this shortened season. >> how did that happen? what a change. todd: we don't have time to get into the yankees. we appreciate your time this morning mr. mayor. jillian: thank you for joining us. have a good day. fox and friends starts right now. and happy birthday jillian. todd: sally turns deadly devastating the gulf coast. >> we have gotten reports of rainfall totals exceeding 2 feet. >> everything is under water. >> very close to that vaccination seen as you know. >> i trust vaccines but i don't trust donald trump. >> what's happening that people don't understand there is a data safety monitoring board of outside experts that are the only ones that are looking at the data. >> likely push past president biden in a progressive election. >> she is saying what a lot in the left wing believe. >> minneapolis city council members uptick in crime two months after moving to eliminate

the police department. >> and the winner of the amc entertainer of the year is -- we have a tie, thomas rhett. >> thank you to the lord, jesus christ, my lord and savior. >> tied with carrie underwood. >> thank you, god, so much. steve: hi, everybody, welcome to fox and friends for this thursday, september 17th, 2020. it is officially 47 days until the big election. ainsley: gosh. is it ever going to get here, steve? steve: hurry. ainsley: i know, exactly. exactly. good morning to all of you have at home. thanks so much for watching us. we are keeping everyone down there in the south thoughts and prayers and that storm rolls through and continuing to reek havoc. steve: it's heading that way. brian: that and the fires unbelievable what the country is going through. coronavirus, sole odd seeing an award show without people. and, number two.

steve: you mist the clapping. brian: number two, i'm not even looking for the election. i'm looking for the debates. the debates, i think,. ainsley: september 29th the first one. brian: chris wallace, i hope he shows up. it's going to be a big night for him. we start with extreme weather. sally trenches the gulf coast overnight. ainsley: more than half a million people this morning are without power. officials are warning more catastrophic flooding could be on the way. steve: that is not good. ashley strohmier joins us from pensacola, florida as the national guard is heading out to help out. and, ashley, 24 hours ago at this time pensacola was really getting hit. and now they are looking at the damage. >> they are. and it was getting hammered. and it was kind of one of those situations to where they didn't get too much notice because of the slow movement of that storm. and the way it turned east. but i will say just from assaying the damage yesterday and even this morning, a lot of

the water has gone down. i'm at a marina here in downtown, pensacola. see a chunk of this boat right here the gypsy was taken out. if you pan a little further to the front, this boat is completely, well, almost completely under water. you can smell the faint smell of gasoline. can you hear bing bildge pumps . random sounds of boats. one person who is confirmed dead in alabama. but some people who live in this area in the panhandle of florida. lynch what they had to say when they had to weather this storm. listen to. this we had strong winds for a long period of time instead of a few hours. >> this thing howled 16 hours by my clock. it was scary. >> my wife never seen this

before too and my kids were scared. >> some other people said even though this did happen, they wouldn't want to live anywhere else even though what you just saw is always the possibility here in the panhandle along the gunk. and as you said a little bit ago the troops, 200 national guard troops are expected to be in pensacola later today to help with recovery efforts. back to you. brian: all right, ashley, thanks so much. unbelievable. meanwhile, go over to janice dean to tell us where this whole thing is heading. janice: up towards the southeast and the mid-atlantic before it gets swept away by a cold front. we are seeing storm totals additional storm totals of 2 feet, even 30 inches in parts of florida. so the forecast did verify this storm system and how much rain it put down. but tropical depression sally that's the last advisory from the national hurricane center it's not over yet though because we still have the potential for

flash flooding. look at all the flash flood warnings in effect for parts of georgia including atlanta and then it's going to move up towards the carolinas and virginia when it eventually gets offshore by the cold front over the weekend. additional rain fall 4 to 6 even 8 inches of rain in a short period of time. so flash flooding is going to be a big concern. not only that we could see the potential for isolated tornadoes in some of these areas on the eastern side of the trajectory. hurricane teddy, this is our next weathermaker perhaps for the east coast. this is going to become a major hurricane, potentially affecting bermuda. here is the euro model as we go through next week and i mean this is a little bit too close for comfort as you can see for parts of new england, 345eb even the northeast, bottom line is, the tropics are busy, we will keep you up to date, steve, anxiously, brian, bark to you. steve: tropics are so busy we might run out of letters we might have to go to greek

alphabet. janice: greek alphabet, yep. steve: thank you so much. 47 days until the election. let's talk a little bit about that. yesterday coronavirus took center stage on the campaign trail. ainsley: president trump telling americans 100 million doses of the vaccine could be districted by the end of this year. brian: joe biden pushing back saying he trusts science but not the president. that's got to hurt. griff jenkins is washington to break it all down. griff: good morning. president trump is blasting biden's doubts while he made a big announcement from the white house podium saying that once the fda approves a vaccine the government is on track to district up to 100 million doses by years' end which he says could be rolled out as soon as next month. dr. roberts redfield contradicted the president offering lawmakers a very different timeline. >> when is it going to be generally available to the american public so owe we can begin to take advantage of

vaccine to get back to our regular life? i think we are probably looking at late second quarter, third quarter 2021. griff: the president took exception to that and is challenging redfield's claim now. >> i think he made a mistake when he said that it's just incorrect information. and i called him and he didn't tell me that. and i think he got the message maybe confused. maybe it was stated incorrectly. no, we are refusedy to go immediately as the vac senile is announced. griff: he also criticized redfield for suggesting face masks could be more effective protection against the virus than a vaccine. meanwhile, biden casting doubt on the president's plan and going a step further towards a national mask mandate claiming he would have the authority to enact one if elected saying on vaccines well, there is one person he particularly distrusts. >> i trust vaccines. i trust scientists, but i don't

trust donald trump. i have been calling for an effective distribution plan to be laid out for mockets. they haven't put one in place for real yet. >> we are likely to hear more on this as both candidates are traveling today. biden heads to his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania for a town hall while the president heads to a rally in wisconsin. brian, ainsley, steve. steve: all right you, griff. thank you very much. if you saw joe biden during his press conference 4:00 hour in the will called on five reporters at his event while donald trump, i think, called on everybody in the white house briefing room, two or three times. joe said that regarding his national ploosk mandate yeah, it's a great idea but i don't know if it's legal. but, nonetheless, it has become, as coronavirus and its impact become one of the biggest topics and issues of the 2020 election. you know, each other is accusing one -- their opponent, essentially of politicizing it. but dr. scott atlas from the

hoover institute, who has been called on board at the white house made it very clear, look, politics is not involved vaccine when it's ready, it's ready and you can trust it. here's the doctor. >> what's happening that people don't understand is there's a data safety monitoring board of outside experts. they are not even in the government. these rex% in the field that are the only ones that are looking at the data. there is absolutely no possibility, zero possibility of anyone in the government in the white house, anyone else from influencing the clinical trial that's going on. there is an efficient process going on to have at least one safe and fixture vaccine. it is highly likely from what everyone says, it will be available by the end of the year. when it is safer and effective, it will be deemed that by the people who are outsiders looking at the data and then they will submit it to the fda for what's called an emergency use

authorization. ainsley: if you are a company or scientist and developing a vaccine you will get it out there as soon as it's available. politics won't play a hand in all of this. steve we were just talking, the president said that on the show he is hopeful it will be out before the election. are they progressive? are they traditional? joe biden was voted in because or is the candidate because many of the democrats wanted him. then those super progressive we will push biden as far as left as we can when he wins. one of those is aoc. listen to this. >> right now what is most important is to make sure that we ensure a democratic victory in november and that we continue to push vice president biden on issues from marijuana to climate change to foreign policy and making sure that we continue to fight for progressive agenda in our future. i think over all, we can likely

push vice president biden in a more progressive direction across policy issues. ainsley: look at the ticket. biden has been more traditional in the past in voting record. look at kamala harris most radical out of all of the senators. she believes in banning all fracking. she co-sponsored the green new deal. she wants to raise your taxes, praise the l.a. mayor for slashing lapd's budget by $150 million. support sanctuary cities. wants to stop construction on the border wall. free healthcare for illegals just to name a few things. she is being called -- biden is being called the place holder the trojan horse by the president and the surrogates. even, brian, harris and biden have both called it the harris-biden ticket. brian: there is a reason why i know by mistake a couple times on the same day, perhaps. here's the thing. that's the biggest worry that democrats had that bernie sanders was going to get the

nomination and he was because they know america would not elect a socialist in 2020. maybe in 2030 sadly that won't be the case. so bernie sanders and jockeys joe biden signed essentially a manifesto of understanding about how their axioms, their beliefs, their policies will coincide. so if the president can force joe biden to admit he is going to be way left of center, he has a better changes of winning. he says aoc goes on to say he is stubborn, is joe biden, on healthcare and a public option. but she thinks she can push him there. the second member of the squad that thinks so. bernie sanders thinks. so karl rove thought about it and said this is very revealing. >> she is saying a lot what in the progressive left wing the fringe in the democratic party believe. and they have got a lot of evidence to believe it. look, he won the nomination by being a traditional democrat. by basically saying i'm thought with those guys over there but then he turned around and said

you know what? rather than staying in the middle of the democratic party or maybe even moving to the center of american politics, i'm going to go left. she is sitting there saying he gets. in we will pressure that guy. he is weak his judgment is bad and feckless. we can take advantage of him all day long. this guy is okay, if the winds is blowing to the left i have got to be over there and with the fringies. brian: that's got to be the key. donald trump is out there answering every question. joe biden is hyden. that's not a phrase. that's the truth. you see why what he is doing. steve: he never calls on fox. if you watch yesterday he called on five news outlets, he never calls on fox. ainsley: he pulled out a list of approved reporters to call on one was his hometown paper. brian: last week why aren't you madder at donald trump. wow did you have to jot that down? trump has given sings july until september 15th, july 19th until september 15th.

donald trump has taken 1141 questions, joe biden 274. probably like 200 of them what do you think of the weather? >> if it's working why would you? if you are up in the polls. steve: there is an item in the "new york times" today, ainsley, talks about how in swing states democratic officials are really worried that the enthusiasm level for joe biden is not there because donald trump has got a million people or, you know, he has all sorts of people knocking on a million doors. they are not doing that they are trying to have a pandemic style campaign, essentially on the joe biden side, unfortunately, as the officials know in those battle ground states, the livestream thing does not work for everybody. they are worried that joe has got to get out there quickly before it's too late. all right. meanwhile, 6:14 here in new york city. look who is joining us with headlines. jillian: good morning. one of the two deputies shout ambush in california is released from hospital. the l.a. county sheriff's office

says the 24-year-old still has a long road to recovery. meanwhile, a sheriff alexville november have a says they are closer to finding the gunman behind the attack why are making progress detectives positive they're on the right path. piecing the whole story other remains in the hospital. her condition sun known. 250 marines and sailors are heading to california to battle the massive wildfires. they will deploy to the national forest where the creek fire is burning. more than 200,000 acres have been burned. it's just 18% contained. it comes as strong winds and dry heat threaten to spark new fires across the state. senator lindsey graham revealing a key player is set to testify in the probe investigating the investigators. take a listen. >> day of reckoning is upon us when it comes to crossfire

hurricane. james comey has agreed to appear before the senate judiciary committee on september the 30th without a subpoena. i appreciate mr. comey coming before the committee. he will be respectfully treated but asked hard questions. we're negotiating with mccabe. mr. mccabe. we are hoping to get him without a subpoena. >> however graham adding former special counsel robert mueller declined an invite because he doesn't have enough time. okay, well, it was an exciting return for the american country music awards months after being postponed because of the pandemic. ♪ will star studded show opening with amazing performances and message from host keith urban. >> >> still in the midst of trying to find two pandemics. covid-19 and social injustice. >> far too many lives have been lost to both.

