storm carving a new path of destruction through the carolinas, jonathan in panamá beach, florida, searching and rescue operations are underway. good morning, jonathan. >> good morning, heather, a lot of damage to swift through, right now i'm standing in front of dry dock facility that suffered heavy damages with the power out it's dark, hard to

see, take a look at video that we shot during daylight yesterday showing metal structure with recreational boats crushed like soda cans, governor rick scott has opened governor's mansion to assist and coordinating federal crews to clear debris for utility workers to get in and restore power to more than 373. >> you know, it's woody out there, a lot of trees down, you still see a lot of trees down. what you say morning until i got there, there's been a lot of stuff cleaned up. >> even if the storm moved well inland that caused power outages, what started as florida impact has become a regional emergency, fema administrator brock long explaining what his

agency is doing to mitigate the impact. >> my priority is saving lives right now and do what we can after this pushes through. >> driving conditions are still dangerous with down trees, power lines and other debris, police are enforcing a dusk to dawn curfew in this part of florida, heather. heather: far from over. i have family in the carolinas, they are dealing with massive power outages and flooding and down trees and things as well. moved out quickly but left destruction, thank you so much, jonathan. how about other fox news alert for you, breaking overnight, american pastor andrew brunson in turkish courtroom, hope that he could walk free today after being held captive for more than 2 years, vice president mike pence says the administration is fight to go free him. >> we remain hopeful that turkey will see its way clear to free this good man who is guilty of

nothing who has been incarcerated now for several years in turkey unjustly and we will continue to stand strong until pastor brunson is free. heather: pastor brunson arrested in 2013 after living there for more than 20 years, has been living on house arrest. that was a quick fight, surprising remark -- flight, that was a quick flight the remark from russian after rocket booster failed moments after takeoff. the russian along with american astronaut nick forced to turn back to earth and nearly 7 times force of gravity as, the powerful photo showing the men embracing their families safe on the ground. russia opening a criminal

investigation into the failure and apparently that happened within 3 minutes of takeoff they were back, glad they made it back safely. vietnam war pilot will be laid to rest 53 years after he went missing, navy reserve commander will be buried during private ceremony at the texas state veteran cemetery disappeared while flying jet during vietnam war combat mission, remains were discovered last year by a forensic team in vietnam. pose escalating threat to the u.s., chilling new threat from the fbi, so how is the government work to go protect americans against this rising threat, here now to weigh in former cia station chief and fox news contributor daniel hoffman, thank you so much for joining us. saw you late last night as well. >> yeah. [laughter] >> good to be back so soon.

heather: we appreciate it. this is what the fbi directer christopher wray had to say, terrorist groups could export experiences to use weponized unmanned outside of conflict zones, what i really we wanted to get to which we didn't have there he said that they would be using the given retail availability, their lack of verified identification requirements to procure and their general ease of use, so you expect that he's correct in all of this, that that is the reason these will be used more frequently? >> yeah, i mean, first, we have been detecting terrorist use of drones in iraq, for example, in ramadi, in mosul originally they were for surveillance purposes, they could take video of suicide bomb attacks and post them and

hezbollah has been using, drones born women proviced to target venezuelan president maduro when given a speech. the technology has migrated out of war zones along with people who have left growing threats to the rest of the world and have become available for use and it is a challenge, i think, tactically the way that we get out of this is to disrupt the energy in the drones so you disrupt deviation device. we have to penetrate the networks and cyber -- heather: how do we do that? we have even here in the united states, the individual in massachusetts who was sentenced to what, 12 years or 17 years i should say for attempt to go attack the pentagon and the capital using these jet powered model planes.

>> that was a prototype case and i will tell you i'm from massachusetts, i'm familiar with the case. that was outstanding state, local law enforcement work getting out into the networks and determining that this individual was a threat, he thought he was selling the technology to al-qaeda when, in fact, it was fbi under cover agents, that's how you do it. it's old-fashion detective work coupled with intelligence community collecting intelligence for which we rely. this is another arrow and we need to make sure that we don't make mistakes, right now we are seeing ourselves tracking these threats and it's a growing threat that we need to be aware of, i would highlight for folks, this is why we say see something say something. heather: that being said, let's move to this, that's what happened with the new york man who was arrested for planning election day suicide bombing,

