>> todd: fox news alert, seven people are dead in texas and another in arkansas as a powerful winter storm cripples the mid-south. the winter blast causing several deadly crashes as roads there become dangerously icy. this is not an area of the country that has a lot of experience in dealing with ice, that makes this more dangerous. this is "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. flight delays and putting 380's,000 texas residentses without power. >> i have never seen ice like this before. >> do not come out. >> it has been a lot worse than we thought it would get. >> ashley: texas residents being warned it could take until tomorrow for power to be restored. to america's crime crisis, nypd

releasing new video of the wild chase that led police to the arrest of two career criminals accused of robbing a dozen people on tuesday. >> todd: the suspect are expected to be prosecuted in federal court. marianne has details from los angeles. marianne. >> marianne: two career criminals, including one who declared he wouldn't stay in jail long are accused in a crime t spans several burrough. the robbers were arrested in upper manhattan in a stolen white mini-van. wallets and jewelry was taken from victims and the group hit a local motel onnen 82s boulevard. one suspect is carlos perez, known member affiliated with the crypts. he had nine arrests for gun

possession and alleged beating of a 79-year-old man in november. suspect alvin velez had 11 prior busts dating back to 2001 for sexual abuse, drugs and attempted murder and was paroled in 2021 and he's been arrested five times since then, most recently drug charges earlier this month. chief essex said none of the suspects should have been on the streets. >> they were on parole for bad crimes, attempted murder. they get arrested numerous times. we don't violate their parole. they are on the street, steal a car at gunpoints, ride through three burroughs, we're lucky something more serious did not happen, they should not have been out on the street. >> marianne: if convicted on federal charges, it carries longer jail erm it, heavier fines and additional penalties.

>> todd: thank you. last hour we spoke to a new york city business owner in the area where the thieves struck. he said big apple's lax crime policies encourage incidents like this. >> our commissioner over and over state that the no bail is an issue. numerous times, she said it. nothing is being done about it. we have police officers on the street that are underpaid, underappreciated and misunderstood and dealing with community that doesn't trust them. something has to be done about it. you have alvin bragg, kathy hochul, adams, everyone has to get on the same page. >> ashley: now to pretty wild security footage from toronto, canada, capturing two robbers crashing a stolen car into a mall. you can see the audi outside heading toward the entrance before squaring up and am raing the glass doors.

the thieves take a joyride through the first floor before robbing an electronics store. they are still on the loose, no one was hurt. >> todd: you can see the license plate on the car, these criminals do not care about consequences. >> ashley: zero care. d.e.a. official with urgent warning on how drug cartels infiltrated america and are greatest drug threats in u.s. history. >> these ruthless criminal organizations have associates, facilitators and brokers in all 50 states and more than 40 countries around the world. >> ashley: talking to border state congressman about it. >> todd: and wyoming helping joe biden on electric vehicles after the white house demanded charging stations be put in every 50 miles. wyoming lawmaker explains why it will hurt the state. don't go anywhere.

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>> ashley: wyoming is blocking the biden administration demand to add charging stations across the state, there are only 500 ev owners that live there. >> todd: brian, 500 in a state

that is so spread out and beautiful, i might add, like wyoming. are any of the owners clamoring for more chargiing stations? >> this is definitely a challenge when we have top down mandates. i haven't heard complaints from my constituents. we're cognizant of the fact we havure tooists visit. we have our own plans we submitted to the feds that was adequate. they deny that and want charging station every 50 miles, even if it means putting in infrastructure that doesn't make sense. we have questions and department of transportation has questions about whether that is viable over long-term.

these stations have to make it in the private sector, there is not always federal money to support it. we wonder if they are forcing us to spend money on a station that will be abandoned. >> ashley: president biden posed in an electric vehicle this week and tweeted, the great american road trip will be fully electrified. i think we said that are cawas like $70 to $80,000, why do you think biden is pushing this so hard on all states? do you think he believes in this electric america or do you think it is just the activists pushing him to do this and he is caving to them? >> it is hard to speculate, i will not speculate what is on his mind or why he is doing what he does. in wyoming, we are too familiar with ideas that maybe make sense in the beltway, but have no

applicability, it your honor yoo undermines their objective we are trying to work with them in good faith, i'm not opposed to more infrastructure for ev's, we have to do it in a way that is going to work. you tell people how to do things or what the objective is, not be too prescriptive and telling them how, that is recipe for disaster. >> todd: you hit on the key thing when it comes to this issue, don't the citizens of wyoming have a better sense what will work in their state? a state that is pretty spread out, it is the tiniest state by population in the country, not the tiniest state by land mass. don't you know what better works for you than the feds?

