the guy standing near a concession stand when hit in the chest. his leg flying into the air as another fan chases after the ball, unclear, that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends first". "fox and friends first" continues right now, goodbye. it is wednesday, april 17th, rising from the ashes. the iconic rooster burst atop notre dame's fire found preserved among the rubble. rob: investigators work on what may have sparked that blaze. a new update to the jussie smollett story. jillian: him fox interviewed in the investigation after recusing herself. rob: in full matrix mode to avoid a line drive.

jillian: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ rob: complain golf today. jillian: in the last eight minutes when you said that. if we seem excited is because we got new golf clubs. enough of my personal affairs. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning.

jillian: a short circuit could be to blame, in paris, to help rebuild the 850-year-old landmark, priceless historic relics found in the rubble. rob: a miraculous discovery. a number of relics in this fire. they saved a number and the rooster on top of the spire we watched crumbling down in that video, they managed to find that rooster. jillian: the gentleman in the photo. it is unbelievable the things they are finding. a lot of things have been transported, trying to keep

anything they can. rob: the cross was on the floor of the church. they saved the crown of foreigners, and nailing jesus christ to the cross, that was saved amid this fire. it looked like this was going to take the entire church down. a lot of gloom and doom on the first day. jillian: emmanuel macron said will be rebuilt in 5 years. the fbi joins the manhunt her in armed woman infatuated with the columbine school shooting. she traveled to the denver area and bought a shotgun. the 18-year-old trip comes days before the community marks 20 years since the shooting on april 20th. several denver area schools are closed today after many were put

on lookout. the department of homeland security advisory council recommends emergency steps to slow down the surge of migrant families, the proposal includes new processing centers and faster asylum hearings, more than 225,000 family units were picked up at the border of the fiscal year. yuma, arizona's mayor declared an emergency there. rob: a mandatory vaccination order, 40 cases of measles are confirmed in the city this week. north rockland county banning unvaccinated people for public spaces for 21 days, that includes abortion as the large jewish community prepares for passover. violators could face $2000 fine and 39 cases of measles confirmed in the state of michigan, officials blaming it on a man who got stick in new

york. a new task force will investigate a california racetrack for 23 horses, prosecutors say they are looking at unlawful conduct, impacting the horse have safety at santa anita park closing and reopening multiple times in the last three months. is raising will continue through june. jillian: for republicans pushing back against the mueller probe ahead of the rejected release. rob: the intel committee vowing to investigate the investigators. >> reporter: just a little bit. the model report is not even out yet. the investigation led by congressman devon nunez on to the origin of the special counsel appears to be growing. sources telling fox news as many as 2 dozen individuals may be

implicated in criminal referrals. at issue, the trump dossier used to secure surveillance warrant on the amendment. >> there was a set up involved. if mueller can't get to the bottom of this i don't know what the report was. >> reporter: the justice department is not going be on the previous testimony he is reviewing the genesis of the investigation. meanwhile three top republican senate committee chairman, chuck grassley, lindsey graham and ron johnson demanding a letter to the attorney general more information why the fbi clinton email investigation concluded without accessing classified materials. grassley's office, if the fbi is seeking doj permission to review highly classified information necessary to complete the investigation. the memo was never sent to doj. the media investigation was closed shortly thereafter.

all of this comes before we know what is inside the budget in the mueller reports it to be released tomorrow and redacted, democrats are voicing cynicism over what we will see and what we will not see vowing to subpoena the full report and questioning bar's motives. one thing is for thing, we are headed for a huge battle in washington this week. this is just the very beginning. rob: we will see how fast everybody can read this 354 page report. jillian: now we fix that blip. investigation into the notre dame fire, investigators eyeing a short circuit. rob: live in paris this morning. >> reporter: good to be with you. investigators are back at the cathedral this morning, we can see them in their red suit and white helmets working at the

tops of the belltower is and along the scaffolding. we learned a source has told one of the local newspapers that investigators are looking into whether or not a short circuit could be the cause of the fire, specifically looking at three elevators used during the roof restoration to go up to the top of the 300 foot spire. look at this aerial video. you can see investigators yesterday using drones and the crane to get to the high standards point possible and piecing together what happened to further protect what is left. as we take a look inside, the damage is severe but many of the most historic relics survived thanks to the fast acting firefighters and emergency responders. the rooster that fell from the top of the spire is damaged but we learned it can be repaired. it held special relics from the crown of thorns, sainte genevieve, because it is stacked so hard, was often called the spiritual lightning rod.

