>> tuesday, november 13th, this is "fox and friends first". happening on the east coast, fox news alert, look at these images, raging wildfires out rest, the deft the wild fire rising as inverters court past devastation across california, brand-new lifeline that is coming from the white house. >> my goal is that we follow the law. i won so i'm headed to washington to start the process of becoming the next us senator.

heather: countdown to recon, insult, protests, chaos brewing in broward county as election officials gear up to read tally the votes. we are live in the sunshine state. forget mayor. is romney manual coming to a tv near you? the embattled gig the chicago native is embarking on. "fox and friends first" starts right now. a rainy start to the day in new york city. we expect some snow flurries. we talk to janice dean later in the second hour of "fox and friends first".

thank you for starting your day with us. let's start with the opposite of what is going on here, fox news alert, one of several wildfires terry to california is the deadliest in state history and new fires are threatening more communities. claudia cowan has a look at the hardest hit areas in paradise, california. >> reporter: the most distractive wildfire in california history on track to be the state's deadliest. apocalyptic scenes like this from the camp fire is grews search the smoking ruins in paradise, california, finding more bodies with 200 still reported missing. >> we had an engine crew discover a body. >> two friends are missing. what out of gary and one up paradise. i hope it is not one of the body counts. >> reporter: from the ground and

the air, 8000 firefighters battling 3 large fires in northern and southern california. and an area larger than the city of san diego. this will destroy 7000 homes and businesses. they haven't seen rain in months. outgoing governor jerry brown blaming it on climate change. >> this is not the new normal. this new abnormal will continue sooner in the next 10 or 20 years. >> reporter: a presidential suite started its own political fire over the weekend as donald trump blamed the blazes on mismanagement and threatened to take away federal money. another fire near los angeles popped up, a red flag warning indicating extreme fire danger remains in effect through tuesday, all of southern california. heather: live report from

california later. mike pence, the vp fresh off a trip to japan. he assured world leaders the us will not let up on north korea. >> the pressure campaign will continue. sanctions will remain in full force until we achieve the final fully verified denuclearization of north korea. heather: mike pence holding trade talks with japanese prime minister abe for departing for papua new guinea. lgbt migrants four miles from the us border. the migrants arriving in tijuana south of san diego after breaking off from the caravan. they say they were being threatened and planned to claim asylum in california. we haven't updated the story in

a while but the migrants caravan with 3500 people is expected to reach the us border in as little as two weeks. stacy abrams clinging to help after a judge extend the deadline to certify votes. and george's race for governor. the state must wait until the end of the week to declare winner between abrams and republican brian kemp. that brings a response to a suit fired by a nonprofit. abrams campaign filed a lawsuit claiming thousands of ballots may not have been counted properly. camp is ahead by 60,000 votes and said it is mathematically impossible for abrams to force a runoff. martha mcnally conceding senate race, to kiersten's inema overnight. >> i congratulated her on being

our first senator as she were present there is a in the senate. >> the latest tally, 38,000 votes. >> arizona rejected what has become too common in our country, name-calling, petty, personal attacks and doing whatever it takes. >> democrats take the seat held by jeff flake, republican told us we foresee advantage. now to the other big story today, this fox news alert, more ballot drama in the sunshine state, statewide recounting in full swing. officials in ford's largest county scrambling to meet thursday's deadline, griff jenkins live at the broward county office of elections. good morning and have they started the recount where you

are? >> the answer is no. in palm beach county they have not started their recount, and the other ballots, the process started yesterday after many delays, and discussions over ballot security. they expect sometime this morning at 8:00 or 9:00 to begin the recount, that could take 80 or more hours, they will beat the thursday deadline for a recount. what shocked us yesterday, addressed us in the room and the media and defended errors she made that are in the lawsuit. here is what snipes had to say. >> it cast aspersions on my character, i worked here for two years and this is the first time

that it is the test. >> reporter: the shocking tweet from jeb bush, the man who puts lights in office tweeting no question broward county supervisor of elections brenda snipes failed to comply with florida law on multiple counts undermining floridians confidence in our electoral process. supervisor snipes should be removed from her office following the recounts. meanwhile the rhetoric and jabs between senator nelson and governor rick scott continue, senator nelson taking to youtube to say this. >> using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process. scott cannot oversee this process in a fair and impartial way. and thus, he should remove himself from any role in the recount process.

