randi weingarten and teacher's unions held over the cdc is staggering. now we know why our policies protected teachers unions instead of kids. shut down the department of education. fund under funded school choice programs and unleash the public schools by abolishing these teachers unions. that's how we fix education in this country. >> todd: his name is vivek ramaswamy. we thank him for his time. with that "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ i don't know how, i don't know when ♪ some day i'm going to see you again. >> brian: you are looking at the northeast, you are looking at a suburb of boston. do you want know exactly? glouster. a suburb of boston. a population of counting everybody yesterday 29814. in essex county, it's 45 degrees. and there are in people there.

but they are all sleeping. in fact, i was told to blister and i blew it. i'm talking full voice not like the president. >> steve: it's 6:00 their wake-up call. "fox & friends" starting now. get up, glouster. >> ainsley: cheat sheet says whisper. >> brian: no. it says gradually look up and start the show, now. there you go. although it's a little wide. >> ainsley: take your seat. capital letters your. >> brian: say hello to everybody. >> steve: looks like a postcard. >> ainsley: it's beautiful. >> a body of land surrounded on three sides by water that's a peninsula. a land bridge. which was once where the bearing strait was which explains why the migration of so many people back in those days to alaska. >> steve: you have no idea what it was. florida. >> brian: throwing out. >> steve: florida is a?

>> ainsley: peninsula. >> brian: surrounded. >> ainsley: charles is a peninsula. samantha an island. >> steve: up there is a peninsula as well. >> ainsley: that's exactly right. >> brian: three sides of concrete. >> steve: "fox & friends" for a thursday, very busy day. by the way take your kid to work day. if you have got a kid who is big enough, take them to work today. >> ainsley: i didn't get that memo, my daughter is sleeping planning to go to school. i will try to calling and see if i can get her down here an hour. >> steve: national holiday. >> ainsley: i need to write it down. >> steve: it was in our rundown. >> ainsley: in the run down last night after my daughters with asleep. the problem is i didn't have enough time to plan it. >> steve: next year. >> ainsley: think about it next year, let me know. >> steve: at the white house they are actually going to do something with take your child to work day. yesterday, joe biden had a press conference of sorts. he was appearing with the guy who runs south korea, and he was asked about his age.

at one point he opened it up to the press. and as it turns out. joe biden, you know, keep in mind he is the oldest ever living president. he can't look like he is not as sharp. what did the communications team do? they gave him a cheat sheet and can you see right there. question one is courtney from the "l.a. times" and had the exact question she was going to ask. >> so it had the reporter q and a at the top you can see. date. someone wrote in question number one it. has her name with her pronunciation. the "l.a. times" and then lists her question, a summary of her yet-to-be-asked question. resureing semiconductor. sure enough the first person called on and she went on to ask a question about semiconductor manufacturing. >> steve: let's listen back and forth and keep in mind joe biden knows exactly what she is going to ask. >> now we are going to take some questions. first question is courtney "l.a. times." >> thank you, mr. president.

your top economic property has been to build up u.s. desk manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south korean companies that rely heavily on bay jake, are you damaging a key ally in the competition with china to help your desk politics ahead of the election? >> brian: wow, that means they have well executed plan there. people say you have a compliant press? i never thought this compliant. that means that somebody on the white house walked up and said how would you like to ask a question? can you tell me exactly the one you'll ask? they wrote it out verbatim. they got her head shot. they put it on the card. >> ainsley: did they get it days in advance? it takes time to prepare those cards? >> brian: who knows. unbelievable this type of scripting going on. now, i understand that they will walk up and say guys, foreign policy, domestic, do we have any questions for south korean president? i understand there has got to be some organization. but this is unbelievable.

and it's embarrassing that his staff feels as though they need to do it. kellyanne has been in that position, understands the difference the different way her boss handled it. every other boss handled it, perhaps, and this current president. >> the idea that a presidential press conference you would be given the presidents in advance and be able to write down first question and the exact question from the reporter, that is an inconceivable thought to me as a former press secretary. i mean, do you think that they submitted to me -- we want to ask trump why are you evil? of course they didn't submit that to me. but, to joe biden it's a different ballgame because the press, you are members of the administration. you might as well be at the navy mess socializing with us in the west wing. you are not true members of the press brian trump work the line go, go, go, go. nobody really knew what they were going to ask. what are the chances i would like to ask the president about hunter because the next kay was bring your child to work day.