how did this become a reality in america? 200-pound explosive, they spent all day wednesday disarming it and removing it from his home, basement? >> we see terrorist posting on the internet simple introductions on how to build very powerful bombs, explosive devices with commercially available ingredients and so you might see terrorists using those, taking advantage of those introductions or in this case a lone wolf criminal doing the same thing and that in itself greatly disconcerting to us but again, we are seeing our state, local and federal law enforcement getting out and making the arrests and stopping the threats before they occur. truly difficult with lone wolf. that in my experience the most difficult target to apprehend. if they're alone without network of support and they are getting

the information they get off the internet, very tricky to track them. heather: election day doing suicide bombing on national mall, so thankful for law enforcement community who were able to track this stuff down and put in the work that it takes to catch them. dan, thank you so much for joining us this morning, appreciate it. >> thank you. heather: time now is 20 minutes until the top of the hour, not everyone is drinking hillary clinton's kool-aid this time around, the district that she won in a landslide now dead-heat race in march to midterms. and heart-stopping rescue caught on cameras as firefighters drag a man right through the window of a burning building

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two additional ambulances. heather: welcome back, look at daring rescue caught on camera, firefighters cutting a hole through the side of a burning abandoned home in pouring rain in california. well, they spotted a homeless man's hand sticking out of a crawl space, that's where he was trying to hide from the smoke, firefighters eventually pulling him to safety taking him to hospital where he was later released. it is unclear how that fire started, but, wow, that was remarkable. now, the terrifying crash caught on camera, watch as a semitruck barrels down a road and blows to stop sign, blowing over to supporting good store, this happened in utah, later dieing from injuries, the driver a witness claiming the truck's braking were glowing and smoking before the crash, the official cause of the accident under investigation. fox business for you, stock

market rattled once again after falling 500 points, worst two-day stretch in 8 months, tracee carrasco from sister network fox business here with more on the big drop and what investors are saying caused it, good morning, tracee. tracee: yes, good morning, heather, we saw another selloff adding to wednesday's losses, take a look at the numbers, the dow fell 545 points, biggest decline since february, also down about 1300 points for week, the s&p 500 losing 57 points yesterday to post another decline as well, 6-day losing streak, nasdaq down 92 points, tech stocks once again hammered apple, alphabet and netflix. right now they are looking at futures, we are seeing maybe a comeback, futures pointing up this morning. heather: all right, so maybe some luck there. tracee: yes.

heather: maybe luck here, we have been talking about mega millions drawing tonight. tracee: yeah, we talked about it earlier this week, there's still a chance to win, the mega millions and powerball jackpots combined total $850 million, tonight is the mega millions dollar drawing, $548 million, tomorrow the powerball drawing, 314 million, odds still not great, though, to win the mega millions your odds 302.5 million, in and powerball 1 in 292.2 million. heather: if you don't buy a ticket your chances are zip. i haven't bought a ticket. tracee: if we are not here on monday, maybe that means we won. heather: yeah, thanks, tracee, 15 minutes until the top of the hour, the west wing has a whole new meaning this morning, kanye west this morning in oval office in unscripted free-style meeting with president trump.

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heather: welcome back, you're watching "fox & friends first", republican senate candidate using the census to blast democratic opponent missouri state attorney general josh holy accusing senator claire mccaskill putting party before constituents, asked about citizenship status, holy saying in an interview, quote, places like california and new york that have greater numbers of illegal immigrants, they are going to end up with more representation and will lose

seats, she's fine with that, though, that just strikes people in missouri as craziness, they just don't understand it, i don't understand it. the two are facing off in a close race that could determine party control of the senate. democrat is demanding tv stations pull political ad off the air, andrew gillum sending cease and desist letter, republican ron desantis linking gillum to fbi probe in tallahassee hall where gillum is mayor and gillum is threatening legal action if the ad is not removed for his republican stands by the ad. heather: it isn't easy to up stage president trump but can yeah west stole the show in oval office using spotlight to call for more jobs in chicago. >> chicago is the core of middle america, we have to make middle