>> carrie underwood singing a tribute to the grabbed old on pretyinging with thomas rhett for entertainer of the year. and that is the wrong video. >> my lord and savior. thank you so much to my wife. >> thank you, fans for coming out to see us. spending your hard earned money. 2020, man. jillian: it was the show's first tie ever for the night's biggest prize. and as ainsley just mentioned, taylor swift was there for the first time in a long time. ainsley: she started in country she was back last night. brian: she brought it out. thomas rhett was here singing if i could have a beer with jesus. do you remember that? ainsley: i do. steve: if you remember taylor swift was out on our plaza playing a guitar by herself very early one morning and at that point she was to your point she was country before she became pop. brian: now she is involved in politics so the world is good. ainsley: i know she is.

steve: as is everybody it seems these days. minneapolis leaders are trying to dismantle the police department. they started that move in july. but now. brian: great idea. steve: violence in that city is rising. those same politicians want to know hey, where are our police that they defunded? our next guest is calling out the hypocrisy coming up next on fox and friends. ♪ minimally invasive procedure that reduces stroke risk-- and bleeding worry--for life. watchman. it's one time. for a lifetime. ...to soccer practices... ...and new adventures. you hope the more you give the less they'll miss.

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brian: minneapolis city council members demanding answers as crime spikes across the city with shootings reaching a five year high after pledging to quote dismantle the beliefs a couple months ago the city council is sounding the alarm and blaming the police. >> the crime is actually

spreading out. >> what people want to know is mpd's response. >> asking where are the police? that is the only public safety option they have for the moment. >> we have officers on the street telling people that they're not enforcing crime, what do we do? >> i know it's not only the police department but that is who people are looking to right now. brian: joining us now with reaction to the least surprising in the country g.o.p. candidate lacy lee johnson, is he running for the city held by congresswoman ilhan omar who has called on to dismantle the police. lacy, we have a rise in assaults, robberies, homicides as well as property crimes and arson. is that what happens when you tell the police they are the problem and you cut their numbers. >> that's exactly what happens, brian. the hypocrisy and failure that we are seeing from this city council is astounding and deeply

troubling. after all summer calling for the dismantling of the demilitarizing or the disarming of the police, now they are turning around and blaming these brave officers for for a situation they have created. spike in crimes of all kinds in this community, whether you are talking about robbery, murders, home invasions, car jacking, all of those things have gone up, and it's something that should have been expected but it just shows you how out of touch our city council is and our government leadership is. >> no one is genksding george floyd but spurred that you will anti-police action. lisa bender is part of that she is council woman. she says police are being defiant. constituents on the street admitted that they're purposefully not arresting people. if that is in fact hang, no kidding. can you blame them? >> i can't.

yeah, i have a friend who has a police keep up to date on a lot of stuff and facebook posts and i do know think about it, brian, if you are a policeman and you get in a situation where you are confronted with someone who is resisting arrest who are armed, there is a good chance that you will do something that makes you looking at prosecution and time in prison. so, i can understand that most police officers do not take that risk. brian: right. george floyd no one is defenderring the officers in that obviously. that's going to be a trial everybody is watching whether they are tried collectively or individually. they said we have a better idea than police. we are going to use violence interruptsers. how are violence interrupters doing? >> violence interrupters are not interrupting violence. what we need is r. are trained career police officers. anyone who suggested violence

interrupters who he suggest we demilitarize the police or deal fund the police do not understand what it's like out here in our community and these streets so violent interrupters that's a bad idea. as bad of an idea as deal funding the police. brian: well, yeah, the thing is police are l. say give us more time in the academy. talk about different methods to deescalate. you tim scott and others have put together positive proposals. financing to places like minneapolis. but nothing gets done and it's frustrating. and this is not the right answer because innocent people trying to make a living now don't even have this thing they need to make that living, and that's security. lacy lee johnson, best of luck in your run. >> thank you very much, brian. and we hope to replace our liberal democrats' leadership government to the mayor to ilhan omar and whole city council and take back our city and get a handle on a lot of issues that's going on around here. i appreciate the time that you gave me.

brian: make the most of all the attention all these candidates are giving you and hopefully minneapolis and minnesota will get some support. thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. brian: we invited ilhan omar and candidate michael moore on we have not heard anything yet. meanwhile restaurants in new jersey are allowed indoor dining at 25% capacity. one owner says not enough. now he is planning to sue the governor. he joins us live next. we got no free pass. everything we have, we've earned. the unmistakable lexus is. get zero percent financing on the 2020 is 300. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

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steve: some new jersey restaurants have been open for indoor dining at 25% capacity since the beginning of this month of september. but our next guest still says 25% is not enough. he is a sports bar owner planning to sue governor murphy of new jersey and is working to get other businesses to join the lawsuit. the owner of greason's place mark gleason joins us now along with his attorney james, good morning to you. >> doing okay. but, mark, you know, finally, i live in new jersey as well. finally the governor said okay, you know it's been long enough, now restaurants can open at 25% capacity. but 25% capacity does not make sense to you. does it? >> well, steve trn lies the crux

of the matter. the question i would ask ask all the good friends watching fox and friends this morning as you are putting your shoes on and drinking coffee, having bills at the end of the month doesn't work for 25% of what you normally make economically viable. i think, you know, to a large decree most people tell you i'm not going to do that at 25%. it's referred insolvency is what it is. steve: people are thinking they are finally open. 25% is better than no percent. but you are not open right now because it does not make sense for you to turn on the lights, bring everybody back, in pay them, restock every couple of days because you are only at 25%. what is the magic number for governor murphy if is he watching, we know he watches this show. 50%, 75%? what is the break-even point? >> i think at very minimum 50%.

we also have to remember coming off the heels of zero percent. you are not in a position to operate effectively. so, you know, it's not -- it's not a quick fix. it's a long haul process. and part -- one of the bench marks? you know, what numbers are we striving towards as far as -- at least we can anticipate what, you know, is in our future. steve: sure, james, you are representing a number of restaurants and bars in new york and new jersey. and it's a big number. i know you have got -- i think you signed up close to 100 businesses already. but, more would like to sign on to these lawsuits but they don't for a very good reason.

>> good morning. the biggest reason a lot of these restaurants in new jersey do not want to sign up is they fear retaliation from the governor of new jersey. they are afraid that if they sign up and they are vocal about it that they might lose their liquor license or might lose their american tile license or any other license. they are fearful. that's why they are reluctant to sign on to this lawsuit. steve: the thing is, james, as you know here in the new york city new jersey area, this morning it's kind of chilly. it's not going to be too long before outdoor dining doesn't work anymore fort many restaurants who are doing that and that means they have got to rely on 25%. right now some restaurants have people out at the curb and they have 25% indoors. so that helps a little but still it is not sustainable. right, james? >> not sustainable. if you look at the weather in

the new york city-tri-state area it's going to be in the 40s over the weekend. no one wants to sit and dine outside in cold weather. 25% is just not viable. there is not one restaurant in new jersey that even pays their bills with 25% indoor capacity. small businesses to at least be viable and pay their billings. >> james, real quick before you go. i'm sure your waiters, waitresses and, you know, your books, everybody calls you from time to time. what do you tell them. >> was that question for mark? steve: yeah, mark, your employees call and say what's going on? please, help us? >> my employees are out of this world fantastic. they completely understand the inviability of what we are dealing with here as far as, you know, the economics of it. them being savvy, they get it.

but they are also chomping at the bit. they are productive people they want to work and feed their family. that's it. steve: absolutely. they can use some help from washington but washington seems to be playing politics with any sort of relief at this point. hark gleason and james, thank you very much. >> thank you. we appreciate the opportunity. steve: absolutely. we did reach out to the governor's office in new jersey for a statement it, they have not called us back. there you go. all right. moving on straight ahead on in thursday fox and friends, attorney general bill barr reportedly telling prosecutors to aggressively charge violent rioters. is that realistic? the judge is next.