about the hunter investigation think that person would have been called on. >> steve: hunter lives at the white house for the most part. we don't know how the communication team got that question. the "l.a. times" should explain. >> ainsley: they were inundated with phone calls and so was the reporter. >> brian: we know how they got the question they had to have told them. >> steve: we don't know. >> brian: what other thing could it be. >> steve: we don't know how they got it. let's don't speculate. >> brian: steve, how could it be anything except for the reporter told him exactly the question they would ask. no other scenario that is possible. >> ainsley: there could be other scenarios. there could be the white house told her this is what we. you to ask. >> brian: that would be even worse. >> ainsley: it would be. >> steve: we don't know. event actually the "l.a. times" will explain how they got the. >> brian: mental telepathy. >> steve: see, that is a possibility. right now looks like the "l.a. times" is part of the biden campaign.

and that's not good for the "l.a. times." great for the biden campaign. >> ainsley: not the first time seen with cheat sheets june of 2022, last june, biden was holding those instructions and this is what we were alluding to at the top of the show. you enter the rose veltd room. you capital you, take your seat, press enters then you give brief comments. july of 2020 his notes were taken by a recover from and it was all the pros of kamala harris when he chose her as his running mate. >> brian: incredible. >> steve: here's a note to the communications team at the white house. if you're going to give the president a cheat sheet, make sure he cheats right. make sure he doesn't just flash it to the audience. >> brian: i am so disturbed by. this we can laugh and say how pathetic it is. if you are worried about him getting a clean question, a real question. you have doubled and tripled the

reason to worry. >> ainsley: do you think his staff cares. they want him to win again so they don't lose his jobs and they can tell him what to say and what questions. they are in control. >> brian: ainsley, i think you are right. independents and moderate really don't know who they're voting for. i can't vote for this. i think it's more disturbing previous instructions where to sit and how to say hello. i can't even pretend as if he is doing this job effectively if he needs this type of instruction. >> steve: well, here's the thing. it is not a compliant press. because fox is always there. but fox never gets -- fox is never on that page. so, you know, if the communications team wants to make joe biden look like he is not afraid of a reporter sitting right there, i mean i'm afraid of mark meredith. how are you going to deal with mr. putin? >> ainsley: what does peter say? do they get a letter from the white house that says submit your questions? >> steve: no, absolutely not. sometimes they do talk about okay, i'm going to -- you know,

these are the topics that are out there. but the communication teams looks like that. if the white house communications team wants to make joe biden look like he is not prescripted on everything, call on peter doocy, jacqui heinrich or mark meredith. >> brian: anyone who won't give you questions ahead of time. anyone at all. >> steve: which i imagine would be the majority of that room. >> brian: i don't know. i hope not. 9 minutes now after the hour. uber eats driver killed by the mostly sunny 13 gang member with a lengthy rap sheet. >> ainsley: brutally killed. >> brian: murder surging after soft on crime policies. >> steve: switching gears. disney vs. desantis the house of mouse is now suing governor desantis. could he leave the sunshine for some place else like, ainsley, south carolina? >> ainsley: we don't have room. where are they going to go? more traffic. >> steve: you will find out about that next. look who else is joining us on this very busy thursday

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meritless and politically driven while on his tour as you can see in israel. >> steve: is that's right. if you are unfamiliar with the story joining us from d.c. is lucas tomlinson who catching us up on all the facts. >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. potential presidential candidate said in israel as part of a global tour disney cannot be its own thiefdom. >> somehow being pro-business means giving companies their own governments, that is not what a frefree market is all about. they don't want to pay the same taxes as everybody else and they want to be able to control things without proper oversight. >> 44% of republicans say they have a more positive view of governor desantis because of his willingness to take on disney. in its lawsuit disney alleges that the governor led a, quote, targeted campaign of government retaliation against the company that violates its constitutional rights. republican presidential candidate nikki haley is n not e

