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everybody. we go straight to a fox weather alert. florida is still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane ian. >> we watched everything just go flying by. we lost so much at this point so we appreciate everybody. >> we are very much concerned about the storm. i should have left. i shouldn't have stayed. >> most of the time, we are all kind of doing our own thing just listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. >> reporter: the storm soaking the mid atlantic making way up north and the death toll in florida and the carolinas unfortunately continues to climb. alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach this morning with more. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning. we're on san carlos island part of fort meyers beach and this is a challenging rescue and sadly a

recovery operation has had to become and look at mangled pieces of metal and boats on top of hopes and look at residences and think, my goodness, i hope they were among those that got out and if they try to ride out the storm, you wonder where are they now. it's a hard thing to see. according to lee county sheriff's office, just yesterday there were 6 to 700 rescues made and sheriff is reporting 35 deaths in the didn't and that state number is in the 40s and likely to rise with individual numbers counties are reporting. during the daylight hours today, 30 miles north, the coast guard have a rescue operation to help people evacuate from pine island. that's as the national guard has been assisting with distribution sites around the state supplying water and food to those in need. in lee county where we're at, 64% of people are still without power right now and as for internet, governor desantis said

the state is working with elon musk to restore service. >> at the same time, we are working with spacex and we are expecting 120 additional large star link units to deploy to southwest florida. >> reporter: governor desantis stopping by a waffle house in charlotte county, one of the first businesses to reopen after ian's devastation in that part of the state. flood waters have still been plaguing and this scene is out of venice, florida, in sarasota county near where a portion of i-75, a major interstate was shut down for hours after water made the roadways unsafe for cars. on wednesday, president biden and the first lady will be traveling here to florida to assess the need and assistance and to really take a look at this damage and let me tell you, guys, it's something where you're out here grateful in the darkness because once it becomes

light, you see the layers of the mess and destruction that's been inflicted on so many families. guys. >> alexandria, thank you so much. you see the flooding and we had the doctor on yesterday talking about infections and viruses lurk in the waters and cause the secondary problems for people health wise. another problem is looting. i read an article yesterday about people who should have left their homes but were afraid of looting and tried to ride out the storm because of that. that's why the governor was putting out messages early saying in this state of florida, we will not tolerate looting and reminding people it's a second amendment state. here's him talking about that right now. >> don't even think about looting. don't even think about taking advantage of people when this vulnerable situation so local law enforcement is involved and monitoring that. i can tell you in the state of florida, you never know what may

be lurking behind somebody's hope. i would not want to chance that if i were yo you given that we'a second amendment state. >> reporter: there's the manmade disaster and we saw looting was incredible in the wake of hurricane katrina. msnbc tweeting when the looting starts, the shooting starts and that's a quote from 1967 and didn't take desantis long to return to form. she's attempting to tyrone desantis to the sheriff of miami from the 1960s who was a segregationist sheriff. we talked i think off camera yesterday a bit about the attacks to come. they've already begun but the attacks to come with ron desantis being outside of donald trump, the leading contender for

republican candidate for president of the united states. you have joy reed launching an extreme if not familiar campaign against a republican politician. pete: for the people of florida, he's handled this about as good as you can hope considering the hurricane of this size and magnitude and he's pointing out the obvious to the rest of us and most of the country. don't approach someone's home. you don't know. they're prepared and able to defend themselves. black, white, brown, doesn't matter. it's their property, they can defend it and defend their lives. i think it's a foolish political approach and not going to work against desantis and plays into twitter and the elite view that behind every maga republican is actually a racist. rachel: behind every looter is a black person assuming that's the case as well.

