shannon: it is thursday, january 31st, "fox and friends first" happening at 4:00 on the east coast, fox news alert, tens of millions of americans bracing for the arctic blast and white out conditions. tracking dangerously frigid weather pushing east this morning. mexico overwhelmed by thousands of migrants stalled at the southern border with thousands more on the way.

plus the feud reaches a new level, chuck schumer demanding an intervention with donald trump, the latest power-play in their political tug-of-war. "fox and friends first" starts right now. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first". thank you for starting your day with us, a very cold one for lots of folks, record-breaking cold blamed for eight deaths, the historic arctic blast closing schools, grounding thousands of flights. in minneapolis, it feels as cold as 65 below 0. thank you for doing this for us.

>> it is absolutely brutal. it was supposed to be warmer today but feels no different, still cold and this cold had a big impact on travelers. certain airports have experienced thousands of delays and cancellations according to flightaware, the most affected -- here is a funny picture, frozen in minnesota, there was a very serious situation, when excel energy put out a merger request to customers in some areas asking them to turn their thermostat to 60 ° or lower and not use any other gas powered appliances, and major gas shortage. >> hard to take a breath,

affecting my lungs a little bit. >> brutal, the coldest i have ever been. >> reporter: check out 23 ° below 0. minneapolis with its negative 28, the lowest since 1996, des moines, iowa hit a new daily record of negative 20. i thought a picture of a thermostat in minneapolis reading negative 30. it is forecast to be 36 ° above 0 saturday. that is a massive swing in a couple days. it is incredibly cold here over the last couple days. sometimes when you breathe the air it feels like your nostrils are freezing. everyone's in a while you will tear up and try to blink and you got to take extra efforts to reopen your eye after you blink.

shannon: we need to get you some goggles or something like the person you interviewed with the ski mask. >> reporter: i've seen a few ski masks and it works pretty well. heather: be careful out there for sure. to this other fox news alert, migrants forced to stay put after mexico suspended fast track these a program. it is not stopping two caravans on the way to the border. griff jenkins joins us in mexico city where migrants are considering illegally crossing into the us. >> a pretty significant development when the new mexican president came into office he wanted a new policy towards these migrants respecting their

human rights. they are having to end the fast track program after 12,600 people took the generous offer for temporary asylum and work visa. no longer offering it on the southern border. in mexico city behind me, there's 2825 migrants, you see the gates closed behind me. and the migrants were told about buses being provided by the mexico city government that will take them to and a half hours north of here to town. that is on the same path of the previous caravans headed towards tijuana, and to nicaragua fleeing the apprentice regime, daniel ortega for which the trump administration announcing sanctions against petroleum country.

he wants to get to the us to claim asylum. here's what he told us about how he is going to do it. >> to still claim asylum. >> that is the way we want to do it. and waiting for this. >> reporter: a case to make about the situation to nicaragua's government but when he crosses illegally the problem of border patrol and dhs thing to do it that way. the fast track programming shutdown and we know the caravan starting february 16th, and the other count with thousands, they will have a problem on the border, two weeks ago with open arms, they have to do something

with these people, we reached out, and -- >> great job down there, all the work you have been doing, appreciate it. as griff reports from there we can tell you about this that happened, border patrol making it largest fentanyl bust in history with enough drugs to kill 57 million people. internal memo revealing agents at the southern border found the drug hitting the florida tractor-trailer coming through port of entry in arizona. and street value of $102 million. as griff was talking about lawmakers kicking off border security negotiations on capitol hill but so far little time to process. >> smart border security is not overly reliant in physical

barriers which the trump administration failed to demonstrate cost-effective -- >> part of a comprehensive solution but not the only solution in and of itself. heather: donald trump says if the committee is not contemplating a wall or physical barrier wasting their time. and to come up with a solution and we could face another government shutdown. declaration of national security. donald trump in the meantime is expected to give an update on isis at the state of the union. mike pompeo saying the fight to illuminate the terror group is still ongoing. >> part of enormous progress we made in the success we had, for a radical islamic terrorism is real and we need to do all we can to make sure there's not a resurgence of isis and the administration is committed to that.

