>> todd: authorities in moscow idaho are working through 6500 tips in connection to the killing of four university of idaho students. parents are starting to lawyer up to get answers. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the father of kaylee goncalves telling fox digital there are things we can request and do to get to the truth faster. you have to fill out forms to get this evidence released to you. i don't know how to do that. moscow mreesz chief sitting down for a raw, emotional exclusive interview with fox news. he says he wants justice for the

families. >> i'm a dad with daughters and it's tough. we're hu human, we don't go to these and turn it off, it affectses us. we have a job to did, we will continue to push forward. >> todd: police are planning to remove the victims' personal belongings from the crime scene and give to the family. >> carley: career being accused of hurting two people and -- sparked a manhunt, has been in trouble with the law since he was 12 years old. sundance oliver has been a one-man crime wave with 30 convictions and a five-year prison stent on his rap sheet. oliver went on a crime spree that includes allegedly killing a 20-year-old man, accused of

shooting an 86-year-old man who was sitting in his wheelchair. theistry ended with oliver killing a girl at an apartment in brooklyn yesterday. hit with a slew of new charges, including murder and attempted murder. we've heard this story before, 31 busts on his rap sheet, including sealed cases and was on parole on felony robbery conviction for which he served five years in prison. not in jail. because of that, 17-year-old girl is dead. >> todd: beautiful girl and 20-year-old guy, as well. they will keep having incidents like this happen and we'll have basically a lawless society. i think we're all for second chances, everybody makes a mistake, in most cases, that second chance is warranted. this is not a second or third chance, this is multiple, this

guy has been terrorizing the streets for 16 years, since she was a child. >> carley: this is happening in new york city. in california, someone robbed a store, held a clerk at gunpoint and got into a gun fight and he ended up killing the clerk and he will not be charge said with murder because it is ruled as the criminal, the person who robbed the store, was acting in self-defense. how do you explain that one? it is because there is no accountability, no fear anymore of committing a crime. >> todd: there is a legal reason, the threat to the clerk wasn't a deadly threat and the clerk himself used deadly response. >> carley: the guy robbed the store. >> todd: i'm not disagrees with you, that is what they latched on to the law.

criminals are embolden to do whatever they want. if you have a law on the books, what the woke and leftist da's are following, stuff like this will happen. criminals do what they want. >> carley: take a look at this. >> todd: a robber breaking into a poki bowl and the owner says it is one of four restaurants hit with smash and grab robberies, along with three additional robbery in arizona, three locations in the last month. managing partner joined us earlier. >> it is jarring for the first person to walk in and see smashed glass everywhere, we are not opening onim too, not serving customers, that happens often enough and people stop coming. sometimes we're lucky to open at all. >> todd: still unclear if the robberies were connected. we're talking about the loss of life and lum, this is loss of property, not to the same

degree, but this cannot happen in civilized society. focus on restaurants, restaurants are struggling because of the cost of food, cost of employees, if you can find employees and now you worry about rebuilding your storefront once a week. what will happen, these woke will not be able to get poki going forward, then maybe they will change their vote and wake up. >> carley: in communities with high crime and violence, stores and restaurants shut down and it causes lack of job, more poverty, more crime, it is a vicious cycle. you are here in new york city and every drug store that you go into, everything is locked up. i've even seen people twice now in my local drug store, just stealing things in front of everybody, in front of the score

clerk and walking out. it is becoming normal, when crime is normal, you have a problem. the poor restaurant owners dealing with inflation, supply chain issues, can't get employees and dealing with crime numerous times and we've spoken to restaurant owners who say crime is awful, but the clean up is where they get hurt when it comes to business, they have to shut down to clean up losing business that way and putting the restaurant back in order costs money. >> todd: from the wrong thing to the opposite. you guys just killed that story, i had the opportunity to be at the golf for cops gala, we'll get to that. president biden just got back from arizona, here is why he didn't visit the border while he was there. >> mr. president, why go to a border state and not visit the border? >> president biden: there are more important -- >> carley: more important things

than the border crisis? nancy mace will respond to that coming up next.

