x planes and vehicles engines] ♪♪ sfx: [sounds of children laughing and running, life moving forward] >> grateful for everything, so much to be thankful for a special we went right in front of you is the prospect of being taken aways up the appreciation for all the goodness in your life. one thing i learned is there is good in everything that happens. it may not present itself for weeks or months but there is good in anything that happens if you look for it. todd: it is thursday february 18th. remembering rush limbaugh, a conservative talk radio trailblazer.

ainsley: he passed away after a battle with lung cancer but his impact on conservatives, america and the world lives on. >> he was fantastic man, fantastic pilot. people whether they loved him or not respected him. he loved his country. loved the country, but his wife and his family and loved his fans from his audience which was maybe the biggest ever. irreplaceable. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. todd: tributes pouring in for rush limbaugh. jillian: carley shimkus joins us with the latest. steve: the nation at leading lawmakers paying tribute to rush limbaugh. he died wednesday morning little more than a year after announcing stage iv lung cancer diagnosis. his wife broke the news of his passing on his radio show. >> there will be a tremendous

void in our lives and on radio. i would like to thank each and every one of you who rallied around rush and lifted him up when he needed you the most. steve: -- carley: donald trump awarding him the medal of freedom one day after revealing his cancer diagnosis was the former president reflecting on that moment yesterday. >> it was an idea we had that a lot of people suggested. it was an amazing night because republicans went wild and the democrats set their. rush was one of the great honors of his life. carley: the rush limbaugh show was the most listened to radio show in the country attracting 27 million people per week.

his voice even influencing some of the nation's leading lawmakers. >> i was inspired to go into conservative talk radio in the 1990s because of rush. he inspired not only tens of millions of young conservatives across the country but reinvented a.m. radio. carley: the legendary hosts said he outlive his prognosis. >> i wasn't expecting to make it to october and then november and december and yet here i am. extremely fortunate and lucky. i out lived the diagnosis. carley: tributes pouring in across social media. country music star john rich remembering limbaugh's generosity remembering when i was on celebrity apprentice rush limbaugh made a donation of 100,$000 to children's hospital

to support my mission on the tv show under the condition that they be anonymous. i never said a word until now. he will be missed. texas senator ted cruz tweeting rush is a patriot and a lionhearted defender of freedom. south carolina senator lindsey graham tweeting in parts conservatism has lost one of its strongest advocates. rush limbaugh was 70 years old. >> let's bring in tomi lahren, fox nation host and fox contributor. how did rush influence you? >> i sit here is one of the young conservative voices. i would not have this career or be doing what i'm doing if not for rush limbaugh. i remember listening to him on the way to school with my mom. i remember listening to someone who was a fearless warrior for freedom and a voice that had

gripped me and so many conservatives around the nation. he will not be forgotten. he will not be easily replaced. he can never be replaced but people like me and the younger generation of conservatives, we will take his lead and make them proud, i can promise you that. >> the other generation of conservatives, those who are up and coming, spent a lot of time talking about conservative versus liberalism on college campuses and things like that. what do you want the younger generation to know and to remember about rush limbaugh and his impact? >> look at someone like russia was fearless. there are so many young conservatives especially on college campuses and elsewhere who are terrified of standing up for their conservative values, terrified to be fearless, brave and bold and i tell him look at someone like russ, look at the career he had, the impact he

had, it pays to be bold, pays to be fearless and we have to stand up now since we lost touch icon & in this new generation of young conservative voices. we have to be stronger and louder than ever before. we know that to someone like rush limbaugh and although i am deeply saddened by his -- the tragic loss of rush i am also deeply inspired to pick up where he left off and encourage all the young conservatives out there to do the same thing. he was the original disruptor and something that has been inspirational to me and i would not be if not for someone like him. >> you mentioned the need for young conservatives to be brave during this day and age in which we live and i think you alluded to why they need to be brave, on social media you pointed out some really file comments from many on the left in effect celebrating his death is my on this, regardless of politics, who celebrate someone dying? >> this is something we see from the left time and again and the fact that was trending on yesterday was trending on twitter is truly despicable and disgusting but i am not

