heard an hour later appearance of several buildings have been cleared. m t the police managed to do that and the suspect again, wearing a maskribe described as short and armed and dangerous spirits of people are still being told children place.se that is it for us tonight. set your dvr so you never miss us and we will see you tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert, three people are dead and five others in critical condition with a shooting michigan state university overnight. the authorities confirming suspected gunman is dead from self-inflicted gunshot one. you were watching "fox & friends first" on a tuesday morning, i'm todd pyro. >> ashley: i am ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. two separate locations and now the community with the senseless shooting as authorities uncover all of this. >> this truly has been a

nightmare. >> our hearts are with those affected by the senseless act of violence. >> we are a community knit together by each other. we uphold each other and moments of grief as well as celebration, but today we come together as a family and we grieve together. >> ashley: brooke singman is live with this breaking story, brooke. >> ashley and todd, the suspected shooter did not have affiliation to the university. authorities confirming he was found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound off-campus. his name is not yet released to the public. the play say the first shot shot apm north end of campus berkey hall before opening at the union student center. the victims found inside each building.

both buildings easily accessible to the public and did not require special access. a student recording this terrifying video from his dorm as he watched the students running for their lives on campus. another student said his friend so the whole thing unfold. >> i know that he left his phone in the cafeteria because he ran out so fast. purity so multiple people get shot. most of the people i've heard talk to me personally about it told me they were in the union when the shooting happened and that's when they saw it. speak with the children place order has been lifted for the michigan's students and the surrounding community but the classes activities have been suspended 48 hours. the police are still working to uncover a motive in the senseless shooting. all five surviving victims remain in critical condition at a nearby hospital. we will bring you updates as they come throughout the morning, todd, ashley. >> ashley: brooke, we bring in

a homicide detective ted williams. thank you for being with us this morning early on a tuesday. this is a strain situation 43 years old and no affiliation with the school so what happened here? how hard will this be for the investigators to find a motive because it doesn't make sense or lineup, none of it makes sense but it doesn't line up with what we usually see. >> good morning, ashley, todd, certainly shocked and in morning. and really, now that the shooter have been identified by law enforcement, from his body and self-inflicted wounds. so, it's not a motive but the only way to do that is to talk to people in the neighborhood and look at the relatives to check that out and look at

social media site. we always unfortunately in these times want to know the motive. what would make a 43-year-old man walk into a hole and kill two people? and then go next door to the university center there and shoot and kill another person. then put a statement out, michigan state university? i have to tell you guys law enforcement was on the scene and on this right away. they acted appropriately and they've possibly saved a lot of lives by getting this guy off of campus of campus. >> todd: that was my initial instinct the law enforcement didn't seem to say that something else stood out presumably. because of the times we all had

active shooter training. elementary to middle to high school. so they knew what to do in a situation like that. do you think that saved lives as well? >> absolutely, todd. we have learned over a period of time because we have so, so many of these mass shootings around the country. and universities and high schools and elementary schools, they have now all put in place a drill. they know what to do immed immediately. and in the circumstances at michigan state, they acted immediately and notify the students and put it in place. this was, you don't ever want this to happen to the country but if it is going to happen, keep you want this kind of scenario to take place to possibly save lives. >> ashley: ted williams, thank you so much for being with

us early this morning for this very tragic story. we appreciate your time. >> god bless you. >> ashley: one person dead and seven others heard after a violent rampage by a man driving a u-haul truck in brooklyn yesterday. spirits shocking surveillance showed a man strike to man on a bike while pedestrian barely drives out of the way of the truck in time on the sidewalk. 63-year-old is in custody with a string of attacks. his family says he has a history of violent behavior and mental illness. the suspect's brother-in-law said he's schizophrenic, crazy and always say he will probably kill himself one day. that is the way i saw it. he just doesn't know how to lead a normal life. according to las vegas court records, sentenced to 27 months in prison for two separate stabbings in 2017 and 2020. he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in 2005. >> todd: take a look at shocking video out of portland,

