million dollar mansion overlooking laguna beach going up in flames. 20 homes destroyed, the fire quickly burning up to 200 acres, fuelled by strong wind and historic drought. i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. that blaze is triggering evacuations and a state of

emergency in orange county, california. senior meteorologist, janice dean, is here with the fox weather forecast. >> janice: just terrifying and hats off and prayers for the firefighters out there. this is fire weather tracker, elevated fire danger for parts of california, the worst of the fire burning over the southwest for weeks now. we have seen uncontrollable fires in some areas, drought conditions, dry weather, gusty winds and warm temperatures. relative humanitarian is what we look at when it comes to part of the criteria for the critical fire danger regions and that is exactly what we've got happening, especially for the southwest. california, we have moisture in the atmosphere, so that will help firefighters, but looking at wind speed, not bad now. as we get into the afternoon hours, we see threat for winds

to start to fire up now. the drought monitor has been awful this season, extreme severe, exceptional drought especially southwest and toward nevada. this is an ongoing situation. when you have multi million dollar homes set in flames, that will bring the cameras out. we will monitor that situation. fire alert toward the southwest and toward the plane states where dry conditions are ongoing. we have gusty winds and dry temperatures. look at the active wildfires, the latest in southern california in laguna and toward the mid-atlantic and florida. this is a situation we'll be monitoring for the next few days and the weeks ahead. take a look at the radar. we have severe weather for the northern planes and upper midwest, there is threat today from texas up toward the great lakes and upper

midwest with bulls eye for places west of minneapolis, sioux city and omaha, hail, damaging wind and tornados. warmth today, feeling like summertime across the planes and toward mississippi and ohio river valley and that will linger as we get into the weekend, getting up to 103 in abilene and 93 in baton rouge. that is ongoing situation. area of low pressure offshore moving toward the coastline, bringing high tide coastal flooding for the southeast up toward the mid-atlantic region, that is something we'll watch, as well. we'll keep you up to date. terrifying footage out of southern california. >> carley: a lot going on. 38 active fires, that is a big deal. thank you for covering for us. to another fox news alert. 911 audio capturing the moment

police capture the -- jailbreak from a california prison. the pair making the call just before the pair crashed their getaway car. >> airbags -- >> hello. >> airbags are going off. let's dpet out and run. >> hello. >> carley: wow. vicki white's voice can be heard as the car crashes. casey white exits the vehicle and tells officers his wife shot herself. she later died at the hospital. inmate casey whites behind bars facing first degree escape charges. >> todd: title 42 public health order before official end date of may 23rd. dr. kevin roberts from heritage foundation joined us with this take. >> we're seeing impressive

consensus toward keeping title 42 in place. the more we can focus on the impact of that going away, for immigrants, themselves, the more optimistic i am it will happen. >> todd: white house worried about a hollywood lawyer acting as hunter biden financier confidant. kevin morris is seen as potential liability, reportedly giving hunter $2 million to pay off tax debt and he is working on a documentary about hunter's wife. allies think the move could remind voters of hunter biden's overseas business dealings and the laptop scandal. driving russian troops back to their own border. >> carley: matt finn is in lviv with the latest.

matt. >> matt: ukrainian forces attack russia near kharkiv. ukraine reclaiming five villages there and russia withdrawn units from the city to reorganize according to british defense ministry. russia has not been able to seize the city in part because it did not anticipate return fight from the people. putin plans to retake kyiv and the country. in mariupol mariupol, marines remain trapped in a standoff against the russia beneath the steel plant. the ukrainian marines are the last there. many parts of mariupol have been levelled to hellish ruins and the mayor tells fox news russian

are committing atrocities, forcing remaining ukrainians to work for food and bury their own dead to hide russia's war crime. ukraine announced it will cut off gas supply hub in the donbas region. it will be shut off. the country of finland announced it is in favor of joining nato considering the russian threat. back to you. >> carley: matt finn, thank you. an american with his family after a month in russian cap captivity. kirillo alexandrov was detained while trying to flee ukraine with his wife and mother-in-law. he and the group behind his rescue spoke to us this morning. >> this is the first victim of war crimes falsely accused of

espionage that we have rescued. nothing about this was easy at all. >> i was extremely happy to see my family, i hadn't seen my mother in a very long time. my heart sank to the ground, i'm beyond happy to be safe. >> carley: officials believe he was falsely accused of charges related to espionage and spying for the u.s. and could have faced 20 years behind bars. project dynamo gave that man his life back. god bless them. black lives matter encouraging to defund police departments across the country. >> todd: lives of black americans now are worse than when it started. we'll get jack brewer's thoughts next. ter than your bipolar i, and you can help take control of your symptoms

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[cheering and chanting] >> my decision. >> carley: progressive lawmakers marching from the house to the senate just before joe manchin joined republicans to tank democrat hopes of making abortion a national right.