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the georgia senate runoff, raphael warnock giving his victory speech last night after narrowly beating walker by less than 100,000 votes. >> after a hard-fought campaign, or should i say campaigns, it is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy. the people have spoken. [cheering] >> carley: walker conceding in the peach state last night, telling his supporters to never stop believing in america. >> we put up one heck of a fight, continue to believe in this country and elected officials and stay together. >> carley: raphael warnock's win gives padding to democrats in the senate as they take control with 51 seats compared to gop's

49. >> todd: president biden visiting arizona, but not visiting the border. he says he has more important things to do. >> mr. president, why go to a border state and not visit the border? >> because there are more important -- >> carley: nancy mace joins us now, congresswoman, good morning. the president should have known this comment would garner strong reaction from know ares, what is yours? >> republicans and democrats alike, how can you say you understand the border crisis without seeing it for yourself firsthand and visiting the border. this is a massive crisis over the last year and a half. this year 2 million people have crossed that border illegally and it feels like we're doing nothing about it. it is sort of like the fire department seeing smoke and turning their back and not looking at the burning building, that is what is go on.

>> todd: steven miller says democrats are in control of unlimited immigration. >> they support unlimited immigration into this country, they believe americans can't cut it, the american middle-class is no good, values and histories use will and aspirations mean nothing to them, the dirt you walk on the ground. >> todd: why do democrats seem like they want to destroy the middle class. why? >> even worse than that, you have seen democratic mayors who want illegal immigrantses to vote in elections. this is a huge issue, especially with inflation and economic issues the way they are today and this border crisis, if you look at the fentanyl crisis and we had a drug bust a few weeks ago in south carolina, we're not on the border, we have illegal fentanyl coming from the border issue from the cartels into our state and killing our people.

so we've got to have republican leadership, not just in january and i'm excited to see the house being taken over by republicans, who will be substantive on policy, but the importance of 2024, we cannot continue down policies that are wrecking our economy and communities across the country. >> carley: there is a bypass push to get something done led by tom tillis and kyrsten sinema and it boils down to more border funding for border patrol in exchange to pathway for citizenship for dreamers, do you think that is going anywhere? >> we need to address the visa situation, we have upon cas from certain countries. in my district, we rely on worker visas that are seasonal for the tourist season, we don't have enough people to fill the jobs and a ton of tourists and it is multi billion dollar industry here. there are things we can do as long as border security is part

of the discussion, i believe republicans and democrats can work together to fix the crisis at the border. >> todd: calling for nonbinary sam britan to be fired after he was caught stealing a suitcase from a minnesota airport. his actions along with lack of transparency when dealing with this matter reflect poorly on department of energy and raise concern to the biden administration priority when appointing high-ranking officials. would this person have this position if they did not satisfy woke bingo scorecard. >> in the private sector, they would be fired for committing a felony, that is the problem with bureaucracy in the united states, almost impossible to fire people who are committing crimes like this gentleman, i don't care what he does in spare time or how he addresses, but when you commit felonies, you shouldn't be appointed to that position over nuclear energy or

anything of that kind of importance when you commit crimes. >> carley: the president wants to change the primary schedule, wants your home state of south carolina to hold the first primary instead of the first vote being cast in iowa and new hampshire. why do you think he wants that? will this take place? how does this affect republicans? what are your thoughts overall? >> south carolina is a very important state to anyone running for president, on the republican side, the first state in the south, if you win south carolina, you have about a 95% chance of winning the nom nomination and you see this on the democrat side. this will showcase issues in our state, which are national issues and being a southern coastal state, it is important to biden's win when he won the nomination, but looking at issues we have, inflation, economic, environmental, too, we have beautiful beaches on the coast, conservation and energy

issues, clean air and clean water will be at the forefront in 2024, i'm excited whether republicans having south carolina the first in the south or democrats changing for the first state, the attention and importance of south carolina voters on the national stage will be showcased in 2024 and that is exciting regardless of your political ofilliation. >> carley: congresswoman, nancy mace, thank you for joining us. listen to this, american girl dolls are going woke, new book about gender identity giving your kids advice about puberty blockers. >> todd: you won't believe what else is in it, we will bring you the details next. ♪