>> reporter: governor scott, traveling to washington this week, firing back on martha last night. >> bill nelson is always confused. the governor does not is not responsible for recounts. my goal is the we follow the law. snipes mixed illegal ballots with legal ballots. they have not let party officials in. the courts have said follow the law. >> reporter: finally we asked snipes if she was concerned she would not meet thursday's deadline, she had no concerns. democratic and republican in the room told me they are bracing for that hand recount because they expect the recount thursday will be less than a 12:45% getting us to counting each ballot by hand and that process's deadline is sunday for the official recount. >> a lot of room for error and a lot of counting, appreciate it.

broward county continues to face scrutiny over the recount, former county gop chair says things have gotten so bad the public is using -- losing its trust. >> first of all this is not 2000. that race was settled by 535 votes. now you have ron desantis up by 34,000 and rick scott up by 12,500, we are nowhere near that level but with respect to what jeb bush said this is a question of trust and the level of incompetence we have seen, violations of law, lack of transparency, lack of recording updates, it is wonderful people get suspicious bishops what happens in broward, why are they last on election night, very reminiscent of when counties used to way to the end of the night and figure out how many votes they needed to win the election. that will erode trust in the system and brenda snipes is in

their best to erode the public trust, totally broken. heather: should he win the governor's race run desantis could suspend snipes's role as election supervisor. we talked about that yesterday. the time for you is 10 minutes after the top of the hour and a major concession from republican martha mcnally in arizona. key elections and two states still uncalled. a closer look at the state of the midterms one week later up next. and talk about going out with a bang, the explosive way one woman's divorce came to a dramatic end. ♪

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>> democrat kristin's inea claiming a major victory in arizona officially beating martha make sally. this race one of many contentious battles that continue to play out following the midterm elections. what can we expect from the other tight races going on in georgia and florida? janet ellis, thank you for joining us. overnight we have sinema declaring victory, we have situations in georgia and florida. what has this done to the integrity of elections in your opinion? >> public trust in democracy within our constitutional republic has been severely undermined and the fact this is 2018 and we still have these very hotly contested races, the ballots that remain to be counted in these recounts, severely undermining public

trust and it is amazing to see where there is a recount in these close races the outcomes always trend democrat. that raises skepticism and martha mcnally, i think she handled this with class rather than the likeness democrats who try to say we will contest the outcome of this she conceded even though there is still a level of skepticism i think given the county in arizona and what we have seen from the election. heather: we are looking at the video with her pet dog congratulating sinema on this race, she's the first woman to win in arizona, the first female state senator. she is also the first democrat to hold the senate state since 1976. is there a message republicans

need to take away from that, what happened in arizona? >> martha mc sally was the challenger, if she had been elected and she would have been the first woman. i don't think that is necessarily speaks anything about women voters but i also think we have to make sure we have integrity in elections moving forward and it is frustrating for sinema that this shadow remains because of lack of candor and undermining of the process in arizona. heather: this continues to grow. what needs to be done to avoid this election nightmare from happening? people saying why is this happening in florida? >> two things need to happen. we need accountability for people like brenda snipes who are in office and had such a track record of not following

election law and procedure in the states. we have to make sure states are following their own elections constitutionally speaking. we elected our representatives and senators within each state given to the state so that is why we see such diversity in the election process but the second thing is we have to look at why the focus is on the federal elections and the very tight swing of power and overreach of the federal government. the states have more constitutional authority than the federal government would like us to believe. we see an overreaching federal government. we the people to article 5 of the constitution can call for convention of the state to reign in federal government power and we need to look at that moving forward is the optimal solution to reign in government power and convention@states.com has passed a petition in 12 states and looking forward in this gap between 2018-2020, that is the