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violent rioters with crimes. they are doing that in lancaster by the way and potentially charging them with threatening to overthrow the government. steve: denies a report from the "new york times" about the attorney general attempting to charge the seattle mayor for allowing the chop zone to form in her city. ainsley: u.s. attorney brian more ran says at no time has anyone at the department communicated to me that seattle mayor jenny durkin is was or should be the subject of a criminal investigation or charged with any federal crime. joining us now is judge andrew napolitano. good morning, judge. ainsley: why don't you weigh on in this. >> nothing wrong with being aggressive. those destroying private property and individuals that's what the government should do. is not the case for sedition.

sedition was the sedition laws which, by the way, go back to 1798 sedition laws written for those who plan and plot to overthrow the government either by violence or some other means. steve: inciting. >> yes. that would be a bridge too far. you can charge these people -- first of all, you have to exclude, before you charge them, you have to exclude their constitutional rights, meaning if they are there expressing an opinion, they can't be charged. their expression of an opinion turns to violence, then they can be charged for the act of violence, for destruction of property, for inciting a riot, for harming individuals, for attacking government buildings. buff the idea that this is some kind of an organized plot to overthrow the government, there is no basis for that and appears absurd. steve: i should point out that the u.s. attorney is from washington state not washington, d.c. apologies.

judge, here is joe biden yesterday on that national mask mandate he has talked about. >> question whether i can mandate, over state lines, every single state has to comply. our legal team thinks i can do that based upon the degree to which there is a crisis in those states and how bad things are for the country. the question is whether i have the legal authority as president to sign an executive order. we think we do, i can't guarantee you that yet. >> but if you did, you would. >> if i did, i would. steve: so his legal team thinks he can do it. you're our legal team. what do you think? >> absolutely not. not even a close call the president and president trump knows he can't do it. i don't think he would even if he could. there is absolutely no legal authority in the constitution for the president of the united states to tell you what to wear on your face. there isn't even a legal authority for the governors to tell you what to wear on your

face. the governors can congeal. the governors can coerce. the governors can lead by example. the governors can suggest. the governors can-month-old opinion but they can't order a mask. the president can do the same. can he set an example. he can wear the mask himself. he can talk about the safety aspects, the health aspects of a mask. but the power of law to force a human being to wear a mask at the federal or state level simply does not exist in the united states. brian: judge, i know the trump campaign is pushing hard against mass mailing out all these ballots, virmt, yesterday became the tengted state to do it. i didn't ask for it. it's going to be in my mailbox. do they have a legal case against this? >> well, it's becoming confusing, brian, when you get something in the mail telling you this is how to vote when you know you have voted differently for your entire life.

so, we certainly are going to get confusion in november. now, last time, in 2016, when president trump ran against mrs. clinton, 40 million people voted by mail. that's either absentee or directly by mail. this year it looks like it's going to be about 80 million people. steve and i live in new jersey. we are about to get these ballots in the mail. brian: amazing. >> i have seen the instructions. i'm a lawyer. these instructions are confusing even somebody that's used to reading confusing things. i don't know how this is going to go. brian: they found 1600 unaccounted for new jersey primary ballots at a county election board last weekend. >> yes. brian: why are we doing this. >> they counted them. thank goodness they didn't change the outcome because people already knew who won and lost. i don't know how this happens. i don't know why it happens. it's contrary to american

democracy. everybody has the right to vote who is over age. every vote counts and it's the duty of the government to ensure that these votes are counted and the election is honest and we can believe in the outcome. ainsley: judge, thanks for being with us. >> a pleasure, guys. i'm going to go have a beer at that restaurant that phil murphy is going to try to close. steve: please wait until 9:00 in the morning. brian: get this there first. >> unbelievable. ardo you believethey are afraide governor because they are afraid he will retaliate against them? how low has government gotten. steve: he run as sports bar and if pulls liquor license, have a great weekend. today is already thursday. >> all the best i guys. ainsley: enjoy your beer. janis is tracking the storm. latest on sally. janice: take a look at some of the rainfall totals. in some cases it proved true.

over 30 inches of rain across the coast of florida and alabama. incredible. the damage, of course, is considerable over these areas. the good news is national hurricane center has issued their last warning on sally. we are still going to deal with the potential, however, of heavy rainfall over parts of alabama, into georgia ands carolinas. flash flood warnings in effect in and around the atlanta, georgia area. a couple things i want to point out. we are watching sally. this area of interest in the gulf of mexico, that could become our next named storm that would be wilfred and it has the potential to strengthen and move up towards the texas coast next week. so we will watch for that and then we also have teddy that could become a major hurricane and possibly impact new england next week. so both of these systems we are going to carefully monitor. by the way after wilfred we go to the greek alphabet. steve, ainsley. brian: and then roman numerals. janice: yeah, i know.

steve: it's quite a year. it's so 2020. thanks jd. janice: it is. brian: go over to jillian now. it's my pleasure to toss to you. teenage mutant ninja turtle. jillian: headlines we are following. deputy fired for response of parkland high school shooting getting his job back. judge ruling his firing was unjust because he was terminated after the deadline allowed by florida law. second of four fired deputies to get his job back. sergeant brian miller was rehired in may and given more than $138,000 in back pay. 17 students and faculty members were shot and killed at the florida high school in 2018. a 90-year-old statue of jesus was vangsdized inside a texas church. police say isaiah cantrell barged into el paso saint patrick cathedral knocking the sacred heart of jesus statue down and decapitating it. arms and portion of the base also severely damaged. according to the diocese the church was open for prayer at

the time. cantrell has been charged with criminal mischief and possession of marijuana. sarasota's controversial unconditional surrender statue can stay. that's the verdict after a republican congressman defended the monument. the statue depicts the famous photo of a shoulder kissing a woman after world war ii ended. opponents say the woman did not want to be kissed. the survey said 80% of local residents wanted the statue to stay. brian: isn't she still alive? can we ask her? didn't we find them? ainsley: have you seen that statue? it is huge. it's cool. it's going to stay. coming up, is he one of the heroes who stopped a terrorist on rain to paris years ago. now eric scar lotlotto is running for congress. going to join us with a preview

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ainsley: five years ago hammer national guard veteran eric scar lot toes became hero for taking down a terrorist on the 1517 train to paris tomi lahren spoko

him on fox nation and joins us now. hey, tomi. >> hello, great to be here. >> great to see you. tell us his story. what made him want to run for congress? >> you know, this is a young man who by the way is younger than even i am. he is only 27 years old. and he decided after taking down a terrorist he is ready to take down the swamp in washington, d.c., fight for the rural people of oregon and show not all young people are crazy and liberal and leftist and that they believe in the second amendment. they believe in freedom. they believe in small town america and he is ready to win. ainsley: here he is. here is a portion or a clip from your special on fox nation. watch this. >> who makes up your district and why do those people need to be fought for. >> timber, fishing, grass seed farming, very rural and working class blue collar people that

have had a tough time over the last 30 years. economically since the timber industry have gone down hear and incumbent democrat not doing anything to help us it. made me want to stand up and fight for the people that i live with. he is 27 years old and done more than most of news a lifetime. >> he could have taken his fame from a clint eastwood movie and been happy with that no, he said the people in my district, they haven't been fought for. we have a democrat that just keeps getting reelected over and over and over again. that is the story in so many small districts around the country that are so tired of watching democrats run their cities into the ground and not pay attention to the little people. and he is ready to pay attention and fight for those people of oregon. ainsley: what are his chances? you think oregon you think super liberal. >> a lot of people do think

about that because of portland and the craziness going on. the people who live in his distt they live in the timber industry they good paying jobs and radical leftist coming in green new deal and other things completely disseminate their livelihood. is he ready to fight for them and is he a young conservative ready to do it and i think he is going to win. ainsley: a veteran who stopped a terrorist attack on a train and a movie made about him. is he a hero. he is to everybody but especially in that town. thank you so much. we appreciate it, tomi. if you want to watch her special it's no interruption on fox nation. it is 6:56 here on the east coast. white house chief of staff mark meadows and florida's governor ron desantis are both here live coming(b up. coming(b up. ♪.... ...or even this... ...we've seen and covered it. so, get a quote today. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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brian: at least one person dead as sally drenches the coast tonight. janice: not over yet though because we still have the potential foreflash flooding. >> as soon as the fda approves the vaccine will be able to distribute at least 100 million vaccine doses. >> i trust vaccines but i don't trust donald trump. >> james comey has agreed to appear before the senate. the day of reckoning is upon us when it comes to crossfire hurricane. we are getting to the bottom of what happened. >> comedian chris rock blasting house speaker nancy pelosi and democratic party for prioritizing impeachment over the coronavirus. >> big ten football is back. >> why did president trump get involved. he got involved because the

players and the families do not have a seat at the table. ♪ it's a good thing when i see it ♪ and you got something like i ain't ever seen before. ainsley: i know it's been really hard here. but as you are waking up this morning let's just make this a good day, okay? we are getting closer and closer to the election. we appreciate you waking up with us so we can fill you in. we are watching that tropical storm. sally it's moving on up. probably going to get some rain if you live along the east coast. brian: we know about the devastation with these crazy fires and getting smoke now not only in the east coast here but in europe, steve, with the fires. they are feeling how bad the air is. steve: no kidding. meanwhile, they were trying to clear the air at the white house regarding that vaccine, coronavirus taking center stage on the campaign trail. president trump americans 100 million doses of the vac senile once approved could be distributed by the end of this

calendar year. >> already a detail plan how to do it. joe biden says i'm sure it's not a good plan. he is pushing back on the concept of the vaccine saying he trust science but thought the worst. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in washington to break it all down for us. >> you know, ainsley, you say it's a big day. we have a big announcement from the president yesterday. he is saying the government is on track to district 100 million doises by year's end once the fda approves the vaccine and he says it could be rolled out as soon as next month. that's very quick. but, that's also drawing immediate skepticism from his opponent. watch. >> i trust vaccines. i trust scientists. but i don't trust donald trump. i have been calling for effective distribution plan to be laid out for months. they haven't put one in place for real yet. >> the president is slamming biden's doubts calling it reckless.

