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sighted last night. gusts of winds reaching 114 miles per hour. >> when you stand for our value, you come under assault. >> florida governor ron desantis speaking out and sparring with disney over parental rights. >> you have woke ideology taking over so many institutions. >> a group of grannies giving rihanna a run for her money, they are shining bright like a diamond, some critics say they outperformed rihanna. ♪ >> griff: good morning, new orleans, it's 7 a.m. central time zone, 8 a.m. in new york city and it is monday, february 27, year of our lord 2023. we're glad you're here for this

final hour of monday edition. joined as always, ainsley earhardt, today we have a surprise, griff jenkins. >> griff: you did the date and i just realized it is my niece sofie garcia's birthday. >> ainsley: happy birthday niece. most uncle don't know their niece's birthday. >> griff: she just had her first child, cooper. >> brian: better than me, i tell you that. >> ainsley: we're glad you are here. >> griff: there is a chance it might be tomorrow, pretty sure it is today. >> ainsley: good morning, glad to be working with you today. >> griff: the double murder trial of disgraced lawyer alex murdaugh is set to resume in just over an hour. >> ainsley: the defense planning to question more experts today,

he is maintaining his innocence in the death of his wife and son. todd piro has the latest. >> todd: they will bring four more witnesses on to the stand. last week murdaugh took the stand himself for two gruelling days of cross-examination. he admitted to lying about the last time he saw his son maggie and son paul alive. he claimed he was not at the hunting lodge, but video evidence proves otherwise. he says he twisted the truth because of drug-induced paranoia. >> you lied to maggie, didn't you? >> i did lie to maggie. >> you lied to paul? >> sometimes. >> you lied to your father? >> i'm sure i did at some point.

>> did you murder maggie? >> i would never hurt maggie. >> did you murder paul? >> i would never hurt paul. >> todd: after closing arguments, a 12-person jury will start deliberations. he was also slapped with a new misdemeanor charge on friday for reportedly bringing a book considered contraband inside the courtroom. if found guilty on murder and possession charge he could face 30 years to life in prison. the trial set for an hour and a half, back over to you. >> ainsley: thank you, todd. we interviewed randy zelon earlier today and he says he thinks it will be wrapped up by wednesday, so we could find out what happened by the end of the week. he said he thought the prosecutors should have done a

better job of emphasizing how much he's lied. you lie to your best friend, business partners, insurance company paralegal, to the police about not being at the murder scene and you were there at the kennel. that would have built a case for no credibility. listen to what randy had to say. >> he is whatever he wants to be to get what he needs in that moment. his lawyer even said to the judge, are we on trial here for murder or are we on trial for fraud? what the prosecution missed was the opportunity, no, we're on trial because this man is a liar and you develop a theme and your closing argument for the jury, as you just said, ladies and gentlemen, he not only defrauded all of his victims, he defrauded you. >> griff: as it always does, it comes down to the 12 citizens

who have to weigh all the evidence and all it takes is one to have reasonable doubt for an outcome to be not guilty. we'll see, the evidence feels overwhelming, deception feels overwhelming, new evidence he was at the kennel, followed by the new story, which is different from what he said to the cops which is when you vividly remember where you were. >> ainsley: griff jenkins was on the scene immediately. >> griff: i was the first reporter we sent down there. it only takes one, you have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, we'll see if the prosecution did their due diligence. there was talk about sled and going back to the boating accident that killed mallory beach that paul was involved in. the testimony of alec was the

big one everybody was waiting for. changing topics, a little bit, the jury may not be out on that trial, the jury is starting to come out on the origin of covid, cover of the "new york post." it has to be with you. remember when everybody was talking about it and you were labeled a racist or conspiracy theorist. the headline caught our attention, most likely energy department now says and inside the article, the energy department joins federal bureau of investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a chinese laboratory. it was likely the result of natural transmission, and two are undecided. the energy department conclusion is result of new intelligence

and is significant because they have expertise and oversees network of u.s. national laboratories, some conduct advanced biological research. >> brian: the energy department confirming what you, your buddy and your drinking buddy knew around the same time. if there is sophisticated biological lab in withuhan lab, what is likely it was a wet market? it felt like a cover-up, all you want was the investigation, investigate it and determine the origin to have justice for those who sick covid on the whole world for three years. the medical community, media, politicians -- >> griff: you can't even get into the wuhan lab, they will not let who. >> brian: who was part of the cover-up, tied to funding of