best solution we can look at. heather: we will see what happens, a lot of deadlines to reach those this week. thank you. the time is 20 minutes after the top of the our. manipulation, fear, and a new cell phone. l top oh heading to court today, the notorious drug lord putting new york city on lockdown. losing a legend, he gave us spiderman and dozens of other superheroes, the tributes pouring in for the founder of marvel, stan lee, stay with us. i'm at this wing joint telling people that geico has been offering savings for over 75 years. that's longer than the buffalo wing's been around. dozen wings. and did you know that geico... (lips smacking) offers mo... (coughing) motorcycle insurance? ho-ho... my lips are burning. (laughs) ah...

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heather: you are watching "fox and friends first," comic book legend stan lee has passed at the age of 95. the world war ii veteran as final social media post honoring our heroes for veterans day. carly shimkus with fox news headlines is here with the reaction pouring in online to the legendary writer's death. >> he was best known as creator of the marvel universe. stan lee had for senator is battling the bad guys in world war ii, first as a lineman and writing and creating posters for the army. he had such an incredibly interesting life. he is also the beloved comic book legend who helps cocreated characters like black panther, spiderman and iron man and jumpstart the actors careers who portrayed those characters in those beloved movies, one of them, who played iron man, i owe it all to you.

rest in peace. chris evans, a.k.a. captain america, and there will never be another stan lee, he provided young and old with adventure and comfort and confidence and inspiration, strength, friendship and joy, he exudes love and kindness, leaving in a double mark on so many lives. tom holland said this on twitter. how many millions of us are indebted to this guy? none more so than me. the father of marvel made so many people happy. what a life and what a thing to have achieved, rest in peace. an incredible achievement, some of the most top things, and featuring marvel characters and passed away at 95 years old. heather: all those franchises. going viral online.

the lonely stranger. starting on the right foot, two strangers sharing breakfast at an indiana mcdonald's, picture of them going viral on social media, fellow customer snapping a picture posted to social media saying shout out to this guy, this elderly lady seems to be lonely, came up to him and asked if he could sit with him. without hesitation he said of course, my friend. he introduced himself, talked and laughed together like they were friends. they didn't know each other and couldn't be more different but today they shared a meal together and it touched our hearts, so many other people's hearts on social media, this picture has been liked thousands of times, this is a wonderful picture. another press on facebook said

this, how we all should treat one another. they talked for 45 minutes. he said they exchanged numbers and want to have breakfast together again sometime soon. heather: this woman, her divorce ending with a bang. >> a woman in texas finalizing her divorce by blowing up her wedding dress. watch. [cheers and applause] >> sounds like a carrie underwood song. kimberly beitler said it was her dad and brother's idea, inviting 40 people to the dress blowing up ceremony. no word how her ex-husband feels about it. slow news day. heather: a fox news alert, look at these images. a terrifying dark red sky covering parts of california this morning, deadly wildfires torching a path of destruction

is more wind threatens to fuel the flames even more. we are live on the ground up next. >> we can subpoena the final report. >> democrats will put forward in this regard we will be very strategic. >> subpoenas are coming, democrats not even in control of the house but promising an investigation blitz. we have been telling you about this but our next guest says the left should rethink their strategy.