>> i'm calling on biden to stop promoting his anti-vaccine theories because all they are doing is hurting the importance of what we are doing and i know that if they would be saying how wonderful it is. they are recklessly endangering lives. you can't do that. >cdc directordr. robert redfield president trump yesterday testifying on capitol hill offering lawmakers a very different timeline. >> when it going to be generally available to the american public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life? i think we are probably looking at third -- late second quarter, third quarter 2021. >> the president refuted redfield, calling his comments, quote, a mistake and says he has incorrect information. he also criticized redfield for suggesting face masks could protect him better than the vaccine against the virus. a confusing statement for

americans told to wear a mask to protect other people by continue ramped up his mask mandate claiming he would have the authority to if elected. both candidates are traveling, biden heads to scranton, pennsylvania for a town hall the president heads to wisconsin for a valley. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: all right, griff, thank you very much. joe biden selings if he were the president of the united states he would have a nationwide mask mandate if the legal team could make it happen. we just had the judge on a little while ago who said absolutely it is unconstitutional to do it. what's interesting is over the last couple of weeks we have been talking so much about will people be voting by mail and the problems with that. it's interesting, joe biden speaking of coronavirus, joe biden actually voted in person a week or two ago. and he is one of the person who is at risk. he is over 65 years old. joe voted so doesn't that mean it's okay for people to vote in person?

that would be a great question of joe biden if he ever took more than five reporters' questions at an event, ainsley. ainsley: i know. they did a total of how many questions he has taken and president trump has taken between july 19th and september 15th. the president has taken 1141 questions. biden 274. so trump takes five times more questions from reporters. biden pulled out a list of approved reporters before he called on them to answer a few questions yesterday. steve: fox is never on that list. ainsley: i know, right? a lot of congress men and women are trying to work to push this through. there is a bipartisan problem solver's caucus. they revealed 1.5 trillion-dollar relief plan. what's interesting about this brian and steve is 25 democrats have broken with leadership to join the 25 republicans on this caucus. to provide a plan. and max rhodes, who is a democratic congressman. he said we are just sick and tired of the politics. this is about the american people, brian. brian: absolutely. the problem solver's caucus.

i love the name. actually trying to solve a problem. number two, it's important to know, mark meadows is going to come on shortly. he wants the deal. getting pressure from below. hopefully nancy pelosi understands about the american people. about the business owners steve talked to an hour ago in new jersey who can't pay their bills if is about the northwestern people and they're going to be angry if nancy pelosi doesn't come off her $3.4 trillion pie in the sky plan. ainsley: some saying it won't happen until after the election. brian: this should not be a democrat or republican issue. do you know they just sent out military ballots with trump with the wrong running mate on it? do you know that they just found 1600 ballots uncounted ballots in new jersey off a special election that just got finished? this should not be republican or democrat. this is going to just create chaos on november. steve: joe voted in person. brian: the attorney general talked about it yesterday. i would like to bring in senator mike lee, member of the senate judiciary committee and that is one thing everyone is concerned

about, just getting that right verdict on election day. not republican or democrat but, senator, you guys made some news yesterday with your committee. you decided wish going to send out some subpoenas if we had to but have you got some compliance early. what can you tell us? snro. >> >> looks like the tonight to interview jim comey. something we have been looking forward to for a very, very long time i have got questions for jim comey that date back to when we first confirmed him to be the fbi director many years ago. president obama was still in the white house. questions relate to the abuse of fisa rampant in the fbi while he was there. it culminated in false statements that were submitted and approved under his leadership. i want him to answer some questions about that. steve: yeah, no kidding, of course i think it was two days ago senator you were able to ask a bunch of important questions

of google. the search engine an advertiser that we all rely on so that we know the nearest restaurant to us at all times. you brought up a great point during the testimon and the que. as a private company. they do what whatever the way they ago grey gate things. is that any way to treated downcustomers. because he says he feels like they are biased against conservatives. >> there are a couple of issues here. conservative bias question and antitrust question sure they are free to do what they want and free to be a monopoly if they want. what they cannot do is to be a monopoly and maintain by anti-behavior bias against conservatives whether they are engaging in a violation of section 2 of the sherman act. it is, however, potentially

reflective of you who someone acts as a monday nope police. in other words you wouldn't go out if you had a restaurant or if you had an auto service business of some sort and say i'm going to serve only republicans and not democrats or i'm going to serve democrats but i'm going to be rude to my republican customers. you wouldn't do that unless you believed that your customers couldn't go anywhere else. that's what we're looking into with google. >> what are your big take a&e way us. >> google who testified. great discussion. we learned a lot and a lot of questions he failed to answer. i'm going to look into getting him to answer those questions through writing in the next few days because the fact of the matter is if they can't tell us who their major competitors and what market share they have that by itself is a problem. if they can't tell us why certain things aren't technologically possible to allow them to compete

effectively in the marketplace, that, too, is a problem. steve: senator, exit question, do you use google or do you use bing or do you use yahoo or do you just have a phone book. >> i alternate between them. i do frequently use google like most people in america. like most people in europe and so many parts of the world. i use google frequently. i sometimes use bing or other search engines as well. buff the point is, not what any particular american chooses to use on any particular day. the question is whether they have got antitrust power and whether they are unlawfully maintaining that antitrust position through anticompetitive conduct. brian: right. if i could just offer some advice on your testimony with james comey. read peter strzok and andy mccabe's book they disagree with james comey's book. if you are prepared we might actually get some answers and i am sure you will. senator mike lee, thank you so much. >> thank you. ainsley: great state of utah having a vice presidential debate there in three weeks. brian: i think we are going to

cover it if we have time. turning now to extreme weather, talking about sally, gulf coast overnight. steve: powerful storm killed at least one person in the state of alabama. ainsley: ashley strohmier joins us live where the national guard is expected to arrive today. hey, ashley. >> hey, guys, good morning. we are at a marina in pensacola. right now before i get into anything else, i wants you to take a look at this walkway that's essentially been pushed and crammed up on the side. obviously, this is not where it is supposed to be. you can hear bells and whistles going off urge bij pumps trying to get water out. hit or miss. some of these boats got a little bit of damage. others so more so are completely under water. another thing, the pensacola bay bridge, it was hit not once but twice by barges. two differential barges. the first one apparently was hit by a crane that went underneath of it on tuesday during the

storm. but then on wednesday, another barge crammed into it. essentially the first one was closed after first crane went through. second barge ultimately by the contractor was ultimately to not remove it because this storm was supposed to move more westward than it did. and that was the reason they did not move that second barge. take a listen to what witness accounts had to say about the storm that came through pensacola. >> every sound you heard, sounded more and more like -- does that sound like a train? does it sound like a plane? >> it's frightening but yet, you know what? i don't want to live any place else. i know come friday it's going to be a new day. >> and even though some of what i just showed you as far as the damage in this marinena, it's always possible when you live near the coast line but these people said they wouldn't live anywhere else. guys, bark to you. ainsley: i know. those southern places they are wonderful places to live.

our thoughts and prayers are with all those folks. thank you so much. brian: have you got to fix the bridge. meanwhile jillian mele you have the other breaking news happening around the world. jillian: that's right. good morning. let's start with this. one of the two deputies shot during ambush is released from hospital. the l.a. county sheriff's office says the 24-year-old still has a long road to recovery. meanwhile, sheriff alex villanueva says they are closer to finding the gunman behind the attack. >> we are making progress. our detectives are confident they are on the right path. we have followed multiple leads and we are just piecing the whole story together and i think we are off to the right -- on the right path. jillian: the other injured deputy, a 31-year-old mother remains in the hospital. her condition is unknown. today a judge is expected to revisit the 1-million-dollar bail that he set for protesters charged after riots in pennsylvania. 13 people were arrested outside of a lancaster police station early monday. final of them got the massive bail amount. the judge says he will let them

make their case now that they have attorneys. the demonstrations coming after the shooting death of ricardo munoz. he was shot after charging at an officer with a knife. oxford university says the illness tha paused astrazeneca covid-19 trials was likely not caused by the vaccine itself. the trials were stopped earlier this month after one person reportedly suffered from inflamed spinal cord. the vaccine developed by oxford and as that zeneca strongest contenders among the dozens being tested worldwide. and today the much an tell us bait pated dwight d. highway hour will be dedicated. it pays district to our country's 34th president and five star general who led the nation to victory in world war ii. congress approved the memorial in 1999. it took more than 20 years for eisenhower's family and architect to agree on a design. send it back to you. steve: there you go. i am from his bo boyhood home of

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printed with the wrong republican running mate and in new jersey more than 1600 unaccounted ballots were found in mislabeled -- in a mislabeled bin at the county elections board. and here to discuss this is catherine inglebreak she is the founder and president of true to vote nonprofit mission to restore the confidence in our election process. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. ainsley: thank you. it's hard to trust that if we vote at home and put it in the mail that it's actually going to be counted. tell us what's happening in new jersey. it didn't change the election. they will counted the 1600. it didn't change the election. how do we know there is not another box of unaccounted for ballots somewhere else? >> we don't. we don't unless we get citizen eyes on this process. what we are seeing play out is in our opinion engineered chaos. this is part of a plan to open up legal battlefields nationwide.

it is imperative that citizens stand up and get involved in this process now so we can get eyes on and have an election that is decided by the people and not by the courts. ainsley: is there anything we can do though? people are scared because of corona. we are seeing more people want to vote at home and mail-in their ballots instead of going to the polls. >> absolutely. at true to vote we are all about equipping citizens to serve inside of elections. and, yes, there are many, many things you can do. if you live in a state where you don't have an option and you have to vote by mail. by all means, whatever opportunity you have to vote, you should take that opportunity. but if you can vote in person, that is the most secure way to cast your ballot. but there are so many more things that citizens can do. this year voting is not going to be enough. everyone who is listening to this needs to call your county and ask how you can serve in this election cycle as an election worker. helping to review mail-in ballot

signatures. helping to just observe the process. this is why we did the infomercials because there is an orchestrated effort to cause this kind of confusion and citizens have to take a stand now or we're not going to have a legitimate outcome for a very, very long time if at all. ainsley: oh my gosh. tell us about true to vote. what exactly is it. >> true the vote is an effort started by citizens to empower us and remind us all that elections were always meant to be run by citizens. and so, you know, particularly now, right, when we see these headlines rolling in day upon day. one calamity after the next. this is all part of a plan that has been in place for years to disconnect citizens evermore from this process. we need to reengage. so what true the vote does it helps to recruit, train and mobilize citizens, we litigate and fought many of these states

already this year that are trying to change the rules just to cause added confusion, added chaos. but in the weeks ahead, we are going to be mobilizing a commands centers so that election workers and voters can come to us with questions we are being overrun with concern and rightfully so. we have to create an environment now where citizens can take to the field and just like our president does, talks directly to the american people, that's what we want to do, please, join us now in working to create a free and fair process for everyone. ainsley: okay, catherine, thank you so much. catherine is in the great state of texas. can you go on their website and find out how you can get involved in your state, too. true the vote.org. catherine, thanks for what you are doing. >> thanks so much. true the vote.org. thank you so much. ainsley: still ahead people making big bucks in the big