oregon, where a man appears to be dumping bottles of water out to immediately recycle plastic. >> what is happening here you get an oregon trail card and you go in and buy bottled water. you dump it on the ground here then you take your empty bottle, take them into the store immediately to redeem $0.10 apiece. speed to angela taught the portland resident with stunning video we just saw, angela thank you for being with us this morning. first off -- >> good morning. >> ashley: how did you find out this was happening? pdx we are getting contacted by people who are doing reporting and talking about what is happening in portland, why and so this is actually something that people see all over the state. it is not something i haven't seen before, but sometimes whenever you see it, you are not sure what is going on. what is going on is that people are not using their food debit

card to help survivors skills or diapers or to make ends meet. they are cashing them in for drugs. it is really -- it is very sad. once you get past the taxpayer dollars being wasted and you understand we are in a situation where we have record overdoses in the state is turning a blind eye to this, this is really awful to allow this to go on. >> todd: you hit the nail on the head and the state obviously knows this is happening. they know what is well why don't they put an end to it? >> well, it is either incompetence or corruption but i would like to get to the bottom of it. i appreciate the opportunity to talk to people about it. we have five alien people in the video and i like the politicians to answer us why they are allowing these people to suffer on our streets.

this fentanyl is unbelievably addictive and causing psychosis. there are places in portland that looked like a third world country and we have people on the streets. so i can't underscore that enough here there is no exaggeration what i'm saying. >> ashley: would you say the last year or so what you have seen and shown in the video has gotten worse? >> absolutely. >> ashley: it just continues to get worse. do you put blame on open border policies allowing for fentanyl to come into the country? >> yeah, we have a lot of a high five that goes from mexico all the way to washington and there is drug traffic going and a lot of people come out of the country like honduras dealing drugs. the cartel is very much here. i will say we've had drug problems for quite some time and it is a vacuum that is created.

it is really scary out here. but of course, oregon, in fact we've made it so profession of drugs it is legal. so the problem is, we are not prosecuting people. voters voted and it's almost like de facto criminalization and the state did not implement the rehab and the mental health that they promised us. so now, they are not being prosecuted or forced to go to rehab. so we have this mayhem on our streets and the insanity and immunity of these people is something that is so hard to explain to some body and you are showing it on the screen though and this is going on in our city. >> todd: this is not just portland but nationwide problem. 2022 fentanyl to skyrocket up

with 73,000 deaths reported appear that is what is reported but in all likelihood that could be way higher and we know the way the feds alleviate this problem dumping out the water bottles and recovering the money for drug purposes as they don't allow you to get recycling fee which is women, income, children and those carts. but from all of this to not making these adults get the treatment that they need to basically turning a blind eye to people dying on the streets, why is that the policy of these far left cities and states? >> i assume this is a rhetorical question. i think that if i may and i want to be respectful to the station i'm on i think this is more about government corruption and lack of efficiency then it has to do with the balance of the right and the left but personally, i think people more

left minded and a liberal city more likely to support the government blindly. i'm not that person. but i will say that i think we as community have to come together and look at the fact that our government is literally getting grants and money and we are spending our money in inefficient ways. and people that are doing drugs that are poor, mentally ill, they are just on the streets with zero help. and it is a humanitarian crisis out here. and i will do all i can to expose this corruption. >> todd: admittedly, it is a 50 state problem and people are dying of it. thank you for your time this morning. now to a shocking admission about government overreach in new york city. teachers who were fired for refusing the vaccine were

flagged to future employers and had finger prints turned over to the fbi. >> ashley: the reporter who broke the story with two teachers are here to react next.