heather: the campfire in northern california is the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history. more than 40 people killed as the president approves a disaster declaration. outside the airport near los angeles, multiple fires burn

throughout the state, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are inventory county at the will the fire incident command center. in a couple hours, hundreds of firefighters will arrive to start a 24 hour shift. in the meantime some of them are sleeping in tents. in northern california investigators are looking at whether sparking pg and the power lines might have started the camp fire which has become the deadliest and most instructive in the state's history. 42 people have died. they are in their homes and cars as they tried to escape. at last updated was 30% contained and cal fire doesn't expect full containment for another week. 6500 homes have been destroyed including some belonging to firefighters and their families. >> heartbreaking to see the

level of destruction. my family lost their home in the fire, my parents did, my grandmother did. >> reporter: in southern california where -- of it it is 30% contained, firefighters estimate 400 buildings have been destroyed. in both fires grews are working against dry, windy conditions and steep terrain but california is getting help. donald trump approved a major disaster declaration tweeting in part wanted to respond quickly in order to alleviate some of the suffering going on. i'm with you all the way. meantime, cal fire is thanking their partners from 17 different states including those who have come from as far as alaska and georgia. heather: our prayers to everyone out there in california. another story we are following, the trial for mexican drug lord el chapo who faces charges of murder conspiracy and money

laundering. trial could take four months and should shed light on his jailbreak, his use of submarines and his ak-47. he could be escorted by armed guards to and from court in new york city. 5 different countries want facebook ceo mark zuckerberg in the hot seat. world leaders threatening to subpoena him or hold him in contempt if he continues to refuse to testify before the international grand committee. they wants to interview him about disinformation and election meddling involving facebook. zuckerberg has testified before congress and the european parliament. chicago mayor rahm emanuel may be shopping around for a new cable news gig. the outgoing democrat attended meetings in new york with top executives at msnbc and cnn according to the daily beast, he announced in september he would not seek reelection.

democrats fresh off winning back control of the house reportedly preparing a subpoena cannon in a push to investigate donald trump. >> now the democrats are going to be the majority in the house they have a number of tools at their disposal including subpoena power. >> we can subpoena power of the report, we can subpoena mueller and ask him what was in your final report. >> democrats will go forward in this regard, very strategic. heather: are subpoenas really primary will be try to legislate as well? here to react, former intelligence officer don kramer, thank you for joining us. what about this? the subpoena can in? you say republicans should not be surprised. >> this is what happens when republicans took back the house but what they have to look at is democrats ran on a new plan,

healthcare, rebuilding infrastructure and the economy. if they have legislation to do what they say let's do that and not get into dragging it down with subpoenas which they want to do to control the narrative for the next 2 years. >> controlling the narrative and the headlines, how would that benefit them? >> they might think it will benefit them but it won't. this could be short-lived majority we have seen in history because we have a strong republican hold on the senate and of democrats control the headlines and keep moving forward with this subpoena cannon the american people will not like it and get very upset with them and it will backfire like we saw when republicans tried to impeach clinton. heather: it backfired with brett cavanagh. and what happened leading into that. >> a lot of people were very upset and many states that went from red to blue to red were because of brett cavanagh and democrats need to understand that was in. heather: did we want to switch

years and talk about what is happening with mike pence who is in japan headed to singapore. we have new sound from him speaking about north korea, one of the topics he is addressing. >> donald trump believes his relationship with chairman kim is good. another summit is being arranged and i assure you the pressure campaign will continue, sanctions will remain in full force until we achieve the final fully verified denuclearization of north korea. heather: is north korea conning the united states? >> you can't call it conning. this is a long process and for some reason a lot of folks think it will happen overnight. let's look at the north korean armistice for years ago. it took 21/2 years, 180 meetings. we are only a year and a half into this when president reagan was feeling aggressive in nearly

1980s that took us back almost a decade. why do we think this could happen right away? i don't know. heather: the difference is the availability of news today, the immediacy. we are in tune to what is going on minute by minute. heather: absolutely. the missiles have stopped. we have hostages back. this is good. we are still talking at that is something we haven't been able to do for decades under any previous administration. along is folks at the state department and cia have this ongoing dialogue that is a good sign and there will be back and forth. just yesterday, the pentagon might restart the two operations. we are showing our strength. i don't think it is a con job. just a little give and take. heather: and a very key difference between promising to denuclearize and promising to disarm. >> the process we are looking to denuclearize.