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big living room for that just saying. new jersey restaurants have been allowed to open indoor dining but only 25% capacity. earlier we spoke to one sports bar owner who says 25%, you are kidding me? it's not enough. >> my employees are out of this world fantastic. they want to work. and they want to feed their families. all the good folks watching fox and friends this morning is as you are putting your shoes on and drinking your coffee and about to head to work, you know, have 100 of your bills at the end of the month but just go to work for 25% of what you normally make and then tell me is it economically viable? steve: excellent point. this is new data from the website an app. yelp reveals about 65% of business closures since march are sadly permanent. here to discuss host of varney and company on fox business stewart varney. stewart, you heard that guy who has got a sports bar out in new jersey where the both of us

win -- live. it's not hard to understand that they are in a losing situation. they cannot win with 25% of the tab. >> it's pure economics. look, if you are only allowed to open up 25% of your capacity for indoor dining and you are supposed to be allowed to do outdoor dining but the weather is turning cold, quite obviously you are not going to make it. you can't make a profit. you can't stay in business. that's why you have got the 7,000 businesses which shut down for the lockdown will never reopen. that's 97,000 businesses. heavily concentrate you had in the bar and restaurant business. that's going to change the face and look and feel of america. it's going to change our cultural habits. we have gotten used to you going out to the bar and diner and wherever for an evening meal or breakfast or whatever. that's going to be curtailed and sharply restricted in my opinion going forward. and i think it's going to get worse.

in new york city it's going to get particularly bad because you can't have indoor dining until the end of this month. when we get back to indoor dining in this city, you are going to be paying what's it called now? it's going to be called a recovery charge of up to 10% of the total bill. that's not much of an incentive to get out there and eat out, is it? steve: no. absolutely not. stewart, there was a poll and because, keep in mind, right now because the democrats would like a big bailout for washington, d.c. for a number of the blue states and blue cities, they have fallen so far behind because of tax revenue coming in. they are going to have to raise their taxes and that's one of the reasons why this brand new poll shows that 44% of people in new york city who make more than $100,000 are thinking about i have got to leave this town. the taxes are too high. the restrictions are too restrictive. get me out of here. >> yeah. that's 44% thinking about

leaving i have got to tell you this, also from that poll. one in 8 have gone for good already. and these are people who make $100,000 a year or more. those people create or pay 80% of the income tax levied in new york city. if they are leaving, even if it's just one in 8 that leaves. that's a huge denting in this city's finances. that's why the democrats are pushing so hard for a city and democrat state bailout. i don't think they are going to get it. but that's what they want. quite frankly, i don't know what you do with new york city. people are leaving on this kind of scale and you can't open up your restaurants and you can't make a business and you can't open up your bar. you can't drink alcohol sitting at the bar i don't know where this city is going, steve. i really don't. steve: i guess we will have to drink alcohol at our desks like the old days. i'm kidding about that. the irony is they are going to

raise the taxes in new york city, presumably but getting fewer supervisors. brian had a great story about an hour ago with a guy from minneapolis who is running for congress and they were talking about how in minneapolis where they have voted to defund the police, and they have restricted their budget. they paired it way down. suddenly there is a rise in crime. shocker. >> i think it's a quality of life issue. it's a safety issue. shared by almost all major cities. it's not just new york city, chicago. meachings. los angeles. it's cities all across the place where you are moving to take money away from the police, making the streets less safe shutting down restaurants and bars, sometimes for good. changes the cultural experience of the city. i honestly think big cities in america are in real trouble and i don't see a way out, steve. steve: it is bleak looking right now. let's see what happens after the vaccine. that's what it all comes down. to say stuart, thank you very much for joining us live. we will be watching stuart on

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♪ >> politics will not play a role whatsoever in the vaccine process. i trust vaccines. i trust scientists. but i don't trust donald trump. brian: that's a shocker. let's bring in mark meadows he is white house chief of staff. one of the busiest people around. mark, welcome back. >> it's good to be back with

you. good morning, everybody. brian: yesterday a bit of discrepancy. the president thought we would have a vaccine by the end of the year and then the cdc head says you know what? we are probably going to get into the masses in the summer of 2021. he said the cdc director is -- was wrong i will have to straighten him out. who is right. >> i would tell you if i were a betting man i would bet on president trump based on what i know behind the scenes how quickly we are moving on the clinical trials. i think that we will at least have some results in october. as we start to look at those results, i can tell you the president is pushing very hard to make sure that we are delivering a vaccine before the end of the year. so i'm not sure where dr. redfield got his particular timetable, but it's not based on those that are closest to the process. steve: yeah. mr. meadows, the president was talking yesterday about how joe biden is not helping out people who are -- could be vulnerable

because is he talking about essentially the president called him an anti vaxer with his rhetoric that, you know, don't trust that vaccine because donald trump might be pushing it through. is that the right message from the vice president? >> well, it's the wrong message from joe biden but why should would he be surprised? he has had the wrong message for 47 years and so, listen, this is about people's health. i can tell you the president has been consistent. make sure our science, our doctors, our developers and indeed the pharmaceutical industry are fully engaged to deliver to the american people as quickly as possible. and i would say in historic record time. and so it is not responsible and, perhaps, what joe biden should be doing is calling on nancy pelosi to stay here and get a covid relief package passed today. ainsley: the fed chairman jerome powell is he warning if they don't pass.

this listen to what he says. >> if there is no follow-up on that, if there isn't additional support, and there isn't a job for some of those people who are from industries where it's going to be very hard to find new work, then you -- that will start to show up in economic activity. it will also show up in things like evictions and foreclosures and, you know, things that will scar and damages economy. ainsley: where are we on the negotiations? >> well, we have had some positive movement in the right direction. i was on the phone with some democrat house members and as well as a few senators last night. i can see that there is actually a group that are not just the problem solvers group although they have done great work in putting out their proposal in the last 48 hours. but it's also republican senators and house members that are trying to come together. here's what we need t to do. everyone needs to call on their house member to make sure that they stay here, that reneg

united states at least let's use this $1.5 trillion new recommendation as a foundation for new negotiations. but, if you are not going to do that, take your cameras to dca today you many see members of congress leaving washington to go home and pretend like they are working hard on this particular deal when, in fact, the checks are not going out to the american people and unemployment benefits will start to cease. brian: president wants a bigger deal more than the republicans are asking for. you have been there every day every hour something substantial goes on mark meadows is in that meeting. what number did he tell you he wants? >> he was certainly willing to embrace the 1.5 trillion-dollar number that was put out in the last in the last day or so. it really depends on what the priorities are you mentioned earlier airlines and the need for help there.

a meeting with airline ceos today. we have got tens of thousands of people that are about to be laid off. if nothing more, let's go ahead and put that package on the floor and pass that because, hopefully, all of us can agree that laying off airline workers at this particular time is not something we should do. steve: absolutely. there is a big item in the "the washington post" this morning. and the "new york times" as well. i don't know if you have seen it. recapping a speech that bill barr, the attorney general gave at hillsdale college. and essentially what he was saying is he was railing against the career at the department of justice. he said they are head hunting for high profile targets meddling with politics which is extraordinary. some people on the president's side would say that sounds like the deep state. here's the attorney general. listen to this. >> rather than root out true

crimes, while leaving ethical dubious conduct to the voters, our prosecutors have all too inserted themselves into the political process based on the flimsiest legal theories. we have seen this time and time again with prosecutors bringing ill conceived charges against prominent political figures or launching debilitating investigations that thrust the department of justice into the middle of the political process. steve: it's not supposed to be like that, mark. he goes on to say the way the doj works is these career prosecutors, they decide what the doj should do not the attorney general. the attorney general says, look, i'm the top guy. it's my decision. it's not yours. >> well, when we talk about setting priorities, bill barr is exactly right. we need to make sure that everyone is treated equally under the law. but, unfortunately, some -- some would say it's the deep state.

i would just say it's actually the swamp that continues to try to make sure a political agenda is driven instead of law and order and justice for all. but i can also say we don't have to look any further than the mueller investigation where we spent tens of millions of dollars in wasted unbelievable time to come out with a report to conclude what we already knew that there was no conclusion. so, it is time that we get back. we restore the integrity to the department of justice and the fbi. i think we are well on our way because we have gotten leaders who are willing to hold people accountable, but it is what we all hate about our federal government is when they play politics. ainsley: mark meadows, chief of staff, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. janis has is with us. she has been following this tropical storm. it was a hurricane. hey, janis. janice: yes, the national hurricane center has issued last

advisory on sally. look at some of the winds gusts close to 100 miles per hour for parts of alabama and florida. received ports of over 30 inches of rainfall so that forecast definitely verified. we have had dozens of reports of so much damage all along the coast. we are seeing the potential for more flooding as the system finally exits the east coast for georgia, the carolinas up towards virginia. there is the additional rainfall totals so the flash flooding is imminent right now across areas of georgia in towards the mid-atlantic. watching hurricane teddy, this is expected to become a major hurricane in the next darius and perhaps taking aim on bermudas. and then we are going to have to watch teddy next week potentially coming close to the east coast. then we are also watching this area of lohse that could move into texas next week. so the tropics are busy to say the least. there are some of the tropical models that show you where this thing is going. we don't really know. it looks like crayons here.

bottom line it's busy in the tropics. next named storm is wilfred and then we go to the greek alphabet. we have only done that once and that was in 2005. ainsley: we are definitely going to do it then, flight we still have months and we are at w? janice: yep, several weeks. steve: see what happens. brian: if the earth would spin a little faster and shake off the urks. i will look into that. [laughter] you can do that, janis, i appreciate it. jillian, you have the other news. jillian: let's start with this. damages from unrest in kenosha, wink now topping $11 million. the fire chief says that's three years worth of fire loss for the city in about a week. following the august 23rd police shooting of jacob blake leaving him partially paralyzed. at least two dozen multiple businesses destroyed in the protest. a judge orders oregon to allow the g.o.p. statement in its

voter pamphlet after officials said they missed the deadline by 29 seconds judge ruling that the goch's end of the will be at the deadline which is more important than when the state finished processing the filing firefighters creating own version after battling oregon firefighters for 14 hours. watch this ♪ take me out to the fire ♪ take me out to the line ♪ will bring me some and hose. ♪ i don't care if i ever go home ♪ing. jillian: firefighters singing take me out to the fire line of course a play on the official anthem of baseball. and thank you for all of your hard work. steve: they have got to be exhausted. jillian, thank you very much. meanwhile the 55th annual american country music awards honoring the nation's best and something happened for the first

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brian: the 55th annual country music awards like no other months after. the keith urban taking the stage with a message about 2020. >> this has been an unpredictable, unsettling year for everyone. we are still in the midst of trying to fight two pandemics. covid-19 and social injustice. far too many lives have been lost to both. brian: thanks for that. here with big highlights fox news headlines 24/7 reporter carley shimkus. carley, first off, keith urban hosts. how did he do? >> i give him a lot of credit for hosting without an audience. it must have been pretty awkward to deliver some lines without anybody there to back him up. but as you just heard he kept his opening monologue pretty serious. this award show is usually held in april and it's usually held in las vegas. this year obviously five months later in nashville to keep

everybody in their hometown. and it went as well as you can expect like i said without an audience there. you really do miss that element. especially when they are announcing award winners and there is nobody there to clap. they did the best they could to cover it up with music and things like that. brian: country music awards generalization they tend to be themselves fun i can't understand self-efacing it seems less tilted than most. there was history being made for example on entertainer of the year. >> yeah. that's right. there were two winners. take a listen. >> and the winner of the acm expwarn of the year entertainer of the year is. [laughter] no way. we have a tie. thank you to the lord jesus christ, my lord and savior, thank you so much to my wife. >> thank you, fans, for coming out to see us, spending your hard earned money.