of those 44%. woulding mickey must, ainsley's home state in south carolina. the former governor saying in a tweet, quote: hey, disney my home state will happily accept your 70,000 plus jobs if you want to leave florida. we have got great weather, great people and it's always a great day in south carolina. sc is not woke but we are not sanctimonious about it either. another dig at the florida governor using that adjective, of course. hali also added the following. >> if disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands of jobs to south carolina and bring the billions of dollars with them, i will let them know i will be happy to meet them in south carolina and introduce them to the governor and legislator that would welcome it there was no sign he was given questions ahead of the press conference. >> ainsley: do we have room,

lucas in south carolina for a dillard. disney world? >> brian: do you have a map whip it out. >> bmw with k. build some factories there might be some room in camden. >> steve: think about when walt disney bought 20,000 acres or more than that back in the old days, right, lucas? he paid pennies on the dollar out in the middle of nowhere. of course now it is the number one vacation destination in the world. >> look at las vegas. >> brian: exactly. >> ainsley: the whole reason this all started is because they went after ron desantis for that act and then ron desantis went after them. what would nikki haley do if they tried to bring wokeness into south carolina? >> brian: probably fight back. lucas, appreciate it. thanks so much. i'm fascinated by this whole fight because it's dividing republicans. i think that you have governor sununu says don't do this and governor jeb bush said is he a big supporter. desantis said i wouldn't have done that and obviously donald trump says i wouldn't have done

that i was struck by this poll, the move was 73 respondents including 63% ever republicans and 82% of democrats say they were less likely to back a candidate who penalized a company going after them. that's one thing. but the other thing is he doing is he is letting corporations know there will be a price to pay for weighing in on legislation. and we saw what happened when governor kemp stood by and major league baseball moved their all-star game because of perceptions -- misperceptions about reforming election law. and then we saw all this other corporations call them out. we saw georgia -- we saw north carolina and georgia being repelling for the movie studios who didn't like the bathroom law that happened in north carolina. so, all of a sudden be people pe avoiding that since ron desantis took on disney these corporations have not been fighting. they have been kept in their lane. so far iger showing he can fight back but legally i don't think he has a leg to stand on.

>> steve: now it's going to be adjudicated. let's see what happens. we should point out that the poll that lucas was talking about where it's a winner with republicans, the governor taking on disney, that poll by reuters, up sews, actually completed on tuesday before one thing about ron desantis he may be over in israel. nbc four sources close to the governor, it sounds licketsd he is going to in mid may, just a couple of weeks away launch an exploratory committee to run for the white house. the official announcement probably would come at some point later obviously if he yes. some people are pushing for by may the 11th. other people say governor, that is too soon. stay tuned as they say because it sounds like he is about to stick his toe in the water. >> ainsley: there's a story also out of florida that is extremely disturbing when we talk about the crime issue which is

something very important to voters as we go into the next presidential election. this uber eats driver, he is -- he is married. he calls his wife. he says i have one more stop and then i will be home. he makes that stop. his stepdaughter says he works 8 to 10 hours a day as an uber eats driver. and this guy, according to police, yanks him into his home. >> steve: that guy. >> ainsley: and kills him and dismembers his remains and they are found in a trash bag. >> steve: it's terrible. you are looking at oscar solace. he has been charged with murder. the motive is unknown but he has a lengthy rap sheet. when he was in prisoner, apparently he stabbed a fellow prison inmate. he was on parole. he has been affiliated with a gang of ms-13 in indiana. and the heart breaking thing about that guy right there. the uber eats driver. they had lived in pasco in florida. which is more central. and they moved to seminole county to be close to the water

he, that man right there, randy cook has been a graphic designer for awhile. suddenly they live in a more expensive place. that's why he took up the part-time job of driving for uber eats. he was trying to provide a beautiful place for his family to live. he had to work some extra hours and ultimately that job wound up killing him. >> brian: unbelievable the killer next door. he has a stepdaughter. she weighed in. britney soba. here is what she said on "fox & friends first." >> this man is sick. he was like took away one life but he took away multiple lives because he was our life. he was such an amazing, wonderful person. he would do anything. all my friends, we would all look up to him hard work do anything to put food on the table and to make ends meet with my mom to do anything to make her happy and not just her but his family, me, and my sister,