america strong. we are going to need to get a new breaks, 9 million throughout suburbs, we can create factories. heather: could he help get it done in a brand-new op-ed our next guest writes that don't underestimate kanye and trump, the rapper could successfully deliver for forgotten black communities, patrice joins us to talk more about, this thank you so much for joining us. >> no, problem, heather. heather: i want your reaction to the scene in the oval office between kanye west and president trump? >> it was colorful and you know what there needs to be work done, the past solutions have not worked, let's try something different which is work with the trump administration, i thought it was entertaining and optimistic. heather: patrick, in terms of

what he was focusing on, jobs, get more jobs in there and you'll have less crime to deal with, and that was his basic message. >> yeah, what's interesting is that in 2017 black unemployment was 15% in chicago but it city e 13%. so the question is how do you bring opportunities to some of those communities that have been left behind where as the city is doing so well, he pointed very smartly to manufacturing, chicago used to be a manufacturing town with mills and they are providing great working-class for the black communities, stimulus provided new opportunities from construction workers to hair dressers, so i think in trying to get president trump to focus some attention on bringing manufacturing to chicago, that could be a way of bringing opportunities to those communities that have been left behind. i talked to radio host in the city who said, you know what, we

are not feeling the job's growth that the rest of the city is and the rest of the nation is, maybe this is the way to get it done. heather: how what do you think of other media outlet who is are bordering on racism the way they are dealing and talking about kanye west and the meeting that was taking place? >> it was interesting to see a certain panel on another news network where they called him everything from uneducated to antiintellectual, i think it's dismissive but i think it's also exposes fear, fear that maybe by leaving behind progressive policies and embracing progrowth strategies, tax cuts and opportunities that it's actually going to lift the black community and move them from dependence from government programs to independence, you are table to take skills, find work or create work for yourself and the community. heather: it really is remarkable the difference and how the media

is talking about kanye west, you know, before he was like this visionary and this great businessman and now they are trying to, you know, take away his legitimacy because he wants to work with president trump, he also worked with the democratic state representative there in chicago to talk about what needs to be done, we don't hear so much about that meeting, though, all day long they met. >> that's right, i mean, here are some of the things, in addition to jobs for chicago, he talked about changing education so that students are learning in a different way, you know, he talked about being a leader in the auto industry to bring flying cars to the united states, there's nothing wrong in investing technology, there's nothing wrong in being leader, global leader, some of the ideas, i saw headlines that called it a disaster, i think it's really him saying, hey, we need to continue to unleash the opportunity and the intellectualism or the brightened ideas in this country and not be limited by just the

old ideas and the old ways of doing things especially if you're a person of color in this country. heather: all right, patrice, i think a conversation never hurts. really appreciate you joining us, thank you, have a great weekend. >> you too. >> time now 8 minutes until the top of the hour and this is something you definitely don't see every day, what this alpaca is doing on the streets of new york city, stay with us

heather: seems like hillary clinton can't stop taking digs at president trump. the failed presidential candidate firing back after the president said she colluded with russia during 2016 election, clinton tweeting, quote, seriously, you asked russia to hack me on national television, comments despite a recent gallup showing favorability rating at all-time low of 36%, another poll shows bad news for democrats in a district clinton won by nearly 20 points in the 2016 election, democrat dona is trailing republican maria salazar in florida's 27th district, mason dixon poll giving salazar 2-point lead, the former clinton foundation president and with president

clinton's hh secretary. well, time now for the good, the bad and the ugly and we begin with the good this morning, this preschool morning ritual is the best thing you'll see all day. >> a fist pump or a smile. heather: every day the students in alabama line up to say hello to designated greeter with lugs, high 5s and fist bumps to help build people skills. now the bad, buffalo bills fan takes jab from the grave, 83-year-old lee merkel, long-time season holder, on ware says this, they can let him down one last time. and then finally, the ugly, alpaca holds up traffic in new york city, the animal named

alfalfa run get away from handler after visiting middle school, took 5 minutes to capture him and i think alfafa is just fine. this wraps up first hour of "fox & friends first", "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye bye. rob: all right, friday october 12th, fox news alert, american pastor andrew brunson inside turkish courtroom at this hour and could soon walk out a freeman. jillian: more dark days ahead for the sunshine state as clean-up begins in the wake of hurricane michael. rob will be griff jenkins takes on chopper ride up above for exclusive look at the devastation. >> i can be blunt about taking a knee, i don't think that we should take knees in protest instead of just standing up for