donald trump called french president macron to offer any help. president macron made a televised address yesterday. >> translator: we will rebuild the cathedral of notre dame even more beautiful. i want this to be done in the next five years. >> reporter: that rebuilding is going to be made possible by hundreds of millions of dollars that have already been pledged. in addition, they received a donation from one of the biggest lumber companies in france and many people are volunteering their services as well. jillian: this isn't something that just affects people in paris, this is the world over. donations are pouring in.

rob: 2020 presidential run, a new report shows the former vice president filled the spanish campaign ad. sources tell politico it was posted on social media after a twitter user posted this picture of joe biden at his childhood home in scranton, pennsylvania earlier this month. jillian: donald trump will hold a rally in wisconsin instead of attending the annual white house correspondents dinner. he has been a vocal critic of the event. >> the dinner is so boring, so negative, we will hold a very positive rally. the correspondents dinner is too negative. i like positive things. jillian: he held a rally in michigan during last year's dinner in green bay on april 27th. rob: just why does it happen? know comedian, no president. 10 minutes after the hour, fox news townhall monday night,

bernie sanders did show serious concern for our rapidly growing national debt. >> i'm concerned about the debt. every american should be concerned. jillian: the money for medicare for all has to come from somewhere. right? economist peter morici says if bernie wins your wallet is in serious trouble. rob: what happens when patriotism prevails? the story behind this spur of the moment - ♪ the star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ over the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪

>> i'm concerned about the death. every american should be concerned. we need to think of our kids and grandchildren.

we pay for what we are proposing, unlike the president of the united states. jillian: bernie sanders worried about adding to the national debt despite pushing pricey policies but is it possible to reign in debt while dramatically increasing federal spending? rob: peter morici, thanks for coming back to the show. give him credit for talking about the debt and saying it is a problem but the reality is there is no way this is going to be a tax increase for the wealthy. >> absolutely. medicare for all by itself, according to liberal and conservative think tank, $3 trillion. the federal government only takes $3.5 trillion in taxes. we are talking about doubling the income tax or forcing people to pay premiums the way middle-class income people do on

medicare now. if you are a line worker at general motors general motors stockholders get a big windfall. they are not paying for healthcare anymore. the lime workers wanted taken out of their salary, $2000 a month to pay for healthcare. that is absurd. one thing bernie doesn't tell you is a place like holland for example, people pay much higher taxes, school teachers path their income in taxes unlike here. you make 75 grand a year. >> less then that you pay high taxes. this is what socialism always does to people. they remain in charge of their enterprises and that abuses the workers, it is a terrible hoax on working american.

for medicare, medicine, education and so on, someone has to pay for it in the end and in the end it will be that. >> healthcare is not free. and you hear over and over again, nothing is free. >> the american population is so radicalized by the left-wing media they think donald trump is a crook they won't even acknowledge or understand taxes of been cut. every week to get more money than they did in 2018 but they think their taxes went up. how did that happen? the point is terrible propaganda campaign and what you saw at the townhall was good old-fashioned demagoguery. this was the pied piper. it was absolutely absurd what was going on.

bernie sanders is too smart not to recognize the fiscal burdens he would be imposing on the american tax system and the budget to make the claims he did. if he is going to pay for medicare through taxing the wealthy. look for me to be 26 years old of playing shortstop to the new york yankees on opening day. those things have equal probability of happening. rob: let's get to a second topic. we talk about these high tax. states where everybody got a rough deal on trump tax cuts. i these higher tax states where taxes are very high in new york and california better off or worse off than low tax rate states? >> in california and illinois to vote for democrats and i don't understand this. all the people who live in those places want to leave.

more than half of california indicated they want to live someplace else. they were declining before state and local tax deductions, illinois's population declining 5 years in a row. >> people are fleeing. even alexandria ocasio cortez's mother is moving to florida to get away from the taxes. she can't handle what her daughter wants to do. when daughters start attacking their mothers, what does that tell you about socialism? also what is frightening is she got elected and no indication she's not going to be reelected. that shows you how easily socialists with their promises can fool their voters and that is why europe is in the messages in. france can't create jobs for its young people. huge youth unemployment.