>> absolutely. we've been doing it for centuries now, we come from group of people who carved civilization out of little and know how to do it properly and in a sustainable manner. we're going to keep on trying to do our best to engage with the federal government and say your plan will not work here. we're doing our best to make sure if you want to come to wyoming with an electric vehicle, you want to visit somewhere beautiful, you should be supportive. we are part of a national infrastructure when it comes to transportation system, let us help you achieve your goal and not force this plan on us that is going to require extra money to put infrastructure where there is none and infrastructure is not cheap. under this plan it is abandoned after they stop funding it. >> ashley: how much pull does the state of with i wi have when it comes to states rights in

situation like this? >> we can't play the long game, administrations come and go and we will be committed to the state and country and transportation infrastructure we have long after the biden administration has come and gone. we'll keep it up and we'll keep on trying to do what is right around here. >> todd: wyoming is the poster child for how elimination of a gas-powered car doesn't work, quite frankly, yellowstone, it don't work in a prias. brian boner, thank you. high cost of natural gas hitting businesses across our country. one restaurant in san diego seeing 400% increase in prices. the owners joined ashley to tell her california politicians are turning their backs on small business. >> it seems like they are throwing businesses under the bus. we're such a huge, we bring in

so much tax revenue for the city of san diego. >> they continue to raise our prices until nobody shows up. this is a very blue-collar restaurant. we're on a tight budget. we try to control our costs. we're just trying to do the best that we can. >> todd: brace yourself for this or look at the screen. restaurant energy bill soaring from $2200 to $8200 in know wo month. how do you sell enough food to cover that nugget and you know the prices have to go up. >> ashley: you don't and they said it was a shock and more shocking is this month they were told it was going to go back down 61%, what happened there? >> todd: tough when you are trying to run a business. hunter biden and his legal team making an announcement. >> ashley: details in a live

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>> ashley: minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar says her attempted removal from the house foreign affairs committee is political payback after democrats impeached donald trump. >> been on a vengeance tour and what they have done is deny eric swalwell and adam schiff committees because they disagreed in the way in which they let the impeachment against trump. this is extracting revenge for trump, their master. and certainly i've been a target for them from the beginning. >> ashley: house speaker kevin mccarthy telling fox news that the house will vote to remove ilhan omar today, he first vowed to remove her over anti-semitic comments she made about israel. >> todd: black lives matter

and -- have been pulled from -- backlash from florida governor ron desantis and one florida democrat. listen. >> frankly i'm against the college board's curricula, i think it's trash. it is not african american history, it is ideology. study from freedom, equality and justice has not been no tension with queerness. >> todd: that is bill proctor, he joins us now. pleasure to have you on the program, why did you speak out? >> well, it was time. when you have something, injustice of information with florida schoolchildren, to protect their minds and make sure they were getting profitable information is very important. i believe there are a number of voices emanating, the truth of the matter is college board's recommendation curricula is not

prime-time ready. >> todd: as professor of african american history, nobody will know this subject as well as you, why do you think that the ap african american study course from the college board strayed wildly from what you have taught for years? >> it is amazing that they were that far off course and outside of the bounds of john pope, franklin standard text that was used from slavery to freedom, the book before the mayflower, lerone bennett were not in use. it is unfathomable as to why they would be so far away from the norm. >> todd: what has been reaction to you taking a stand? >> well, a number of people believe i am endorsing governor