griff: the president will update the nation on his plan to pull troops out of syria. another big story, donald trump criticizing virginia's government for defending a proposed third trimester abortion bill. >> if a mother is in labor i can tell you what will happen. the income will be delivered, the infants would be kept comfortable, and resuscitated if that's what the family desired. and a discussion would ensue between physicians and the mother. heather: the president saying i thought it was terrible, this is going to lift up the whole pro-life movement like it has never been lifted up before. the democratic governor defended his record on caring for children as former pediatric neurosurgeon. a lot of people have something to say about this, new york, virginia and rhode island as well. federal worker guilty of sexual misconduct and get a pay raise, federal employees have a 2.6%

pay increase, it moves to the senate, blocking a gop provision that barred federal workers with a history of sexual misconduct from receiving that raise. 10 minutes until the top of the hour and as congress debates funding the wall or border barrier some new drug smuggling tunnels in arizona. brandon tatum says they have all the power at the border and how the us can take that back up next. >> whatever officiating is part of any discussion post game, it is never a good outcome for us. technology will not fall those issues. >> roger goodell breaking the silence about that noncall against the saints. the president waiting days before the big game. ♪

>> cartels are finding time to smuggle drugs into the us. will of border barrier keep these drugs off the street. and at turning point usa, brandon taylor, thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. it is very timely to have you on. we are witnessing a historic fentanyl seizure that happened january 28th. 2 pounds of fentanyl pills. and 57 million people, and going

through port of entry, and cartels and drug specifically in arizona. >> more financial back then a mexican government. even with the rhetoric in america, they are seeing, hundreds of millions of dollars of drugs to the border. and this is why we need more border security, focusing on these areas, and places where there is no wall. heather: this seizure involving tractor-trailer. the other thing they are doing are all these totals in arizona. tell us about that? >> it is being revealed to us, a lot of tunnels that have been dug.

we need to secure a barrier so border patrol agents can focus on things like tunnels being dug and other means the cartel, people in mexico trying to utilize to get drugs, guns, sex trafficking and other things. heather: i keep asking people who have firsthand knowledge in border states. and this being a manufactured crisis, look at these incidents involving drugs, guns and cartel. what would you say directly to them. >> they need to stop being disingenuous and start focusing on what is best for the people? a police officer in southern arizona i saw the influence of heroin and fentanyl. the fentanyl you illustrated before, imagine how much we don't catch? and imagine how much we don't get in control. people dying every single day. it is not a manufactured crisis.

the family of people who were overdosing on a daily basis. i was told him to stop being disingenuous and focus on the american people and -- >> impacting individual families, impacting communities as a whole. speaking to students at arizona state university, howard schultz. and not to be a spoiler, in a 2020 white house race. listen to what he said. >> donald trump is unqualified to be the president. no one in america trusts me. removed from office and not be elected more than me. i promise you i will do nothing to be a so-called spoiler in all this.

heather: how will he play in indiana. >> he is going to be a spoiler. he is going to lose miserably and wait for other failing democrats that run and what is out-of-the-box and get attention. he is going to build his name a little more before he becomes completely irrelevant. heather: year after year you see how it plays out, and a spoiler for either one party or the other. and makes you wonder what he is up to. >> throwing everybody in the bag hoping to make a distraction somewhere because they have no candidates that are legitimately running for president in 2020. it is kind of exciting for me,

but i do think throwing everything they can into the bag fuse the american people hoping they get some attention. heather: let's get the border crisis solved and not drag it out until 2020 which some people are trying to do. we appreciate it and would love to have you back. have a good day. 19 after the top of the hour. donald trump telling top intel leaders to go back to school as the media goes wild over there split. >> donald trump and his intelligence chiefs are worlds apart. >> describing a different planet than the one donald trump inhabits. heather: is the media ignoring the real take away from those intel chiefs? a heartwarming story and the deep-freeze? how these police officers are helping a veteran warm-up this winter. good story. ♪

