is a close second behind california in terms of people and companies leaving because they simply still do not feel safe and this fallacy that somehow they are safer now is incredible and aoc but not by her constituents. >> todd: maybe she was joking because it's a comedy show not a very funny comedy show. "fox & friends" begins right now. >> you are failing miserably. >> homeland security alejandro mayorkas. >> we are enforcing the laws. >> you are not taking any responsibility. >> a.i. being a significant influence in life. >> elon musk says he believes artificial intelligence has the power to influence future elections. >> technology to freaks me out, we would be very wise to listen. >> at least one person is dead and five others are injured

after a parking garage collapsed in new york city. officials say the weight from the number of vehicles parked on the roof likely caused the collapse. >> a lab in china, that's where this thing came from. >> congressional republicans pressed their case that the coronavirus originated in a chinese research lab. >> former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe also pointing the finger. >> the lab leak is the only explanation. >> i'm here to announce that i plan on making a comeback to the nhl. >> damar hamlin is ready to return to football. >> with the buffalo bills defensive back now medically being cleared to resume. >> it's not the end of my story. ♪ everybody got a hallelujah ♪ everybody been through a little hell ♪ >> brian: this is a perfect song for today. whoever picked it out deserves a race even if it comes out of rachel's salary. narragansett, rhode island is known for beaches and its parks and its downtown.

>> steve: and sunrise. >> rachel: gorgeous. >> brian: it's true. if you are going to fly there 1 hour and 11 minutes. drive there from new york city three and a half hours. something to keep in mind if you are watching near us. thanks to the sun. this is pretty great of the sun to do that at this time. >> steve: if it doesn't do it every day at this time we are in big trouble. >> brian: don't look at the negative side. >> steve: as annie said the sun will come out tomorrow. today is tomorrow. rachel thank for joining us today. >> rachel: happy to be here. >> brian: she didn't say it she sang it. lasted a long time on broadway what is now off broadway? >> steve: phantom of the opera just closed. >> brian: i was going to go next week. >> steve: only played for 35 years. >> brian: snuck up on me. >> steve: had a good run. let's go from rhode island to oklahoma city because on this wednesday morning, our buddy, lawrence jones, is having breakfast with friends live from

camps 1019 cafe and what's cooking, lawrence? >> lawrence: good morning, family. as you all know, i moved back to texas, and oklahoma is right there we have a big election come up in 2024. the issues that matter to voters, as you have been seeing the crime crisis happening all across the country. we will be talking about that and plus, the economy. when you have families that can't afford baby formula or are having to sell their cars just to make ends meet, we want to know what they want to change and who they want in office. so we will be here all morning talking with the folks here and it's already starting to be a big showing at 5:00 a.m. central time, guys. >> steve: right. lawrence, out of curiosity, 5:03 there in oklahoma city you are a at kamp's 1910 cafe. what does the 1910 mean?

is that the street address or when they started? find out in the next three years -- three hours better. >> lawrence: you are a better reporter than i am. i'm working on it. >> rachel: he has feelers out on that. he is working on it. >> steve: fantastic. if you are in oklahoma city, go down and see lawrence and the crowe crowd there at camps 1910. he is going to be there the next three hours. >> rachel: let under the circumstances know what you decide to order. biscuit and gravy and probably bacon. >> brian: is that a real lawrence or fake. >> rachel: deep fake. >> brian: if you watched elon musk with tucker part two.

unbelievable and hard to wrap your led around from the guy who really started pioneering it seems in america around around the world to a guy looked back and said look out, i'm going to form my own company. this thing has gotten past me. going to be hard to wrap your head around what it can do. here is more of will elon's interview with tucker last night. >> tucker: i know you have been talking about this for years and on the periphery we have heard elon musk talk about a.i. for most people it's been like three months since they have had any interaction with this at all. what's the timeline here. at what point does it really start to change our society, do you think? >> i think it starts to have an impact this year. gpt 4 is now like poetry. >> pretty decent. >> skillet write something incredible. >> tucker: yes and coherent. >> yes.

it is. even got a narrative. >> tucker: yes, that's right. hard to do. >> most humans can't do that. >> tucker: that's true. >> really past what most humans can do. most humans can't write as well as chil chil chaght. we were telling you elon musk the world's second richest man was calling for a pause of about six months on the development of a.i. just everybody stop. we will take a breath and figure out what this is capable of because the worry is and we reported on it that somehow the super computers this artificial intelligence could in its own mind think of, you know what? man is getting in the way. and so we're going to have to end humanity which, you know, is far-fetched. >> brian: i would be against.