never had they said they would disarm. you can't ask a country to give up the ability to defend itself especially as paranoid as that culture is that is something we can't expect. heather: thank you for joining us, we will see what happens. fox news alert, fierce fighting erupting overnight is tensions in the middle east reach a fever pitch. what sparked the sudden flareup in violence in a live report straight ahead. no snakes on this plane. real or not a little boy left heartbroken after his animal was taken away. how the airline is responding this morning. ♪

heather: explosions lighting up the sky is tensions boiled over in the middle east, israel and hamas launching cross-border attacks after a botched special forces raid.

todd pyro joins us with how they are responding, these were remarkable images. >> reporter: frightening to say the least, and intense exchange of fire since 2014. palestinian militants bombarding israel with dozens of rockets and mortars as israeli warplanes strike targets throughout the gaza strip. palestinian officials saying three people including two militants were killed, israel saying 20 people were wounded with israeli media reporting the man found that under rubble. egyptian and un media recently appeared to make progress, last week israel allowed money to flow to hamas to help with government salaries but benjamin netanyahu said it was the right thing to do. >> i do what i can coordinating with security forces to restore

calm to communities. it is a process but also to prevent a humanitarian crisis. at this moment this is the right step. >> the state department responding to the violence saying, quote, we condemn these attacks and call for their immediate halls. we stand with israel as it defend itself against these attacks. the violence appears to have been triggered by a botched israeli raid in gaza over the weekend, troops on a recon mission were discovered inside gaza setting up a battle that left 7 hamas militants and a senior israeli military officer dead. heather: turning to a foxbusiness alert amazon narrowing the list of locations for its new headquarters. tracy carrasco is here with those details and potential job growth. >> reporter: an announcement is

expected today after a year-long search that started with 238 candidates narrowed down to 20 cities and now we may finally find out where amazon will put its new headquarters in a surprise split decision, they are opening a second and third headquarters location. the rumors appear to be long island city in new york city and crystal city in northern virginia. this was a bit of a twist development when they rumored there would be two new headquarters locations instead of just one. that was the original plan so amazon would have a presence in three major cities. the plan is to divide is 50,000 workers between the locations, 25,000 employees in each location. government officials in both states expected to hold events today so we should hear something soon. this is an announcement many have been waiting for. heather: the way they roll this out and anticipation is another issue. kellogg's selling snap products to get healthier.

>> this is a move we have seen a lot of other companies doing, focusing on healthier snacks more americans once but kellogg's could be selling its cookie and fruit snack business. we are talking keebler, famous amos, other brands as they want to focus on core business of breakfast and frozen foods. the business is up for sale making a $900 million in sales so this would be a big move to focus on those other brands, their the maker of eggoh, pop tarts and other breakfast cereals we all enjoy. >> they will let go there eggoh. thank you so much. fox news alert, firefighters racing against the clock fighting out-of-control wildfires ripping to california. up next the birds eye view of the catastrophic event and one of those brave men putting his life on the line to fight the

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>> we are back with the fox news alert, the campfire northern california considered the deadliest wildfire in state history. firefighters making some progress with the movie fire which is 30% contained. crews dealing with high winds which continues to fuel those flames. joining us a 28-year-old veteran, fire department veteran, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> good morning. heather: those images look terrifying to people watching from home but tell us what it is like to be on the ground fighting back.