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stop the spread of covid-19 despite cdc recommendations. a group of 12 researchers using masking data gathered from separate studies during the outbreak of the coronavirus age -- and wearing a mask may make little to no difference how many people caught a flu-like illness more covid like illness. and criticizing politicians for bringing teachers into the middle of the culture wars. it all played out at a town hall hosted by bernie sanders last night, watch. >> we have a shortage of basic dignity, a shortage of respect for the people who have dedicated their lives to educating america's students. add to it being thrust into the center of the culture wars. and they are being subjected to the outright attacks from the far right for simply taking on

the responsibility. >> todd: teachers union president randi weingarten taken the stage and her battle with florida governor ron desantis on his hands on critical race theory. neither crt or parental involvement and curriculum were mentioned at all during the town hall, ash. >> ashley: a shocking accusation of federal overreach as the city reportedly flagged for fingerprints of unvaccinated teachers to the fbi. an attorney representing educators talking about it in federal court. listen to this. >> when the city puts problem codes on employees terminated because advanced constitutional policies not only do they have us in their file but fingerprints sent to the fbi and new york criminal justice service. so when ampex ongoing ability to get employment at other places. >> ashley: michael kang two new york city teachers fired over the covid mandate and a investigative reporter join us

now. thank you for giving up with us but i want to go to you first. you were fired for refusing to get the covid shot. does this mean because of the state of new york it is for children who have to get their fingerprints taken? does this mean you were being flagged for the fbi? >> that is what it looks like. and for me, this is both outrageous and infuriating because my first question to the government or whatever it is basically, what did i do and what kind of criminal activity decides denying something that i felt was right for me? and really, just mentally, i didn't want this in my body. what criminal activity does that persist, and why am i being flagged? why am i being fingerprinted for the fbi?

>> ashley: it is absolutely insane and i don't know if anyone understands it. tell me how you found out about what was going on? >> and covered something called the monitoring unit in 2004 by talking to people because i was an advocate for parents and teachers since the mid-90s. and i said, you know, that is ominous. so, i started looking into it and i foiled the data in the monitoring unit, which is an agency at the d.o.e., no one would give me anything. they said it was all social security numbers. okay, so i started asking people, who is in charged? and i found out the d.o.e. called the office of personnel investigation. and what they do is they have employees of the d.o.e. crew,

forgive me, call themselves investigators, but they are not. so, they work for lpi. when they get an accusation from anybody, it doesn't matter who -- well, the principal sent to them a complaint that could be made by anybody that this employee, that employee did something wrong, then they start putting the code on the file. and i think that is outrageous, like rachel said because no one is told why it is there and what they did and most times in my experience, the person did nothing wrong here this is simply made up. as far as the wonderful, terrific teachers who couldn't, wouldn't or just didn't get the

vaccine, on april 28, 2022, i received an email from a team member from a d.o.e. employee named eric and he sent an email to the general counsel of the uft sagging every person who did not hand in a valid vaccination card was immediately put on the problem code. >> ashley: the problem code, right, you wonder what the problem code is. michael, you wrote a blog post that went viral worldwide. you said, "i believe the nyc unvaccinated educators set up to be viewed as frightened as extremist or terrorist." tell us what you wrote that. >> we have seen people like dr. peter hotel is telling those who want choices to go into our body should be treated by the

agencies like nato and homeland security. what they do to extremists. but the truth is, i don't know exactly what happened. we need to in the investigation. i'm talking to members of the common sense caucus in city hall and they are outraged by this. we will be calling on mayor eric adams in new york city to investigate this thoroughly. i have my opinions what happened, but we don't know until we have a thorough investigation. we must have it. >> ashley: michael, do you know what the states response has been and really the state responded to this lawsuit? >> they have not responded to the affidavit. they have been stated in open court and viewed millions of times around the world now. we have heard nothing come out of new york city. so put up or shut up and tell us what is going on we have to assume the sister and investigate. >> ashley: the more this gets out, the more they have to say something. they can't stay silence the mic silent, especially if it gets

out in the open and makes waves. good luck to all three of you. i'm sorry this happened to you and what a bizarre situation to be in. rachelle, i guarantee you didn't think this would happen but just wanted to be a teacher. >> it is an invasion of privacy. i have a question for michael, have some ideas as well where this is going. so, i just want to say one more thing. i don't thrive on fear and i feel like if we were able to hold the line this long, you know what i'm not trying to be coffee or anything like that, but let me just say this is not what will appear in my heart. it is infuriating for sure. >> ashley: you have to stand up to them. that is what all three of you are doing, rachelle garcia, betsy combier, michael kane thank you for being with us and good luck to you. >> thank you. >> ashley: senator is a classified briefing on unidentified flying objects