this lab, where it emanated from. opposite of conspiracy theory, group of people do not want anyone to know what went down. fbi concluded it was from lab election, new news, energy department believes that, as well. common sense, it isn't common these days. >> ainsley: not everyone agrees in the intel community, the white house says there is not a definitive answer. there is the cia and another group that is undecided. you are right, majority of people say it had to have happened in the lab, we want to know why they would not investigate it. and b, we need to make sure this doesn't happen again. we lost million people in eshg m and millions around the world. we were shut in our houses.

we interviewed someone in california who could not leave her house for a month. we were not in school, kids were wearing masks. can you imagine if there was another lab election and we go through that again, have years of more lost learning for children. >> griff: ainsley, one, setting the record straight on what happened and two, going forward and holding those accountable, particularly the chinese. senator tom cotton was derided right out of the gate for suggesting it was a lab election, saying this, china lab election being proven right doesn't matter, what matters is holding the chinese communist party libel. >> brian: you made the point at 6:00, the lancet said shame on anybody that thinks it wasn't the wet -- they were calling you

a conspiracy theorist and misinformant or disinformant, whatever their word was. two years later, the misinform notas were right. it shouldn't have been allow to be stated. we wanted a fair investigation and never got one from the who, seems we are getting one from the energy department. jim jordan said, so the government caught up to what real america knew all along. >> griff: what will house committees get into, this energy department intelligence is classified and will not likely be publicly out, but perhaps a house investigating committee could get more. vivek ramaswamy, who is running for president, is speaking out on this and what should happen next to the lab. this is what he said last night. >> two prongs of accountability,

accountability for china and ccp, which tried to sweep this under the rug. the u.s. needs to lead the way in holding china accountable. if we hold those accountable at home that purposely evaded gain of function research to go through the backdoor and do it abroad anyway. i think that accountability starts at home. we have foundation to deliver accountability to the chinese communist party and lesson in free speech and open debate having prevented us getting the answer sooner. if we don't learn from our mistakes, we'll keep repeating them, that is the lesson of today. >> griff: he is right. >> brian: the answer to why. >> ainsley: congressman said those who had concerns deserve an apology, origins of covid, this will not be forgotten.

>> griff: the energy department did speak to fox news digital and said department of energy support thorough, careful work of intelligence professionals and investigating origins of covid-19 as the president directed maybe there will be more answers coming. >> brian: let's hope, let's hope. who we'll get answers from this morning, ashley strohmier. >> ashley: that is the second nice toss, pete, thank you. >> ainsley: because you said he gives you the nicest tosses, oh, and you don't. >> ainsley: i love the positivity. >> brian: how do you know griff means it? i meant it. >> griff: zinger. >> ashley: good morning, fox news alert, tornados tearing through oklahoma akansas last night. residents reporting significant damage.

look at this car thrown into a house. gusts of wind in texas reached 114 miles per hour. severe storms are expecteds to sweep the midwest. for more download the fox weather app or stream on your favorite connected device. karen bass wants to ease police requirements to root out right-wing extremists in the force. in her summary of goals obtained by fox, bass said they should remove obstacles for recruits who fail exams to be more inclusive. the lap d says this sets a dangerous precedent. recruits do not possess mental or physical to be a police officer. ron desantis says former disney ceo complained about facing pressure from the left to push back on florida's parental

rights bill. that is from an excerpt in his new book, he talked to mark levine about his fight to protect kids. >> we believe as parents we should send our kids to school and watch cartoons without having a sexual agenda shoved down their throats. the left was smart to press disney, they have gotten everything they wanted from florida, until i became governor. >> ashley: desantis's book "the courage to be free," comes out tomorrow. costco shoppers are airing beef over the eye-popping price of roast beef sandwich, for $9.99. getting understand hads of angry comments online. one critic questioning is the beef wagu. costco is known for value and the $1.50 hot dog. nearly $10 for a sandwich seemed

off brand. >> griff: glad i gave up red meat for lent. >> brian: hot dogs $1.50. >> ainsley: if you don't want it, don't buy it, get the hot dog for $1.50 and the drink. costco has the best trash bags. i'm not kidding. i ran out of them and then i had to buy some other ones from the grocery store and they were terrible and i'm like, i miss my costco ones. >> brian: you were asking can you get kirkland brand from other stores? >> ashley: i'm out on this. >> ainsley: i got a ski coat for $25. >> griff: the steak at costco phenomenal. >> ainsley: and the samples, the guilty kids love to go, my