>> good morning, the senate vote 59- -- some democratic lawmakers think this is an issue that will help turn out the vote in november. >> today we start the march toward the november elections and in fact today is the start of the galvanization of all weapon in this country and the men who support them. >> democratic house lawmakers launching their own protest in the halls of the u.s. capitol. chuck schumer issued the following warning. >> today it will be roe, tomorrow it will be national ban on abortion and beyond that, something even more dreadful. we cannot allow this shameful backslide to happen. cannot allow mega americans to bully the world into submission. i urge my colleagues, take a

stand. >> senator joe manchin's vote sinks the -- bill would expand abortion. seven states in the united states with no abortion restrictions. he wants the attorney general to do more to stop the protesters. >> we've taken a two-pronged approach in virginia. the police are at the ready and we've asked attorney general garland to enforce the law and make sure demonstrators are not allowed to intimidate justices. it is in the federal statute that this is wrong and the attorney general needs to reinforce it. >> the justices will meet today since the opinion was leaked, final decision is expected by end of june. carley, todd. >> carley: thank you so much. let's bring in jack brewer. jack, the bill voted on

yesterday is called the women's health protection act. it would supercede state abortion bans and force christian doctors to perform abortions against their belief and allow abortions through the third trimester, it didn't pass because this is a wildly progressive bill. >> it really is. you can't hide from the fact that things have gone so far left now. when you start to talk about aborting babies this late in the third trimester and beyond in a lot of ways it is really sad. it gets to the spirit of what this fight is all about. it actually is call for faith-based leaders, call for those who claim to be faithful people, people of god to take a stand. you cannot just change terminology and try to make something present as healthcare when in all actuality we know

that the babies are born, we know babies are living and in the womb and what the bible teaches us. it is one that makes you cringe and i think that is what is happening across america. people are starting to realize the reality of abortion, not just about rape victims, not about things that are such a small percentage of what actually happens. it is about millions of lives that have been lost through abortion throughout our country's history after roe v. wade. i think this is a blessing, this is the hand of god speaking across our nation right now. >> todd: jack, some are saying blm, black lives matter, has left black americans worst off than when it began. to the extent that police are less proactive, criminals have the run of the place. police brutality exists, bad cops exist.

97% of black homicides do not involve police at all. you've been saying this for years, jack, why did the elite not see this coming? >> i don't know. i remember when trevaughan martin was killed, i was a member of blm then, but it quickly grew into a cancerous ideology that ravaged black communities. it is so unfortunate, you see black murder rates increase by 30%, i think up to 43% of all murders are african americans and you see in our major cities that murder rates are spiking the way they are and youth murder rates, now we have kids killing kids in the city of chicago, 407 kids killed, black kids. our problem is not police officers, our problem is

internal. our problem is a culture that is created that incentivizes little boys to think they should carry guns and shoot at each other and be involved in gang war fare and school systems that don't teach kids how to read and write and father lessness that ravaged our communities and has our kids at war against each other. we don't talk about that enough, we talk about when a police officer kills a black kid, but we don't talk about the real crisis with the thousands of black lives lost at the hands of senseless gang war fare and turf war fare. these are the issues we need to address -- >> carley: jack, i hate to cut you off, but eric adams, democrat, agrees with you and unfortunate his hands are tied because of the liberal lawmakers that still run the city. thank you for speaking out on this issue.

we appreciate it. >> todd: thank you, jack. >> god bless you. >> carley: to abortion, fox news caught up with handmade protester outside of amy coney barrett house, she had a lot to say, she didn't get her facts straight. >> the fact she is an adoptive mother is -- her inability to see what it is like to carry a pregnancy to term. >> todd: yeah, someone tell that lady justice barrett gave birth to five kids. joe concha is next.

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-- -- did not target those parents, here is garland on the 21st of october. take a listen. >> i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances are parents complaining about their children nor can i imagine the circumstance where they would be labeled domestic terrorism.