surprised though i am sickened. i wish liberals would take a look and understand that whether they like him or not, whether they agree with his politics, he's a man, a person, a human being, he has family and friends and the fact that they would celebrate his death goes to show the way the left is gone and the way their movement has gone and i would hope they have a change of heart, this is group of people that talks about unity and coming together and we can to do that when they are celebrity the death of anyone and i would remind people these are the same people who didn't celebrate but mourned the death of terrorists. take a good hard look at what they truly believe in and understand someone like rush, look at his career and understands he's an impressive man on radio and what he was able to bring in this country and on talk radio. he paved the way for them as well. i hope they understand that. >> appreciate speaking to our viewers today, thank you. jillian: many in our fox news family new rush limbaugh for years. todd: sean hannity and tucker carlson share their thoughts on

the radio legend. >> watch the movie the bucket list was a great movie, morgan freeman, jack nicholson, if i only have a year to live or whatever, rush's bucket list was to be with all of you. his listeners. is bucket list was to do what he was born to do and he did, even fighting through, you know what cancer treatments are like, we all know somebody who has been through that. it is hell on earth, go to the treatment, get well, since he got well enough he race to the studio to follow his bucket list, being on the air. >> is unbridled talent, his showmanship, his unwavering patriotism, his uproarious sense of humor and boundless and susie as and for his craft, his endless love for his listening audience, his defiance perseverance even in the face of

cancer gave us comfort and inspiration. >> limbaugh was a profoundly talented broadcaster, that's not why he endured for generations and single-handedly reshape the media business which he did. he actually believed things with sincerity. that was his secret was what he believes most of all is that america is a good and decent place and worth preserving. >> we will be remembering rush limbaugh. all he did and the legacy he leaves behind all morning long. shannon: new york governor andrew cuomo is reportedly under investigation by the doj and fbi over his handling of nursing home death. >> cuomo's administration releases the transcript of a controversial uncle sparking accusations of a cover-up. >> the only time supporting federal agents and us attorney's office in brooklyn open the

investigation, the governor's office releases the full transcript of the 2-hour meeting between state lawmakers and top aide melissa derosa. during that meeting she acknowledged cuomo withheld data requested by lawmakers saying, quote, we were in a position where we weren't sure if what we were going to give that apartment of justice are what we give to you guys was going to be used against us, we weren't sure if there was going to be an investigation. new york state assemblyman ron kim is facing attacks from cuomo. >> my office more than me is how long and hostile relationship with his will: ron kim. he has a meeting with our legislators and members of my staff. on tape at the meeting he says positive things. there's been a story that moves in the new york post where he

says the exact opposite. >> reporter: new york state senator coming to commit stevens rating governor cuomo's statement about us and remember kim are part of a disturbing pattern of behavior from the governor. instead of accepting responsibility for mistakes the governor has chosen to deflect blame and evade accountability time and again. a senior aide released the statement, quote, we do agree we did not provide enough public information which created a void for conspiracy theories to flourish. we accept responsibility for creating the void and in a perfect world the conspiracy theories would accept responsibility also. senator ted cruz along with several other republicans are calling for the immediate investigation into the new york governor. cnn stopped chris cuomo was talking to andrew cuomo. he will discuss holding the governor accountable.

>> 11 minutes after the hour, the power still out in texas as cold groups the state. the texas welder losses on the keystone pipeline joins us with a warning about president biden's anti-energy policies. >> rush limbaugh warned president biden about alienating blue-collar workers. that and morris tributes to the radio icon continue to pour in straightahead.

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>> white house press secretary -- as president biden's green energy policies are blamed in part for leaving 3 million texas in the cold without power. >> reporter: he joins us with a warning, we saw you a few weeks ago when the order went into effect. energies your area of expertise. we don't pretend to know much about the world of energy but you know what happens behind-the-scenes in a situation like this. what really went down here? >> when you go taking cold and gas-fired generators out, the people in the state of texas right now, 90 miles, last year they shut down a great big call file generating plants, it has been there since i was a child and you go and drive in cities,

just like two days ago, me and one of my best friends, went to his daughter's rescue with two children, her husband, because they hadn't had power two days, her house is 40 some degrees in memory two kids because of no electricity and we had to carry on protein, we had to carry on gas, when you have no electricity what have you got to stay warm by in below 0 wind chills. another thing is, they said this is the only time, when is the last time we had a great big crisis? let you tell you something. they need together in one basket and be able to take care of whatever catastrophe comes to the american people because they are not doing their job, they are trying to go solar and wind. all you got to do is google when doyle weeks, wind generator oil leaks, just look at that and it is sad. >> like a jump in for a second, there's an interesting article