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it's easy to upgrade. and you don't want to miss out on everything epix. heather: senator chuck schumer demanding the cia hold an intervention with donald from, the minority leader its request coming hours after the president slammed and intelligence report on iran. todd pyro joins us with more on the threat facing our nation. >> reporter: chuck schumer slamming the president with the latest report on iran. in a letter to the director of national intelligence, the minority leader calling for quote, an intervention writing you cannot allow the president's ill-advised and unwarranted comments to stand. and hurting the national interests in the process.

you must find a way to make it clear to him. a series of tweets saying in part, quote, the intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naïve about the dangers of iran. they are wrong adding the rogue regime is, quote, a source of potential danger and conflict to be careful of iran. on tuesday intelligence officials say they do not believe iran is undertaking activity necessary for a nuclear device but the country has threatened to push the boundaries of the 2015 nuclear deal was the threat of the regime is very real and the country needs to be on high alert. >> i don't think there's much dispute, iran present a real risk and they have the capability to enrich nuclear material, fissile material to have increased capacity and continue to work towards improving the missile program.

to watch a space launch vehicle. >> if until officials follow through with senator schumer's request. >> instead of listening to what mike pompeo had to say agreeing with donald trump the mainstream media has a different take on all of this. we can show that to you at home. >> world apart on isis, russia and the border. >> it was like intelligence leaders describing a different planet than the one donald trump had. >> not taking the facts but ignorance, willful ignorance. >> not agreeing with these conclusions but willful disregard of the fact. >> this is dangerous. >> reporter: dangerous on a different planet. was on a different planet when you listen to that? you listen to what mike pompeo had to say.

>> the mainstream media and many the democrat party, some in the republican party are still hell-bent on seeing that nuclear deal with iran through. unfortunately it is not a deal anymore. this is a new administration following through their own thoughts on how to proceed with iran. the president is sticking with what he said in the campaign and two years in office. >> another thing the president ran on. want to get into office, on the democratic side along with the republicans and spinning it back to the way was. >> we take a look at mike pompeo. >> appreciate it.

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heather: a look at top stories half past the top of the hour. fox news alert, 12,000 migrants forced to stay put after mexico suspends its fast-track visa program for temporary asylum and no more visas will be given is two caravan slept with the border, mexico looking at ways

for migrants to apply at embassy's in their native countries. donald trump expected to have an update on isis at the state of the union. mike pompeo says the fight to illuminate the terror group is still ongoing but the us is committed to making sure there is not a resurgence of basis. the president also plans to update the nation on his plan to pull troops out of syria. at least eight people are dead as historic subzero cold sweeps across the midwest was the better blast causing thousands of flight cancellations and people are feeling the pain. >> hard to take a breath. >> it is brutal, the coldest i have ever been. heather: got to cover everything if you go out there. this morning chicago will face its coldest recorded temperature of all time. just stay inside if you can.

lindsey graham wents the fbi to explain its use of force in the arrest of roger stone. the senate judiciary chairman says, considering he was not a flight risk. >> the wrong message that if you cross mueller, look what is going to happen to you. mueller, do your job, but these tactics are unacceptable. >> he started flying to congress, witness tampering, donald trump's longtime associate pleaded not guilty. if you haven't seen that documentary about him on netflix you should watch. special counsel robert mueller claims russians are using his files to discredit his investigation. prosecutors say russian consulting firm accused of meddling in the 2016 election posted stolons and altered documents online late last year. mueller's team said some of the materials identified people who

had not been charged with any crime and are under investigation. then there is this. the wife of a justice to permit official researched donald trump's children for fusion gps. fox news confirmed nelly kim jong un 6 testified she dug into donald trump's family during the 2016 campaign. the goal was to connect them to anyone suspicious like people with suspicious past. fusion gps was the group behind the unverified steel dossier. donald trump announcing three judicial pics for the left-leaning ninth circuit court of appeals in california. this comes amid conservative backlash over reports the white house was considering working with democratic senator kamala harris and dianne feinstein to select the nominees. two of the nominees were names the president submitted last year, the third name is a new one.