>> janice: we have so much to talk about in the weather department. we have the clash of two air masses, where it is very warm

across portions of the mississippi valley toward the east coast and cold air sinking southward over the plain states. we have snow, we have rain, we have freezing rain and potential for ice, all sorts of stuff depending where you live. this is shower activity for mississippi and tennessee river valley through friday we could get several inches, leading to flash flooding. north of there, it is cold enough for snow. our storm system moving across plain state toward the midwest. cold enough for measurable snow near northern snow and upper midwest and area of low pressure will creep into the ohio river valley, mid-ats lantic and northeast, will we see snow depending where you live and how cold it is? that is difference between rain and snow event. for northern plains, could see measurable snow, some areas getting a foot of snow and very cold air just bottled up across the northern plains, where

windchills are crazy, minus 48 in crosby, minus 30 in grand forks, a bunch of stuff going on across the map and more storm systems out west with heavy rain along the coast and snow in the mountains, that is the setup, these areas of low pressure come to the west and spread. foxweather.com has all the details. >> carley: as do you, do not short change yourself. thank you so much. listen to this big story. american girl coming out with a new book called "a smart girl's guide to body image," it offers advice to young kids on how to change their gender. one chapter gives this opinion, saying, "if you have not gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity" and telling kids how to get treatment

without telling their parents. if you don't have an adult you trust, there are organizations that can help you, turn to the resources on pang 95 for information. parents are calling the book appalling and dangerous, the material is marketing to kids as young as three years old. i am sure there will be a lot of parents with reaction. >> todd: i'm saving myself hundreds and thousands not buying american girl. and -- deeply concerned with drastic change in policy regarding treatment of patients who are transgender and/or nonbinary, demand the hospital rectify unlawful action and failure to do so will result in a formal complaint seeking investigation, tennessee state rep, zachary joins me now. aclu dictates medical decisions?

>> it is interesting, todd, good morning. for the last two years, we've heard follow the science and listen to the experts. however put a pause on gender transition surgery and after pushback from aclu it shows it has nothing to do with science or listening to expertses, this is sweeping the country. according to number of gender dysphoria diagnosis gone from 21,000 in 2019 to 42,000 in 2021. this evil contajion sweeping the country and here in tennessee, i'm disappointed in methodist laboner, we are talking about adults, but big focus in tennessee is the gender mutilation surgery going on with children.

we have legislation filed to stop it, there are steps we'll take when we move into session in january. >> todd: number of top surgeries, ebb realistic, that is removing the breast from young girls, performed on trans children, is 13 times higher with girls younger than 12 getting the irreversible procedure. why are these numbers rising so exponentially? >> todd, it goes back to the point i was making earlier, it is a social contajion, an evil sweeping the country, it is an effort targeted toward children and something that we need boldness with lawmakers to stand up and say we will not allow this to happen to our children. children are so impressionable, i have children and when they are younger, we don't allow them to make decision about what they eat, when they go to bed, what

medicine a take, we have a process where they can make decisions about gender in it is inappropriate and wrong and lawmakers need to say no, this is not something we will allow to go on in our state and that is what we're doing in tennessee. >> todd: can't vote, drink, smoke, you can drastically transform and disfigure your body for life, it is irreversible and this is sad, we are destroying our children. state rep jason zachary, thank you. to a positive, i had the honor of speaking at fifth anl annual golf for cops. from activities during national police week to kids camps to support sessions for spouses, parents and siblings, cops is an amazing group that makes unthinkable easier. we can help families in grief journey, that is why i've been

away last couple days, it is an honor to be a part of the group. we raised a million dollars to help the families, it is an amazing cause. we will get you on an e-mail list, themcdavidgroupcharities.com is the website you can go to, you can buy some items, if you won to help out, stocking stuffers things like that, amazing group. >> carley: excellent event, that is something you were looking forward to participating in, million dollars, unbelievable. >> todd: i'm worst golfer ever. turns out shark week is racist and sexist, too focused on white men, white men especially named mike. >> carley: joe concha will take a bite out of this one, he is coming up next. ♪

