>> ashley: fox news alert, polls will open in chicago just hours for now, voters prepare to cast ballots for mayor. >> todd: could be days before we know the results, it could end in a run-off in april. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier

in for carley shimkus. officials at cook county jail recruiting prisoners to vote illegally. here jackie ibanez. >> the nine-candidate field is likely to prevent one person from getting the 50 plus percent necessary to win. officials say we should have a clear winner this weekend. it is uphill battle for incumbent mayor lori lightfoot, accused of coercing inmates to vote for her. guards are recruiting prisoners to vote for lightfoot. reporter william jay kelly spoke to one inmate. >> i said, no, i'm registered in another jurisdiction, i can't vote. >> you can vote for mayor. >> that would be a felony.

then they would back off. >> they are doing this with all the inmates and being that aggressive? >> yes. >> that reporter joined jesse watters with the implications, listen. >> it would be ironic if mayor lightfoot makes theun areoff due to the jail vote, considering she has made chicago known throughout the world for nothing, but violent crime. >> this is the latest in a string of scandals throughout lightfoot's time in office, including term long condemnation on her soft on crime policies, they hemorrhaged 90% of officers at time when violent crime has soared in her city, more of this i'm sure. >> ashley: thank you. in oakland, california, shoppers are seeing it is effect of

rising crime with new grocery store design, anti-theft doors and receipt scanners thea the exit. you must scan your receipt when leaving the store. oak oakland county business owner joined us with his reaction. >> police not coming to these type of calls as frequent have a lot to do with it, we're seeing the backlash of what is going on with prop 47, i believe, just having presence there is deterrent for the robbers and would-be shoplifters. i did speak with employees and they were all for the new system in place and they -- store manager, as well, told me she's seen a drop in thefts. >> the most recent oakland crime report shows aggravated assault is up 13%, robbery with knife

and armed robbery is up 30%. we spoke with the man, an oakland resident who owns a business and he was all for it wouldn't it be easier to lockup the criminals. if it makes them feel safer and this is what our world is coming to, if you want to see guards and security guards at the start of your store, we don't know if they are armed, if they are off-duty police officers or just there for deterrence. he spoke to employees and they said the problems are going down. >> todd: we had a battle, but he wants to be safe. my points, why do you need to be a prisoner? it is because of the defund

police movement. here, don't ride the subway, don't wear your jewelry, impact your behavior so theige i believe cs can roam free. >> ashley: think about the expense to have this extra security matter. i think sam's club has done something where they check receipts. costco too. now you have to know ska the receipt for the door to open. i guess if it is helping, you have to do something >> todd: or how about do not defund police. k578 pain for western oregon to cede is gaining traction. mark simmons writing, idaho have satisfaction of freeing rural communities from progressive blue state law, we are dismayed by the government marginalizing

value and vil niezing our resource-based livelihood. they voted in favor of exploring the move, you see on the screen. this weird mish mosh of oregon after 13 oregon counties did the same. idaho would absorb 63% of the land mass, 9% of the state's population. the chamber is like the state's house, dominated by republicans. both sides seem to want this. which does beg the question, if all these hard-working idaho conservatives -- excuse me, oregon conservatives go to idaho, who will pay for woke policies that the remaining people who are fighting for this, as well, want? >> ashley: when i read this story it made me refer back to the state of new york in november with the election. you see the state of new york, all red and three dots of blue,

because mostly rural areas, obviously the city is populated, westchester and syracuse. i am for this, if everybody is on board, then why not? if that is what the rural conservative counties want, why let the more liberal cities dictate how they live their lives? >> todd: i understand the point, i agree to the principle, lincoln said a house divided against itself cannot stand. i worry this will have implications throughout the country and that is bad for the united states of america. >> ashley: i think this is first thing we didn't agree on. >> todd: i will start rooting for the eagles, that will never happen. from tornados across the plains, millions of americans in the path of severe weather. stro and i drove through it,

janice dean is tracking it. >> ashley: and a sheriff is asking joe biden to do his job on the borders, that sheriff joins us next. these are the camper scouts. earning their eco badge. they're sharing this fedex electric vehicle and frank's sustainable camping store with their global scout community. good thing frank uses fedex to help him expand his reach and make earth a priority.