>> steve: sounds like movie stuff but some have suggested if these things are powerful enough to do -- to think on their own they could eliminate us. >> rachel: elon told tucker carlson and perhaps, and it's just a big perhaps there is a contingency plan for if that were to happen. listen. >> well, the really heavy duty intelligence is not going to be distributed all over the place. it will be in a limited number of service centers. like very sort of deep a.i., heavy duty a.i. it's not -- it's not going to be on your laptop or phone. it's going to be in where there is like 100,000 really powerful computers working together this in a service center. it's not like subtle there are limited number of places that can happen. you can just look at the heat signature from space. it will be very obvious. oservice centers right now there

may be some -- it may be wise to have some sort of contingency plan where the government has got an ability to shut down power to these service centers. like, you don't have to blow it up. you just have to cut the power. >> brian: that would be good except i sense there will be other countries have evil intention the. >> rachel: larry page, he sounded evil. he said he didn't believe -- when elon showed some concern about where this could go. he called him a specious. like you are favoring the human race, like somehow that was a bad thing. and then he talked about a digital god. >> steve: larry page at google, a rival. >> brian: head of google haven't spoken in years. >> rachel: their friendship broke over their ideas of ethics

of a.i. so, you know, i was telling steve and our producers before the show that i was feeling kind of down yesterday and i was trying to figure out why. i realized it was the first part of the tucker carlson interview that got me kind of depressed. it wasn't sort of the terminator. the robots or machines are going to take over. that part didn't scare me as much as the way it could be used to influence elections. and that the people who are behind this technology, just have a completely different value system in mind. and i don't mean even politically, just the idea that they want to be gods themselves. it's super freaky and crazy and really scary to me. >> steve: to his point a little while ago, you know, right now, these devices can rhyme really well. they can write pretty good poetry. what's to stop them from writing social media messages which is what they are talking about which is what you are talking about. the worry is that somehow a.i. could actually shape public

opinion through social media. >> rachel: shape all the information. >> steve: i'm stuck here in the service center. i'm working on this project. but in my spare time i'm on facebook. i'm on myspace, i'm on something influencing public opinion. >> brian: just like china and russia is trying to do now. >> rachel: no one is on myspace. >> steve: we own it. fox bought it. >> brian: pretty shore it's dormant. might help with disease. might help with war plans. winning a war. world hunger. some of the things are real positive what it could do. you have to question every paper if you are now a professor. every paper that you get you have to question who wrote it because you can't say it's plagiarized because they're writing original stuff by the request that you are giving now chatgpt. i think that right now? who is i object putting that information that the a.i. and that's been a problem all along, right? even if you try to google or or

wikipedia something. >> brian: already seeing through the left political -- >> rachel: suppressing information and bringing information that they want you to see you know for amplifying that i think there is just -- i'm just really worried about what information we're going to be even having access to as these machines take over. >> steve: who decides what we see. >> brian: right now i think i'm smarter that the chatgpt. i think i'm quicker and smarter. see how it goes. >> rachel: elon said maybe within the year. >> brian: maybe within the year it will lap me. turns out there could have been two lab leaks in wuhan while the former dni claims analysts felt forced to keep quiet on the origins of covid. >> analysts appear reluctant to have their analysis on china brought forward because they tend to disagree with the trump administration's policies. >> brian: that didn't have any effects on us, did it?