he is a wonderful, amazing father, you know, husband. he just wanted to live a happy life and retire on the beach with my mom, you know. and just -- my poor mom. i feel so bad for her. her heart is broken. i don't feel safe at all in this world at all. nobody does. especially after this incident. >> ainsley: just a brutal way for him to pass away, too. she said they were planning on retiring and living together she said they just moved to this area about a year ago. they just were attached at the hip. they were soul mates and he was the best stepdad. she still has a voice mail saved on her phone of him telling her how much he loves her she also has another sister. according to the "new york post" the strip club security guard moved to florida in january when. >> steve: the killer brian. >> ainsley: paroled after serving four years in indiana prison assault and burglary. affiliated with the ms-13 gang

in indiana. lengthy rap sheet includes resisting arrest and a charge for stabbing a fellow inmate in prison. >> steve: that is the man who has been charged with the murder of randy cook. the uber eats driver who was just taking a part-time job to have a better life so he could retire by the water. a go fund me page has been started if you like to look it up. his name once again randy cook. >> brian: if he doesn't get the death penalty. no one should. why is this guy still on the planet. >> ainsley: did he do it for? was it gang initiation? was it he wanted to go back to prison? i don't know. >> brian: i mean, just evil. was he upset with his food? >> steve: 23 minutes after the top of the hour. ashley joins us right now with news from africa. >> officials confirming a second american is dead in sudan as fighting escalates between two rival generals battling for control of the country. the white house says they are still actively trying to help an estimated 16,000 americans still trapped in the violent chaos

urging the foreign nations to protect civilians. a 72 hour u.s. brokered cease-fire. many fear fighting will only escalate preventing further evacuation. court filings reveal accused pentagon leaker jack teixeira may have had access to a trove of information. the doj memo includes an alleged message he sent over the social media app. discord. if you guys want handings that pertain to your country or events or politics or whatever you can d.m. me, i can tell you what i have but it's always going to be a brief summary. air force temporarily suspending two more commanders from the accused leaker's unit. new outrage over another partnership with dylan mulvaney the trans influencer representing maybe blown makeup. it is calling for people to boycott the company. follows mulvaneyy's relationship led to 17% drop in sales.

aaron rodgers has arrived. new york's newest quarterback supporting jet skier for the first time as he officially introduced. >> i believe in this team. i believe in coach, i believe in the direction are of joe douglas. obviously a big thanks to the green bay packer organization for an incredible run. that chapter is over now. and i'm excited about the new adventure here in new york. >> ashley: rogers revealing now number 8 same snub college days at cal. last jet to wear number 12 joe namath. former jets starting quarterback zac wilson make any veteran's qb life hell in practice every day. and those are your headlines. >> steve: bring it on. >> ashley: are you excited about him. >> ainsley: i am, yeah. >> brian: absolutely. >> ainsley: i like johnson. wouldn't it be great if they came back and won the super

bowl? >> steve: it's great. another good reason to love new jersey. they play new jersey. they practice in new jersey. he landed yesterday. is he going to live in new jersey. >> ainsley: can you like the giants. >> ashley: can you like them both. >> ainsley: yeah. >> steve: they also play in new jersey in the same stadium. >> brian: they play each over this year. that's going to be interesting. >> steve: ashley thank you very much. >> brian: anyone doubted aaron rodgers was in to this watch that press conference he is in to this. >> ainsley: were they tough? you always say the new york press is hard. >> brian: he was very happy. that's how it starts off. just wait for his first incompletion. that's the problem. and i would say this, whatever he is doing, setting in darkness for three days and going to new mexico for a cleanse. >> ainsley: costa rica. >> brian: everyone is going to do that to see if can he mirror his success. >> ainsley: no. i read about it. no thanks. >> steve: go on assignment no do that gavin, can we get the

money. >> ainsley: you definitely do not want to do it. in the woods in a dark place. >> steve: that's called scouting. >> ainsley: and do you other things, too. >> brian: series like that "naked and afraid." >> ainsley: cleanse your entire body. >> steve: 6:27 in new york city. fox weather alert. texas the state is under a tornado warning in certain spots as severe storms are slamming the lone star state. >> ainsley: oh, the livestock. >> brian: looks like a driving ranges. >> ainsley: plus randy weingarten on hour her teacher's union planned school reopening. >> brian: is she holding her breath. >> we suggested concepts, sir. we suggested concepts. >> do you know how many edits were included? >> one. one. >> ainsley: our parent panel is going to react next.