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>> i support that. i don't think that would be uniform. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 here with what you are saying online. >> she originally brought this idea place and sparked a trend among 2020 president of candidates calling for the same thing. it is described by many as a crisis. over 1 million people will have tried to cross into the united states illegally in a 12 month period. a lot of people defending the agency on social media and criticizing her calls to abolish it. one twitter user says has she ever visited the border and talked to any of the ice agents?

donald says ice enforces laws that congress has passed. her opposition is applicable and makes no sense. mark shiny and saying it doesn't need to be reformed, but to be fully empowered to uphold the laws on the books right now. details on a replacement plan on ocasio cortez. jillian: i saw you talking about this story and i could not believe what i was hearing. this is a story that a mother shared on redit. her 6-year-old daughter went to a birthday party but doesn't come home with a teddy bear because she and all eight children that attended the party were forced to hand their bears to the birthday girl at the end of the event.

and all fired up, one twitter user says aside from anything else why would a kid want eight teddy bears? jenna saying if i had paid like the author i would have taken my animal and my child and left and last week saying what an excellent way to make sure your child doesn't have any friends. and she was crying at the end. >> the birthday party to end of all the kids in tears. >> eight teddy bears. rob: i can't wait to see. pull up the picture. who would ever think this would be the best quarterback ever in the nfl. >> tom brady, the greatest of all time, moraitis his 19th anniversary with the patriot saying 19 years ago today the patriots took a chance on this guy in the photo.

he was the 199th pick in the draft, he says thank you to everyone who helped me and i have seen the photo before, it is so funny but twitter receiving half-million likes on instagram, this looks like a casting call for shirtless bully number 2. in a 90s disney channel movie. tom brady selected to the sixth round has 6 of those. rob: what he pulled off his amazing. jillian: not having much ability. thanks. it is 27 after the hour. a new twist in the jussie smollett case. rob: text messages uncovered with staffers. what they reveal coming up next. ♪

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jillian: a look at top headlines. the fbi joined the manhunt front armed and dangerous woman infatuated with the columbine school shooting. police say she bought a shotgun and admonition. this comes days before the community marks 20 years and the shooting on april 20th. rob: investigation underway whether a short-circuit is to blame for the notre dame fire. authorities are looking at elevators installed during restoration work on the cathedral's toppled spier. jillian: the department of homeland security recommending emergency steps to slow down the surge of migrant families. new processing centers and faster asylum hearings, 225,000 family units were picked up at the border this fiscal year.

rob: we are getting a firsthand look how one company says they would build donald trump's southern border wall faster, better and cheaper. jillian: construction could take only 14 months, saving american money. >> reporter: 219 miles of border fence, $3 billion, that is what this arizona company promises to build in 14 months. >> we have the technology to produce a mile a day and if the contracts are bigger we could gear up to our threshold of two miles a day. >> reporter: that compares to a mile every week or two at the current pace, not fast enough for some in congress today but a firsthand look. >> this can be done in a cost-effective manner, in a timely manner. >> reporter: the backhoe dug a 6 foot trench, and excavator dropped in of premade steel fence. moments later by a cement truck. what makes us unique is a

fiber-optic cable protecting anything or anyone approaching within 30 feet. with radar and camera the system provides better situational awareness. >> if someone has the ability to do it faster, cheaper and higher quality, bonding to protect the taxpayer from all those claims not being true i'm interested in that. >> reporter: 754 miles of fence, two thirds of blocked pedestrian traffic, another third, vehicle barriers, the president wants another 450 miles by the end of his term. >> 40 miles the last few years, they affect their. >> we are going to have a wall. >> reporter: the fisher bit is unsolicited, the corps of engineers, and a mild day or more is doable. rob: a washed up celeb who lied to cops.