why he says a leak is the only explanation. >> steve: maybe we ask artificial intelligence if it was a lab leak. >> rachel: definitely say it was a bat. >> steve: plus, the showdown over 00 sabbath. the supreme court hearing the case for religious freedom in the workplace. we're going to talk to the post map be choosing faith over working on sunday. his story coming up and look who else is joining us on this wednesday morning here on the world's number one cable morning news show "fox & friends." >> brian: should be more people than that. ♪ walking together through the promise land ♪ [sfx: stomach gurgling] it's nothing... sounds like something. ♪ when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, ♪ ♪ upset stomach, diarrhea. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief... when you need it most. ♪ what is it about the first warm breeze of the season

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former dni director john ratcliffe says a lab leak only explanation. >> rachel: lucas tomlinson joins us from washington, d.c. on the house select committee's second pandemic hearing. lucas? >> good morning, rachel and brian. that's right. not one but two lab leaks in the fall of 019 are the most likely sources of the covid pandemic ad coralling to new 300 page report. here is former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe testifying. >> my informed assessment with a person with as much access to anyone to our government's intelligence during the initial year of the pandemic has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. >> the lab leak theory has gained steam for many months. ratcliffe would like to see the intelligence committee share more evidence publicly. here is part of senator marshall's report, quote: most

likely this was two leaks, including a lab leak in september, october 2019 time frame. even as early as july or august. we have concluded that china started vaccine development in november 2019. and another lab leak seems to be the most sensible explanation. the intelligence community first became suspicious when some workers at that wuhan lab were hospitalized with flu like symptoms before the virus spread across the city. ratcliffe says the cia has been reluctant to release more information because of the following. >> internally, national p national and electoral politics were also influencing the analysis of our intelligence on china. analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on china brought forward because they tend to disagree with the trump administration's policies saying in effect i don't want our intelligence used to support those policies. >> officials say the wuhan lab deleted database of online

september 12th, 2019. china has not been forthcoming sharing information. >> brian: i don't know who china or the president he does not seem to care. thank you lucas very much. >> rachel: that is the connection, biden and china. if this comes out and we all admit and the evidence and the intel is released. then you have to do something about china. and they don't want to do anything about china. and on top of it, you can't get to the bottom of how covid, how do we prevent it in the future unless we admit what happened, you know, in 2020. it's just unbelievable. >> brian: lack of curiosity is curious. think about that for a second while i toss up to ashley strohmier. ashley? >> ashley: good morning, guys. we will start with a fox news alert. investigation underway after one person killed and five others hurt in a parking garage collapse in new york city. first responders rescued six works and the fdny actually completed a sweep of the rubble using robot dog and drones. officials don't think anyone is

still inside. of course they are continuing those search efforts. initial findings suggest the structure buckled under weaft cars parked on the top deck and due to the age of the building. more than 40 school districts across the country are suing social media giants like instagram, tiktok, snant. knowing caused harm to children using militias algorithms. social media companies are and have been well aware of the harm they caused. we will fight to hold these social media companies accountable over health of their families. white house's tiniest intriewmpleted child manage to climb through a gal gap in the white house's $64 million fence. access to the compound was briefly restricted. secret service saying we were going to wait until he learned questioned him. in lieu of that, he got a time-out and sent on his way

with his parents. wow, what a story to tell him. >> steve: time-out at the white house. no kidding. all right. ashley. thank you very much. >> ashley: you are welcome. listen to this, the supreme court could be taking a major step in protecting religious liberties in the case of a man by the name of gerald groff. the christian u.s. postal worker says he faced religious discrimination for being asked to work on sundays which is the lord's day of rest as he says. now justice amy coney barrett suggests morale of religious americans could be important factor in this case. joins us with first liberty institute president kelly shackelford. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> jerry, let's start your story. it all got started when amazon cut a deal with the post office we're going to deliver stuff on sunday. your boss said to you, gerald, you are going to have to work sundays. what did you tell them and then what happened? >> 2015, i -- they told me for