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>> carley: fox news alert, elon musk firing james baker over concerns he helped suppress the hunter biden laptop story before the presidential election. >> todd: intent to influence an election, brooke singman has more on this breaking story. >> brooke: a lot happening at

twitter tuesday, ceo elon musk is cleaning house firing key player in the hunter biden laptop censorship scandal tweeting in light of concerns about james baker's possible role in suppression of information important to public dialogue, he was exited from twitter today. a user asking, was he asked to explain himself first, musk responded, yes, his explanation was unconvincing. james comer called on baker and two other twitter heads involved in suppressing the hunter biden laptop story to appear before congress, writing issue the american people deserve to know why twitter took down the hunter biden laptop story when your colleagues were questioning the rationale for suppressing the story. before becoming general counsel, baker served for the fbi, key figure in the bureau russia collusion investigation and link between the fbi and twitter

leaving senate republicans to call out treatment of the hunter biden laptop story as coordinated cover-up. listen. >> they were setting the stage, they knew the hunter biden computer was out there, they were laying the groundwork in case that computer surfaced to sabotage it and labeling it misinformation. >> brooke: the 1st reporter to publish the twitter file says baker had his hands on the documents before they went public without musk's knowledge. he says the process involved delivery to two journalists, barry weiss and me, lawyer close to new management. things became comp liindicated, while we both dealt with obstacles and news searches, barry weiss discovered the person in charge of releasing the file was someone named jim. he called to ask jim's last name, the name came back jim

baker, baker may have omitted certain files that could have shown the federal government's involvement in suppressing the story. back to you. >> carley: bring in author of "come on man," joe concha. we learned about james baker back during the trump-russia cocollusion scanned alg. he was working with the fbi, close with strzok and i believe he got fired from the fbi and then lands a job at twitter. he land the job, there during suppression of the hunter biden laptop story and now a tweet saying twitter deputy general counsel james baker was fired, among the reasons vetting first batch of twitter files without knowledge of new management. what is your reaction to this? >> elon musk caught the inmates running the asylum and jim baker, here is what he said, i support conclusion that we need

more facts to access whether the materials were hacked, this is what baker was saying about the hunter biden laptop in october of 2020. he said it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been hacked and caution is warranted. it is funny he had concerns about caution as far as whether something should be in the public domain or not. he is former fbi general counsel, in the collusion probe and pushed the steele dossier without a hint of caution at that time. baker got caught suppressing information and elon musk continues to be transparentace possible while changing the toxic culture and doing it through accountability. >> todd: and this big tech big government revolving door looks like it could be stopping at the footsteps of one elon musk and it is about time. >> carley: quickly, though, in

2018, baker left the bureau and found himself in a criminal investigation for allegedly leaking materials to reporters. >> todd: understood, president biden facing outcry for petty exclusion of journalists from the presidential media christmas party. one reporter telling the "new york post," it is not just civility, it is about democracy. really? joe, can't you feel the civility and democracy in the air at the white house? >> joe: i'm feeling it and i'm up in here in jersey, go figure. barack obama did the same thing banning certain publications from air force one because they wrote things critical of his policy and now joe biden banning the "new york post," the only -- longest daily newspaper in the country, let's blame them, i wonder why, perhaps the story we were just talking about. the same president biden who has

predetermined list of reporters to call on and that list never includes jackie ibanez or peter doocy, no surprise on this move. >> todd: i have the greatest co-anchor ever, most generous, ping-pong stories back and forth, she goes, i want you to do this one, my favorite story ever op ed in "washington post" going after shark week saying the show "lacks diversity," and the greatest line ever, overrepresenting white men named mike. joe, are we sure this is not a joke? >> joe: i couldn't believe this was a real headline. i did a triple take, i was like, no, it has to be the onion, nope, the "washington post" has officially jumped not one, four sharks on this know wo making the fonz look like amateur, democracy dies in 31 flavors of stupid, apparently and that sound is ben bradley, former chief editor during watergate.

he is rolling over in his grave because this is what the "washington post" has become. ping-pong back to carley, she is the anchor, you can give an opinion, that is fine. >> carley: one quote from this op ed, or straight reporting. this is scientists. biggest concern with program's lack of diversity and how it might shape young scientist perception of marine biology. this is in the "washington post." >> joe: wow, i always wanted to be a marine biologist, if you haven zoo the seinfeld episode, you will know why. most mikes i know are good guys, i don't know how to end this segment, most ridiculous thing we've talked about this year and that is saying something. >> todd: i will interview the sharks and man on the street. >> carley: shark week and american girl doll, not political at all becoming political.