the racism goes both ways and again, it's a bad move politically because when you're in a natural disas and you're a citizen of florida, you want your governor to come out ahead of this and say we're a law and order state and we're not putting up with looting and suffering and in misery and trying to put your lives back. pete: and you have 911 systems that have gone down. if you can't call 911, what will you do? will: and the governor has their back. that means a lot. as is the case is joy reid's own racism. rachel: absolutely. will: bill has been at the border for the fox news channel at this point i think well over years at this point. rachel: open lane for him. there's no one else beside him and griff there and the migrants. will: bringing the news story to all of us as rachel point-blank layupses out in lou -- points out in lieu of anyone else

taking the storytous. bill is taking the story to washington dc and confronting politicians about what he experienced and obvious questions that need to be asked, watch. >> 250,000 unaccompanied migrant children came to the border since president biden took office. some drowning and some making it here . do you agree that the border is secure? we'll let you go. chairman, in your opinion, is the border secure? >> i have to go give a speech, didn't you hear me? >> i heard you. it's a quick question. is the border secure? i'm bill with fox news, do you have a few moments to talk about the border? a few moments of your time is all we want? it reached out to your office to talk to you and your office blew us off. >> i appreciate it. have a good day. >> no comment, sir? >> do you believe the border is secure? >> i believe we have to have a secure border and i think that we are trying to address the --

the president has a plan to address that. >> when will that plan unfold? >> you know, you saw bill confronting congresswoman ayanna presley and congressman benmy thompson and then obviously ultimately nancy pelosi and alejandro ma mayarkas. >> oh, god, the good from the board we are good hair is here. pete: none of them answered. everyone know they can't answer and the depth of experience he has in the face of their talking points will make them look like fools. great move whoever decided he should go to dc and talk to the politicians. i hope he continues to do so. mayorkas in particular knows who bill is and the images he's provided and problems it's been politically and revealing the policy of a failed porous open

board. rachel: mayorkas is on record saying the border is secure, the border is secure. also telling his federal, you know, border patrol agents not to talk to him. they're under agents. they don't want the border patrol telling you what they're seeing and of course, the only time the media goes down is when they think there's racist border patrol on horseback with haitian border shantytown being built. it wasn't covered till they thought there was a racial thing being built and it was false and never ap apologized. bill has great hair and donald trump appreciates great hair. here's what he said at a rally in michigan yesterday. >> we had the stronger border ever in the history of our country and now maybe the worst border in the bolder because i don't believe third world

countries wowed allow a border like that to take place in their country. the radical democrats want to turn america into one giant sanctuary for dangerous and horribly dangerous criminal aliens and in the republican party, we believe our country should be a sanctuary for law-abiding citizens that law our country and respect our country and love our flag. pete: big rally last night. i believe you'll talk to tudor dixon who was at that rally. talk about extremism going into the midterm, 37 days out. ask democrats, how far are you willing to go with abortion? all the way to birth? is the border circuit court secure? do you believe in cashless bail or support black lives matter. ask them. they can't answer on a common sense way, on any of those questions. they take a harbor very extreme positions. will: they dent think it's an issue. think don't think it's something

that matters to voters and that it's a pet project of the right wing. they think what matters in the country is not the border, not inflation, they do not think it's any of the things like crime pollicis that affect your security when you walk down the street. they think that's talking points from crazy people. they think what matters is january 6, and exclusively january 6. i mean it. look at their responses. look at the focus. this is what they think is the number one issue facing the country. not your life. rachel: you're 100% right. if you look at the attorney general from new york city, what is she focused on? donald trump. this is a crime ridden disgusting city in so many ways, and it's filthy, it's full of crime, even our emts who are trying to save people are getting ki killed and we'll talk about that later on in the show, but she's focused on what she calls protecting banks as opposed to protecting citizens

so their priorities are totally wrong, and hopefully they'll pay a price and when you have to pull women off the boarder and send him to dc because no one will ask these question, i'm not sure our media is holding those accountable. pete: there's no one in the media but we thankfufully have guys that do the heavy lifting. rachel: that's true. pete: still ahead, who's to blame for the nord stream pipeline sabotage. russian born intelligence officer said the attack is out of putin's play book. we'll ask her about that coming up. j that's the title of her book by the way. female athletes are banned from using their own locker room after expressing discomfort with a man sharing their space. that story is next.