the first time that i would have to start delivering on sundays and i told them i just wouldn't be able to do that. for the first year they accommodated me by saying that i could work extra shifts covering on holidays or covering on short-handed routes by doing a whole route and then coming back and taking a second route if possible. then the second year my postmaster told me they weren't going to put up that this year again i better plan on working on sundays or finding another job. so i actually looked at another local post office in humane society wood that was not required to work on sundays i transferred over there. by doing that i had to forfeit all my seniority my best chance to being promoted to a full time route where i would be exempt from working on sundays at all. i started at the bottom of the ladder. exempt from working on sundays there for a short time and then in march 2017, they mandated

that everyone in my position would have to work -- start working on sundays. and i started to incur discipline from that point on. i was called in for 8 disciplinary hearings. one week suspension, two weeks suspension and in the order of discipline for the post office. the only thing left was to be terminated. i was concerned about a federal termination on my record, so i went ahead and resigned under duress. >> steve: kelly, it's a heart breaking story. you should not have to choose between your faith and your job. >> you are exactly right, steve. this is why we passed a law. congress passed a law 50 years ago that says you don't have to do that. it actually provided protection for religious freedom in the workplace. but five years later. the supreme court just totally redrafted the law. and said that while these corporations they don't have to honor religious freedom in the

workplace if it would cause them even a dominican miss hardship even a trifling, anything. it stripped away that protection that americans have. and so gerald's case is about gerald but it's about every american and what the law is going to be in the future. the great news, steve, is i think that all the justices recognize that this was wrong, this decision. that to say that this is just a diminish miss burden as all the corporation has to show and they cannot have to pay attention to religious freedom. i think they are going to move in a direction of correcting. this i would say if people want any info on the case go to first liberty.org and have gerald's case. be in prayer. this decision will come down in june. it's going to effect everybody in the workplace who is a person of faith. >> steve: absolutely. gerald, your legacy, while you lost your job at the u.s. post office. i know you are still working to deliver mail for a retirement community, but your legacy could be that you have made it

possible for people to believe in god and still work at a place where they have have requirements for you to work on sunday and stuff like that. that might be out the window, thanks to your case. >> that would be wonderful. >> steve: no kidding. you have got to keep us posted on all of this. gerald and kelly, thank you very much to tell us what happened yesterday at the u.s. supreme court. >> thank you, steve. >> thank you. >> steve: good luck to you and god bless you. still ahead on this wednesday, a computer glitch grounding flights again. thousands stranded after a system-widerrer temporarily shut down southwest airlines operation. the new concerns as flight resumes for southwest. and speak everything the south, lawrence jones is having breakfast with friends in oklahoma city. that is cooking on this wednesday morning, lawrence? >> hey, brother. i have got kay and sue with me. they were college roommates. what is the number one issue for

the next election. >> i think the economy is everything is tied to that. >> lawrence: kay, you told me it's the border. >> the border, yes. and the children on the border. that's just horrible. >> lawrence: we're going to be talking about that and so much more coming up on "fox & friends." ♪ it ain't me ♪ it ain't me ♪ i ain't no millionaire with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. even at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...which if ignored could bring you here... ...may put you in one of those... ...or even worse. too much? that's the point. get real about your risks and do something about it. talk to your health care provider about ways to lower your risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. learn more at getrealaboutdiabetes.com >> woman: why did we choose safelite? we were loading our suv when... crack! safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when they'd arrive with a replacement we could trust. that's service the way we want it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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speculation from had the sunshine state and it's not just for governor desantis. miami mayor francis suarez says he is seriously considering a white house run as he visits crucial primary states iowa and new hampshire, always a sign that someone is interested in more. >> brian: right. there is lawrence jones, he had spent some time with mayor suarez in miami. he provided that video we are paying the rights to lawrence. >> steve: now lawrence is joining us live from oklahoma city and oklahoma, lawrence, is o.k. >> i had an opportunity to talk to the mayor. it seems like he didn't want to get into the current political climate but it would be interesting, very inspiring, has a great story. let's bring you to george, you are an immigrant. you talked about where the country is going in its direction. who is the best candidate in 2024 for you? >> oh my goodness, from day one, president trump. >> no exceptions.