new text messages, the top prosecutor called jussie smollett before her office dropped all charges against him. jillian: kim fox at recusal from the case in this isn't over yet. >> this will never be over, not wanting to lose the entire spotlight on the mueller report week. the jussie smollett case with a whopper of an admission by the embattled cook county prosecutor. recall jussie smollett was indicted on suspicion of staging a crime attack. charge later dropped causing an outcry from the public and police. in text messages, joseph m aga ts, fox right time accused but when people accuse us of overcharging cases, 16 counts on a felony become exhibit a. i can see where that can be seen as excessive. the response, pedophile with four victims, ten counts, in

reference to the office indictment against our kelly, washed up celebrity who lied to cops, 16. a case eligible to deferred prosecution, it is indicative to something we should be looking at because we can charge something doesn't mean we should. he responded agreed. these raise questions whether fox continued her role after recusing herself, arguing fox never formally recused herself. >> i recuse myself from the jussie smollett case out of an abundance of caution. what most people haven't talked about is i did that and or the advisement of our first ever chief officer. we never got an ethics officer. what i wanted to make sure when i started the term was any decision made, even the appearance of impropriety would be vetted by someone other than myself.

>> reporter: and inspector general review how fox is handled this ordeal. hopefully that individual like inspector generals i want to do get to the bottom of it. jillian: the things that keep unfolding. rob: people think they went too far in the other direction if they are worried about overcharging him, everybody things they under charged him. rob: good segue to what people are asking and comments pouring in. overwhelming number of you believe fox should face consequences. on facebook says governor should remove her from office. glenn tweets jail should be fox's future. rick on facebook says she is a disgrace. he should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. legally i think it is not right to put her in jail but having her leave this position is not out of the realm of possibility. jillian: there are consequences to every action. rob: he stayed in the last night. didn't have to commit two hours

from connecticut and it is like took one of those energy bars. rob: and a 2 hour sleep. jillian: happy they didn't know. rob: a pretty awesome show in the skies along the east coast overnight. jillian: a meteor streaking across the sky over the nation's capital. it was visible in several states including maryland and new jersey. what do you think of that? >> we see that sometimes. it does happen. i am glad to see todd's exuberance. let's look at current temperatures across the country, feeling very spring - across the east coast, 49 in new york, 60s today. we have a threat severe storms, it is getting back together across the rockies. a lot of moisture moving in from

the gulf of mexico and the clash of two air masses, very warm air ahead of the system and potential for large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes today and tomorrow. a couple days we will have to be on the lookout and also potential for heavy flooding. here's your severe threat today, we could see severe weather outbreak from texas to oklahoma, kansas, missouri and the western great lakes. this is going to be this afternoon through this evening. make sure you know what to do if there is a watch or warning in your area. have your weather radios on. here's your threat through tonight and tomorrow it will move across the mississippi river valley. we will watch that area and heavy rainfall we are potentially dealing with, flash flooding, we will keep you up to date. and todd. todd: i am a third wheel who decided to stick around. jillian: okay, america, brace

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it is an important purchase. let's talk about drug testing as we come more liberal with drug use in this country. >> in the age of legal marijuana many employers considering dropping that 0-tolerance drug policy in california, some employers looking the other way when it comes to employee testing positive for marijuana. they say they are finding it difficult to tell their employees something as long as they don't do it on the job. new york city getting ready to pass a law that would make it illegal, the new york post reporting citigroup easing up on their drug testing policies. they would do drug tests but not stream for marijuana. rob: hang on. a major league pitcher does his best to move to keep his beard. take a look at this. >> neo from the matrix.

