>> sean: this just in, fox news alert, massive tornado just captured on video, touching down in the lower ninth ward neighborhood in new orleans in louisiana. we pray that everyone there is we will bring more information as it becomes available. let not your heart be troubled. >> carley: a fox news alert, large tornado tearing through new orleans killing at least one and injuries two dozen. 16,000 people lost power. officials are asking everyone to stay inside while first responders assess the damage. one man says the twister nearly took his life. >> man, it is crazy, i was this close to death. i was driving in the tornado just now. >> carley: in texas, communities

are still picking up the pieces after 1000 homes were damaged when the same storm system ripped through the state earlier this week. >> todd: facing russian naval attacks after weeks of land and air strikes. officials say the place has been reduced to ash and resembled a dead land. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> i'm carley shimkus. battle continues for key cities, including the capital. the pentagon says putin is frustrated with the slow pace of the invasion and a spokesperson for the kremlin refusing to rule out the use of nuclear weapons in the war. >> i want to know if putin intends the world to be afraid of the nuclear option, would he use it? >> president putin intends to make the world listen and

understand our concern. we have concept of domestic security and it is public, you can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to be used. >> todd: not very reassuring, jonathan hunt has the latest on the ground. jonathan. >> john: todd and carley, we are getting word within the last hour of some intense russian shelling of two areas just outside of the ukrainian capital of kyiv, the tank shells falling rapidly in the last few hours, we are told several people have been hurt. we're waiting for confirmation of casualty figures. tanks fighting back in and around the capital city, particularly in one suburb, small town called

macaribe. ukrainian forces are said to be pushing back russian to some extent. it is essentially street by street fighting, taking a block at a time doesn't mean significant gains by the ukrainians. russian troops are having issue getting supplies. this is russian forces pulling up at the gas station and essentially helping themselves to whatever they want. it speaks significantly to the kind of logistical issues russian forces are having in getting fuel and food to the troops on the frontline. the devastation in the southern port city of mariupol is all, but complete. it is really shocking to look at the pictures, the russian

shelling and russian missiles hitting street after street, apartment after apartment, civilians, in the thousands, we believe, may have died there and are still trying to get the hundred thousand or so trapped out. president zelenskyy accused russian forces of actually intercepted one of those humanitarian convoys and kidnapping the drivers of the buses, who were simply trying to get ordinary ukrainians out to safety. todd and carley. >> carley: the spokesman for the kremlin warned russia could use nukes if there is existential threat to their country, would you characterize that as escalation and does the biden administration need to respond to a comment like that coming

from russia? >> jonathan: i would say more of the same of president putin and one of his hincrashing hmen saying they have nuclear weapons and are prepared to use them if necessary, it is part of same messaging, message of intimidation. we don't know, nobody knows, whether president putin would be willing to use nuclear weapons, in particular ones he might turn to first, tactical nuclear weapons that would affect a smaller area. we do not know. it is certainly a threat they want to hang over the world right now, todd and carley. >> todd: besides ransacking the convenience store, how are the russians resupplying their roots deeper they get into ukraine? >> jonathan: they have to resupply them via road, coming from the east from the russian board sxer bringing supplies

from the north from belarus, a nation we have not seen get involved with their troops, but might well do that. they are having to bring in supplies over greater distances, giving ukrainian forces a chance not to attack the russians at the front, but to get in behind them and attack supply roots. they feel if they can starve the russians are supplies, that will help them gain an upper hand. as we talk about the ukrainians fighting back on the offensive more, we have to still be aware they are doing so against huge and powerful army. if this turns into a war of attrition issue the huge and powerful army is still going to have the advantage in that, so while there is optimism the ukrainians have halted russians for now, you can't put too much

weight on that given the sheer size of the russian army, todd and carley. >> carley: thank you so much. president biden getting ready to depart for brussels for an emergency meeting with nato leaders. >> todd: expected to announce new sanctions against russia. doug luzader, has more. >> this will be a whirlwind with nato, eu and g7 scheduled tomorrow in brussels. it is expected the president will announce new sanctions going after russian lawmakers and seeking to make europe less dependent on energy. jake sullivan would not get into

specifics. >> we will impose further sanctions on russia and tighten the existing sanctionss. he will announce joint action on european security and reducing europe's dependence on russian gas. >> doug: u.s. is expected to bolster forces in nato countries and nato has difficult decisions to make, including what would constitute a red line that could trigger a response. >> putin is waving around weapons of mass destruction, nato has to sit down and find their spine. has to be no doubt in putin's mind we will come at him for doing something like that. >> doug: not traveling with the president on this trip, press secretary jen psaki, who has come down with covid for at least the second time.