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>> we know that kids learn best in person. we spent every day from february on try position get schools open. we knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools, but we also knew that people had to be safe. and maybe it's because i live in new york city. i live near a hospital. every other minute there was ambulance. there was terror. >> ainsley: teacher's union boss randi weingarten testifying on capitol hill after extended school closures after it was revealed she helped with the cdc 2021 we opening plan. here to react is parent panel, eric morrow, sharon mckinmen and sherri jackson. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. sharon, i will start with you. i know you have four children and live in california. what did you think of her testifying in front of congress

yesterday? >> well, this is just feels like a really heart breaking session of i told you so because as parents we knew during this time frame that our kids were being just absolutely devastated by the school closures and what's, you know, come to light now is we were right. our kids were being harmed. they were being damaged and excuses just aren't cutting it. the decisionmakers did not do what was right for our students and i think that's coming to light and there needs to be accountability because this can never happen to our nation's children again. and we're parents that saw the damage being done to our children. you know, there is just no excusing it. >> harry, you have three children, you live in virginia. and she talked to you yesterday about speaking to the cdc director twice before the february 2021 school reopening strategy was released from the cdc. she says we suggested concepts. we didn't suggest a line-by-line

edit except in one situation, a recommendation for teachers who were at risk. what do you think about that? she is suggesting concepts. those concepts might have been we are not ready to open schools because i live by the hospital and i hear the ambulances here in new york city. >> what i found concerning about this as the aft political organization where they had uncommon access to the director of the cdc as well as et biden administration and they applied political science over actual medical science in providing guidelines to reopen schools had a disastrous result as we now know. they treated children as poison vectors without any medical science. without scientific today back those assertions. and this is a classic case of analytic bias where -- in this case analytical bias cited two reporters massachusetts and a wisconsin report to support assertion develop in the case to keep schools closed and discounted all scientific evidence that would justify reopening schools as private

schools did a year earlier. >> you know, eric, you live in new york throughout in long island, we remember what it was like that first march when so many people were dying. we were awful -- i went tout long island to live out there for a while. we were all getting out of the city. we did hear all those ambulances and we were cheering on those first responders and medical professionals. but then the next year, our kids were out of school the entire rest of the semester. no one had a problem. we didn't like the zooming but we didn't want to die. we didn't have a problem with that then that fall we all wanted our schools to reopen. things were a lot better. we knew a lot more. we had gone through the summer. so, when she says she heard all these ambulances, why didn't they open schools that fall for the majority of americans? >> it was obviously politically motivated. you have to recall the time we had gone through the whole summer. it was as if covid didn't exist. people screaming wait, they are going to put them back in masks do. this my district that actually announced they were taking the masks away. and then the district and the

teacher's union obviously got back in the mind of the cdc and all of a sudden back to fighting the masks for another half a year which went through all 2020 and all of 2021. so there was no more ambulances at that time that would scare her. maybe it was, as harry said, confirmation bias, but this was obviously a politically motivated decision. >> ainsley: anything stand out to you yesterday? >> >> i mean, it sounded to me like a very nice acting job. >> ainsley: sharon? >> yeah. again, just the lack of empathy and concern and understanding of what our children actually needed. it definitely sounded like she wasn't sitting in a room with a child that bass losing their love for learning in front of a computer screen or crying because they missed their friends or their sports. she didn't go through what we went through as parents. again, this should never happen to our children again. really these people need to be

held accountable and unearthed what happened. >> ainsley: really quickly, anything stand out to you. >> yes, her proposed solution community schools. piloting such a program in fairfax county where they provide wrap around services. remove children away from the parents. fairfax county 600 students unaccompanied minors staying in hotels and community schools are basically removing parents from the community. so that's a worse solution. >> ainsley: okay, eric, carrie, sharon, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> severe storms are slamming texas, thousands losing power overnight after being hit with winds up to 90 miles per hour. grapefruit sized hail, battering cars and houses. check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. janice? >> we are still watching the potential for severe storms along the gulf coast including for our friends in texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, in towards the florida panhandle, that's the severe storm threat. if we can go to weather -- there