desantis. i view it opposite, governor desantis is standing up for me. governor desantis recognizes this curricula does not talk about freedom and from 1619 to 1865, the quest african americans in america during this month of african american history does not talk about freedom, doesn't talk about law or constitution. you cannot talk about article one, 13th amendment, 14th, 15th amendment and those things and how can you talk about african american history and no reference to economics and for 246 years av k -- africans here in america have been selling people, moving people about, that is a family issue. the contribution and the governor pointed out biographies of noteworthy americans was

missing. when you do not talk about freedom, about the law, about economics of the situation, the religion, the family matters, as well as contributions in many areas is missing something terribly bad. >> todd: well, what you did worked because the college board updated the curriculum and said that the course focuses on topics where professors shared consensus on events, experiences and individuals crucial to study of african american history and culture. are you confident this has gone far enough and they have reformed the curriculum properly to reflect what should be taught based upon your years of experience in this field? >> no, i think what they have gone to, they have gone to patching, this is a patch up and we need to move from patching to scratch. go from patch to scratch. yesterday i asked governor

desantis in a letter to him, if he would appoint a 15-member panel of scholars within the state of florida to come up with a real, meaningful curricula. it saddens me, hurts me that the college board does not come up to the auspices of the u.s. department of education, they are not accountable, they are private organization, presumably for nonprofit. however, they account and report to thousands of universities and they stand as the gate keepers between children across america and their role has been to assess the aptitude and what young people might have in terms of having college abilities to matriculate and i believe this board has not had expertise of african american historians,

they have flip-flopped and done about face and capitulated to number of concerns raised by the desantis administration and it seems to me that florida is a bit contract, third largest state and they capitulated, turned around, put their tails between their legs and i guess did not want to awaken other states. when you have a governor that takes on disney, i think the college board -- >> todd: great point. >> this is a contract for them. >> todd: understood. i hope governor desantis takes you up on that idea of forming a commission andir is, you should be front and center, if not leading that commission, nobody knows this stuff quite like you. professor bill proctor, and commissioner, as well. chicago crime out of control, here is chicago mayor lori

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to arrest yesterday. his funeral held at the same church where martin luther king jr. delivered his final speech. nichols sister delivered a heart-wrenching eulogy. >> my brother was robbed of his life. it left me completely heartbroken. i see the world showing him love and fighting for his justice. but all i want is my baby brother back. >> todd: vice president kamala harris among those in attendance at yesterday's service. tyre nichols was beaten to death last month from memphis pd, sparked nationwide protest last month. >> ashley: getting ripped as the windy city deals with surge in crime and not enough manpower to deal with violence.

♪ ♪ >> did you order thousands of new jobs and a pepperoni? >> told you she delivers. ♪ ♪ >> ashley: after giving 32 years of service to the chicago police department, a lieutenant is retiring his badge and joins me. we said it there, you gave 32 years of your life to the department on the streets working for the people, putting your life on the line. when you see videos like we saw with lori lightfoot, what do you think? >> it is frustrating. it shows she's completely tone deaf and has no idea what is going on, she's surrounded by this bubble of yes men and has no idea, it appears has no idea what is going on in chicago right now. >> ashley: what is going on in

the streets? since 2018, they lost 1600 of ros. are those spots being filled or are they vacant? >> no, that is the problem. we are losing 1000 to 1100 officers per year and the thing that is key about that is whenever you have a spike in hiring like in 1991, you hired a lot of officers, you have a spike in retirement 30 years later and would lose 20 officers a year to resignation. last we're we lost 360 officers. they are going and getting jobs at other law enforcement agencies, they are leaving chicago law enforcement. >> ashley: i am sure there is not one reason you left, what are the top reasons you left? >> the problem is they created a toxic work environment, brought in superintendent brown from

texas and they have whiplash policy, they have cancelled days off with no reason. there is not a reason given, out of nowhere, you are planning your weekend and days off are cancelled, extend your shift to 12-hour shifts and promotion process is off the chart crazy. people have gone from sergeant to deputy chief in 10 months and some from sergeant to commander and commander of the mayor's detail is a patrolman that went straight to commander. lack of experience from the top is frustrating to of ros. >> ashley: are those people qualified for the jobs? >> the problem is a lot of the people could be good at their job. they don't have an opportunity to grow in the position. they go sergeant to lieutenant