donald trump criticizing a governor for defending a proposed third trimester abortions bill. >> if a mother is in labor i can tell you exactly what would happen. the infant would be delivered, kept comfortable, recess attainted if that is what the mother and family desired and a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. heather: virginia's bill was ultimately failed comes after new york's own late-term abortion bill became law. are liberal states competing to be the biggest champions of pro-choice? here to weigh in his kaylee mcinerney. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. this is so troubling. there was a huge outpouring response on social media yesterday across the board. what do you make of what is happening? >> the right predicted this for krog, nash quite sometime that the logical end deck of the

radical left was infanticide and we heard it from the mouth of the so-called moderate governor from virginia, in essence a radical leftist by proposing this. this is scary and it -- morality doesn't convince the left this is wrong, it is wrong to kill a baby outside of the womb, perhaps public polling indicates 81%, thing about that, hard to get 50% in this country to agree on anything but anyone present think abortion the last two months is wrong. they are running afoul of the american people. heather: this is another poll the questions whether abortion should be made available, 15% say it should be available at any time during pregnancy which is what this does, 9% say the first 6 months, 28% in certain cases and 10% to save the life of a mother and 10% say it

should never be permitted. >> last week, the week of new york's law, i was arguing with folks, if you look the cleveland clinic website, 6 months, your baby coming out of the womb can exist, and we are arguing you cannot abort them at 9 months. and a heartbeat and personality. this is so so sad, so horrifying, donald trump warned about this on the go. heather: they have to be reading this the wrong way, this can't possibly be what it says. you were mentioning the response to the criticism. is what he said on twitter. i devoted my life to caring for children in any insinuation otherwise is shameful and discussing. talk about what donald trump said that you referenced, this was during a debate in 2016 with

hillary clinton. listen. >> if you go with what hillary is saying in the ninth month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. heather: talking about it in 2016. he was elected president. this is another issue that he ran on. he talked about. people, other people trying to block what people elected to be in office. >> donald from warned about this and democrats used to say in the clinton era in the 90s that abortion should be safe, legal and rare but now it is always often and after the baby is outside the womb. and "national review," shows 15,000 babies a year are aborted at this level. and many of them because of the

health of the mother. it is often. heather: this is something that should be a bipartisan issue, people are upset on both sides of the aisle. we appreciate you joining us. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, firefighters battling this fire in subzero temperatures, raging fire. we will tell you what fueled the massive flames and it destroyed a historic landmark. starbucks barista getting tips on how to handle questions another former ceo's possible 2020 white house run. carly shimkus joins us with reaction pouring it on social media. ♪ maybe you'd mellow out a bit if you got geico to help you with your renters insurance. oh, geico helps with renters insurance? good to know.

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dell ahead of the super bowl, telling the daily caller the two have spoken recently saying in part, quote, their games have really been good other than one call. i feel badly. a great state voted for me, louisiana. he is referring to the missed call in the rams game, address the controversy at a super bowl news conference for the first time publicly. >> whenever an officiating part of any discussion post game is never a good outcome for us. technology does not fall those issues, the game is not officiated by robots. heather: the league has admitted that the call was missed. the sacramento county sheriff is being sued by black lives matter for blocking the group on facebook. carly shimkus with serious xm 115 is here with reaction from both sides. >> a lawsuit was filed against

sacrament of county sheriff scott jones after he blocked two members of the black lives matter organization. and attorney for the aclu slammed the sheriff in a statement saying sheriff joe has attempted to stifle the voices of the leaders of black lives matter sacramento. this is impermissible censorship that violates state and federal constitution. the lawsuit asked the judge to order jones to unblock demand seeks damages but some folks on social media say the sheriff did nothing wrong. one person saying it is his facebook page, you can block anyone he once. another person chiming in, the leftist aclu advocate against the sheriff's constitutional right to free speech. it may not be that easy. a judge donald trump can't block people on twitter over there negative opinions on him. that ruling may be used. heather: nothing is easy on the internet and the internet lost