>> from my perspective in the air looking at these videos we shot. it is devastating. it is an event that is creating havoc in the region. for the firefighters in los angeles, southern california, battling this fire, the destruction is massive. heather: we talk about the number of deaths that have taken place, it is completely unpredictable when you are dealing with something like this. >> that is true. with the winds, 40 to 50 mile-per-hour range and above, we really are, have a huge fight on our hands, trying to keep up with these winds that fuel, the dry fuels in the region and working in the interface to save

lives and property, multifaceted attack from the air, the ground, resources, los angeles-area locally, to resources that are coming from all over the state and outside the state to assist in this effort. heather: looking at these images from paradise, full it -- 42 people unaccounted for, officials say they expect the death toll to continue to rise. at the same time there are inspirational stories. >> there are a lot of inspirational stories. you take an event like this where people are losing their lives which is tragic and heartbreaking for us and people losing their homes, we are hopeful we can gather together not only as californians, americans, to rebuild our communities, those that lost lives and property the we can rally together as we rebuild when we get that phase.

heather: from your perspective you were able to shoot some video. tell us about the video you were able to shoot. >> a couple scenarios we were able to share with the citizens we serve, that they don't often see and sometimes it is good to get a scope of what is going on. a particular instance, we were able to get water from a resident's swimming pool and i heard from the residents, they are grateful, but that resident's pool was able to save multiple homes because that water source was quick for us to turn around and drop the water and save other people's homes. heather: looking at this footage, how do you fly towards something like that? what precautions do you have to take yourself? >> our crew, we are a crew of

many, many aircraft with the los angeles county fire department. we are trained to go in, we do it safely. we make a quick evaluation on the assessment of what the needs are and our priority is saving lives and saving people's property and the environment and these decisions are made very quickly. we have to make a risk assessment when we go in. it is a coordinated effort from the command staff to the folks on the ground, how we go in and where we go in and it is a very quick decision-making process. heather: look at that, a wall of fire and black smoke like a monster raising up and that is the difference between folks like you, you run in or you fly into the danger, a lot of folks would not do that. we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you very much.

i understand a key member from our mechanics to support staff to everybody working. heather: lots of brave folks in california and our prayers are with you, thank you. the time is 8 minutes until the top of the hour and an elephant may never forget but sometimes they need help with directions. we will switch gears completely, the new york state trooper who came to the rescue of a decades-old mammal found wandering in the streets. from a real animal to a fake one. tsa accused of throwing away a little boy's stuffed toy snake. how the airport is responding this morning. (brand vo) snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,628 in tax savings. quickbooks. backing you.

>> we are back with the fox health alert, cdc under fire accused of not reporting the deaths of two children suffering a mysterious polio like illness. parents a the agency is intentionally downplaying the seriousness of the disease by not publicly announcing the death. there have been 80 confirmed cases of the illness and 219 under investigation across the us. no more performing union duties at the va on the taxpayer's time, donald trump ending the practice called official time that let hundreds of medical staff is due union tasks while on the clock at the va. the change is meant to redirect employees focus on veteran care. the new policy starts on thursday.

it is time for the good, the bad and the ugly. up first the good. an elephant in the room, that if the call police got after the giant animal escaped its new york animal sanctuary, troopers responded and escorted the animal back home. the owner of the sanctuary said they forgot to flip the switch for her electric fence allowing her to get out. the bad, a little boy heartbroken after air force security confiscated his stuffed animal in south africa. his mom says the airport doesn't allow replicas 25 it was clearly a toy. they had to leave it behind. it was too late to check the snake in their luggage. the ugly, look at the run caught on camera. a truck flying backwards down the road, smashing into parked cars. this happened in philadelphia and left behind a trail of smoke. no one was injured. that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends first," thanks for joining us. "fox and friends first" continues right now.

have a great day. >> basically homeless right now. jillian: tuesday, november 13th, fox news alert, winds fueling fast-moving flames to historic levels in california. the death toll rising as hundreds remain missing. rob: tremendous tragedy. there is help on the way thanks to the white house. countdown to recount. insult, protests and chaos brewing in broward county, florida as election officials gear up to retelling the votes. jillian: both candidates refusing to back down trying to claim a single senate seat. >> that banner flying, something as you honor -- jillian: paying their respects, patriotic tribute and the epic way a mayor killed in afghanistan was just memorialized. rob: "fox and friends first" continues right now.