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>> griff: today the uk prime minister and president of the european union expected to hammer out final details of a brexit deal over northern ireland. they left the eu in 2020, northern ireland has been part of contention, they have open border with ireland.

here with how this affects us, piers morgan. i saw you in person on sean's show, great to see you again. brexit happens in 2016, finalized in 2020, more wrinkles to be worked out? >> piers: if you think you are confused, we're all pretty confused in britain. you may remember boris johnson promising we got brexit done and talking about an oven-ready deal, turns out the deal in the oven turned out to be singed around the edges and the stumbling block about brexit from the start from when they first voted in 2017, seven years ago now is issue of what you do about northern ireland. the island is split, south is in the european union and the north is part of united kingdom. how do you deal with that?

the answer is boris johnson never worked out way to deal with that, how do you avoid a hard border. a lot of british people are getting buyers remorse about that decision anyway to brexit, showing hefty majority in favor of staying in the eu, and main reason has been confusion over what to do about northern ireland. >> brian: interesting, had no idea. other side of the globe, covid-19 and the lab election theory the "wall street journal" is reporting the u.s. energy department, our department of energy believes that the origin of covid-19 came from a lab election in -- you remember two or three years ago, if you even suggested that, you were a conspiracy theorist, not our major department believes that happened. >> piers: it is fascinating report and really goes back to

this whole issue of believe the science and i was one that went along with the scientists and felt if the scientists said this is what they believe happened, then it would be disingenuous of me to dispute their word. more is emerging and looks like the scientists simply got it wrong. whether the ability to transmit the virus if you had the vaccine or this revelation about where the original virus started. a lot of people were banished from twitter and facebook for spreading supposed disinformation by claiming they believed this started in a lab, even though many imminent people were guessing that. in the future, we listen to the scientists, we respect their right to have an opinion, but everyone should be entitled to challenge those opinions and challenge them vigorously

because this turns out to be a situation where that virus began in that lab, a lot of scientists were plain wrong. >> brian: piers morgan, did they get it wrong or did they want the answer to be one thing and were willfully blind to other options? that is not what science looks like. >> piers: interesting question, science by nature will evolve with facts, you have to give them some leeway with that. i felt like people like dr. fauci like the sound of their own voice on tv, spending too much time lecturing people what he believed was certainty of his opinion and whether use of masks, efficacy of vaccines or where it started and all his opinions were wrong about those. in future, we have to examine the science and listen to all

ranges of opinion and people have to stop being cancelled on social media for raising concerns that now look like they were absolutely right. >> brian: exactly right. piers morgan, thank you, everybody watch piers morgan uncensored on fox nation weekdays 4:30 p.m. eastern time. take care. good to see you. border patrol sources exclusively telling fox news agents encountered one million illegals since october. we're live along the border with the new fox news poll revealing percentage of americans who do not approve of biden's handling of the border. what the? good morning hallow makes it easy to build a daily habit of prayer and meditation want to start with a five minute daily gospel? sure. take a deep breath and focus your attention on god

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there was an incident when border patrol used force on a person sent to the hospital. a female human smuggler may have been agent lives in danger and they shot that woman, who is believed to have survived. it is not often border patrol use their weapons. a deadly chase, 3:40 a.m. in rio bravo, u.s. border patrol pursuing a car that failed to yield and the car crashed into a utility pole, ejecting six people and killing two. in lahoya, texas, an unacamped girl from honduras was found. she said she was smuggled with two women on a raft. small groups of chinese