crisscrossing the country. as for the american people, we still have no comment or assurances from the president. speak with the president needs to come forward on camera speaking directly to the american people, i'll thesis and anonymous sources. >> ashley: fox news also exclusively learning about a misfire and we are live in washington with the latest. >> todd: plus inflation this valentine's day. pure the price tag on the box of chocolates may be hard to stomach but we have some tips to save cash. ♪ ♪

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his identity not yet released, but we do know he is 43 years old with no ties to the university. the deceased victims found in two different billings on campus. the firing at berkey hall before heading to the union student center. >> ashley: the heartbreaking video show students running for their lives as one girl recounts what it was like to shelter in place during the shooting, watch this. >> so scary hearing them saying they are underneath their bed and barricading their doors appear they are crying, screaming, and just a terrible feeling. >> ashley: the shelter-in-place order has now been lifted but classes are canceled for the next 48 hours. the police are working to uncover the motive for this senseless shooting. >> todd: in the meantime, a briefing on the unidentified flying objects shot down by the u.s. military. >> ashley: alexandria hoff from washington, alexandria, good morning. >> good morning, ashley, todd.

they raise concerns how information conveyed to them and learning more reports from tp than the biden administration directly. so today's focus will be on the three objects so far unidentified over alaska, canada, lake huron friday. february 4th takedown and the spy craft beer that majority leader chuck schumer. >> china is deploying these balloons is brazen. i bring this up to emphasize this issue is bigger than any one administration and should be free from partisan sniping. >> what about the american public? the white house was asked about that. >> because it is so unprecedented, should the public be hearing from the president directly on this? >> we have been come i think as transparent as we can be. i won't speak for the president's personal speaking schedule, but i know he has been

deeply engaged in every one of these decisions. speak with a colleague fox news lucas thomas and said in a tweet yesterday writing the f-16s that shot down the unknown objer lake huron mist on its first attempt and not clear where the first missile landed. and each one cost over $400,000. meanwhile significant portion of chinese surveillance flight recovered from the waters in south carolina with payload which will hold key evidence with china's intent but as for the other objects white house press secretary karine jean-pierre pokes fun at the idea of otherworldly origins. >> i want to make sure we address this from the white house. i know there have been questions and concerns about this but there is again, no indication of a lands are extra true seal activity with recent takedown spirit again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial

activity with the takedown spirit >> it seems jovial but concerned. and the senate briefing from the biden administration will start 10:00 a.m. today. >> todd: thank you very much and let's bring in the marine veteran and author of "saving." we get nothing from the white house and when we do get from the defense secretary lloyd austin, he says this. listen. >> i want to reassure americans that these objects do not represent a military threat to anyone. they do however present a risk for civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat. and we will get to the bottom of it. >> todd: educate me, chad, this is your area of expertise. does intelligence threat pose a danger to the homeland if those that get that intel and weaponize it against the

homeland? >> i am certainly glad that you get that. i wish i was secretary of defense that gets that appeared to an attack on the united states does not look like december 7, 1941 when kolbe caught, because he struck pearl harbor. this is the united states and this is not a simple balloon flying over the country. these are platforms designed to collect and report information of the united states. we don't know how these platforms either report real-time where they collect and retreat leader. more than likely a shout out straight to satellite and to china and flew over key locations in the united states. all the information directly impact safety and security of the united states. >> todd: i think what so money of us are left wondering, why are we doing such a bad job at

this? a lot of people are pointing to a renewed focus in the military, wokeness. not necessarily doing the things you were trained and going through your military training. point blank, chad, do you think the pentagon's witnesses making us less safe? >> absolutely the priorities of this white house and priorities being pushed on the secretary of defense and the pentagon and the department of defense and joints chiefs and military is not the national security. look, the military exist one reason and one reason only and that is to protect sisley in the united states and all m&a support domestic peer that is what we raise her hand to do and that is not the priority of our military right now. we see leaders being kicked out on the great leaders being kicked out for simply speaking communism against marxism,