2020, man. >> as you saw the two winners thomas rhett and carrie underwood. how many people were upset about this tie. some people felt like it should have totally gone to carrie underwood and it was sexist that a man was included. but the academy of country music votes on this. i guess they have a even number of members maybe to avoid that next year they willed a one more member to make it an odd number. brian: i object admire anyone's life who can be affected by this besides those two. let's talk about a cane brown moment. he came in hot with a song that is really popular right now it's called worldwide beautiful. take a listen. ♪ one to another ♪ worldwide beautiful ♪ >> see people spaced out socially distanced in the audience there i have never heard this song before. i'm not as cool as i use offed

to be. it was beautiful. if you read the lyrics this is a song that i'm sure everybody can get behind, a message of unity and these, you know, difficult times. brian: you know what, carley? i don't know how did you it but did you it. recapped an entire awards show without an audience but made it effective here for our audience. i owe you that. >> i will clap for you on the way out of this one. brian: socially distanced way. i actually saw carley in the elevator. first time i was nut elevator with someone since 1951. thank you very much, carley. meanwhile, straight ahead. florida governor ron desantis and bill ford will both be here live with an exciting announcement. ♪ ut, i said, "why not"? why not just utilize that resource. and walmart made that path open for me. without the $1 a day program, i definitely don't think i'd be in school right now. each week for me in school

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we have a tie. thomas rhett, and carrie under wood. >> ♪ living in america brian: thank you, james brown who is not here now but it sounds like he is. you're looking at new york city and they got good news yesterday in new york city. the mayor promised to furlough himself, the worst mayor in america says i have an idea let me just go home. he's not going to pay himself or his staff for a couple weeks but pick-up the garbage which he said he wasn't going to do but now he decided to because a bunch of ceo's wrote him and said we're not coming back if the streets are filled with garbage and the crime is rampant so he says well what do you want me to do i'm waiting for the government to pay me, so he decided to pick-up the garbage and take off interesting response. steve: he's obviously a hands-on mayor clearly. you know, he's one of the people

who actually speaking has his handout to washington d.c. there are towns like new york city, there are states like new york, that need some money to help bail them out, because they've got all sorts of, you know the taxes have been sky high, they've spent so much money through the years and now, you know, nancy pelosi made it very clear a while back when she had like that $4 trillion covid bill. we need this amount of money to help those states, and those cities. well now, ainsley it has been paired back. she's getting closer to the republicans but still, there is a wide area between the two. ainsley: she wanted more than $3 trillion, republicans were saying more like 1 trillion. you have these moderate democrat s 25 of them and you have these republicans 25 republicans, they've come together for the problem-solvers caucus trying to solve this problem and they've come up with a $1.5 trillion relief plan. no word yet if it's going to

pass but democrat congressman from new york, max rose, said he is sick and tired of the politic s this is about the american people. i will tell you a positive story though. last night, for some birthday celebrations my friends went to this restaurant, tiny restaurant on the upper east side so the inside is closed. they put all of the tables on the outside and i think they rented more tables because it took up base echosystemly the whole city block. steve: wow. ainsley: everyone was out. people wore their masks until they got to their table and this nice gentleman drove up on a bicycle with a microphone and he started singing elvis presley and he started singing "new york , new york" and then walked around to collect tips from the tables and we just loved it. it was so nice. i think the restaurants even though they have been hurting the last few months at least this restaurant looks like they are making a lot of money because there are more tables than would even fit inside that tiny restaurant. brian: so in terms of helping out restaurants like that and getting people indoors and you can only do so much via the

president when a mayor or governor is deciding because of federalism what they do in their state, but steny hoyer steny hoyer sooner or later we have to get this done, we have to get a deal donald nancy pelosi is feeling the pressure from 25- 35 democrats who are going home now, and they are going to find out from the restaurant owner and the gym owner and find out from small business people what the deal is on their future , individuals who are los ing their jobs, the ppp loans are running out, and through no fault of their own, they are about to hit a brick wall. i saw a study that showed 45% of the public is concerned about losing their job, 43% feels as though they've already lost their job just a matter of having the announcement because they've been furloughed. mark meadows joined us earlier and he's involved in all of the negotiations and we wanted to not reality of getting a deal done. >> he was certainly willing to embrace the $1.5 trillion number that was put out in the last day

or so. it really depends on what the priorities are. you mentioned earlier airlines and the need for help there. i'm meeting with airline ceo's today. we've got tens of thousands of people that are about to be laid off, so if nothing more, let's go ahead and put that package on the floor and pass that, because hopefully, all of us can agree that laying off airline workers at this particular time is not something we should do. brian: so that's mark meadows earlier talking about the president because the president threw a monkey wrench into the mix because he said i want a big package. nancy pelosi wanted 3.4 trillion the republicans were offering less and then she said i'll come down to 2.4 trillion but i won't tell you exactly what's going to spend it in that's why people threw up their hands and said she's waiting for november 4 but now many people because i believe they are right in the middle of september are saying we can't wait. steve: 47 days everything is political. back in 2016 it was usc, they

had that poll that it was i think it was the only poll that predicted the trump wave, and they've come out with their very latest information about the state of the race and it's kind of interesting. joe biden, they say, has absolutely united the democrats, and, well, that's what he was supposed to do and he did but the problem is for joe biden, independents and moderate republicans that he would need in his column, they think he's too liberal. they are way too, he's way too liberal for them, and then when it comes to donald trump, you know, he's recently been talking about the law and order and law enforcement message and that has really resonated with his base. the problem is it does not really resonate beyond the base. the other problem for donald trump according to the usc poll is the fact of the leaners the people who are going to be deciding, you know, i'm leaning toward joe or i'm leaning toward donald trump and the

problem for donald trump is that of his leaners, only 75% will probably vote. when it comes to joe biden, with his leaners, 92% of his leaners will probably vote, so joe's got the edge there in that department. brian: changing the country dramatically all they should know about the filibuster is gone which means puerto rico becomes a state, d.c. becomes a state, the electoral college is gone you'll get goodbye oil & gas that's the trajectory of the country. it's not just the picturing two personalities. ainsley: you don't know what you're getting with this ticket because joe biden is the establishment and the one that's been more moderate in his voting and then kamala harris is so radical when you look at her voting record, and people are saying she's the placeholder, a trojan horse, so, whose policies are going to stand out the most? aoc says his -- brian: ainsley remember the debate? he was getting rid of fossil fuels and way to the left, everything except obamacare he

wanted to keep but make it more socialistic and now when he gets the nomination he wants everyone to be moderate joe. the question is, what's going to be behind the curtain? steve: but he ran that sound bite earlier, aoc said essentially once he gets elected we're going to pull him to the left. ainsley: push him to the left. steve: so many independents and moderate republicans say he's already too far to the left. meanwhile, the debates ultimately will be something that a lot of people decide which of the two they like and who they will vote for on november 3. for a lot of people that belong, you know, the question is about the policies. its been hard to get joe biden to pin him down for the reporter s on his absolute policies because he does not really answer questions from reporters. unless they're on his list, and apparently, unless the campaign likes that outlet. here he is yesterday in wilmington, as he pulls out the list, with five names on it.

>> i'd be happy to take some questions now, if that's okay. let me get my list here. everybody is sitting. okay. abc, mary? number five, i have to call on my hometown paper, the news journal. steve: okay, so, there you go. fox has never been on that list for whatever reason. joe biden did actually -- brian: why, why would that be? steve: joe biden did answer one of peter doocey's questions a couple weeks ago but after he turned around and started to leave and he said mr. vice president i've got a question about covid and he didn't like that but nonetheless, you know -- ainsley: he didn't answer it? steve: no. well, he said words but he -- brian: came out against it. steve: the whole thing, he did not answer the question.

clearly. going forward though, you know, that kind of interplay with reporters would help him get ready for the debate but apparently he has a debate coach and he does not want to debate with reporters ainsley. ainsley: well when you look at the polls and we know polls can be very wrong, he's doing pretty well, in some of these swing states. he's winning. steve: the winning strategy so far. ainsley: so why would he change his strategy if it's working why would he put himself out there for gas and to be asked the tough questions. brian: and to add to that he gets himself in so much trouble and he does. remember if you vote for the other guy you ain't black? do you remember what he told, are you on drugs? he told the reporter who asked him a tough question. are you a junkie? remember that? when he gets in those unscripted situations all bets are off and i'm sure he scares the heck out of his handlers. ainsley: people are anxious to see these debates the first one is on the 29th of september and a lot of people are already voting. and early vote in a lot of these

states. steve: and brian to your point about when he's off the tele prompter there are problems. that's why there's been the suggestion. is he using a teleprompter because at the non-reporter events because it's essentially a zoom call with a live stream, he has a list of who he's going to call on next, and so they already know what questions they are going to ask, so the suggestion is from the trump team is is that he's also got the answers so when he deviates from the teleprompter that's when he gets in trouble. brian: do you remember when dustin hoffman played tootsie, and he used to ad-lib off the script and there was panic in the control room? that's my image of joe biden about to answer questions where there is no script. oh, my goodness, hold on tight, honey it's about to hit an iceberg. ainsley: [laughter] oh, my gosh. steve: that was a funny movie.