and up the ranks and don't have time to learn the job. you end up with inexperience, they are spit balling ideas and it is frustrating to the officers because there appears to be no direction. >> ashley: the mayor's race is this month, do you think people in chicago have had enough of lightfoot or do you think they will re-election her? >> i make a prediction she will not even make the run-off. mayor lightfoot has 110 officers on her security detail, which is insane. mayor daly had 21, rob emmanual had 16 officers and one commander. when she took office, she raised that to 25 officers, two sergeants and a lieutenant in october of 2020, added more bringing 100 officers and added another sergeant two weeks ago and the lieutenant and the

commander. you have officers and she has over 110 officers working to protect her house and her, it is one thing a mayor should have security, but she's got about 15 officers on her house 24/7, whether there or not and a swat car posted a block away. >> ashley: there is 61% increase in crime just in the first three weeks of 2023. i would say that is coupled to the fact you are losing thousands of officers and there is no leadership. thank you so much for being with us and enjoy your retirement, you have earned it. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> ashley: have a good day, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez going toe to toe with james comer during their hearing on pandemic spending and fraud. cheryl casone is here with the fireworks. >> todd: and it is groundhog day, jd is live in punxsutawney,

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>> todd: hunter biden's legal team calling for a probe into

the laptop he left at a delaware repair shop. >> ashley: house republicans will kickoff blockbuster hearings to the biden family. brooke singman has details. >> brooke: that is right, hunter biden and his legal team are calling for an investigation into attempts to weaponize the data found on his laptop. hunter's attorney calling out several allies of president trump along with the shop owner who discovered the content. the data was used against hunter. his lawyer says this failed dirty political trick exposed and manipulated mr. biden private and personal information. here is what we know about the laptop discovery. december of 2019, repair shop owner discovered the laptop and sent it to the fbi. in october of 2020, "new york post" was given a copy of the hard drive exposing content

related to hunter biden and yesterday hunter biden's legal team came forward and admitted the laptop belongs to him. the repair shop owner says the timing is interesting and told "new york post," with congress starting investigations next week, it is a scare tactic. the house oversight hearings into president biden and his family are set to begin next wednesday, february 8th. james comer says the scope of the investigation will include hunter's art deals and censorship before the 2020 election. >> ashley: a lot of people are excited to see what will come out of that and days before president biden is set to deliver his state of the union address. >> cheryl: what is the state of the union? according to polling, not good. 81% of voters would describe america as dysfunctional family

as opposed to a tight-knit family. 73% of voters dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country and 80% of voters say the economy is poor or fair and 66% of voters disapprove af president biden's handling of inflation. we saw 35-point rise in democrats responses when it came to discontent. 35-point jump when it comes to democrats being not happy. 1-10 say inflation is under control, only 1-10. in the top three, for democrats and republicans on both sides, inflation and then fed raise interest rates yesterday. we had 25-basis point hike by the fed. things like auto loan, credit card bill, rates and interest will be higher. all of this is the state of the union as we know it right now. >> todd: they are setting that up for a nice, clean round

number of 5% and will leave it. >> cheryl: they told us yesterday, they are good at telling us what they are going to do. >> ashley: and aoc and comer went at it, fireworks we've been teasing all morning. >> cheryl: yeah, i want to set this up. the house oversight committee, the new chair, james comer, during the hearing, the hearing is about covid fraud and basically talking billions of dollars lost to fraud. here is the exchange between aoc and comer. watch. >> i cannot for the life of me understand why majority would send these three letters to these three states that leave us with no other conclusion than there need to be rank partisanship in this investigation. >> i would love to join in if you want to do that, a join

probe, i would love to work with you on that or any of the 50 states. i believe it is a problem in all 50 states, especially kentucky. >> cheryl: there you go, sure, let's work together. she makes a politically motivated accusation accusing him of playing politics, great, let's work together. we spent 5 trillion on covid. billions is likely been lost to fraud, one of the people that testified yesterday said exactly that, we're looking at at least 5.4 billion in questionable loans. the fraud from unemployment and small business loans, scratching the surface, i am glad they are having hearings. >> ashley: i think the "washington post" or one of those, they said where did the covid money go and broke it down in increments, they are saying -- >> todd: we had a guest ask, is it higher? he said way, way higher.