>> no compensation. i mean, being a naturalized citizen raised in another country, he has already proven that he can work with and stand up to leaders all around the world. he is a friend of all the people. >> lawrence: george, do you agree with that. >> i absolutely agree. i believe that president trump is a proven and known figure that has the intestinal fortitude to stand up to anybody no matter what the issue is. i'm behind him. >> lawrence: thank you, sir. i want to bring you to my table of veterans. they discuss all the issues that is facing this country. sir, you were just talking about that you say that it is the border and the drugs that are coming across the border. and you just recently lost a family member, sir. >> yes, yes. we had a cousin who's son passed away from tainted drugs. >> >> lawrence: sir you were not only in the marines but went from the marines to being a border patrol agent then you went to the d.e.a. and you say the border is a big problem. >> oh, yes, the border is

certainly a big problem. illegal immigration. >> lawrence: what do you think needs to be done? >> we need to build a wall. i was against it when they first came out. we shouldn't have to have a wall around our country. but apparently we do need that and then we just need to do something against the cartels. >> lawrence: yes, sir. >> lawrence: sir, you told me that the number one issue for you is the economy. the price of eggs is going up. hitting everybody. even the homeless population here in oklahoma. >> yes, the economy effects us in all fashions, all the way from the border, the increase in need and how it effects our home. and then the economy is hit with so much more. and then the homelessness, too many people are sleeping outside. and it's -- this country shouldn't be that. this isn't what i gave 20 years of my life for. >> lawrence: you wouldn't think that it's happening right here in oklahoma city. thank you so much. as can you tell all about 2024

and what issues are impacting them on a day-to-day basis. it's the economy, the border, and crime. '8" will send it back to you guys in new york. >> steve: all right. good interview. now it's time for a little breakfast, lawrence. okay? >> lawrence: yeah it's time for some. >> steve: bring it on. >> brian: i love the brick look. i think a lot of people are going to go brick. even the faux brick roll it out and peel off the back and stick it on the back? >> steve: i don't remember elon musk last night talking to pucker about faux brick. fake brick. >> rachel: deep fake. >> brian: again, another example. straight ahead, a cold war with china. from secret chinese spy stations to buying up farmland, the chairman of the china select committee mike gallagher rising threat from the communist country and the war games he is going to play.indi

♪ >> brian: all right. welcome back, everyone. as china's threat to the u.s. in just about every way is taking place, the american way of life is being threatened like we have never had it threatened before. we're going to dive in new to the series of conflicts in the hot spot areas between us and the communist ar regime. so let's get started. first off, what has taken place? do you know two days ago on monday was officially announced but we heard about this a year ago that they set up their own chinese police stations in america, two were actually found to be holding -- having office space in downtown new york city. why are chinese acting like policemen in america predominantly spying on the chinese citizens to make sure they don't have any anti-regime posts, statements, or actions. and if this he do, they threaten their families. there is about six or seven others. how is this allowed in our country? how is this allowed to exist? they also are stationed around the world. how much money do they have? something else they're doing. they are buying u.s. farmland. since 2021, they have bought up, guess what, 383,000 acres of

u.s. farmland, some of which around sensitive military installations. how did we let that happen? how could we not put a pole in place to identify them as a problem and a threat and no longer allow that to happen? meanwhile, they are refusing to cooperate on a series of investigations on covid-19. threatening countries that actually do. putting belligerent statements when we actually do. like the ones that took place yesterday. meanwhile the armed services is going to conduct and we're going to talk about this with mike gallagher in a moment going to conduct a thorough investigation about what happened. why does the biden regime have very little interest in finding out the origins of covid. let's talk about that. hearing about two separate leaks that could have taken place one in early 2019 and one in late 2019. what has china threatened to do to us? threatened to remake the world orderly. this meetings had a lot to do with it. vladimir putin's diminished economy and military. if he combines with china that makes them more formidable. what are they trying to do?