>> todd: we're back with a fox weather alert.

sixth avenue new york city, commuters in new york city, beware, snow coming down in the tristate area, what is expected to be the biggest snow system expected to stretch into tomorrow. first responders in state new york have got a little snow warning drivers to keep an eye on the forecast after responding to this, an 18-car pile-up caused by black ice yesterday morning. >> ashley: line of severe thunderstorms spanning and sweeping the southern and central plains sunday, injuring and hospitalizing a dozen people. >> i'm at a loss of words, my shed is gone, everything we worked for is in the wind now. i really don't know what to think at this point. >> ashley: elementary schools remain closed until further notice. senior meteorologist janice dean is here with the fox weather

forecast. there is a lot going on. >> janice: start with the northeast, north and west of the city is the bullseye of the heavy snow, including connecticut, upstate new york, parts of pennsylvania and up toward maine. you will see this storm system continue today and then another one behind it getting into thursday and friday. quieter conditions for wednesday and thursday, here is snow still to come with this storm system. we're out of the woods around new york city and southward, could get an inch or inch and a half. north of us is where we'll get more snow, already on the ground four to eight in this region. big snow deficit, 22-inch departure in new york, 50% departure in irk zoo, boston 27 inch departure. they are getting several inches of snow in boston area.

future track, next system pushes in on thursday and friday. we'll watch this one, we think north and west of new york city, where the jackpot will be, friday into saturday. snow potential for this next storm system, not this know wo. everyone is looking over here, am i in your way, todd? again, it is like north and west of new york city we will get snow totals, heaviest in new england. few inches in connecticut and upstate. here are potential severe storms today through wednesday, thursday and friday. we have severe threat heading into thursday, this is the biggest risk in harder hit areas that were just hit yesterday. texas, oklahoma, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama and then we didn't even talk about the west, they are getting slammed with more rain and mountain snow. there is future track of the storm system going to bring

severe threat toward the plains and up toward the northeast. i don't have a lot of time, here is the rain forecast. the west getting slammed again. it is keeping me in business. >> ashley: keeping you on your toes. >> janice: foxweather.com. i think they are sending me outside for the next report. >> ashley: thanks. a sheriff confronting president biden over the migrant crisis arriving on florida shores. he writes, i'm a cop, you are the president of the united states, my duty is to protect the people of my county. your duty is to protect the people of the united states. sheriff william snyder joins me now. good morning to you. what is going on in martin county? >> we're a southern county, ashley, just north of palm beach county about 90 miles south of

orlando and what we think has happened since governor desantis sent resources to the keys to defer immigrants coming in illegally, they are now using our coast, the treasure coast, for offloading illegal immigrants. axne migrants are coming by vote to your county, correct? >> yeah, we had a big sports fisherman boat, not the kind you think drifting from the bahamas and it had 78 people in it trying to come into this country without documentation. >> ashley: how is this affecting the response of your deputies? have you had border patrol agents or help from the feds or solely on the police and the sheriff's department down there? >> well, no, the federal government, border patrol,

homeland security. they do the best they can. they are understaffed and needed our help the other night with the 78 people they intercepted. the problem for us is here in martin county, we have several hosts here, dan bongino on your show and others i won't mention, we have a rich coastal community and when immigrants come ashore, it is disorienting for people that live there and constant because they have so much us i trouble assimilating into the community. >> ashley: there are so many things they cannot do because they are not american citizens. they don't have a drivers license, they can't go to banks, they can't get money and that comes back on you because your department will have to respond

to the problems. you have a message for president biden, what would it be? >> well, if the president is not going to call me and ask me my opinion, but if i did, my message to the president would be, mr. president, do your job. >> ashley: what is the community saying? >> well, our whole community is following this, excuse me, they are well aware of what is going on. a simulation problem in martin county is particularly acute. "new york times" just wrote an article about child labor. people come in without documentation or ability to get banking information or checking account, they are vulnerable to be victims and end up being forced into a second-class lifestyle. >> ashley: before i let you go, is your department actively

pursuing the migrants on the water or do you have to wait until they get to land to do anything? >> my jurisdiction extend a few miles into the water and we interdict them on the water. we have to augment what is there and we want the president to do his job, he is sheriff of the entire country. >> ashley: we're seeing on the waterways in florida. thank you and good luck to you. have a good day. biden clean energy agenda is costing taxpayers big time. could it wipe our country's largest power grid? an industry expert is here next. our ancestors had power, our ancestors had hope and our ancestors had ambition.