-- -- over allegations from a state democratic party official that republicans insighted violence by expressing public displeasure with vaccine mandate. this complaint came to the fbi through the operation center snitch line. representative jordan saying garland lied under oath. >> what he said in the committee was direct contradiction of the fact we know because of the brave whistle mroeer he wouldn't use resources to go after moms and dads and look like what he did. >> one investigation, lawmakers

say fbi interviewed a mom for telling a school board member we are coming for you, saying she was reported because she belonged to a group called moms for liberty and he owned a gun. fbi determined she was not a threat. back to you. >> todd: unbelievable. >> carley: one to watch. >> todd: the left losing it after democratic senator joe manchin sides with republicans to vote against the democrat push to federally legalize abortion. >> carley: joe concha joins us now. joe manchin is a national tragedy, a corrupt republican scum bag who doesn't give a damn about anybody, but his donors. senator manchin gets paid $174,000 to say nah. is he voting the way his constituents want him to vote? >> joey: currently joe biden is polling 18% approval in west virginia, 40 points lower than

joe manchin. manchin is one of the most popular democratic senators out there, if you look at his polling near 60%. it is apparent who the most prominent joe in the world is. it is certainly not joe biden, it is joe manchin and poll after poll shows after you get beyond 15 weeks after conception, abortion is far less popular among voters and democrats think this is a winning issue from the red tsunami coming. are you pro life or pro choice, the country is split down the middle and joe manchin opposing this makes him more popular. >> todd: when one argues, it is helpful to have informed arguments and good information, sometimes people are out of touch with reality. here is what one of them told us outside justice amy coney barrett's house.

watch. >> the fact she is an adoptive mother is her inability to see what it is like to carry a pregnancy to term. >> so joe, there you have it. she didn't carry a pregnancy to term according to that lady, except the fact she carried five to term, joe. is that the perfect microcosm of so many arguments on the left, not just based in reality, but completely false and a lie. >> joey: yeah, that is the ecosystem some folks live in. that person believed what she said was fact, she wasn't intentionally telling a lie. abortion, as we talked about in this country, divided. yet you have a media portraying us as 75% pro-choice and 25% pro-life in terms of coverage where it is 3-1 pro choice voices getting a say over

pro-life voices. within the national media community, who cover politics exist in two cities, new york and washington, those places is ecosystem where it is liberal. if you poll newsrooms in those places, i imagine the 75/25 pro-life to pro-choice split is true, the fish bowl, we are a real pro-choice country. this is 50/50, not the coverage we're seeing and not the news some folks out there protesting are getting from other outlets, guys. >> carley: how can carrying a baby to full term would be a pre-choice argument, why would that make you want to abort? seems like a pro-life stance. you are like, one thing after 15 weeks, popularity for abortion just plummets. joe, i think you are one of the most popular joes in the country naturally. >> todd: of course. >> joey: thank you, nice. >> todd: joe piscapo.

>> joey: he's a friend. glad you got the demo, thank you. >> carley: all the joes hang out together. see ya. listen to this. a fox news alert, a big one. multi million dollar mansions burning to the ground as a wildfire ravages the california coastline. we talked to a senate candidate who explains how governor newsom policies are fanning the flames. >> todd: and in panic over the nationwide formula shortage, what do you do if you are a parent worried about feeding your baby? pediatrician panel has everything you need to know next.

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lab is two months from having this stuff on store shelves. how worried are you that mothers and all parents will run out of time? >> todd, this is a national emergency and should be our government's top priority right now. this isn't just food or a snack, babies need formula which helps them thrive, helps with growth and development, they need critical nutrients for nourishment or you will see failure to thrive. it is serious issue and we need to see our president invoke defense production act to make sure our children have nutrition they need. >> todd: doctor, i know you are one of those doctors getting bombarded with questions from parents, i know we are bombarding our pediatrician up the road with the same questions, what are you telling patients when it comes to things like donor breast milk going online to find alternatives and watering down formula?

>> they are watering down formula, it is very dangerous and there is real temptation when that level is running lower to just add a little more water. actually that really changes the nutrition of the formula and the baby's kidneys aren't ready for it, it can cause seizure and serious medical complication, please never water down formula. donor breast milk is an option and we are seeing women going online to find donors. always choose breast milk donors that are screened for infectious disease and that it is pasteurized. you can find it. avoid buying online breast milk from craig's list or facebook. >> todd: doctor, we began talking about stress they are under, you are getting bombarded by parents can you even begin to describe the stress these mothers are feeling right now?