reuters is reporting the administration will make it easier for ukrainians to come to the united states. todd and carley. >> todd: thank you n. 2014, human rights met with president biden and warned him ukraine needed more weapons to stand up to russia. >> she is echoing that sentiment. head of the center for sefil liberty in ukraine joins us live from kyiv. good morning. what is your message this morning? >> my message is the same that previous whole month when russia started this large-scale invasion. ukraine sooner or later will win and putin will lose. we need time and in order to provide this time, we need long-range missile weapons. we need air defense systems. we need fighter jets and planes to protect civilians from

russian shelling. >> todd: what do you need joe biden to do today to help your people, not months from now, but today? >> today we need for joe biden to express leadership, not only for american people, but for the whole world. when we say that, we are asking for weapons for a month, now we have totally destroyed mariupol and we don't want another ukrainian city to turn to mariupol. i know it is very scary to defreedom, human rights and democracy, we ask all western leaders to go beyond comfort and stand with ukraine. >> carley: president biden is heading to brussels today ahead of the nato summit tomorrow and expected to announce sanctions on the russian government and

discuss ways to wean europe off russian gas. are you satisfied with that possibly being the only outcome of this summit? >> we need more. we need to show that putin high price of this invasion to stop him and possibility of russian economics to feed this war. we need ban of russian banks, not several. we need to ban trade for russian oil and gas, also for european leaders, put russia in -- and other such crimes of measures. >> todd: we mentioned your 2014 meeting with joe biden under the obama administration, did joe biden and obama policy fail to learn from the lessons of crimea when you look at how they are handling this conflict? >> i totally believe sooner or

later all western democracys will do everything ukraine will need in this moment. now we and civilization, it is not about ukraine, ukraine is part of this battle. the problem is, i don't know how much time we have. how much time i personally have. will i be weakness of this unity or not. >> carley: how did that conversation go with then vice president biebd, you said ukraine needed more weapons, what did he tell you at the time? >> he respond with a general thing about support of the united states to ukraine and to -- support, but it is not enough. we are very grateful for solidarity and whole measures, but we need more in order to

repeal putin. >> carley: thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it and hear your message loud and clear. matviichuk. >> carley: many civilians are defending their country and arizona business is providing them with tools to fight. >> carley: mike, this is pretty remarkable, if you ask me, how are you able to train these people, many who have never held a gun before in their lives? >> hi there. thank you for having me on, i appreciate your time. we're not training one person, we're not training anyone, the ukrainian trainers they have have all the expertise in the world, the best trainers in the world exist inside the ukrainian national police and military. what we're doing is providing

them with training weapons they need with laser targets and everything they need to provide that training when their infrastructure goes away and that is unfortunately happening by the day. as far as actual training goes, that is being conducted as it always has been, by the trainers inside ukraine who are, the best in the world. >> carley: how many training weapons have you provided to ukraine and how are you getting them into the country? >> yeah, i won't talk about specifics, basically it has gotten very easy as far as getting them over through various countries that are bordering ukraine, they all want to help, especially the nato countries, they want to be part of stop thanksgiving invasion. as far as red tape that might have existed even two months ago, six weeks ago is really not there, all the governments want

to help. as of right now, we've probably gotten 50 training weapons in, another 50 en route, along with associated target systems and those are important because coupleed with training weapons, you could possibly train two to three lanes of people everyday, no need for range or live rounds and other things they do nots have access to as some of the cities get closed off. >> todd: you gave credit to the ukrainian fight trainers, you need credit for sending tools to the people. how impressive they are able to learn so quickly? >> i mean, i've spent quite a bit of time in ukraine and it doesn't surprise me at all. the ukrainian people are impressive, to say the least. they love their country.

even before this war, there is a feeling of real solidarity about being ukrainian and being right on the front lines of the war between two completely different forms of government and the choices we're going to be making is how eastern europe is going to look. as far as their ability to learn, i am in awe of the ukrainian people's resistance to this invasion and yeah, i'm in awe of the ukrainian army, the job they have been doing at keeping a force many times their size at bay. >> todd: mike farrell, thank you for what you are doing for the people of ukraine. southern oklahoma community in mourning after a crash takes the lives of six high school girls when the car they were in collided with a semitruck in the town of tisha.