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>> ashley: residents in east palestine, ohio complaining of more unusual symptoms. one local doctor says it could be chemical bronchitis. if you leave your house and symptoms improve and you go back and it comes back, i think it is related to the stuff you are inhaling there. clean-up know its as water distrib ugsz continues one full month after the derailment and many people in ohio feel left in the dark, the white house is touting door to door outreach efforts. >> epa conducted home reentry screenings and continue air monitoring at 15 stations within the community. >> the teams engaged and dropped off fliers to 190 residents,

bringing the number to 543. >> ashley: president biden is talking about health care to residentses in virginia and skips out on yet another chance to visit the people of east palestine. >> todd: biden administration continues to push renewal energy. there is a warning there is not enough power to handle it. pj states, the historical rate of completion for renewable projectses has been 5%. projections say it would be insufficient to keep up with expected retirement and demand growth by 2020. kathleen joins us now, that was a long-winded way of saying there will not be enough juice. did the green new dealers look at the data to see if the green

utopia was possible or ignore the reality because, you know, climate? >> yes, there is not a lot of reality in many of these policies, so we rely in our grid for col coal, natural gas, bulk electricity does not come from renewables. if we had more renewables, there are times the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. renewables will go down to almost zero at time because of weather conditions and what is there to keep the lights on? natural gas and coal. when we retire power plants too early and try to back it up or try to replace it with wind and solar, that is not necessarily good for grid stability.

>> todd: where will the energy come from and the push for electric cars and stuff like that? >> i contentious think there is realistic thought going into the policies. we see situation where oil, natural gas, coal are considered bad and so we're trying to -- there are those trying to move us away from fossil fuel, but in reality, that means we don't have as much energy and this push for electricity only is in the long run or in the short run, not going to keep the lights on, not going to heat homes in the winter. natural gas is the best way to heat homes, it is climate change number -- enemy number one. when we have this push to go all electric, what we're doing is putting people at risk during the winter for being cold.

>> todd: look at europe, people died there because they did not have energy to heat homes and basically keep things going. you don't want that here, seems like we are heading that way. this study focused on northeast and midwest, is this grid operator a problem in the west, in the south? a similar problem out there? >> oh, i think so, for one particular area, one grid operator, but the same could be happening all over the country. climate policies are not based on reality. we have situations in california where they don't have enough power at certain times and they back it up with diesel generation or oil, which is not the best way to generate electricity. push comes to shove and lights have to be kept on, we have to run medical devices and icu.

when we have policies that are specifically meant to shut down the reliable energy that we all rely on, then we are in a situation where we have blackouts and brownouts in the not too distant future. >> todd: renewables can be a sup element, not the only ongz. thank you. jurors in the alex murdaugh set to visit the murder site where the bodies were found. >> ashley: the defense trying to show reasonable doubt with head-turning new testimony, we will bring you the major developments next. >> a lot of talk about that prior to his testimony about two shooters because there are two different guns, evidence that thinked put reasonable doubt in the juror's minds.

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>> in a surprise ruling yesterday, the judge in the alex murdaugh trial granted permission for jury members to visit the property where he is accused of gunning down his wife and son. the defense arguing there were two gunmen as the defense tries to show reasonable doubt. that might happen, watch. >> there has been a lot of talk about that about two shooters because there were two different

guns, that is evidence that could put reasonable doubt in the jurors minds. >> todd: yesterday murdaugh's brother took the stand about cleaning up his nephew's remains. >> you can imagine what i experienced, it had not been cleaned up, felt like the right thing to do. i felt like i owed him and i started cleaning and i promise you no mother, father, aunt or uncle should have to do what i did that day. >> todd: the jury is expected to visit the home where maggie and paul were found before the prosecution rebuttal. >> todd: i was taken aback by the two shooter theory,

surprised we didn't hear it sooner. criminal trials are all about creating reasonable doubt. to me, not being in the courtroom created reasonable doubt. the >> ashley: the blad spatter expert got me, because of the height of alex and maggie. you hear the experts and your mind continues to change on what you think happened. in america, you are innocent until proven guilty, no matter what anyone thinks of mr. murdaugh. i did watch the netflix short series yesterday and it showed where the jury will visit. i think it upon hell them figure out if he is innocent or guilty. the property is so large and this is such a complex case, i

would not want to be a juror. >> todd: i am wondering if the reason we saw the splatter that you discussed and two-shooter theory, if we saw it at this point because prosecution basically gave the defense open because prosecution did not, they focused on motive. okay, that is their strategy, they didn't focus on the forensics, okay, we will talk forensics and tell the are story so it gets in the minds of the jury. >> ashley: do you think the prosecution did a good job? >> todd: i haven't watched every single moment, i think they should have done all parts of the case, not focused on financials. juries glaze over that stuff. >> ashley: i think they hit too hard on that, instead of

forensics. interesting to see what the verdict will be, jury deliberation could start this week. we'll report on it. >> todd: one illinois state representative is pushing to make chicago business owners hire their own armed security detail. dem democrat jones says grocery stores and gas stations in municipalities having population more than two million people must employ at least one guard during the hours they conduct business. small business owners call it ludicrous saying they cannot afford to add security to payroll. >> i am not happy, it is not necessary, cost of business would go up. we try as much as we can, we have to be in business. >> todd: the proposal comes as crime sergeants in chicago with murder and theft up 35%, motor vehicle theft up a whopping