>> cheryl: the florida guy brought the car and the mansion with covid, he got caughts. sickening. >> todd: a florida man announced retirement yesterday. >> cheryl: buccaneers, who will be the quarterback now? tom brady announced he will retire from football again. here is the video. >> i'm retiring. for good. won't be long-winded, you only get one super emotional retirement essay, and i used mine last year. >> and gisele bundchen, wishing you luck in this new chapter, which likely doesn't include her. many say they believe the marriage ended because of his decision to say i'm retiring and went back on his promise to everybody. >> ashley: i'll believe it when i see it. >> cheryl: he's done. he's done. >> ashley: they said that last

time. >> todd: he has 375 million reasons here at fox why he's retired. >> cheryl: seven super bowl wins, go out on top, which he should have done last year. >> todd: should have. >> ashley: everybody has been -- >> cheryl: cowboys were the last team to beat him. i'm out, everybody. >> todd: all right, jimmie johnson. it is ground hog day, we got you, babe, you have senior meteorologist janice dean live in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. >> ashley: she has fox weather forecast and a preview of the big event. good morning, janice. >> good morning, everyone, from punxsutawney, city with 6000 people, on this day, tens of thousands come here. let's take a look at the forecast, will punxsutawney see his shadow? it is currently 50 and we will see a major artic cold front, my

prediction is punxsutawney will see his shadow and we'll see six more weeks of winter. on the map, 15 and mostly cloudy today, the snow is to the south of us and take a look at the accuracy of punxsutawney phil, it is not that accurate, it is about 40%. don't rely on him. 77% of the tight, he has seen his shadow and only 20 times has he actually said an early spring. i have to tell you about this storm system because it is bringing ice to texas, very serious situation. we want everybody to be okay, texas, arkansas, oklahoma toward tennessee, we will see the ice storm. that is a big deal. foxweather.com for latest details, a lot of ice, we will continue to follow that for you. for now, the 137th ground hog

day, at gobblers knob. yesterday phil was inducted into the meteorology hall of fame, something i had the privilege of being inducted into in 2017. this is the last year for it. i feel so honored to be in that hall of fame. we've gotten its of thousands of people here today, phil upon come up around 7:twenty, we'll have that live on "fox and friends." before i lose my voice, back to you todd and ashley in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. >> ashley: that is where the party is. >> todd: she had to compete with the monday night football theme, they are playing monday night football theme song and jd, have fun out there and thanks so much, as always. >> ashley: we're not having nearly that much fun. house's first hearing on border crisis lighting up as republicans put reality of joe biden's failing policies front and center. >> we have set records for

migrants coming into the country and frankly, i think it is intentional. >> kamala harris was appointed the border czar, have you had a lot of interaction with her? >> no. >> congressman moran was in that hearing and joins us next.

>> ashley: the nypd and new york sanitation crews clearing out the migrant camp outside the new york city hotel where dozens of single male migrants have been sitting for days' long protested and refusing to leave for another shelter. >> todd: eric adams calling out the agitators encouraging the standoff and supplying food, water and clothing. he said shelter at the brooklyn cruise criminal is nothing like the prison they are making it out to me. >> what they said to me, they said thank you, mr. mayor. there is some agitators that are just really, i think is doing a disservice to the migrants and

doing a disservice to the children of families who are moving in the hotel. >> the spokesperson for mayor eric adams confirming the single men staying at the watson have now either treason to transfer to the brooklyn cruise terminal. officials call a warm location or decided to leave our care by connecting with friends, family, or other networks. republicans taking the battle for border security to capitol hill. lawmakers sparring for hours during the house judiciary committee's first hearing on the border crisis. >> we have set records for migrants coming in to the country and, frankly, i think it's intentional. >> the communities have been neglected and rely on local and state resources to address border that is in a crisis mode. >> kamala harris was appointed the border czar. have you had a lot of interaction with her? >> no. >> but, democrats fired back. >> the first hearing will showcase the racist tendencies of the extreme maga wing of the republican party.