displace the u.s. dollar. will they be successful, probably not thoroughly successful but making a dent with brazil, with argentina. possibly even with places like europe and france, specifically. who are talking about making the euro the dominant currency. this has to be watched. meanwhile, take a look at what happened over the last week. two weeks. we are talking about military gains with live fire right around taiwan. right now the island is still ensicialgd. you have to see if they can wait to 2022022 take doo an invasion. if an invasion took place how would america do. let's is ask a guy that do. focusing on his main job description and that is he is the chairman of the select committee of china. a two bipartisan committee with one mission to stop them from getting past merge in every way. congressman mike gallagher, welcome back. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. >> brian: man, you are tackling something that is really fast-moving. first off, on the threat of china. even since you got this job and

assignment, how has china's aggression spiked? >> it's been interesting. in response to the visit of taiwanese president tsai weijia jiang to california where we brought democrats and republicans to california to discuss the chinese communist party threw a temper tantrum. one piece of evidence to show how bad their bullying is getting on the world stage. if you start to read what xi jinping is saying to his own party members, it really seems like is he preparing for war. they are setting up, you know, hospitals across the strait on the chinese side of the strait. they are preparing their citizens to endure enormous economic pain in the event of war. as you mentioned in your opening, they are trying to dedollar rise the world economy. they seem to be increasing their aggression on all fronts and at the same time they are sending officials like leo hu to davos to tell the american business community don't worry, china is open for business. we really need to be clear i'd

about what is going on here. we have increasingly sovereign regime undermine sovereignty. protect our interest and invade tehran. taiwan. we need to push back. >> their economy is not thriving. they have a very reckless 18 to 25-year-olds. unemployment is extremely high. they have not really returned strongly from the pandemic, which is a lot to do with whether supply chains are struggling. meanwhile finding out officially there was an arrest made. we heard about this a year ago. about the chinese actually setting up their own police stations in specific locations to spy on their own dissidents and citizens to make sure they are not posting and acting in an anti china way. when did you find out about this and do you think there's -- how many more do you think that we have out there than the two that were arrested on monday? >> well, i read this initial story about a year ago. the first event i did as chairman of the select committee on the ccp was to go to the site

of this illegal ccp police station in chinatown in manhattan, and hold a press conference and a rally with the dissident groups that were the targets of this harassment. we heard horrific stories about people being physically assaulted. and this is happening on american soil, from a nondescript building linked to a seemingly innocuous nonprofit. you have ccp agents targeting people on american soil. and, obviously, america should be a haven from persecution not a hunting ground for an authoritarian regime. so these arrests of two ccp agents are a small, but important step going forward. if you look globally, brian, there is over 100 of these things across the world. i mean, this is a global strategy to surveil, harass and ultimately i believe export their model of total totalitarian control where the party controls everything. not just within the borders of china but around the world. this should be very concerning

for americans. we need to defend our sovereignty. >> brian: i know you are going to do war games and you have this military background. you are doing war games today. if taiwan was to be invaded how we would be equipped to respond? >> we are. tonight, the committee will be hosting a taiwan table top exercise. >> a few obvious things. the goal of the war games is to identify war. identify our weaknesses and figure out what we can do this congress like resupply and replenish our magazine capacity. stockpile critical munitions west of the international dateline. when i went to taiwan, the biggest thing i heard was hey we bought all these weapons but we have a $19 billion backlog of weapons that have not yet been delivered to taiwan. that's unacceptable. we are using this exercise to figure out what we can do in this congress, even in divided government to enhance deterrence, enhance peace and security across the taiwan strait and tell xi jinping today is not the day you will not be able to get this done.