in texas tribune and it has a couple quotes from energy resource professor at the university of austin in texas and he talks about how all of texas's energy sources share blame for this power crisis. he said the natural gas industry is most notably producing significantly less power than normal. other people arguing texas didn't winterize the wind turbines. there's a lot happening here as part of this conversation and finger-pointing and blame, what do you think about that, what do you think of the winterization of wind turbines? is that something that needs to be done in texas? >> i will tell you what needs to happen. they can't bring back coal-fired generating plants. if you shut them down your taking power out of the grid. that is what i am saying. if they would quit shutting

things down and try, shutting it down, trying to go to wind and solar it is not going to work. look at the money they are having to expend. whenever i was going to rescue the people, bringing them gas, i live up in north texas. i went by hundred something wind turbines, you know how many were spinning? not but 3 out of 100. every one of the was set in steel, they were not even moving, they are not getting a late electric power. let me tell you, you have a good call fire or gas-fired, you've got some energy going, because you have steam coming out the top, none of these generators were running, that is what i am saying, people are out of power. >> we are paying attention to the situation in texas, kind of jumped up, a lot of people in

texas. we need to expect the unexpected, that is what -- what you think is happening in texas. >> it is 19 after the hour. a dozen people rescued after a boat.collapses overnight, the investigation into how it happened. todd: investigating andrew cuomo handling of nursing homes as. john lou joins us next on holding the governor accountable.

todd: eight people shot, one

critically outside philadelphia subway station, ranging 17-71 years old, one person taken into custody, two guns were recovered. in a statement the mayor saying in part, quote, mass shooting in broad daylight was another tragic example of the vicious, outrageous and delectable gun violence epidemic threatening the lives and safety of fellow philadelphians. a single district in san francisco sees burglaries or 340% following a series of police reports, police data shows 124 burglaries compared to 28 in the same period year ago, crime search comes as the city's mayor outlines a list of police reforms, including officers not responding to noncommittal calls, cutting the budget by 120 million bucks over the next two years and diverging funds to black communities. jillian: us attorney in brooklyn and fbi clearly investigating andrew cuomo handling of nursing

home death, this estate senators from his own party are calling on the governor's emergency powers to be revoked, state senator john lewis among women joins us to explain, appreciate it. why do you think his power should be stripped? at least some of them? >> almost a year ago we granted the governor emergency powers because a global pandemic was upon us, infection and death rates in new york were spiking and we didn't know what to do but we want government to be quick and nimble enough to deal with any kind of crisis or emergencies the came along but today, nearly a year later is a much different situation. there is much more known about covid-19, how to deal with it in the community, how to treat people in hospitals, the vaccine is on its way, it is a move to revoking those emergency powers

would be a move back towards normalcy and a time when proper checks and balances exist in government. jillian: hindsight is 20/20 but when did things change for you in the last year as far as your opinion on the governor's handling of the pandemic and specifically what happened in nursing homes? >> the governor from the beginning god and earned a lot of phrase from people with his news conferences daily but seemed very forthright and honest with people whether the news was good or bad but in more recent weeks and months there have been a string of revelations that have given pause to exactly what his administration has been doing, the attorney general's report on how he handled the covid-19 situation in nursing homes, a

couple weeks ago the mayor of new york city asking the federal government to provide vaccines as opposed to going to the state because of seeming bureaucratic red tape and last week's disclosures by top staff about the fact or they would say the probability that they did hide or delay the disclosure of some key information with regard to nursing home death. hindsight is 2020. i'm not here to do monday morning quarterbacking or thursday morning as it be, in a pandemic a lot of decisions needs to be made. some decisions were made but the point is you have to be honest and upfront with people as people thought he was originally at the beginning.

we don't need the emergency powers anymore. jillian: a lot of people don't think he has been honest from the beginning, people are demanding answers and people who are demanding apologies and they deserve them too. we will continue to follow it. new york state senator john luke, thank you for your time, appreciate it. todd: remembering a conservative radio pioneer who captured the attention of millions for more than 30 years. >> let me tell you who we conservatives are. we love people. >> south carolina congressman ralph moorman says rush limbaugh preached conservatives in a that few others could, he joins us with distribute next.