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>> todd: virginia democrats rejecting a bill to teach students about communism and recognize victims claiming it is racist against asian americans. joe mobley joined us last hour. >> i was in disbelief and angry, how could these democrat legislators and teachers union come to this kind of observe and disturbing conclusion? they are profoundly ignorant of real history. >> they are saying it is racist

and anti-asian, which is absurd, communism led to the death of 100 million asians, but they don't want that act taught in school. >> todd: the bill would establish november 7 as victims of communism day. governor ron desantis ending disney self-governorance. here is what the governor told our own brian kilmeade. >> brian: it is unjustifiable at this point. they did it in the '60s, a sweetheart deal. it was baron land. they need to go back to walt's vision, don't hijack programming to impose a woke agenda. that is not good for the country, society or your bottom

line. >> ashley: "fox and friends" co-host live from metro diner in florida. good morning. we heard a portion of your sprue with desantis on your radio show. what else can you tell us? >> brian: we talked about president trump and him running and their relationship. i got the book on friday, we will do a future next week. he has nothing against disney, he got married in the chapel attached to the grand floridian. he has nothing against them, but when they started labeling the don't say gay bill, the interview he had with the now deposed ceo, understand what this bill is, understand they are mischaracterizing it, keeping gender studies out of

third great classrooms is the issue, this is about parental rights and guess who started the whole thing? when bob iger came out, that began the uproar that bob chapek had to deal with and disney loses their status. when they build a building, dig a pool, got to get permits, their own cops will not be the case anymore, they will have to ride a check for $750 million in taxes. >> todd: why should the city subsidize disney wokeness? they shouldn't and that is getting ron desantis play.

rumors of a presidential run in 2024 with this fiery political ad, watch. >> florida's success has been made more difficult by the floundering federal establishment in washington, d.c., inflationary spending binge that left our nation weaker and our citizens poorer. >> todd: i will not ask you do you think heun ares, that is the worst kept secret in washington, you know it is coming after the legislative session. do people of florida want him to win or are they worried they will lose one of the most popular governors in history? >> brian: both. they also love trump and i will ask these people, it is almost decision between their favorite children. trump in the latest fox poll up 20, desantis is second and everybody else is in single digits. it is early, i get it. the other major talking point is

about the covid-19 and how it was handled and ridicule he took. he picked up paperwork and said let me get the stats myself and find out the 2007 plan with the pandemic and how we went about it won over the people of florida and the country because he got the facts. he was saying you can walk on the beach by yourself without a mask, it is better than sitting in a house with nine people in your house watching netflix. he was saying masks do not work and saying covid hurts elderly because of the account fas. people that do the work, they show up, they open up the books and get a staff out there, be productive and get answers rather than be a show horse like the secretary of transportation or like governor cuomo who got

caught up in his own power and sits home now crocheting alone because he was found to be a fraud. governor desantis is not show, he is substance, they may not like it. the book is "the florida blueprint," and he's saying this will work for the entire country. >> ashley: what is coming up on "fox and friends"? >> brian: okay. amongst my guests, johnny von zandt sheriff waters, mark kay, one of the big personalities on wokv, and senator tom cotton will be live and you have to be saying tom cotton on our show said this wuhan lab thing, that is where this virus came from, and i think this is a problem. nancy grace on the murdaugh

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♪ ash an house republicans are taking on china? a pair of hearings today decouple our economies. >> todd: comes as tensions escalated between the communist and chinese party over the will virus. hey, brooke. >> house of representatives will put the spotlight on the party.