>> many members in congress seem intent on demonizing migrant families. proper trying them as criminals. >> this is reasonable doubt not biden's border crisis this has been a crisis for half a century. >> here to react is texas congressman nathaniel a member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks for being with us this morning. the last time i cheblegd the u.s. welcomed feel as long as done safely and legally. i want your reaction to the democrats calling this racist and a distraction by the g.o.p. >> >> happy groundhog day and very informative because what we saw effectively was that the democrats saw their shadow and signaled to the united states, to the american people that they're going to see continued open policies without regard to rule of law. clearly, we had folks on the panel that were giving firsthand testimony about what was going on. more than half of our border protection agents are hispanic

in nature. this is not a racist issue. >> this is a secure national defense issue. this is an issue we have to fix quickly. >> todd: yeah, congressman moran, when you hear democrats go to the standard everything is racist line of defense you know their position is untenable. some people saying it's racist. other people like this judge we are going to play from el paso saying there is no border crisis. listen. >> there is no invasion of migrants in our community, nor are there hoards of undocumented immigrants committing crimes against citizens that are causing harvick in our community. todd todd congressman moran your reaction to that statement. >> i have been down to the el paso sector. can i tell you what he said is simply not true. in fact, when i asked him some questions he said hey, 95% of the money we are using there locally is from fema. fema is emergency management agency. clearly emergency management situation on the border there is a border crisis. i have seen it first happened.

i know from texas judge standpoint we have to secure our borders for various reasons. >> ashley: you know, kelm, obviously there is a bunch of different crises at the border right now. the drugs infiltrating our border is a main topic. we had a top d.a. official cartels criminal drug threats the u.s. has ever seen. let's take to will and talk about it? >> the sinaloa cartels post the greatest criminal drug threat the united states has ever faced. these ruthless, violent criminal organizations have associates facilitators and brokers in all 50 states. the cartels are destroying families and communities with callus indifference and greed. >> i think one of the main issues is what they are calling the fentanyl crisis right now. do you think this is one of the top, if not the top crisis at the border right now that we need to get a hold on? >> absolutely, ashley. sheriff is right on yesterday when he talked about both the

drug trafficking and the human trafficking but from a fentanyl standpoint, we have so much fentanyl in this country right now it could kill all americans many times over. we heard the heart wrenching story yesterday of a father who talked about his 15-year-old son who died in hays county last year from a fentanyl overdose. it was traffic to hear his story. so many, unfortunately, lost lives due to these drugs. and due to our inability to stop the cartels bringing those drugs over our borders. >> todd: 73,000, in fact, from august 2020 to august 2021. so, how will republicans put a stop to this? >> well, republicans are going to have to clamp down immediately using our appropriations arm. we would also like to see passed chip roy's bill house resolution 29 that says basically look, you either have to detain folks or return them to the country of origin. we can no longer catch and release and have porous borders. it comes down to the administration, the biden

administration whether or not they want to enforce the rule of law and their policies that they're allowing at this point that are making our borders so porous. >> ashley: you know, is title 42, it's going to be in place i think until some time in june. is it even working down there? because you see all of these numbers, huge numbers of fentanyl and cartels coming through. what's the point of it even right now if it's not stopping while it's stopping the drugs and the, causes from coming over the border. what's going to happen when it's not in place? >> you know, we have got to just step back and say to ourselves, this is not a complicated issue. we know neighbor to neighbor when i was growing up, i knew my neighbor's yard belonged to him and my yard belonged to us and i couldn't trespass without his permission. private property rights and the rule of laugh mean something. that is not a hard concept to gain. and countries around the world enforce border security, why can't we do it here at home? >> todd: congressman nathaniel ma moran, thank you for your

insight. >> thank you. >> todd: we started it off with jim jordan's soundbite saying these actions on the border seem like they have to be intentional. it really does beg the question why would you do the things joe biden has done if it wasn't intentional. >> exactly. >> ashley: makes you wonder. with that, "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. >> todd: bye-bye. ♪ ♪s ♪ i got you babe. >> ainsley: they have got hats, blankets and gloves. punxsutawney phil. it is groundhog day will he see his shadow? >> steve: that's right. that's why toba is playing sony and cher because in th