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends". we have a stunning story out of indonesia. at least 174 people are dead after a fan stampede at a soccer match. look at that. pete: ashley stromeyer is live with the horrific details. >> crazy footage as light with a brawl at a soccer match in indonesia and that deadly riot began because angry fans stormed the field after their team lost a rivalry game and fans were demanding answers from team ownership after their team lost to their rival at home for the first time in 23 years. before storming the field, fans were seen throwing bottles and other things at team officials and riot police used tear gas to break up the fire and this despite the ban on tear gas instituted by fifa, which is world soccer's governor body and the fight even spread outside the stadium where five police

cars were damaged and even set on fire. most of the 174 killed in the riot were trampled to death and more than 100 injured in the chaos and includes 11 people in critical condition and the riot is already one of the deadliest sporting events in history and indonesia's president reacting to the tragedy. ", i hope this is the lost soccer tragedy in this country. don't let any human tragedy happen like this in the future. we must maintain sportsmanship and humanity and the brotherhood of soccer". the president of the soccer league is president temporarily and said it'll return when security procedures are improved. back to you. rachel: thank you, ashley. will: terrible story. turn now to additional headlines this morning. venezuela freed seven americans as part of a prisoner exchange and the u.s. swapping them for

two nephews of the first lady. president biden celebrating the release of the five oil executives and two other americans. executives abducted during a meeting in venezuela's capitol in 2017. an escaped inmate from connecticut is captured at his own birthday party. the espe escapee was arrested in georgia after months on the run and deputies heard he was there to celebrate his birthday at a family member's house and the 31-year-old was arrested on site and back in custody after convicted and sentenced on a robbery charge. now to college football, tempers flairing in columbus, ohio, after this fake punt late in their blowout win against rutgers. they're not happy with ryan day after the fourth quarter fake. in the big 12 texas longhorns

winning big over the long horns and helping them take over the mountain nears 38-20. >> let's hit go, deep in the end zone. the tip drill. it is caught. it is a touchdown, it is worthy. will: the appreciate the producers putting in two unranked teams for me this morning. we have the washington commanders taking on the dallas cowboys at 1:00 p.m. eastern time on fox and those are your headlines. right now seems like an appropriate moment to address my attire. pete: i think so. i was thinking the same thing. doesn't will cain look great in purple, specifically minnesota vikings purple. will: and shoes. pete: the shoe -z as well. rachel: how did this happen? what is behind all this? will: we played each other in fantasy football and we made a

side bet and lost by 1.5 points. pete: that was the deal, i'd wear the cowboys if he won and he'd wear the vikings if i won and i won by 1 point basically. will: came down to the end of the game. rachel: since i'm probably going to end up winning the fantasy football league, will you guys wear a dress if i win? pete: if rachel campos-duffy wins the fantasy league, i will wear a dress. will: you can ensure all the other women have to leave. rachel: what a great segway to our next story. will: in vermont, high schoolgirls volleyball players banned from their own locker room after objecting to a transgender student changing in the same locker room. the girl's volleyball girls complained after the transgender male made an appropriate

comment. pete: hold on, the girls are banned from the girls locker room. will: i believe the number is 12, 12 roughly biological girls -- pete: banned from the biological girls bathroom, which is no longer a biological girls locker room. will: and the trainings gender student has the locker room and the 12 girl haves to go into a stall, a one holier and change one at a time. rachel: i believe the number is 10. i believe the number is 10 but he gets the whole locker room because the girls don't feel safe. this is not an ideological thing in many respects. this is a safety thing. remember, the whole school board situation in virginia, one of the big eruptions was that a girl was sexual assaulted by a transgender male in a bathroom. do you remember that whole story? pete: and that was covered up.