>> yes, breast milk production is very affected by stress. women are feeling very pressured to breast feed their babies. it is a vicious cycle, more stressed you are issue less breast milk you provide. >> to a fox news alert. overlooking california laguna beach going up in flames. look at that video there. 20 homes destroyed, the coastal brush fire igniting yesterday and quickly burning up 200 acres fuelled by strong winds and historic drought.

johnellis joined us. >> our state has a 68 billion dollar surplus. surplus. and yet in the past two years, the governor has gutted the fire prevention programs by $150 million and not only is this completely tragic for the people affected by the fires, it is also most fiscally irresponsible thing that you can possibly do. >> the fire so far is zero percent contained. the toxicology results from three americans found dead at sandals resort are expected within the next several days. officials are hoping it will lead to answers as the investigation continues into the mysterious deaths. local police say they are looking at the food each victim ate before being found unresponsive saying each victim did eat different things. fourth victim remains in the hospital and upgraded to good condition. data shows path taken by a small plane on tuesday after its pilot

became incoherent, forcing a passenger to step in and land the aircraft without any prior experience. air traffic controller had to guide the passenger through the tense moments. >> i have a serious situation here by a pilot. the pilot is gone incohearent and i have no idea how to fly the airplane. >> what is your position? >> no idea. i have no idea. >> carley: no idea, i was hoping you could tell me. the pilot suffered a medical emergency, all were able to walk away safely, the passenger even getting a chance to meet the air traffic controller who guided him through the process. you see that meeting right there. what a remarkable story. thank god everybody is okay. >> todd: on random timed i've had to anchor from a different chair, i can't handle it. this guy landed a plane, unbelievable. >> carley: never get intoing a small airplane. terrifying. disney had a lot to say about

florida's parent's rights bill. cheryl casone has details. >> todd: did you hear this? >> provided ukraine with 40 billion dollars in aid and nothing in that spending package for america's farmers. farmers are the last on the todem poll getting recognition in this country. we may not need a doctor or lawyer today, but efforted we need an american farmer to help feed this country. >> todd: talking to the president of the illinois farm bureau, who is at president biden's event yesterday about what the administration needs to do right now for our country.

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>> todd: elon musk is taking on mainstream media with the meme. >> carley: did he also tell cheryl casone? >> cheryl: could you tell him i would like to have a chat on fox business? >> carley: that would be a good interview. >> cheryl: exclues, mr. musk, just throwing that out there. looks like elon musk is tired of

hearing criticism, tesla tweeting popular meme, featuring images of the brain and misinformation. he could have been responding to "new york times" article which claimed musk might have been insulated from the harsh reality of tide while being raised in south africa saying he's doled hate speech. he is raised in "white privilege," according to the times. >> todd: silence from disney. >> cheryl: disney earnings were strong, disney parks doing well. executives did not address dispute with florida state officials after the legislature dissolved private government status for disney world. piers morgan calling out disney's double standard. >> we hear a lot from big corporations like disney down in florida about sex education to young kids, another word from

them about the oppression of millions of afghani women in afghanistan because it was democrat president that created this fiasco, showing political bias for the corporations. >> cheryl: disney rebuking the parental rights bill. >> new cpi number yesterday wasn't good. >> cheryl: we spoke about this yesterday, inflation numbers hotter than expected. 8.3% is higher than analyst expectations and increase index for shelter issue food, airline, food, new vehicles, largest contributors adjusted all items

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what the president had to say? >> carley, we had a big day yesterday and thank you for having me. well, you know, to a degree, yes, we enjoy what the president had to say especially when come about having more dollars to produce more fertilizer and i hope in making more counties available for getting crop insurance on the double crop soy beans, there is a long way to go yet.

they will fall backwards and that really puts us between a rock and a hard spot when it comes to paying our bills here on the farm with high input costs. >> carley: president biden was in illinois and he was willing to pitch in and help out. his biggest excuse is reason inflation is so high is because of vladamir putin, watch this. >> president biden: right now america is fighting on two fronts, at home, inflation and

rising prices. abroad is helping ukrainians defend democracy. putin's war has cut off critical sources of food. >> carley: is that the full story, richard? >> well, not only is it cut off sources of food, but natural gas and fertilizer that comes out of russia and ukraine and belarus to the rest of the world is challenges. there are other challenges when it comes to logistics and labor costs and transation costs getting products from here to there, there are containers on ships out in ports waiting to be offloaded or to be loaded in foreign countrys to come here, particularly china. >> carley: it is impacting everything. thank you for joining us after your big day yesterday. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure.