>> kayleigh: >> carley: cbp agent necessary texas rescued a four year old girl. agents say this is weeks after another four-year-old girl drown in the rio grand during attempted crossing, officials in del rio reporting encounters with four separate fwrups of over 100 migrants. >> todd: ketanji brown jackson will face another round of questions this morning. >> carley: marianne rafferty will break it down. >> marianne: gruelling 13 hours of questioning of ketanji brown jackson. intense moments between the judge and gop senators.

lindsey graham storming out after discussing court packing and her handling of child porn cases and history of handing down lighter sentences than required by law for offenders. >> do you agree with justice beyer and bader ginsburg, it is a bad idea? >> it is question for congress. >> you say this does not signal heinous child pornography offense? help me understand that. >> all of the offenses are egregious, but the guidelines, as you pointed out, are being departed from with respect to the government's recommendation. >> marianne: cruz calling her out on supporting a school that teaches critical race theory, which she says she does not support. >> do you believe babies are

racist? >> i do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist. >>you agree critical race theory is taught at the school? >> i don't know, the board does not control the curriculum. >> marianne: of concern for the republicans, the judge's record on abortion rights which she says is settled law and her discussion of gitmo. >> this is not passing the smell test. >> marianne: today is last day of q&a before 11 democrats and 11 republican senators can ask questions of the american bar association and outrage saying democrats withheld documents from the nomination process. >> carley: marianne rafferty, thank you. explosive new book by pair of

"new york times" reporters, reporting revealing a major rift in the west wing, saying the vice president's staff was flooded with impossible portfolio of tasks, but director beddingfield blames it on kamala harris, citing her missteps and revealed the president threatened to fire those leaking information about harris. her office has been portrayed as ark busive environment. biden says they would quickly be former staff. >> todd: more on this book coming up later in the program. this video absolutely bone chilling, take a look. it shows the man suspected of abducting 18-year-old naomi aryan around a walmart a week

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>> carley: a woman accused of striking and kill it would go people, including two state troopers facing murder and did sheing dui charges. all three victims were killed on impact. todd. >> todd: video showing the suspect in disappearance of naomi irion walking and waiting in a walmart parking lot moments before driving off with her. her brother joins me now. casey, i know this is a tough time for you, we appreciate you coming on. what goes through your mind when you see that video? >> when i first saw this video, i had just found out my sister

was missing the night before and basically there wasn't a lot being done and i wanted, i needed facts. i went to the walmart myself, i knew that was part of her routine and i had information she did not go to work saturday and sunday and we were able to verify her bank account had no activity after saturday morning. sunday night we reported her missing. monday i went straight to the walmart and checked with security to see if i could see the cameras and basically watch today unfold. i went with intention of verifying she had made it, so i could try to figure out what happened to her and it was just this sinking feeling. i immediately ran out of the walmart and called the lyon county sheriff's department.

>> todd: is there any chance the person who got in the driver's seat is someone she knew? >> that is all being looked at, but we are not sure. i wish i could say more definitively. >> todd: did she have conflicts with anyone you are aware of? >> i heard maybe there was some type of conflict at work, all of that stuff has been thoroughly looked at as far as i know. >> what can you tell us about your sister? >> is a loving and compassionate person. what i told everyone at the candlelight vigil, if there was someone in the community that

was missing like this, she would be out there, too. >> todd: if she is somehow watching this, what would you like to tell her? >> if naomi irion is watching this, i would just tell her, we're doing everything in our power to do and be on that -- and there is so much help and so many people in the community that are helping us try to find naomi right now. if i needed the moon on my driveway right now, people would be working on it. >> todd: listening to your tone, casey, you sound hopeful, is that hope shared by other members of your friends and family? >> we are all convinced and very hopeful that naomi will come home safe. >> todd: what is your message to the suspect, the individual that gets into naomi's car?