>> brian: gut the state department building they should be all over counter messaging throughout africa and eastern and western europe to make sure the chinese don't continue to take over with this belt and road program. we are not doing anything. we gave away brazil. we said that boss sonar row was too close to trump which this administration thought and gave it to a communist. criminal. now he just said we are leaving the dollar and going to start trading with china. we just gave it away. so, hopefully people will wake up soon. mike gallagher, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brian: all right. ashley, you have the latest news. >> ashley: chicago couple speaking out after being attacked during last weekend's violent teen takeover and they thought they were going to die. listen to this. >> t.j. had my hand and trying to lead me through the crowd of people. and they pushed him. they pushed me. he asked them, he was like yo, don't shove her. who shoved her. and as soon as he said that everything went crazy.

you know, they said they are going to kill us. >> it was very random. we had just left nordstrom and we were looking for somewhere to eat. and we saw that group. >> ashley: the mob robbed the couple before they escaped and good samaritan drove them to the hospital. they gave them shoes because they took their shoes. chicago police outlining a crack down plan that includes monitoring social media for information about large gatherings. and washington, the education secretary miguel cardona refuses toe define what a woman is during a house hearing. watch. >> can you please define for me, what is a woman? >> our focus at the department is to provide equal access to students, including students who are lgbtq g. >> you haven't answered my question. >> i think that's almost secondary to the important role that i have as secretary of education. >> cardona continued to dodge multiple attempts by republican congressman andrew collide to get a straight answer. and a fox news digital -- weather fox news digital leaving

the competition in the dust. fox digital remains the number one news brand online for the eighth quarter in a row. platform beating out competitors in the first quarter with 8.8 billion total multi-platform minutes and 5.2 billion total multi-platform views. those are your headlines. we will check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. it will be a little warmer this weekend in new york. >> janice: you are correct. we are going to warm it up a little bit. we shouldn't complain because some areas are getting snow. take a look at it real quick. not just know severe storms. 46 in new york. bump those temperatures to the 60's. ahead of this cold front, things will warm up considerably but then, of course, you know what happens with a cold front it drops in temperatures. and look at the snow across the northern plains and great lakes back through the rockies. that's not fun. we have this front and set up for severe storms. not only today but thursday and friday for the plain states. so we want to make sure everyone is aware of that a multi-severe

threat today thursday, friday. if you live in these areas, i want you to make sure you know where you are going to get your warnings around warnings. fox weather.com will always help you out with that okay, brian kilmeade, over to you. >> brian: thank you very much for that this is our first hello today. >> janice: hi, good to see you. you look lovely. >> brian: see you tomorrow when you toss back. >> janice: i will see you in the green room. >> brian: dereliction of duty. senators accuse mayorkas of putting migrant children in danger. they are commanding answers. next hour we will talk about that. plus, elon musk's dire prediction for real estate. >> if banks end up having -- they are definitely going to have commercial portfolio also in the mortgage portfolio this is a dire situation. >> brian: yeah, not good. we ask cheryl casone to come walk our direction. how worried should would he be? we will find out next. ♪ hey, girl. put that body on me ♪ like i hit the lottery

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the mortgage portfolio, this is a dire situation. we really haven't seen the commercial real estate shoe drop. that's more like an anvil, not a shoe. but that will become a very serious thing later this year in my view. >> rachel: one of the world's richest men sharing a dire prediction about the u.s. economy. elon musk warns the collapse of some major banks could indicate a devastating real estate crash is ahead. fox business cheryl casone joins us now. great to have you on this. he says expect something major to happen this year. >> cheryl: a lot of analysts are warning the same thing. slow-moving train wreck is the best way to describe what we're looking at right now. this year and next, a lot of these commercial real estate properties, their loans are coming due. interest rates are now double what they were a year ago. we are seeing more default, more delinquencies and what he is saying is true. small and medium size banks own

about 800 880% of the loans. silicone and signature bank, look at what happened with those banks. he said it is going to get worse. analysts are saying this is what is coming 'unless something changes. jerome powell says oh no the banking system is stable. i'm not sure everybody believes that right now to be honest here. $20 trillion market. and think about it, nobody is going back to the office building. >> rachel: right. i was going to say how much of it is that the economy is not doing well people can't renew those loans or people just don't need these building anymore because some people working from home. >> surprisingly enough, here in new york city we are about 70% occupancy where we were pre-pandemic that means 30% less of what we had pre-pandemic in new york. austin, chicago, san francisco, los angeles, we are are looking at about 50 to 60% at best. that's a default. >> rachel: he mentioned the d-word depression.

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