thank you so much. >> carley: biden administration won't cob dem protests outside the homes of supreme court justices. but attorney general jason miyares telling us what he's doing to crack down on the mob. >> todd: check in with steve doocy to see what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> hi, todd and carley, good morning to you. coming up on "fox and friends" in our thursday episode, supreme court justices set to meet today for the first time since the roe v. wade draft opinion was leaked to politico by somebody, we don't know who, still don't know. virginia lieutenant governor vows to crock down on -- outside the homes. then larry kudlow reacts to second inflation report due out this morning. producer price index measures cost per goods as they go out the factory door. so far not looking good, we'll have it live, plus lara trump on

new evidence from doj whistleblowers the fbi did target parents last year with counter terrorism tactics at the suggestion of the attorney general of the united states. what is that about? and the state of florida is going into a conservative powerhouse some feel, democrats are launching a big effort to turn the sunshine state blue. lieutenant governor nunez responds to that, busy three hours, kicks off about eight minutes from now on the channel you trust for morning news. todd and carley, pack in a couple, you are watching "fox and friends first," we'll see you shortly. ubrelvy helps u fight migraine attacks. u put it all on the line. u do it all. so u bring ubrelvy. it can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within 2 hours... without worrying if it's too late or where you are. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks a protein believed to be a cause of migraine.

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condemn protests outside the homes of supreme court justices. >> carley: deploying security to the private residences and he joins us now. attorney general, it's great to have you on. what is the security situation outside the justices' homes right now and are you getting any help from the federal government? >> well, you know governor youngkin. governor hole couple sent a letter to merrick garland to say do your job. maker garland not doing his job. you have a section of the federal code that says you cannot be standing outside the home of a judge or a witness or a juror to try to intimidate an outcome of a case and that's exactly what's hang here but so far federal agents haven't done anything to stop what we are seeing right now. pretty open intimidation of these judges and then you have on top of that a second person is not doing their job, which is the local commonwealth attorney, the local prosecutor.

he is one of these far left social justice warriors. he has openly said he doesn't prosecute a open category of misdemeanors. we have a section of virginia law right now 18.2-419 that says you can't be picketing outside of someone's private residence. that law obviously is not being enforced as well. one of the things we are asking do your job. virginia state police is on the scene. they will be a visible presence. they have been already. they will be going forward. >> to be clear, the power of your office does not allow to you prosecuted these individuals, correct? >> yeah. i said when i was attorney general i'm going to call balls and strikes. i'm not going to pretend the law gives me power it does not grant me. the law is not explicit. i don't have the statutory authority to prosecute these individuals. who does in the justice department in washington, d.c. does. they absolutely should be sitting back and seeing this as being concerned and they should be having federal agents there when people cross that line. i think it's a clear violation

of section 1507. they are shutting down private residence. they're shutting down private roadways and trying to intimidate supreme court justices. the supreme court could step. in that's why the governor, larry who he dan and then also you will be seeing a letter today of close to two dozen state attorneys general who have said listen, do your jobs, protect these judges. stop this intimidation of these supreme court justices. >> carley: listen to this quickly because a bullet recently flew through the window of your office building this happened on monday night. no indication nobody was targeted. does that mean somebody was firing a gun indiscriminately outside your office? what's going on with the crime crisis in this country? >> well, i guess my building forgot to duck. we are not quite sure the capitol police in richmond are investigating this right now. we have seen explosion of crime. criminal first, victim last

mindset in a lot of these areas. prosecutors are deciding not to prosecute. we have a demoralized police force in the city of richmond down 100 police officers. we want to be standing with cops and lowering our crime. >> todd: attorney general from virginia my yaris. >> my what? >> my decision. >> progressive lawmakers marching between joe manchin tanked the party's hope of tanking abortion a national right. >> he started the march through the november election. >> protesters continue to gather in front of the home of justice amy coney barrett. >> she is adopted mother her inability to know what it's like to carry a pregnancy to term. >> this is fundamentally wrong trying to influence and intimidate. >> american farmers cut off critical sources of