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tell you who we conservatives are, we love people. we see americans. we see human beings. we don't see groups. we don't see victims. we don't see people we want to exploit. what we see, what we see is potential. steve: we pay tribute to property passed away yesterday at the age of 70 after a year-long battle with stage iv lung cancer. todd: here to weigh his impact on the republican party, ralph moorman. what did he do better than most when it came to articulating the conservative cause? >> he had a with words. he was unapologetic, unabashedly unapologetic, his message never

changed, faith, family and freedom, what made this country what it was and he did it in a way that is funny, that he emphasized words and did in a way that caused people to tune in 3 hours a day 5 days a week like no weather. and icon that will be remembered for a long time. jillian: you should know him personally but that speaks to how much of an impact it had on so many people he never even met, you being one of them. >> he identified with people of all walks of life whether you had money or didn't. he struck a nerve in america and like no other and to do what he did, didn't have a college education, but he was a small-town boy, fame never phased him and he emphasized the

greatness of america and i would love to tune him in and it will be interesting on the house for next week if ms. pelosi will allow us to have a moment of silence for the greatest american who explained what this country was about but i think we have ever seen. >> so the last answer, how crucial was it to rush of success that he allowed the regular american to sound off during his 3 hours on the air? >> he allowed the regular american to express himself, he took -- answered questions and he did it in a funny way. he made fun of liberals and himself. he was always -- when i first tuned in, been fired from 5 different jobs, but he was an icon. rush limbaugh will be remembered for telling the truth and faith, family and freedom, fabric of this country and we won't see

another rush limbaugh in our lifetime anyway. >> to that point there are a lot of people in this country who disagreed with him on a lot of issues and topics but don't you think in some way he paved the way for those even on the other side of the spectrum to have his powerful voices he did? >> he did. he said things that were unexpected, that part of his greatness was ad-libbing a lot of things, talked about talent on loan from god, i listened to the radio yesterday, that silence has returned to god but just to make it fair when have you heard that from anybody? he was special, somebody that had a bond with people of all walks of life and it is rare to see this for as long as he was able to do it and even to the end he was so thankful for the listeners, he never forgot where he came from.

jillian: congressman ralph moorman, thank you for joining us. todd: ultimate sign of love, 10-year-old boy dies after leaping into a frozen pond to save his little sister. the family of benjamin luckett morning his law say he died trying to hold his 6-year-old sister abigail out of the water. they were playing outside their home in shelby county, tennessee. abigail had to be put on a ventilator, right now she is recovering. shannon: 12 people rescued, the heavy piece of metal trapping people inside houseboats, first responders deploying boats because conditions were too icy to reach the victims on land, several inches of snow fell across tennessee this week causing the roofs to buckle. >> president biden, whether families of enslaved americans should receive reparation but the debate a bill to fund it, herschel walker made his case against it.

take a listen. >> we are still african-american rather than just american. preparation is outside the teaching of jesus christ. todd: david webb will join us next hour to weigh in. jillian: nasa's perseverance rover will attempt the most dangerous are waiting yet, entering the amateur 12,000 miles per hour before touching down minutes later. engineers are calling it the, quote, 7 minutes of terror because the process is fully automated without mission control. it will start this afternoon at 3:45 stern. i would be part of nothing titled 7 minutes of terror. todd: your worried about your job? imagine there's? i can't control anything. watch. jillian: it is 4:35 on the east

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todd: more than 1 million have been without power in texas alone causing pipes to freeze in one home flooding in austin. >> janice dean is tracking, devastating to see these images. >> janice: is terrible and we have another day to get through with this snow and ice towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast, temperatures will rebound a little bit but it will take some time to melt that snow and ice. current windchill that 16 in dallas, 12 in memphis, 2 in kansas city, 8 in minneapolis and there is the storm system, there is a severe component with this with potential for hail and damaging wind and tornadoes, tornado watch in effect for parts of florida as well as georgia and alabama. no tornado warnings but we will keep you up-to-date.

the system is toward the mid-atlantic a mighty mixture for the appalachians, virginia and north carolina and looks like mostly snow for the northeast today into tomorrow, the worst coming today into the afternoon for the i-95 and west of that and you can see the pink on the screen, that is ice, accumulating ice on the roads, power lines and trees and that will be dangerous and we will see more images of people slip sliding on the road so stay off the road and there is our snowfall map, we could get a few inches in philadelphia, boston and interior sections we will get a little more. what a week of weather and prayers going to those who are suffering this morning. across the south. back to you. jillian: interviews with people in texas, crying relentlessly because shelters are full, hotels are full, they are having a hard time finding food. it is terrible. >> janice: devastating.