rachel: that was covered up and the dad who reported it to the school board was the one taken in handcuffs and the whole town erupted and parents were like, we've had enough of this craziness. these are legitimate fears. i am not one who -- i think the word safe space gets abused on college campuses suicide a way to limit free speech but there's safe spaces needed for women. domestic shelters, prisoner where now women have to be given birth control because they can be imprisoned with any man who claims to be a woman. this is a space space where girls and women should be able to change in privacy and being invaded by a man. let's not lie. when you used to say there's a man in the pool when talking about leah the opposite. thomas. these are men. let's be honest and give women the safe spaces to change their clothes for god's sake. pete: one of the female

volleyball players, her name is blake allen at randolph high school and saying why she doesn't want to change with biological men. it's a huge thing. everyone is asking, why aren't you allowed in the locker room, the biological females. my want wants me to do this interview to try and make a change. i don't want a biological man changing with me and i should not have harassment charging or bullying charges. there's biological men that go in the girl's bathroom but not the locker room where clothes come up and they want girls to feel uncomfortable. they want ten girls to get changed in a single stall bathroom, that would take over 30 minutes. here's the thing, if these girls object, they're the ones being the target. rachel: they're the bullies. pete: there is no room for an actual other view grounded in 2,000 years of -- 6,000 years or whatever it is of an understanding of men and women. you are os sized and you're told

you're a homophobic or trans-phobic and kicked out. gee walk attack how all this stuff affects girls the most and they can't even go to their own locker room. rachel: it's incredible. it's not just in the safe space. when leah thomas tied with the female swimmer, they told her to get on the platform and get the medal. traps genders are getting special treatment over actual women in women's events in women's bathrooms. it's crazy. will: fox news will reach out to the high school for a statement. have not heard back. pete: would love to hear from more parents as well. will: president biden has a bone to pick with republicans for how they characterize his agenda. >> i'm so sick of republicans saying we're the big spenders. give me a break. we can afford to cancel $10,000 in student debt. will: why won't his party take a

break on big spending? stuart varney breaks down the numbers. pete: he's here. come on in, will: coming up. ♪

pete: the latest batch of insurance claims from hurricane enure vealing more than $1 billion in estimated losses for those lucky enough to even be covered. a basic home insurance policy does not cover flooding. and out of the nine counties declared as disaster zones, just 29% have federal flood insurance. that leaves 1.3 million households in those areas without insurance coverage because they don't have flood insurance. joining us now, host of "varney & co." on fox business, stuart varney.

stuart, i didn't realize the shockingly low number of florideans that have federal flood insurance and therefore they may not even qualify. >> that's what makes the disaster even worse. on the southwest coastline of florida, way under half of the properties have flood insurance. way under half and they've been decimated. go in land towards orlando and it's below 2% that have flood insurance. these people are now facing financial disaster and you point out those nine counties declared disaster areas, that pays for minor damage and minor cleanup and does not pay for flood insurance. now, just go forward a little bit -- pete: yeah, that was the question. how does it play out? >> over a long period of time, there's going to be money districted but it will take a very long time to get florida booming again. in fact, it'll take years. you've got all these people who have facing financial ruin. i don't think that's too strong

a word. if you're flooded and have no flood insurance, what do you do? you've just lost the equity in your house for sure, and how do you rebuild? no bank will offer a loan on a property unless that property has flood insurance and flood insurance is going to be extremely expensive and very hard to find. i think it brings florida's boom to an end. that's what it takes. pete: really? >> yes. and i see a political challenge coming here. president biden has the money, the feds have the money. will he chuck a lot of money into florida? will he do that because that would make desantis look bad, wasn't it? it's a political contest between desantis and biden to some degree. another question, who's going to do the work? who will clear up all the mess and rebuild? there's a worker shortage already. somebody suggested putting the migrants to work. pete: won't be desantis.

>> no, but could be biden saying they're here, you need the workers. pete: bailout is probably the wrong word but some sort of a assistance to people who were flooded but didn't have flood insurance from the federal level? >> that's out there as a proposition, but who would pay for that? would have to be the feds. pete: who would pay for student loan forgiveness as well. that moves us to the next ting. here's joe biden talking about spending yesterday. listen. >> inflation reduction act takes the most aggressive action to confront our climate crisis ever in human history. we're going to do all this while while reducing the deficit last year $350 million and this year by $1 trillion. i'm so sick of republicans saying we're the big spenders. give me a break. >> i'm sorry, that doesn't fly, pete. that does not fly. he wants to spend somewhere in the region of a hal half trillion dollars on student loan