ainsley: brian sometimes you're funny. jillian over to you. jillian: good morning. every now and then you're funny, brian. let's start off with this story we're following one of the two deputies shot during an ambush in california is released from the hospital. the la county sheriff's office says the 24-year-old still has a long road to recovery. meanwhile sheriff alex villanuev a says they are closer to finding the gunman behind the attack. we are making progress. our detectives are confident they are on the right path, we've followed multiple leads and we're just piecing the whole story together and i think we're off on the right path. jillian: the other injured deputy a 31-year-old mother remains in the hospital her condition is unknown. >> 250 marines and sailors are heading to california to help battle the massive wildfires. they will deploy to the sierra national forest where the creek fire is burning more than 200,000-acres have been burned. it is just 18% contained. it comes as strong winds and dry heat threaten to spark new fires

across the state. >> today president trump is heading to wisconsin for a great american comeback rally. the campaign stop will follow a busy day in washington, where the president is scheduled to participate in two events. meanwhile joe biden is set to visit his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania today before attending a cnn town hall. >> christmas coming a bit early this year for at least one family. a woman in the uk decking the halls in september in hopes of spreading holiday cheer. the winter wonderland includes 3,000 lights outside, and eight foot inflatable snowmen, along with santa. she says its been a hard year with the pandemic but hopes this will make her neighbors smile, or it'll scare them i don't know. i mean i love the holidays but i don't know about this. ainsley: if that's your neighbor are you up all night because the lights are shining in your house. her electric bill is going to be huge. steve: how about you wake up in the middle of september and there are christmas decorations next door. it's like did i sleep through

october, november, and december? ainsley: it is 2020 nothing surprises us. steve: no kidding jillian thank you very much. ainsley: i like her cheer and happiness. brian thanks for weighing in on this. brian: no problem i'll do it in the break. steve: he's thinking of dustin hoffman movies involving the holidays. all right, coming up, florida's panhandle hit with devastating flooding from sally you know that so now the national guard is being sent into help and governor desanta fe us joins us live from florida, next. nk or eg that's acidic it sucks the minerals out of the tooth's surface. pronamel is formulated to help deliver minerals to the tooth's surface to help reharden and strengthen your enamel.

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us live from peninsulas where the national guard is expected to arrive today. ashley? reporter: good morning we're still here at this marina in the downtown pensacola area take a lack at this behind me. this is what seems to be possibly a house boat that is destroyed. you can see some desks and some tables, and a lot of debris i said earlier you've got the faint smell of gas, the water is very oily. you can see , well you can't see it right now but i showed it to you earlier but there is that gas in the water and bells and whistles going off and also, something else that happened, pretty structurally damaged was the pensacola bay bridge. first it got hit on tuesday, from the storm. a barge hit that bridge and then on wednesday, the hurricane came through and another barge hit that bridge. the second barge was actually they decided not to move it because the storm was supposed to hit further west, and that is

what i was talking about with people not being exactly too prepared for this storm, because of the way it was shifting they were unclear, unsure. a lot of these people that's why i'm assuming these people didn't move their boats is because of that exact same situation, with the barge owner. there are rescues there's been hundreds of rescues done in this area because of hurricane sally, and 200 national guard troops are expected to be here today to help with recovery efforts back to you. ainsley: all right thank you so much ashley. well joining us with an update is florida's governor ron desantis. governor good to see you this morning. >> good morning. ainsley: so what is your message for the folks there in the great state of florida that are dealing with this especially those in pensacola? >> well our number one priority is to protect life. when you have this amount of water, the saying is hide from the wind but run from the water. the water can be really hazardous. when you're talking about two to three feet that's been dumped on some of these areas, that's a

big deal. fortunately, with local official s, with our state response and help from the federal government, they've been hundreds of rescue missions , they brought people to safety, we have fortunately not had any reported fatalities as of yet we want to keep that going so the thats really number one. number two is theres a lot of people now without power. the power companiesed couldn't get in yesterday because you still had a lot of winds and that's now died down so getting people's power back on is a priority, and then three, the flooding isn't really over, because as the rain dumps in places like alabama and georgia north of the state of florida, all that water ends upcoming down indifferent streams and rivers so all these bodies of water in northwest florida you're probably going to see them rise and crest and you could see even more flooding over the next couple days so people just need to be vigilant on that and make sure they are putting their personal safety first. we had probably several hundred as of right now, homes that have been either destroyed or severe

ly damaged because of that flood and that's obviously a very difficult thing. we want to help those folks too. we will, though, be able to rebuild home. we just can't be able if you don't put your physical safety first that's something that we may not be able to get a mulliga n on. brian: all right so i know you're all over that and when you're governor of florida you have to be willing to handle natural disasters. let's talk about the election. we know joe biden was in there, the president has to win florida or he probably cannot win re-election. a lot of i guess responsibility will be on your shoulders to give an idea the way jeb bush gave george w. bush an idea, where rick scott really helped the president get it four years ago, so there is this big story you might have read that says basically, there's some friction between you guys and the white house and that you're not helping the president enough in florida. how would you characterize it? >> typical false nonsense. i think that's being generated by people probably don't have my best interest at heart.

i've raised the president more money by like 10 than any governor in the country. we've done a bunch of stuff in florida. i think he's had problems with the campaign some of the folks in florida but that obviously are things that i'm not included on. brian: well what's the problem? what is the problem that you saw that you weren't included in? >> well, you know, i would say we have an opportunity to really improve the performance in miami-dade county. the president's record has been strong down there. that was not a good county in 2016 at all. it was really a historic blowout he was still able to win, even with all of that, so we're able to go and close that gap there and then with all of the strength throughout the rest of the state i don't see how biden is able to win and i think the issue contrasts are very strong, you know, biden is somebody that says he would shut down the country when he's president. that is a disaster. we cannot do that. that will not play well here in florida, and then obviously, on foreign policy the president has

been very successful. biden's record has been one of repeated failures, and he's probably the most subservient politician to china of the last four years we need a president like trump whose tough on china. steve: governor what do you make of there was that nbc mayor's poll that came out and showed president was actually ahead of joe biden with latinos by close to five points. couple that with the story from last week where something like a thousand people, is it a day, move into florida? and my question is, from other states. given that so many are moving from new york and new jersey and places like that, blue states, does that impact the election this time, with so many people who are new to voting in the florida big race? >> big florida is always a work in progress. i think it's very dynamic and the electorate is always in flux i would say though the reason why a lot of people are moving

to florida is because they see greener pastures down here from where they're coming from. you have people that are happy to get out of some of the high tax, high unemployment states, and they want to come down to florida and do better, and i think those are probably going to be voters who are going to tend towards the president but it is something where we have so many new voters added to the pot every election cycle, that it's a little bit more challenging in florida than it be in some other states that don't see the type of growth and incidentally, the pandemic has not slowed down at all. the home builders are building homes left and right. people are wanting to come down and move, and i think you probably will see that sentiment even accelerate because some of the areas that they were leaving while they're high tax and have a lot of problems now you have a lot of the lawlessness and the high crime, you know, where we don't tolerate that in florida so they know that we're going to have a safe environment here. ainsley: yeah i think this pandemic has made us all take a step back and look at our

lives and think what's important to us, saving money, our families, spending time with family and our loved ones and focusing on what's really important so a lot of people are moving down to florida where they can save a lot of money thank you so much, governor. >> thank you. ainsley: you're welcome. still ahead the big 10 pulling a 180 and will kickoff the football season next month. our next guest's son is a big star player at ohio state and rallied outside conference headquarters and his reaction to the reversal, coming up next. >> ♪ we put our hands up like the ceiling can hold us ♪ i'm happy to give you the tour, i love doing it.

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jillian: good morning we're back with quick headlines the u.s. set to bring back sanctions on iran this weekend. it could cause a show down at the united nations as some countries say the move is illegal. the trump adminitration is expected to restore sanctions that were eased under the 2015 nuclear deal. >> and today president trump expects to get a report on a company's bid to buy tiktok. the president says he's not ready to sign off on anything just yet because he has to see the deal first. the report is about a bid for the video-sharing app by

computer software company oracle brian? brian: all right thanks so much jillian. so, some real big news yesterday and the president was extremely excited. he played a role in it the parents the players and the president worked hard with heel officials to get the big 10 to play football, why? we learned more about this virus , number two as you know the acc is playing, the f cc is playing and maybe the pac-12 will be playing so that is great news, they are going to play football. one of the people that made this happen is a parent, randy w ade, and still deciding whether he's going to come back or just be a first round draft pick without even playing this year, but randy? it wasn't about your son this was about playing football and the families and players in the big 10 wasn't it? >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah, it was definitely not about me. it was about these parents and different situations that the kids are in, and by them not playing in the fall it just hurt

them tremendously and not just like in their feelings but as far as preparing for the draft and stuff like tax just holding them back. brian: so when you saw the sec , the acc playing football you actually saw them play what were you thinking? the frustration must have been off the charts. >> i'm like this is crazy. this is crazy. the big 10 is the best conference in america, is not playing. the nfl is playing, and we're not playing, and it just was unthinkable. it was unthinkable. brian: so you have your son, shawn whose still deciding whether he wants to come back or not and you just tell me he's worried because in his head he's preparing for the combines and preparing for the pros, so you're worried about him coming back this year in a season that has him playing in a few weeks, right? >> yeah, this is not an ordinary season. so coming back quick, you know,

it is my focus so right now, yesterday was his birthday so we partied yesterday. we are just getting up and we're going to talk about it later on in the day, but what's more important right now, for his future what's more important? winning the championship at ohio state or running a 4.3 in the combine? you know, he has to think about his future at the same time. it's not his fault that this happened for 30 something days with no information no transparency, but we're going to definitely think about it. brian: so the word from the conference is while we're so much better off than we were five weeks ago, so much more prepared than we were 43 days ago do you think that's it that we're better prepared that they have different protocols or do you think it's something else? >> i definitely think it's something else but i'm sitting here with the rest of the parent s and we're happy that

at the end of the day, we wanted transparency but at the end of the day the bottom line was we want to make football safe. we as a parent and the fans thought they shut it down too early. of course we don't know, it don't seem to matter. our kids are playing and have a chance to play for the national championship. brian: randy your son is going to go pro but it's not about going pro is it? it's about the team, the journey that'll never be replaced and those moments for parents, players, fans, the school, you won't have the fans in the stands but they will have something to watch. this was a unnecessary sacrifice , final thought? >> yes, unnecessary sacrifice, my final thought is the parents from the big 10 we need to stay together, and build some kind of union to have a voice for the players. the players go through so many things that have nothing to do with coronavirus on a daily

basis and it gets brushed under the rug by different schools and we need to stay together and form a union for the players because they have no voice. everybody else does. brian: well don't stop even when your son graduates and whatever he decides to do because you are definitely a powerful voice. pac-12 you saw what just happened. get your act together, get some protocols the resources are there, get back on the field. randy thanks so much and i hope shawn makes the right decision. he can't make a wrong decision, would love to see him on the field if not we'll see him when he gets paid to play. >> thanks for having me. brian: go get them. randy wade. still ahead ford making a major announcement this morning about a brand new truck and hundreds of american jobs. ford motor company executive bill ford joins us live, the details, next.