>> my message to that suspect would be, like i've been saying, the best thing to do right now is to just return her safely, put her somewhere safe where we can recover her and i'll stop. i don't care about prosecution, i just want my sister back as soon as possible. >> todd: lyon county sheriff's office is asking anyone with information to contact the following number or secret witness of northern nevada, 775-322-4900. casey valley, thank you. our prayers are with you. carley. >> carley: tough one. the family has hope and that is a very good thing. we are next door, that is what the canadian energy official

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>> carley: the state department says difficult issues are holding up the iran nuclear deal. officials are refusing to explain what the issues are. >> the jury is still out as to whether we will be able to achieve mutual return to compliance with the jcpoa. >> own us is on iran to make decisions. >> carley: sanctions is one of the last talks to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. former secretary of state mike pompeo say removing the group from u.s. terror list would be

dangerous capitulation. >> todd: it is said mayorkis broke the law. it comes as republicans on the house oversight and homeland security issues press the white house for information on number of migrants on the terror screening database. former border patrol chief says numbers are at a level we've never seen before and that is frightening. fox weather alert. last tornado tearing through new orleans overnight, killing at least one and injuring two dozen. 14,000 people lost power. officials asking everyone to stay inside while first responders assess the damage. one man said the twister nearly took his life. >> man, it is crazy, i was just driving in the tornado just now.

thank the lord none of us were hurt and i'm here to talk about it. >> todd: communities are picking up the pieces after 1000 homes were damaged earlier this week. we are expecting a live report from the ground in new orleans. >> carley: fox news alert. intense bombing turns mariupol into a "deadland," and -- >> carley: jonathan hunt has the latest, jonathan. >> jonathan: carley and todd, good morning, frightening words from the kremlin spokesperson that said yes, president putin might well be willing to use nuclear weapons. it may be another act of threatening and intimidating language from the russians. bottom line, we do not know. intense fighting continues across ukraine. ukrainian forces trying to turn back the russian invaders at

various points and having some moncum of success in key suburb of machaviv. it is essentially block by block, street by street fighting. when they say they are pushing the russian back, it may be by a few hundred yards, not turning the tide of the war. we know russians are having serious problems getting fuel to the front lines. we want to show this video of russian soldiers showing up at gas station, running into the convenience store and helping themselves to whatever they want to take. that speaks to the lack of food and other supplies those russian forces may be getting. the unfolding humanitarian

catastrophe in southern city of mariupol seems to get worse everyday after intense russian bombardment, continued fighting, refusal by ukrainian forces to surrender. we hear from the president of ukraine, there are like 100,000 civilians stuck in there, trying to get those residents out. according to president zelenskyy, just yesterday, russian forces intercepted one of the convoys trying to get people to safety and kidnapped the drivers of the buses. president zelenskyy's view, this is just another example of the depths to come russian forces are happy to sync as they continue to continue what zelenskyy says are war crimes. >> todd: we've been hearing about belarus over the course of the last few weeks issue but

haven't gotten the sense they are jumping into the conflict full-footed. are they trying to slow roll this so they don't have to take a side. or is it a matter of time before they start helping the russians in earnest? >> jonathan: i think the honest answer and perfectly good question, the honest answer, we don't know. the president of belarus is long-time ally of president putin. president putin is no doubt putting a great deal of pressure given his difficulties in ukraine on the president of belarus to send troops in, but they haven't done so yet and just the fact they haven't done so shows you, yes, there is some pushback there. the ukrainians feel it could happen, the belarus troops would come from the north and head to western ukraine, where we are

now presumably, it would open another front, somebody everybody, ukrainians and rest of the world are watching closely, we don't have an answer whether the troops are going to join this fight, todd and carley. >> carley: they are saying, do i want to get involved in that. only time will tell. we'll check back in soon. to this, a nine-year-old little girl sucker punched outside the plaza total in new york city. we'll be talking to the hero doorman who stepped in until cops arrived, coming up. mahindra tractor. pound for pound, this one's still tougher... tough. tougher. tough.