forgiveness. he's being taken to court by six republican states that say you can't spend money like that without authorization from congress. what you're doing is unconstitutional. there's political challenges as well. a, it's not fair. what about all the people that paid off their loans? b, the moral question, why should anybody ever pay off a loan in the future. pete: talk about flood insurance too. >> precisely right. where are we with the student loan bailout program? i think it's going to sink. i don't think he'll get it even though he's trying to buy votes before the election. pete: maybe he gets the political benefit he hopes for even though it doesn't go through. >> he's a big spender. a giant spender pete: look at fed and interest rates and what they've had to do to tamp down. stuart varney, great to see you. >> thank you, pete. pete: watch "varney & co." weekdays from 9-noon every day

on fox business and american built tuesday nights on fox business as well. look at that smiling face. >> it's an old picture. pete: i mean, you don't age. it's a fact. still ahead, the midterm elections are just about a month away. our panel of moms shares the top issues driving your vote coming up next. ♪

pete: florida still reeling after the massive devastation left by hurricane ian and parts of the state under water as search ask rescue connells and 50 deaths confirmed with 47 in florida. ian continues to soak parts of the mid atlantic as it moves north. check in with chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox forecast. >> hey, pete. the radar doesn't look much different than yesterday and see ago lotted of rain across parts of west virginia and that's cause ago bit of localized flooding and this heavy stream of rain here, this is more showers and most of this beginning to pull offshore and what we're going to see today is spotty showers a bit gloomy and that area that we see across parts of west virginia, watch what happens with this overtime. very slowly throughout the day today begins to pill offshore and this goes to monday morning

and rain in the i-95 corridor and a separate area of corridor and gloomy conditions and rain and constant on shore flow there and that will cause issues around the beaches. give you your forecast and fort meyers and things looking really good. this system kind of ushered -- kind of made the exit of the rainy season that we have in florida that was always already really rainy and it's one of the problems we had with all this moisture that fell. take a look at this. tons of sunshine, humidity level as bit lower and it'll feel really quite comfortable and these overnight low temperatures that are in the 60s, if you don't have power, that is going to feel really good. you can open up the windows and begin to have things dry out and get your home cooled down. this forecast could not be better for all the efforts going on in florida. all right, will, over to you now. will: thank you, rick. midterms elections about five weeks away and education is a top issue for moms.

here to discuss, moms for liberty cofounder and mother of five, tina along with mother of three and liberty chapter chair in l loudoun county and i'll stt with cheryl, you've seen this play out in loudoun county but do you expect it to on the national level in education that moms become a major voting block that swings an election? >> absolutely. i think the more time that goes on, the parents movement is just growing in leaps and bounds. look at what we did last year in virginia with yeting youngkin -- getting youngkin elected and parents are waking up. just this week, every house democrat voted against a bill that would have required schools to notify parents if their child wanted to change their gender at

school. i mean, that's outrageous and people are really waking up to the whole gender agenda being pushed in the government schools, and more parents are standing up, and it's deferentially going to play a role -- definitely going to play a role in the midterms in a few weeks. will: tanisha, when you're together with your kids and kid's friend's parents. what are people saying? >> gun control. safety in schools. that's what matters and even in the pta meetings, i've attended a couple this year, and safety is a big thing for our children. will: safety, feeling that when your kids go to school, they are unsafe? >> absolutely, of course. i mean, not too far away was the shooting that we had, a mass shooting with the high school stone brook douglas stoneman and

people are fearful, parents are fearful. we want safety in the schools and gun control and that's a big thing here in florida. will: tina, what about where you are and what are you hearing from parents that matters to them? >> there's no role more important than that of parent and in my case of mother. from the top down into school board situations that the government is overstepping and robbing panters of their right to make deci decisions if for tr children and to raise them up as good citizens, moral citizens with my values, they're stepping on our rights all over the place so we are working hard to push back on that. i think parents across the country are doing that. i want to mention at m moms for liberty, we're launching a parent pledge and they're honor the fundamental right of parents to raise their children. will: i listen to the three ladies talking about what matters to you and the mothers that you speak to, all are focused on your children, every