we go. there is your forecast today. so 87 in miami. 66 in atlanta. 55 in new york. so two thirds of the country dealing with cooler than average temperatures and then we are going to see a significant warm-up across the west. where areas of high pressure are going to build this weekend. all right, it is pollen season, tree, pollen alert here for all of the areas that you see shaded in yellow, orange and red, stretching from the southwest toward the ohio and tennessee river valley mid-atlantic and the northeast. we are expecting rain in the forecast aloss the east coast. that will help the allergy situation. looking at the grass pollen for much of the southern tier of the country up towards the mid-atlantic and as well as florida. we will keep you will updated. take your kid to work. my son conner is going to be doing weather with me. all sorgs of fun things happen on fox square. >> ainsley: you mentioned the pollen. all of us in the studio are

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>> i thought i was going to help place children in loving homes. instead, i discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network, it could be argued, that the united states government has become the middleman in a large scale multi billion dollars child trafficking operation. >> steve: wow. hhs whistleblower tara rodas testifying ripping america's role as unwitting middleman in the trafficking of migrant children across our southern border. also testifying with our next two guests sheena rodriguez the founder of strong alliance for a

safe texas she joins us and vaughn policy studies at the center of immigration studies. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> jessica, let's start with you. obviously the hearing called by the republicans, they were very aggressive in trying to get some answers from the government about why they are sending unaccompanied children across. you were there and your observation is, what, regarding the democrats listening to all of this. >> well, even if the face of all these credible reports about the trafficking of kids and forced labor and abuse, the democrats seem to think that the system we have is providing adequate protections and they have criticized the republicans for introducing legislation that would solve a lot of these problems. they are acting like everything is just fine, nothing to see here. let's move on. these kids are, you know, need to come here and rejoin their families so we don't need to do any more to try to protect them

even with all we know about the trafficking that has already occurred and the problems within the system. >> steve: sure. and, you know, there is a lot we don't know about what's going on. but, when you look -- we have a graphic that shows the number of unaccompanied alien children at our border. just look at that back in 2020, it was just barely 33,000. and now fiscal year 20 # 22, which is the last year we have got all the numbers for, it is, what? five times that. shana, you are in texas. and, obviously, these children come across and what, unfortunately we have heard is a lot of them are being forced into child labor. some are being forced into sex jobs, stuff like that. it is shocking. >> yeah. it absolutely is and i have spent a lot of time at the texas border and also a little bit of time in arizona. i have encountered a lot of these unaccompanied minors that have come across at the hands of

coyotes. like the young girl who wore this bracelet that was placed on her by the cartel and crossed over in texas. we heard the words transparency by those-by the one witness from orr and even with the facilities that are being run, the hhs contracted facilities in texas that i'm intimately aware of. it's anything but the lack of transparency. and as a mother, it's heart wrenching that i have come face-to-face with a lot of these children, and, in my head, i'm wondering how many of these children that i'm personally encountering are going to become part of that stat of these missing unaccompanied minors by our taxpayer dollars. >> steve: absolutely. jessica, think back -- there is such a double standard with media. we talk about it but a lot of other channels don't talk about what's going on down there. just think about the double standard regarding the administration. had there been this situation

southern border last republican administration, the "new york times" would have a headline with type that big. but, in the meantime, nary a word out of most of the mainstream media. even though now the "new york times" did do the story. jessica, apparently 85,000 kids are unaccounted for. 85,000 kids the government doesn't know. we let them into the country, poof! they're gone. >> yeah, well, the administration and its allies on the hill and in some of the media outlets would like the public to think that this -- what's going on at the border is some kind of humanitarian program that is helping people, that it's a family reunification. and. >> steve: it's not. >> without all the down sides. these policies are facilitating the traffickers and enriching them and being dumped on communities across the country