it over this photo chicago inmate shoveling snow but wasn't the full picture. >> a resident in chicago snapped this picture on monday of inmate shoveling snow ahead of the freezing cold temperatures, obviously cold snow on the ground. a lot of people saying on social media this is cruel and unusual punishment. one person commenting, let's see if we have it here, chicago inmates, tools and proper attire for the job, they are humans too just like everyone else. another commentor slamming the jail. but a statement by the sheriff's office said the situation was entirely and intentionally misrepresented. i think our track record for caring about people in custody is pretty solid and we take their responsibility very seriously. the spokesman said they were given hats, gloves and insulated suits to wear underneath their

orange jumpsuits. they were well taken care of and were doing present work when bundled up. let's talk about starbucks, always getting into controversy. being told how to handle howard shultz's 2020 possible run. >> they are told to defuse the situation at all costs saying we respect everyone's opinion. our goal is to create a warm and welcoming space where we can all gather as a community over great coffee. that is the drift they were given. if anyone asks why howard schultz is running for president a lot of people on social media commenting on the story saying nobody should hassle a reset over what the former ceo may do in the future, run for president or not, has nothing to do with the barista's job. heather: give me my overpriced coffee and let me go. >> they seem to keep getting

involved in all -- >> the company is constantly in the news, what is that about? >> another story. thank you so much. see you. it is 15 minutes until the top of the hour, donald trump and nancy pelosi in a showdown over the border, democrats have rejected the president's daca proposal. was their mistake? a legal daca recipients says this is like watching parents argue. he joins us live with how the country can move forward.

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heather: welcome back. negotiations to secure the border underway on capitol hill which is 16 days until the deadline to strike a deal. democrats appear determined to refuse any of the president's

proposals, to give daca recipients an extension in exchange for a border barrier. the democratic party taken the deal to protect the dreamers? hilario yanezjoins us, daca recipient. what do you think of this latest report coming out of washington that daca is off the table? >> my life is in limbo. i've been in the united states my entire life, it is my only country. i would really want to see congress and the president fix this issue once and for all. heather: give us background on your story, when did you come here and all that. >> i came here when i was a-year-old. my mother did. i grew up homeless, without a father in my life, i grew up in a rough neighborhood. despite the consensus i was given i'm glad god gave me the

opportunity, i believe in jesus christ, believe in working hard so now i am a first-generation college student working for a fortune 500 company and i love this country with all my heart. if given the chance to serve in the military i would take it immediately. heather: in terms of the daca issue this is not an issue that just began with donald from, you hear democrats saying he changed what president obama put forth so this is his problem to begin with but you disagree with that. >> what obama did was the right thing to do but the wrong way to do it. i'm always going to be grateful for the opportunity but i believe he went around congress. the president had every right to do it and say i will get rid of this, tried to bring all of law back in place and giving congress an opportunity to fix this, supportive of him bringing solutions to the table so i'm

proud for what the president has done in the past. >> took it off the table, trying to make it constitutional, then offered democrats this 3-week extension but now democrats say that is off the table. >> it was a 3-year extension. last year he proposed citizenship for 1.8 dreamers last year and now at the end -- this is why support him. he is bringing solutions to the table. i'm disappointed on the democrats, they've not brought anything back. they've been very quiet when it comes to daca recipients and we are watching. >> america said we are watching, all of america, they agree with you. look at a public opinion poll, 50% believe democrats should have accepted donald trump's daca proposal. why are democrats not doing that when publicly they say they support dreamers? this is an opportunity to do it and they are not doing it?

>> an opportunity to bring something to the table and at the end of the day they are waiting for 2020. heather: they want to keep it as an election issue. things like that happen over and over when it comes to immigration issues. they want to keep it on the table because it is something they can campaign on. >> that is why the president has been vocal and i support him because he trying to bring solutions to the table, democrats are quiet on this issue. heather: how do you feel about the border barrier and border wall? >> the president has every right, putting america's safety first and a lot of dreamers are supporting him and standing in unity with a compromise. heather: not immoral like nancy pelosi says? >> not at all. it makes sense in some areas and we need to enhance border security technology and do something about this. heather: enhancing border security with technology, more agents, more judges and border

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