single one of you are focused on issues that affect your children, but i do hear difference here. cheryl and tina, i hear you saying you're worried about the right and ability to direct the education in being the primary influence in your children's life. tanisha i hear you talking about safety and specifically gun control. i'll put it to each of you in opposite starting with you, tanisha, do you share the concerns of cheryl and tina, do your friends that when your kids go to school, they're being taught things that you'd rather them not and you have very little control of what they're being taught? >> absolutely. as a matter of fact when the document went home about sex education, i opted out because i feel like i have very little control. some of the things that the children come -- i have twins actually and some of the things that they come home and ask, i'm definitely like i didn't teach you that. where did that come from? it's a big concern in addition to what i mentioned earlier,

absolutely. will: right. on the opposite side. cheryl, do you hear people in your school sharing tanisha's concern about safety when you're sending your kids off to school? >> absolutesly and we recently hosted a candidate for a special election coming umm for two of our school board members, and that was one of our topics was school safety and, you know, hardening security in our schools. we're lucky here in loudoun county that we have school resource officers in all of our high schools and middle schools, but what about the elementary schools? that's something we brought up. there's lots of ways that schools can, you know, harden their security procedures and, you know, it's something they really need to take a look at. will: right. one last quick question to you, tina. if i said set aside issues in education, what would being the second most important issue for you as you head into the voting

season here with the midterms? >> so even aside from education, we're watching from the top down starting with the biden administration, we're watching issues with transparency and government. that concerns parents at all levels so i would say government transparency. will: okay. your children clearly priority number one, issue number one. we appreciate all three of you sharing that very understandable motivation with us this morning. thank you so much. >> thank you. will: all right, still ahead, pipeline sabotage. our next guest literally wrote the book on putin's play book. why she says russia is likely behind the nord stream gas pipeline sabotage.

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warned u.s. defense intelligence officer rebekah koffler. we've been debating this all day yesterday on the show, rebekah. look, you wrote the book on putin's play book. you say that the government -- the u.s. government is correct that this was putin. i'm a little by doubtful just because our government has lied and said hunter biden's laptop was disinformation and same player started the russia hoax. i'm always skeptical but let's hear what you say. >> of course. i understand, rachel, that u.s. government cannot be fully trusted these days, 100% but on this one, i have written an op ed on the fox news digital website where i outline five top reasons why russia is most likely behind this. i'm 99% certain of it. here's why. russia has the motivation, it has the doctrine that it developed specifically for this situation, it has the capability, one of the few

countries to do it covertly, it has demonstrated intent that i described in my book on page 14, and finally nord stream pipeline was no longer revenue producing capability for them because nord stream 2 never became operational because german engineer refused to certify it as punishment for putin for waging war on ukraine. nord stream 1, the russians shut down in august baz arkansas because they claim sanctions prevented them from repairing the pipeline and they had no use of it in the short term and it presented a opportunity for them to conduct industrial sabotage like they planned. ned. rachel: let me pucke push back a second. they could turn the pipelines on our off, this is russian-owned infrastructure, they're hurting their own country and own companies that are invested in

this. >> well, my response is that russia decided it will be under sanction indefinitely because putin will not stop waging war on ukraine. the outcome of the situation in ukraine is existential issue for them because it's part of the strategic security perimeter on which russia relied for centuries and that's why putin decided that nato membership for ukraine is a red line. the revenue that the russians has lost has already been replaced by the $55 billion joint russia china pipeline, additional export earnings from non-western countries such as not just china but india, afghanistan, including the taliban, the russians making deals with them. russian nord stream part is on

the 51%. the rest of it is european countries. rachel: well, you make a good case. i'm still not convinced but i'm willing to consider that for sure, rebekah, you are a great source of information and reliable one. we'll have to get you back to talk about it. thank you so much, rebekah, love having you on the show. i nc>> thank you, rachel. please read the op ed. rachel: yes.

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