steve: alexandria ocasio cortez defending the green new deal saying it would have prevented the power crisis in texas calling for, quote, sweeping public infrastructure investments. elon musk weighing in, the electric reliability council of texas is not earning that are. todd: kamala harris dodging questions on reopenings. take a listen. >> can you reassure teachers who are listening now that it is safe for them to go back to school even if they are not vaccinated? >> the cdc said they have to be vaccinated to go back to school - they should be a priority. todd: jen psaki clarifying vaccinations are not a requirement for teachers to

return but she encourages states to make a vaccine priority. rebecca fredericks is a former california teacher, she says unions have too much control over the democrats agenda. >> the biden and harris administration have a shifting timetable on school reopenings because they are totally and completely controlled by corrupt union to masquerade as teachers, they do not -- the unions are using kids as ponds in their political gains. it is dangerous, about money, power, greed, control and pushing their leftist/communist agenda. todd: despite cdc guidance and teachers unions are resisting her to return to the classroom. until teachers are vaccinated. wise lockdown california not doing that is an open florida, that is the coronavirus advisor for president biden. watch. >> so much of this virus we think we understand, a little

beyond explanation. on the country we have to do a better job. todd: california one of the strictest state in the nation, shutdown schools and businesses, the state nearing 3 and a half million covid-19 cases total, florida with similar restrictions very early in the pandemic is recorded 1.8 million cases. >> naomi defeat serena williams to advance to the australian open final. she trailed early, admitted after the match she needed to control her nerves against the 23 time grand slam champ, she will face 22 seat jennifer brady in the final saturday. announcing his retirement from baseball after five years as a

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murder of jeffrey vargo and la county boy in the 80s, guest on refuses to file enhanced charges which would carry the death penalty. orange county da george spitzer joins us to discuss. what message is sending his people in la county, people he is supposed to represent by fighting you on this. >> thank you for having me. when he came into office he said he would make these changes but we thought it would be positive changes, reforms but what he is doing. he is hurting his own cause, aggressive prosecutors, i call them regressive prosecutors, they are going backwards. -- i call them regressive prosecutors. on monday, i went back to court for 91981 murder case for a little boy who was objected on

the second of july 1981 almost from his front yard going out to get some fireworks. 5 years later the suspect kidnapped another boy. he snatches young boys off the street, sexually molest them and in this case killed two of them. those cases are pending in la. before he killed these people as part of his crime spree he abducted a 3-year-old officer, sexually molested a 3-year-old, left the kid naked on the street, abducted in 11-year-old in santa barbara going to his football practice after being sexually molested. he is saying mass incarceration we need to fix the system but he is hurting the system. if you are not going to go after child molesters, predators,

rapists and can't get life without parole, the death penalty we know in california, should we not fight for life without possibility of parole? that offends me and what he is missing and missing a terribly is by defending sex molesters he's hurting his ability to capture the public's imagination with his reforms. todd: we spoke to the mother of one of those victims a few weeks ago and here is what she said. >> my biggest fear is he spent 6 years in jail and will get a 20 year to life and get credit for the time he has been in jail. he could get out in 15, 16 years. he killed another 6-year-old boy. a double murder trial and to even think he would be able to get out ever is too much.

todd: i felt pretty safe, i didn't fear for my life but how can the people of la county sleep at night knowing there da, the one whose only job is to fight for them, to keep them safe, is not doing his job and is doing just the opposite? >> los angeles city council voted unanimously by my former colleague in the legislature, forced the police chief to do a study why homicides are higher than they have ever been in the city of los angeles is not safe. mister gascon is responsible for prosecuting felonies in los angeles and everyone is feeling they are not safe. and the da, the immediate kelsey to the south.

i'm not allowing mister gascon's policies to bleed into my county or anywhere else in california or this nation. he is jeopardizing policy and hurting the conversation about how to get changes we so desperately need. todd: we did reach out to the lad a's county's office but have not received a response. jillian: download the super 6 apps to win 10,$000 was all you need to do is predict 6 outcomes in the super 6 quiz show. topics range from -- download the super 6 apps now. todd: another hour to go on "fox and friends first". conservatives across the country honoring the life and legacy of the one and only rush limbaugh. jillian: we have continuing coverage in the next hour.

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>> rush limbaugh, talent on loan from god. there is so much to be thankful for especially when right in front of you is the prospect of it being taken away and it just absent the appreciation for what you have in your life. steve: rush limbaugh, legendary radio host and voice of the modern-day republican party has died at the age of 70. jillian: tributes for it is america honors the man behind the microphone. todd: we begin with how america's anchorman, rush limbaugh is remembered. jillian: carley shimkus joins us with the latest. carley: the nation's leading lawmakers paying tribute to conservative radio legend rush limbaugh. he died wednesday morning a little more than a year after