>> i have no idea. jillian: houston astros pitcher avoiding a hard line under his chin. a 9-1 win over the oakland as but that is crazy. rob: that is real trouble, a great move. jillian: 15 until the top of the our. as notre dame was burning youtube linked live stream to 9/11 and the sensitive content in reference to tweeting about the fire, our next guest explains why social media platforms keep getting things wrong when in crisis mode. rob: let's check with steve doocy with what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> reporter: a busy three hours kicks off shortly. rick scott in the house talking

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>> we talked about this, a youtube glitch linking the notre dame fires images of the 9/11 terror attacks. not the first time social media failed to quickly monitor online content. why canst tech giants get it right? social media strategist joins us. we just talked about this in the break. neither of us think this was intentionally done but the question is why can't this be done right? when there's a crisis happening, when big things are happening in this world why does it seem a flub on social media all the time? >> the algorithm was done by machine so it is not perfect. with artificial intelligence misfiring as we have seen here there is trial and error. that is what we thought happened here. the statement in youtube, the panels were triggered and the

system sometimes makes the wrong call, they were related to the fire. that is their statement, that is one thing. let's look at these past mistakes by social media companies, march 2019, he is the director of social media. and parkland shooting conspiracy videos and in november 2017 twitter shutdown the new york times, twitter, they question whether they were done by mistake. >> some of these cases there are legitimate mistakes. this is a case of robots and machines learning on the job. they haven't got it right and they will keep misfiring. it is not okay but the other option is to hire more content moderators but can't flag every

video. the volume they have on youtube it is unrealistic. the issue i take with this and other people is we have something going on, journalists as an example. we are a source of information especially people out there at the scene of these tragic events. this is awful with the heartbreak mod with a link to the fire going on in paris this week and it was flagged with sensitive content. people were sending me messages, what did you say? why can't i see your tweet? people if they are not in front of the tv turn on their phone and go on social media to get information and if that content is flagged and people can't see it that is a big problem. how do we change that? >> it has to change in the social media company. on an individual level it has to do with whether twitter rules

are around or facebook, the same with facebook and you said you were interested in xyz but they don't have the actual targeting where they get it right every time. heather: what would your message be? >> decide what you want to do, hire more moderators to get it right or do you want to teach the machines and have to learn on the job? heather: we will see if it changes. a patriotic ending to a story we have been covering, a california city council keeping the stars and stripes on their police cars. we will take you inside this memorable meeting. not this guy's best day at work, a massive storm, they tell you not to do that, the shocking video next. ♪

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rob: welcome back. rolling stone magazine slammed for highlighting controversial quote in a story on that horrific fire of the notre dame cathedral, the magazine tweeting the article sharing this quote. the building was so overburr dered with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation. what does that mean? that line came from a harvard supervisin professor in reference to a christian france that arguably never existed. fox news reached out to that professor for comment.

we have not heard back. a lot of people confused by that. jillian: overnight, a outsing sings the national anthem after city council votes to keep patriotic decals on police cars ♪ o'er of the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ [cheers and applause] jillian: what a moment. a council member joined heather last hour telling us how they came to an overwhelming vote to keep the patriotic logo. >> not only were we fighting to keep this flag on our police car, but we also understood that if we lost this vote that the flag could then be purged in terms of other states. jillian: critics of the detail thought they were too aggressive. lots of comments coming in on this one. object decal thing nick tweeting in part crazy that this had to come to a vote.

rob: jamie writing on stain gram there is nothing aggressive about the american flag. as americans we must stand up to defend the symbol of our country's freedom and liberty. jillian: #winning for this country. nice. time for the the good, the bad, and the ugly. first up, the good. and you guys know tyler brightens my day. dogs help us get a better night sleep, too. researchers found people who own dogs have less nightmares it's because dogs ease anxiety creating more stable mood for shut eye. rob: make you live longer too. i always said that utility worker flirts with death trying to restore power in new jersey. live wires exploding into a fireball falling on the wet ground. after a rainstorm. this guy thought those power lines were deenergized when he pulled them down. somehow he is still alive. he was not hurt. jillian: incredible. a woman accused of common

law husband after she was asked if she was pretty and needed response. 20-year-old lisa ramirez her husband tells police he just didn't hear the question. on that note, have a great day. and you are beautiful. ♪ ♪ country girl ♪ i love friday night ♪ and i love this life brian: they sang this on our show. steve: we will have paula deen later on today something you can make for dinner. ainsley: one of my favorite southern ladies. she a good cook. brian: we will have some time and we'll talk immigration with her and our asylum laws. ainsley: ask her to weigh in on that? brian: if thee gets done with her