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>> todd: black lives matter activist walking back a bold comment made with eric adams. >> if they think they are going to go back to the old ways of policing, we will take to the streets again, there will be riots, there will be violence and there will be bloodshed. >> todd: mayor adams -- the mayor listened to the people of new york and us and responded

adequately, new units are identifiable as police officers, something he changed after our conversation. carley. >> carley: crime surge in new york city, this doorman, neil johnson is being hailed a hero after a man sucker punched a nine-year-old girl in the head outside the plaza hotel. thank you for joining us. what happened? >> thank you for having me. i'm not a hero, there was a situation and i showed up. all my union colleagues would have done the same. what happened was i'm in front of where i work and i heard a guy screaming and thought, okay, here is a guy with problems. i heard a woman screaming, i ran toward central park south and a man was walking fast toward a woman with a baby carriage. the guy was gaining on them, i

ran up the block and crossed while people are yelling, call 911. i yelled at them, you call 911. i ran up to the family and asked, are you okay, what happened? occasionally, there might be someone yelling and screaming and the family might be scared and walking away issue but there was nothing physical. they said this guy hauled off and hit their little girl. i turned toward the guy and started yelling at him not to move and maybe used a little expletive. >> carley: colorful language. >> another guy came to my side, now there were two of us and i kept watching his hands and he was screaming and yelling and clearly had some mental illness. >> carley: you stopped him and prevented him from leaving until

the cops arrived. the suspect is 27 years old and he has previous run-ins with the law. was this unprovoked attack on this little girl? >> that is what i heard, of course it was. when the police arrived, they approached this man and he was quite calm, they put cuffs on him, i'm just glad he didn't continue, then it would have had to escalate and police, when i was on the phone, they kept asking, does he have a weapon, he did not have a weapon in his hands. >> carley: a lot of people would be scared to intervene because of fear of knife or gun. were you scared for your safety? >> not at all. when you hear a woman screaming and a woman and a little girl running away screaming from a guy, you got to help. >> carley: got to do the right thing. >> other people might not do the same, like quite a few

politicians i can think of. >> carley: the woman screaming was the mom, right? >> yes, and the little girl was crying. >> carley: thank you for telling this story, you say you are not a hero, we think of you as that. other people wouldn't take the extra step to make sure this guy is arrestd and rightfully so. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> todd: we need more neil johnsons in the world. emma weyent, after she finished behind transgender swimmer lia thomas. >> fastest time of any woman in college athletics, now the ncaa is basically taking efforts to destroy women's athletics, trying to undermine integrity of competition and crowning somebody else the woman's

champion. >> todd: desantis comments come after a debate over transgender women in sports. gas prices escalating fastest rate on record. l.a. has reached $6 a gallon. one official is calling out president biden for looking at countries like venezuela and saudi arabia instead of invest nothing energy production at home and up north. ryan centon, founder of pinnacle reliability and former texas regulator with experience in venezuela. ryan, let's read the information, the tweet from this canadian energy minister. i thought, what, we're right next door, here. it is frustrating when we see the united states reaching out to saudi arabia to ask for more

oil production, look at iran and venezuela when we are right income door in alberta, they should be looking at us as solution to energy security, not around. ryan, any possible reason to choose venezuelan oil over canadian oil? >> sure, when you are in a panic. you are in a bad situation and have to have access to oil immediately. you made a decision months ago not to work on pipeline to bring oil down from canada and now you are out of options. refineries really need to run effective. >> todd: how is maduro going to take advantage of us and the situation? >> i don't know if you need a lot of expert expertise in venezuela, we are -- how do you

think he's going to react? yeah, i'll sell oil and it will be $150 a barrel and you will buy it and i will do whatever i want with the money. >> todd: using venezuelan crude doesn't eliminate environmental concern. why don't the green new dealers realize that? >> it is a pretty sad example of putting politics above policy, it is putting political agendas above strategy. this green new deal, we are going to sock it to americans by forcing you to pay more money for oil that is produced less environmentally responsibly where money will go to pockets of dictators and military activists. i can't imagine americans saying let's do that. lack of strategy is really sad.

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>> todd: the city of mariupol facing naval attacks as officials on the ground say it has been left in ashes. >> carley: ground battle continues with the ukrainian army recapturing one suburb, but losing others. i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd pi