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>> carley: ascertain tom cotton bashing ceos who complain about business. >> todd: cheryl casone has the details. >> cheryl: senator tom cotton telling woke ceos, don't come crying to him when you don't get your way. >> i cautioned them for years if they silence conservatives and right voters across the country, discriminate against them, they shouldn't ask republican senators to carry the water for them when our democratic friends want to block them or block mergers. i am sorry that is happening to you issue best of luck.

>> cheryl: cotton was talking about kroger and albertson, they fired employees who refused to wear pride symbol. those employees did sue. hearing on the proposed merger on november 29th and referenced directive to stop using the terms sir and madam, that is in kroger company handbook, that is ridiculous. >> carley: also a restaurant in virginia causing the controversy. >> cheryl: this virginia restaurant, refused to host or serve a christian conservative group, family foundation president victoria cobb calling out the restaurant. >> it is amazing the restaurant can put out a statement cloaked about welcoming intolerance and their action be intolerant and bigoted toward another group of people, it is disturbing. >> cheryl: metzger says it is

inclusive environment for people to dine in and we rarely refuse service to anyone who want to dine with us. they said they refuse to serve people who make their staff uncomfortable, that is their defense. >> todd: there are dream homes in america and you went to some of them. >> cheryl: i have to do these things, pretty cool. tonight 9 p.m. eastern time, american dream home, colorado springs, colorado, city dwellersicaty and scott want space and a perfect horse property for their daughters. 9:30, bachelor tom wants to find a country retreat to jam out until the cows come home. new episodes, american dream home, part of the prime lineup on fox weather. >> carley: we love wednesdays. >> cheryl: me, too. >> carley: thank you so much. the biden administration is being sued over liberal climate

change agenda, energy group say the president broke the law by not auctioning off land for oil and gas drilling. the president of the petroleum association of wyoming is one group suing the administration and hein jos me now. great to have you on, explain what is going on and why you are suing the biden administration? >> thanks for having me and good morning from wyoming. we have had to go to the judicial branch to try to help us have biden administration follow the law with respect to leasing. federal law under mineral leasing act require the government lease four times a year, quarterly lease sales is the actual term and unfortunately under this administration, we have only had one lease sale in two years of the biden administration term. we've had to file lawsuits on this and other things to try to protect our rights and protect the industry's ability to be out on the ground in wyoming and

produce oil and natural gas america needs. >> carley: once the leases are in hand, oil companies need permits for drilling to start. every time the biden administration is questioned over energy policies, he says there are 9000 unused permits by oil companies, he's saying companies are complaining for no reason. what is your response to that? >> yeah, you know, i wish that the federal government were so efficient and so quick at processing leases and permits that we didn't need to continually have a pipeline of leases and permits to get business done. these leases on federal lands and moving to the permit stage sometimes take in excess of three, five, seven years to complete. when you have that timeline and business before you produce the product you turn around and sell to consumers who demand it, you need a continual process and pipeline available in order to meet that demand.

are there leases out there so-called unused? yeah, most of them are tied up in environmental review or court of environmental organizations, the fact there is leases we could go drill today, tomorrow, yesterday or whatever president biden said is not the case. >> carley: you are in wyoming, more than willing to increase oil production and the president is turning to venezuela and saudi arabia and signed off on deal with chevron to expand their oil operation in venezuela. how does that make sense? even from a climate perspective, can you make sense of that? >> i can't make sense of that for you, carley. it is frustrating. if we wanted to be serious about meeting the global energy demand and that demand is insatiable, serious about meeting that demand and meeting climate goal, the place to do that is here, here in wyoming and other places in the united states. we have the best environmental

laws issue the best technology, we have companies doing the very best work. if we want to meet both goals, we would do that here and carley, you may not know that wyoming is nearly half owned by the federal government two-thirds federal minerals owned by the federal government and in terms of federal mineral leasing only 4% of that is leased for oil and gas. it is not as though we have been overtaking federal land or any of that sort of thing, plenty space and resource and ways to do it well, environmentally sound and do it here. >> carley: thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> carley: absolutely. listen to this, governor ron desantis is stepping up for his state after fema rejektss his request to help hurricane ian survivors. >> this is a disappointment with the government giving to other countries, it makes people feel