nationals who illegally crossed into the u.s. and surrendered, they are usually expedited unless they claim fear of persecution. texas dps says since beginning of fiscal year nearly 3000 chinese nationals encountered at the border, some paying upward of $35,000 to be smuggled. 61% disagree with how the president is handling the crisis along the southern border. the union representativesena,000 members, calling for secretary mayorkas to resign. >> griff: matt flynn, thank you very much. three weeks after the toxic train derailment in east palestine, the cdc on is the ground encouraging residents to talk about their symptoms as

they investigate the health risk from the fallout. >> ainsley: dr. marc siegel is live to interview the cdc, good morning. >> dr. siegel: cdc is on the ground and have lead specialist jill segart, they have the right person at the helm. welcome, jill. >> thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. >> dr. siegel: captain, tell me what you said before we came on, this is a difficult job, contrast with what you have done before. >> we are here to do good public work and to help the community. we want to get the best information and will continue to coordinate with local, state and federal partners to do everything we can. >> dr. siegel: people are

concerned about contaminated water, 15,000 pounds of contaminated soil. where will it go? are there effects on people's health? what are your thoughts? >> we understand this is difficult and stressful situation, that is completely normal and we're here to provide the best public health support we can. our colleagues at epa are doing a great job monitoring the air, the water and the soil. they are responsible for making sure that is all tested properly and we are here to provide support as needed. >> dr. siegel: yesterday you were in pennsylvania going door to door and now east palestine going door to door. what do you do when you go in a house, what kind of questions do you and? how do you assess the situation? >> we are doing ace, assessment of chemical exposure, a great

tool the cdc developed to get more information from residents, businesses, first responders who might have been impacted. we'll ask questions, we want demographic information, where folks were during the exposure and what type of health effects they might be experiencing. >> dr. siegel: i talked to people this morning with pre-existing conditions, it sounds like exposure is having big effectings on them. is cdc in a position to stratifiy who is most at risk and what they can see short term and long-term cancer risk? >> yes, we're wanting to use the ace tool to collect information about the health of the public that might have been impacted and we will capture information about symptoms and medical history. we're hoping to put all that information together to provide a short-term picture of what may

have happened. >> dr. siegel: last question, cdc is known for its intervention, clinics it sets up health support. what can you do on the ground in this emergency to develop health support? >> a couple of things, we have staff today at the epa welcome center, i invite people to come down and get information. we are working with local and st state departments and you can take the ace survey by making an appointment at the clinic. >> dr. siegel: thank you for joining us today. back to you, ainsley. >> ainsley: thank you, d dr. siegel. >> brian: i didn't know the cdc it commissioned corps, she is a captain in the cdc, an o-6, i

had no idea, you looked it up for me. interesting. coming up, fox weather alert. tornados touching down in the midwest and snow is set to blanket the northeast, we're tracking the threat to millions of americans. >> ainsley: more witnesses expecteds to take the stand in the trial of alex murdaugh, the defense makes its defense to the jury.

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>> >> jonathan: good morning, the defense planning to call four more witnesses before resting likely this afternoon. murdaugh admitted he stole millions from close friends and vu vulnerable clients to fuel his opioid addiction and admitted to lying to police about being at then 62, he insisted he left the scene before he was killed and believe it was because of social me media -- accident that killed one and injured several others. >> i believe that boat wreck is the reason why paul paul and maggie were killed. there were so many elections, misrepresentations of paul that ended up in the media, the wrong

person saw and read that. they hated paul murdaugh and they had anger in their heart. >> after the defense wraps, the prosecution will present rebuttal witnesses, closing arguments could begin as early as wednesday of this week. back to you guys. >> ainsley: thank you so much. fox weather alert. tornados are riching through the midwest, that happened last night. >> griff: threat of severe weather in the area continuing today. >> brian: live in norman, oklahoma, hi, brandy. >> good morning, pete, ainsley and griff, you can see the damage behind me, there were seven tornados, waiting for confirmation from the national weather service. take a look at the images, you see cars on top of each other.