against racism in your talk about things with critical race theory and speaking against it they are speaking against it but being kicked out. when a lieutenant colonel speaks against marxism, he speaking against the very thing he raises his hand to defend peer that is the priority of the military right now and it is a shame. i travel the country and spent 200,000 members around the world men and women bravely standing up to serve our country. they want to do the right thing. they are not allowed to do the right thing and they are frustrated. i've never seen in 30 years such a low morale and our country right now. >> todd: i am so glad you mentioned that because they signed up to put their lives on the line but we are not computers. we have a limited band. if you are putting all of that time and effort into wokeness and woke initiatives because that is coming down from the superiors that will limit what

you can do to protect our homeland. there is another side to this point, doesn't the wokeness that we put through our military through, signaling to the adversaries like china that we are distracted and that was the time to strike and do things like, i don't know, put a weather balloon across our country for intel gathering purposes? >> absolutely pure there is a reason why we see the four balloons or foreign objects with aircraft over the united states and canada airspace and the last week. there is a balloon flying over the middle east of afghanistan which was flying over areas that had sensitive infrastructure, military infrastructure. the pentagon is saying it is not a threat. what identifies as a threat? why is china emboldened to do this? they are emboldened to do this

because they know we won't do anything about it. we will not respond in a way that we should. this is -- these threats and i go back to the first part secretary austin saint this is not a threat. this is a threat to the national security of the united states. this is what the commander-in-chief to keep the american people safe and that is not happening right now because of the lateness and the white house. because of the focus on the military and what it is supposed to be used for. and taking a backseat to countries like china who by the way, the most dangerous military right now. meanwhile, we are distracted. >> todd: we are focused on winning the war on pronouns instead of winning the real world. make sure to check out chad's book. former director of national intelligence james clapper claims he did not call hunter

biden's laptop russian disinformation but clapper was one of the 50 intel officials that signed that letter denying credibility reporting on the laptop just before the 2020 election. now shifting the blame to political there was a message distortion. all we were doing was raising a yellow flick that this could be russian disinformation. political deliberately distorted what we said, but klapper seemed pretty sure what he meant at the time. listen. >> to me, this classic textbook worked. >> >> todd: classic textbook? "the washington post" fact-checkers, imposed my backing up the new defense by klapper "the political article itself does not say disinformation claim." as the republicans on the house committee to interview until officials who signed that 2020

letter. >> ashley: the christian group that made "he gets us" super bowl commercial with responding to alexandria ocasio-cortez's accusations that this promotes fascism. ♪ ♪ she is truly unbelievable peer of the congresswoman something tells me jesus would not spend millions of dollars on fascism. and telling folks, the research shows many people's only exposure to jesus who reflect imperfectly. and creates a distorted or complete picture of his radical compassion and love for others. we believe that investing efforts to ensure more people consider his life and movement as inspiration where in all will improve the lives of those listening. >> todd: on this very show, we

have gone through multiple times we don't think aoc knows the definition of fascism is. did you see the clip that we played? two little children hugging. again, i don't know if she understands what fascism means. if she does and purposely putting this out there, that is why old that is coming from a sitting u.s. congressperson. but all of this shows how in trouble we are in our country. that a congressman woman would track that to a commercial like that. >> ashley: she is something else. >> todd: state of illinois has lost 77% of paramedics and emergency workers and no democrats want them to wear body cameras on the job here at chicago first responder joins us next appearance be to environmental disaster is becoming a health emergency forn ohio after train derailment so why haven't we heard anythine transportation secretary? we will tell you what pete buttigieg is focusing on