disheartening their own people are not being taken care. >> carley: florida congressman greg steube join us. >> todd: check in with brian kilmeade to see what is coming up? >> brian: huge show, twitter executive is fired after vetting twitter files drop without elon musk knowledge and turns out that employee worked for the fbi in the middle of the mueller report, it is james baker, he is the kevin bacon of this story. congressman jim jordan and you can iter carlson will react to that. president biden defending his decision not to visit the southern border while in arizona by claiming he has more important issues to focus on. former arizona gubernatorial candidate kari lake reacts on to that and douglas murray, one has

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>> carley: house executives exos calling three executives. >> todd: one of them james baker. fired over concerns he personally censored information and revelations that he reviewed the twitter files before they were released to the public without elon musk knowing about it. congressman greg steube sits on the house judiciary committee and foreign affairs committee and joins us now. congressman, i think this revelation about baker came as a shock to a lot of people including tapey and bari weiss who were doing the investigation. he was trying to censor their investigation after censoring the investigation. i look at this. why was the fox guarding the hen house even after elon musk

bought the company? >> yeah, and thankfully elon musk identified this issue with him and terminated him. escorted him out of the building and now we are going to get thee unredacted documents. we are going to obviously subpoena some of these documents from the ones that were redacted and get to the bottom of what was going on to show the american people the level of corruption the biden administration and the biden campaign before the election was colluding and conspiring with social media companies to censor the hunter biden story, to censor things that they didn't like and people like james bake his or her were working there were actually doing their bidding at these companies. and they are going to be held to account. >> carley: what do you hope to learn during the congressional investigation that you are going to be a part of? >> well, the great thing is now we can bring people like james baker in and put him under oath and depose him. now that we have the baseline evidence of these documents that thanks to elon musk we have the actual evidence of the communication between the biden administration and their campaign to twitter and some of these executives and himself, i think there is more to come on

that. i think there is a lot more that we haven't seen. emergency carter himself has said this is just the tip of the iceberg on some of the information that we're going to be able to get our hands on. once we have that, ask them very tough questions. you can't do that type of activity. the government can't infuriate and influence the outcome of an election in using the government to do that. so, i think the american people deserve answers. and thankfully we have a republican majority that will get sworn in on january 3rd that will do that for the american people. >> todd: congressman, do you think they could have censored these files before they became public? >> i think he probably has. and i think there is a lot of things that once we start digging deeper we'll get more answers on that and some of things quite frankly we need to investigate on the judiciary side that he was doing at the fbi, the russia collusion hoax, all of these different things, using the intelligence arms of our government to surveil and spy on citizens of our country. all of that is going to be fair game when we take the gavels back and we are looking forward to digging in on behalf of the

american people. >> carley: congressman, there also this. thousands of unvaccinated service members facing being discharged over president biden's vax mandate. appeal that rule after the white house says the mandate is here to say. take a listen to. this secretary austin has been very clear that he opposes the repeal of the vaccine mandate and the president actually concurs with the secretary of defense. he continues to believe that all americans, including those in the armed forces should be vaccinated and boosted for covid-19. >> carley: so the house version of the defense bill will repeal the covid-19 vaccine debate. that's something democrats have to sign off on as well is it the beginning of the end of the vax mandate for service members? >> i sure hope so. i have worked very engaged on this issue very hard. we have a constituent who is in the naval academy and fought their. i'm very happy to see late last night that language got added to

remove the vaccine mandate for our military service members. we could get into the efficacy of the vaccine but i'm not going to do it. you shouldn't be forcing this on americans. you certainly shouldn't be forcing this on the most healthy population that is not at risk of dying from covid. we fought hard against that and i'm very glad to see that last night that's coming out. >> carley: congressman, thank you so much. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: bye-bye. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you make everyday feel like christmas ♪ merry christmas ♪ never want to stop ♪ birthday wish list ♪ >> ainsley: so ainsley is supposed to start the 6:00 a.m. ho