meet affair 10:00 a.m. come batting the generational challenge of ccp aggression and rare evening session the house china select committee will discuss the ccp's threat to america. the hearings will take place two days after the stunning "wall street journal" report that the energy department changed assessment of the origin of covid-19 admitting it likely emitted from a lab in china. national security council spokesman john kirby maintaining there is no consensus from the intel committee how the pandemic really started. listen. >> the president made, trying to find the origins of covid a priority, right, when he came into office. he has a whole of government effort designed to do it. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about exactly how covid started. there is just not an intelligence community consensus. >> white house press secretary

karine jean-pierre dodging questions about previous assertions that those who believed the lab leak theory are conspiracy theorists, watch. >> there was not so long ago a point where anyone asking a question whether a lab leak was a credible theory, which should be looked into, you know, a lot of those people were derided as fringe, you know, conspiracy theorists. so, are there lessons learned, you know, looking back about how we discuss theories when we don't have all of the answers? >> the president's commitment to getting to the bottom of this, right? that is what's the most important so that we can, you know, we can share this with congress, we can share this with the american people. and right now there is no consensus. >> and a new cnn report is once again down playing the lab leak theory as a minority view within the u.s. intelligence community. dr. anthony fauci also speaking out yesterday saying he sees no evidence of a lab leak. >> we must all keep an open mind

as to all possibilities. the data that evolutionary virology justs have submitted and published in peer review journals are rather strongly suggest that it was a natural occurrence there appears to be a greent. disagreement. i don't see any data for a lab leak. >> china foreign affairs ministry also pushing back on the energy department's reported finding accusing it of stirring up arguments about the lab leak theory, ashley, todd? >> todd: brook, thank you. with that bring in tomi lahren, outkick host no. surprise that the chinese are disputing this but you heard the white house twice from the podium, kirby, karine jean-pierre, cnn, dr. anthony fauci, mr. follow the science, disputing that their own department of energy's take on this isn't the consensus. are they actually serious trying to continue with their silly theories this far down the road?

>> well, i think you know the answer to that and, quite frankly, fringe conspiracy theorist, i think people are wearing those labels as a badge of honor right now because those fringe conspiracy theorists are being proven right almost on a kailey badaily basis at this po. this is what we need to get to the bottom of. why is joe biden and his administration running cover for china. why is the mainstream media running cover for joe biden and the democrats? who is going to run cover for the american people and for the truth. that's what i would really like to know. this administration has undermined the confidence of the american people, in our institutions and it's one thing when you do it about donald trump and conservatives and the republican party. but it's quite another when you undermine the american people's confidence in our public health and safety institutions and in our federal government as a whole. they have a lot of explaining to do. there's a lot of truth serum that needs to be applied to

this. unfortunately, the american people don't expect much from this administration. we certainly don't expect the truth. and every day we feel like we're being lied to. and they're going to have to reckon with that. >> we heard in brooke's piece at the beginning two committees holding hearings the foreign affairs committee and china select committee. the china select committee is doing rare evening session during "primetime." obviously trying to get eyeballs on this story and bring awareness to this issue. going to be talking to china's threat to america. do you think we will finally have accountability on this? >> what a smart move by the way to have these hearings in prime time when the american people are watching. >> this is a very calculated move. like i said before, the biden administration running cover for china. the mainstream media running cover for china and the biden administration. and we know that big tech runs cover for all of them. we need to have these hearings in prime time, we need the american people to be watching.

the american people do not trust their president and do not trust the bulk of the media. it's fantastic that they are doing. this i hope all eyeballs will be on this. this should not be a partisan issue by the way. figuring out the origins of covid should not be something that trust republicans are interested. in unfortunately, this is where we are. this is what we have to do. i have confidence that we are finally going to get to the bottom of it and going to get a little truth and transparency that we have been waiting for for three years now. >> todd: do you ultimately think at the end of the day the white house, forget cnn, forget fauci, do you think this white house will ultimately admit hey, they came from a lab or are they just going to take this to their basically end of term grave with them? >> no. they want to be right. they want to be right. and they put that in their pride and their egos above the truth and quite frankly above the american people. we know this at every turn this has been proven to us so, no, i don't think they are going to change their tune. i think they are still going to try to throw a lot of mud at

this. muddy the waters so the american people don't know who to trust and believe in. they are doing it all for political pursuances. they know if they come out and admit this whole thing was a scam, a farce, a lie, they know the american people voting in 2024 are heavily going to consider that and they don't want that to happen. they have to keep it really confusing for us. >> ashley: thank you so much, tomi lahren. "fox & friends" start right now. have a good day. >> china's hearings today. conclude the covid virus likely originated at a lab. >> white house officials careful not to confirm. >> there's not a consensus right now. >> nothing in our lifetime done more to damage the credibility of government scientists. >> the defense has rested. the judge agreed to have the jury visit the crime scene. >> accused killer's brother describes cleaning up. >> no mother father aunt or uncle should ever have to see or do what i did that day. >> michael reagan will mak