that red one on top of the car and on the home. shingles missing from the roof, pieces of the roof missing, windows blasted, it is hard to imagine what it was like to be here last night. 12 people reported injured, are life-th life-threatening. we have a resident that was here last night. mr. david, can you tell our viewers, thank you for speaking to us, you live here and were in a storm shelter. what was it like last night? >> it was crazy, violent and sudden. we were in front of the storm door and the wind was making ittic sha. my wife said close it and it exploded and something came flying through our bedroom window in the front, a piece of a house or something, that room got ruined. it was just scary, you didn't

know what was going on. we dove into the shelter and stayed down there for a little bit and came out and saw this. it was amazing. just crazy. we're okay, everyone is fine, glad i don't have a face full of glass, thanks to my wife. >> thank you for sharing that with us. we are on the scene and seeing everything that is happening and will continue to do so as the day goes on, back to you. >> griff: images are devastating. thank you. you can follow the story and latest weather developments by downloading fox weather app to your et cetera canned devices. check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for the forecast and whether or not the snow will hit before pete and i get out of town. >> janice: the snow in southern california, heavy rainfall and

tornados last night, i believe one of the hardest tornados to hit norman, oklahoma in the month of february. straight-line wind damage, wind gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour, wind gusts and hail and the tornados did damage to norman, oklahoma. we'll see damage reports and crews assessing how strong this tornado was. there are wind reports from memphis, texas, hurricane-force wind and threat for severe storms including tornados and this area of low pressure teams up with low off the coast and that is going to bring coastal event that will bring snow. new york city, according to national weather service could get four to six inches. we have rain, snow mix line around long island. we will see bigger snow totals.

the west, we have blizzard warnings for the mountains of california, another round of storms move in with feet of snow, heavy rainfall, could see flooding in southern california and another risk of severe weather on thursday and another chance at snow for the northeast on friday. foxweather.com has details and i'll break it down, as well. over to you. >> ainsley: thank you, janice. going viral, seniors are taking the internet by storm racking up 23 million views with their remake of the super bowl halftime performance, three of the stars will join us live. >> griff: check in first. we're thinking about doing our own version of that. wait until you see this. >> ainsley: a fox news one. >> brian: i agree. >> ashley: ainsley will be the lead. >> ainsley: i vote you rihanna. >> griff: morning, thank you,

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>> i don't want to be a rude boy here, but move over, rihanna. seniors at a kentucky assisted-living center are proving the center is not the only girl who can give a super bowl worthy performance. watch. >> ♪ ♪ >> amazing. joining us now, the three stars from that viral video, dora, sue and pat. ladies, thank you for taking time today. it's great to have you on the show. i've got to ask, first of all, how did this come about? whose idea was this? >> this is our social director,

community activities relations -- >> she came up with the idea, but you guys put it in action. dora, you played the role of rihanna. how did you -- how did you determine that you would be rihanna? >> i don't know. i think i had the biggest swing. >> you got the moves, dora. how many times did you guys have to rehearse this before you did the video? >> once. the. >> once? >> once. >> this was a one-take wonder? >> yes. >> that is unbelievable. now, sue, you were the one blowing kisses at the start of the video. was that an impromptu thing? you just decided to do that? >> yes.

ha-ha-ha. >> it's amazing. did you ladies watch the super bowl and see this? was it after the fact that you learned about it? >> yes. >> yeah. >> we watched. >> okay. so now i got to talk about the reaction. you guys put this on social media. 20 million people started watching it. what was the reaction that you got? did your family call you? what was the reaction you got? i want all of your reactions. pat, i'll start with you. >> grandchildren loved it. grandchildren loved it. and my two daughters thought i was good for doing that. and bold. they called me bold. >> they didn't i could move that quick. >> well, boy, did you prove them wrong, dora? that is fantastic. now, sue, what was the reaction you got? did you hear from anybody? >> the family all liked it, yes. >> they all liked it. okay. now my question is, now that

you're massive stars on the internet and worldwide, as we see, dora, your moves again. what's next? you can't just end it there. we got to do something else. what's your next gig? >> something for easter, i guess. >> the girls haven't thought it up yet. >> there we go. easter. i can't wait for the next one. dora, sue and pat. what an amazing thing. you earned our hearts around the world many that was fantastic. thank you for taking the time today. anything you want to say to anybody out there? >> we thank you for watching. >> all right. go check them out. dora, pat, sue. thank you very much. have a great week. >> thank you. >> that is so special. just warms my heart. more "fox and friends" coming up.

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