that have to pick up the pieces and deal with the kids. they talk about post and lawyers. what we need is to prevent this from happening to begin with by getting control of the border, largely. >> steve: let's see if this republican congress can do anything on the house side. sheena and jessica, thank you very much for both of you getting up early on this thursday. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> steve: you bet. all right. exactly 10 minutes before the top of the hour and ashley joins us with some crime news. >> ashley: we are going to start your headlines with troubling testimony, steve, that was in the trial of doomsday cult mom lori vallow. idaho coroner revealing j.j. smord duck tape over his mouth. they were not able to determine the cause of death of her daughter. their remains were not found until june of 2020. vallow face life in prison for the murders if she is convicted as well as conspiring to kill her husband chad announce run

for senate? attempt to swipe joe manchin's seat in 2024. he is expected to seek out a third term. manchin endorsed the democrat in first gubernatorial bid before he ditched the party for the g.o.p. after his victory in 2016. the first faced republican congressman alex mooney announced his bid for the g.o.p. primary. those are just some of your headlines. we are going to actually send it out to, looks like janice, ainsley and brian outside. what are you guys doing. >> brian: conner is over here helping us out. >> ainsley: bring your child to work day ed's son. >> ainsley: we have more coming. what time did you have to get up this morning? >> 3:00. >> brian: big nfl draft is tonight. we know it's one of the most exciting things can you possibly do in sports. anxiously, are you pumped up?

>> janice: i'm pumped up. i'm ready. >> brian: when are you going to release the top 10. >> ainsley: i love that player jerome smith and i can'ty wait to see where he goes. and anthony, i love him. >> >> janice: you studied up. >> brian: who your greatest? >> janice: tom brady. are you ready, conner? >> ainsley: hike it to me. snap it to me. ains. >> janice: i will be the fan. go, brian. laces out. [cheers] >> brian: go over and throw some football. >> janice: what do i have to do? >> brian: try to get it into this hole. connor can you do it? >> i will do this one. >> ainsley: almost. >> janice: conner, you get ready. >> brian: your dad is watching. don't let him down. oh, damn it. >> ainsley: did you hear it. >> janice: he swore. not bad.

let's do it again. >> brian: that's a little of the reason we are not going to get drafted. today. steve, back to you. feel the excitement, when we come back something else on tap something i haven't v. seen in little league sports. >> janice: conner got in. >> conner beats the grown up. >> janice: oh my gosh. draft day in kansas city. stay with us on this thursday paris hilton going to join us live. first, big fights in little league have parents become umps. the rule giving unruly parents a new point of view from -- look at that you don't want that to happen ever again. ♪ ♪ burning up a back road song ♪ kick the dust up ♪ unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp.

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>> brian: all right. parents will think one, two, maybe three times before they act out or get into brawls with little league umpires in this town in new jersey season in full swing the little league en40s new policy unruly parents umpire three games before can you be back watching your kids back. don came up with this idea. what brought you to this point where you said the parents are so out of control i think i have the perfect solution? >> well, we had two umpires

resign on us in the last couple of weeks. because of the abuse and harassment they got from people in the stands. we decided something has got to be done. we can't afford to lose good dedicated volunteers. what don't they want to happen. throw them off the complex. temporary fix. they are back next week. all right. obvious, they are not out there helping us, so they don't want to volunteer. so let's put them in the position of that umpire and what he has got to go through in the course of a game. >> understand how hard it is. how much pressure they are under and how many quick decisions you have to make. >> exactly. >> if a belligerent parent is out there, the procedure would be, what? pull them aside? >> in the stands you mean? >> brian: if it happens today. >> the umpire will tell them you need to stop. if it continues he can eject them from the premises. once they are gone and gets back it me my recommendation to the

code of conduct committee in town is i want a full suspension 'for a year of this parent. >> brian: giving an option to umpire their way back. >> give them the option. we'll suspend that if you come out on the field and agree to and complete three umpiring assignments. >> brian: that's awesome. you are having trouble getting volunteers anyway. you have been doing this 40 years. you never remember it so bad. you put this out there. so brilliant. you put it on facebook. >> i did. >> brian: thenned up being a huge story. >> it did. i had no idea it was going to blow up like this. we thought maybe locally. but it's -- i have been getting emails and phone calls from across the country from little leagues saying that they are going to enact this. so something good is going to come out of this. >> brian: no doubt about it. and international little league had a beautiful statement. they are fully in support of this. we employ the volunteers little league coming up with a creative and fun solution to shine a

light on treating everyone wit