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toxic chemicals and initially reported animals drop dead near the crash site. laura greene joins us live with the latest, good morning, lauren. >> good morning. the residents who just returned to east palestine home raising questions about hammering for a horrific crash this month. that don't make the evacuation orders entered last week and repealing yesterday the train was carrying more toxic chemicals than initially reported. the epa did say concerning levels of the error attributed to the crash have not been detected since the control burning from the trains containers was complete. residents will likely continue to smoke chemicals but two weeks later, those who return home or warning it may be too soon. >> today where we are right now my shop is the first time i have been here in a week. i was here 5 minutes and i have a headache right now. we can't spend a lot of time here without feeling like and if

all these people say it is safe, why does it hurt? >> lawmakers on both sides of the else demand answers when pete buttigieg including democrats and congresswoman ilhan omar said that derailment will have a negative impact on the health and well-being of the residents for decades. and getting little media attention. we need commercial inquiry and action from pete buttigieg to address the tragedy. at a conference yesterday pete buttigieg failed to mention the disaster but instead to sound off on diversity in the construction industry. >> we've heard too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where we got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color finally sees the project coming down. but everyone in our hard hats on the project doing good paying job don't come anywhere near the

neighborhood. >> ohio senator j.d. vance said his priorities need to be checked. >> if you listen to secretary buttigieg today, they are focused more on whether we have too many white men in construction jobs then he is on the fundamentals of his job, which is ensuring we have a viable transportation infrastructure in the country. unfortunately my constituents and some of the main victims of the fact failing infrastructure in the country after spending tons of money in an effort to actually fix it. >> a town hall scheduled for tomorrow night for residents who will ask local leaders about the handling of the dimmer ailment, todd, ashley. >> ashley: lauren green, thank you so much. a drastic coach and emergency workers and paramedics things to the rise in violence and low pay back in 2019, the state had 36,000 employments but 2021 the number fell to 8200 peer that is

a 77% decrease. ml state democrats opposing a bill to strip those first responders with body cams to keep them in check. the dms assistant and chicago joins me now. thank you for getting up with us this morning. >> thank you for having me ashley, thank you. >> ashley: you heard it right there 36,000 paramedics in your state in the fiscal year 2021 and also 8200 active license on record. a 77% decrease. those numbers don't why so what is happening? >> i think it is a multifaceted problem we are looking at right now. chicago, a lot of violence in the street against our members. we were fortunately to have a city council to pass an ordinance with a biomimetic check for violence against the first responders in the street. violence is up against us like anybody else at this point in time. >> ashley: it is not uncommon

for first responders, paramedics, emts to get hit as i believe you were at one point especially responding, a photo of you. so when it comes to the low pay, the dangers that you face, now they want to strip you with body cameras. how are you guys going to sustain this? what is going to happen if you say, we are not going to do this? what will happen to the state? >> with respect to the body cam issue, let the legislative politicians out on the street to work. i'm here to continue to advocate for a fellow brother and sister paramedics and responders. we do need to have protection from our cities municipalities and lawmakers continue to have that protection and continue to do our job and serve the public. we have a passion to do this job answer. it takes a special person to do this job. >> ashley: illinois emt were asking why they leave the drop of 60% are burned out.

36% say they are not sure their sacrifices are worth it. so what is your message right now to the leaders of illinois because this is looking pretty bad, especially with those numbers. >> my messages we are thankful already. we look to have more support what we do out there to continue to keep the cities, towns, the country we serve well protected. there is a lot of good men and women that do this job here there are a lot of challenges every day. and in the thing that can be done to continue to foster the good working environment would be much appreciated. >> ashley: i am sure. matt, thank you for being with us this morning. good luck with everything because like i said, those numbers do not lie and it is concerning to see. >> thank you. >> todd: a fox news alert, three people dead and five

others in critical condition after a shooting at the university, excuse me michigan state university overnight. we will tell you everything we know. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: a fox news alert, three people are dead, five in critical condition following a shooting at michigan state university overnight. authorities confirming the suspected gunman is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and police say he had no ties to the university. you're watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. one student reporting from their dorm room. audio revealing the moment they realized someone opened fire at two separate locations on campus. >> room 114, a victim in room 114 and room