steve: back with a fox news alert the weekly jobless claims

just released and that's the number right there, 860,000 people filed for first time unemployment last week, that's about 10,000 more than predicted more than 60 million americans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic started in march. and speaking of jobs, a major announcement from ford motor company this hour. the detroit auto giant unveiling a $700 million investment creating hundreds, 300 new jobs, producing their all-new f-150 pickup joining us we've got the executive chairman of ford motor company, bill ford joins us from dearborn, bill, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: tell us about the new pickup. when i was growing up in kansas we had an f-150 and i've always had a soft spot in my heart for that. >> well, you know, you weren't alone. its been the best-selling vehicle in america for many many years, and in fact we make

every 52 seconds one comes off the line, but this is going to be very different. we're building an all-new, all- electric f-150 that's going to be on the road in two years. it's going to be amazing. steve: and the thing that i've been reading about this new vehicle, the thing about it is you say this will be the most powerful f-150 ever made, because i think that a lot of people think oh, an electric car , it doesn't really have that much umph, but this is going to be the most powerful pickup you've ever made. >> yeah, and it has to be, because of the perception you just outlined. i think we have to come out of the box really strong with this vehicle. you may have seen a promo that we were in where we were pulling all these freight trains with a prototype f-150 electric, and yeah it's going to be legit. it's going to be a really powerful great f-150. the other thing is you can use

the vehicle to power your work site, so if you think of it, it becomes a portable generator. steve: i read about that and that just fantastic especially for people who don't have a generator at their house, they lose electricity because of a storm or something like that, and it be very helpful. you know, one of the things so you're spending $700 million, you're going to create 300 new jobs there. i did not realize this , but half a million americans earn their living making f-150s. >> well actually, the number that actually make the f-150 is considerably smaller but that's the total employment that the f -150 creates and pcg did a study and it said that the f- 150 is responsible for 500,000 jobs in the u.s. , and that's, you know, suppliers and all the things that go into it, but yeah, it's a huge number

and that just shows how important this vehicle is, not just to ford but to the country. steve: well i'm sure a lot of people are going to look at the new f-150 and consider it for their new truck and it's all electric. you just plug it in i guess. i got to say thank you, by the way, mr. ford. as the pandemic was striking the world, ford turned on a dime and suddenly, your assembly lines were pumping out ppe, gowns, masks, shields, ventilators and you're still doing it aren't you? >> we are. that's one of the , i think it really underscores the importance of having a strong manufacturing base in this country, because when the country needed all that stuff, there was frankly only one industry that could gear up to make lots of it. there were other industries that could make highly-sophisticated things but they can't make many of them. other industries can make a lot

of very low-tech things, but there was only one industry that could make a high-tech machine and make a lot of them and that was ours, and so yeah, we completely pivoted and as you point out, we made respirators, ventilators, gowns, masks, shields, and we did all of that and right now, we're kind of finishing up, at least we hope we are, with the ventilators and we're committing to making 100 million masks that we're going to give away to cities and first responders, hospitals, all around the country. steve: that is fantastic well thank you very much on behalf of a grateful nation. before you go how is the car business during the pandemic? >> you know, the car business is actually really good. if you think of it in some ways, the car and the truck is personal ppe really. people feel very safe in their own vehicles, so when we went into this whole covid thing, we actually thought that we were

going to see pretty precipitous drop in sales and we didn't. we saw a little bit of a drop, but its come roaring back and we're actually running now at pre-covid levels. steve: unbelievable, bill ford executive chairman of ford motor company, sir, thank you very much for joining us live with the big announcement of your new pickup. >> thank you, guys thank you very much. steve: good luck to you. all right, quarter before the top of the hour and jillian joins us with some news from the twin cities. jillian: so let's start with this story minneapolis city council members demanding answers from police as crime spikes across the country or across the city. shootings reaching a five-year high the city council calling on law enforcement for help despite pledging to dismantle the police just months ago. minnesota gop congressional candidate lace it lee johnson joined us earlier to react. >> just shows you how out of touch our city council is. what we need are trained career

police officers who suggest we demilitarize the police or de fund the police and do not understand what it's like out here in our community. jillian: the police chief telling councilmembers an all hands-on deck approach is needed to combat the violence. >> a 9-year-old statue of jesus is vandalized inside a texas church and less say isiah cantre ll barged into the cathedral knocking the statue to the ground. the statues arms and a portion of its base also severely damaged and the church was open for prayer at the time. cantrell has been charged with criminal mischief and possession of marijuana. >> florida senators marco rubio and rick scott are pushing to keep the country on daylight saving time. >> this year with the pandemic having disrupted so many things, the last thing we need disrupted on top of that is our clock. reporter: the senators introduced a bill that would skip the time change this fall keeping the country on daylight

saving time until november 2021. those are your headlines i'll send it back to you. ainsley: we have another news headline this morning. brian: this just in? ainsley: this just in, today is jillian's birthday. [applause] ♪ ♪ jillian: wait is that the good chocolate cake? steve: it is the good chocolate cake and flowers as well. jillian, this is your life! jillian: thank you, i know it's such a bizarre year but i'm grateful for all of you. brian: wherever you are. [laughter] ainsley: we're glad you were born i hope you'll celebrate in a big way today. jillian: in 13 minutes i'll be 38. ainsley: oh, really? steve: i bet friday after work will be a bigger party. >> ♪ celebration brian: happy birthday, jillian, glad you're here and ainsley is glad you were born. ainsley: i am very glad. jillian: happy early birth toy to you, ainsley.

brian: there goes the surprise! all right, meanwhile, we'll check in with jillian and we'll try to find out what she's doing in 13 minutes meanwhile celebrities including kim kardashian freezing their social media accounts for 24 hours to stop the spread of hate speech but tom shulu says there's something you don't realize so let's go to sandra smith and find out what she put together. >> sandra: we put together a lot happy birthday to jillian, good morning, everyone, brian expecting live events coming up speaker nancy pelosi discussing money for covid testing, alabama governor kay ivy updates on the impact on hurricane sally and gop leadership polls a press briefing plus 54 days out from election day joe biden heading to pennsylvania, donald trump to wisconsin. we're going to take the touch screen for a spin this morning, and ask about the candidates strategies, peter navarro from the white house, jam packed show come join, america's news room live top of

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facebooks and their instagram accounts for 24 hours to support the stop hate for profit campaign. kim kardashian-west telling her followers why she participated saying "i love that i can connect directly with you through instagram and facebook, but i can't sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate propaganda and misinformation." created by groups to so division and split america apart, here with his reaction is tom shulu comedian and fox nation host, hey, tom. >> good morning. ainsley: what do you think about this? >> wow, 24 hours, they are going to stop posting this is unbelievable. i think that i participated in this boycott without even realizing it. ainsley: [laughter] i know, a lot of people at home, yeah, i agree but you know, the attempt is good and kim kardashian i know how much she helped alice johnson so i like her because of what she has done for prison reform, so i'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. i think it's a good attempt but do you think celebrities could do more? >> well look, they could do

more, but they seem to think that posting something is doing something. i'm not sure most of these celebrities realize what this group is all about. they've been doing this facebook boycott and they're admitting this group, it's a hodge-podge of left wing groups and trying to control the political discourse until election and they say on their website, this is so important, because we have an important election coming up and we have to stay on this what they call misinformation. the problem is groups like this , they define what they use the words "hate", misinformation , violence, it's what they define as hate. what they define as misinformation, but as you can see , tucker carlson had his social media accounts censored by these big tech companies. what people define as misinformation is often simply information that some people don't like. ainsley: you're absolutely right about that. what about fox nation you have this thing called happy hour. how many three or four of you all sit around and talk?

>> four, sometimes we don't know whose going to show up but yeah, we sit around and we have cocktails and we do trivia. it's one of my favorite things to do. this show is, it's way more fun than you would expect. sitting around, asking trivia questions, we got some great guests on the show you can see rick leventhal, carlie shimk is, and we have drinks so things get silly by the end and it's a lot of trivia and it's a whole lot of fun. ainsley: what's your drink of choice? >> i like tequilla lately in the summer months i love tequilla and rum but since we're getting into the fall i can start my whiskey. ainsley: oh, got it seasonal thing. tom, look forward to watching that next one because i love all those people on your panel. thank you so much. >> thanks. ainsley: more fox & friends just moments away. knowing who we are is hard.

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show. >> our guest will be barrasso and kevin brady. with the remaining seconds i want to give it to ainsley. >> i will just watch your show. you sold me on it. >> sandra: rescues are underway this morning across the south after hurricane sally ripped through the region yesterday. the storm has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it makes its way through georgia. it has already led to widespread flooding and left more than half a million people without power. the storm is blamed for at least one death. a live report from the hard-hit city of pensacola in just a few moments. but we begin with president trump and joe biden both hitting the campaign trail today. the president set to speak to voters in wisconsin tonight. while joe biden holds a town