and said he reached out to david weiss's office to have a conversation with them and they never got back to him. you would think the investigators investing hunter biden's business affairs would want to talk to hunter biden's business partner but that ended up not happening. joe got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thanks joe. >> thank you carley and ashley good to see you. >> "fox& friends" starts right now. >> have a good day. ♪ >> steve: good morning everybody it is monday july 3rd, 2023. we start this hour of fox and friends with a fox weather alert. more than 110 million americans are currently under severe weather alerts this morning as strong storms, wind and extreme heat hit different parts of the country. those strong thunderstorms battering central kentucky yesterday brought down power lines and trees as well and look at those images.

>> chicago hit with severe flash flooding stunning drivers stunned by the sudden rushing water. nascar fans faced downpours for the city's first street race delayed by 90 minutes due to the weather and it was shortened by 25 laps. >> still exciting though, a lot of fun to watch and today on the west coast residents are warned to brace for extreme heat with temperatures in some areas expected to soar, get this, over 115 agrees so we check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. adam. >> very active weather across the country continuing to see at least some of that here early this morning and it will linger the next couple of days. all those thunderstorms have been largely on the eastern half of the country. this is a 12 hour radar loop and you see the explosion of thunderstorms every single afternoon and evening. expect to see something similar again today. early this morning you see those storms die down they pick up in the afternoon and evening hours but where we're still seeing fairly heavy rain is across portions of new england

stretching back down towards at least in some cases somes showers in the mid atlantic taking you further south we've seen thunderstorms every afternoon from georgia into the carolinas, expect to see that again today with weather running right up along the coast. a two on a possible five on the risk scale for potential of severe weather including major cities scar lot dc going up towards philadelphia, towards new york, every area where you can see straight line winds 60 miles an hour, hail a possibility, an isolated tornado is not out of the question in this region as we continue throughout the afternoon. extreme heat across the desert and southwest, 115 in phoenix, 113 in las vegas, 107 in bakersville. that's extreme heat. forecast today, showers in the east once again, all of the heat out west and i am going to leave you guys for the forecast for the fourth of july, very similar, staying hot in the woofed and staying at least partially rainy here in the eastern half of the country. those are the weather headlines for now, tossing it back over to all of you. >> so with that lightning bolt

on the new york city right there, of course here in new york we've got the biggest show of fireworks in the world tomorrow night, is that going to get off okay? >> it's going to be evening time showers so 40, 50% chance of rain, kind of a coin toss at this point. >> keep us posted. >> i'll pick heads. >> my parents are staying with us, are staying with me right now, and it's 115 in phoenix where they're -- you know, they're in scottsdale so happy to be here. >> steve: adam while you're still here, one other question and it relates to that, you were talking about the extreme heat out west, how much of it, they're just getting over the droughts out there, so how much of it is something else and how much of it is this thing we call summer. >> these are typical temperatures out there, yeah. but, you know, you talked about the rainy season too, so kind of going through the rainy season but these temperatures you're talking about are not unheard of steve and people out there know that. >> yep, that's why they leave in

the summer. >> they make a run for it, yeah. >> they're used to this out will. >> steve: no can i goed. adam thank you very much >> today is not a holiday. >> i heard you talking about this earlier. >> it's not a federal who will dachlt i looked it up. usually adjacent to the fourth of july monday, take monday off. a lot of people are taking the day off and traveling and when you look at the number of people, the number one topic, one of the neighbors houses over the weekend and the number one topic is what is going on at the airports because, you know, yeah, it rains every once in a while and now the federal government is using the excuse of rain to cancel flights, they say. >> yeah, makes no sense. you had seven,983 delays on saturday, you had 274 cancellation ons sunday, you had 630 cancellations. it is not the way -- we are living here where these cancellation resist happening, a lot of these are at newark

airport. there hasn't been extreme weather here at all. >> steve: no. the problem at newark airport, because i fly into it at least once a week and one of the pilots said, you know, we always land early, and then we wait for a gate. the problem is, there are only a certain numbers of gates and what united airline had asked for yesterday, they asked for the faa to open up more gates for them. the pilot explained, the problem is, united schedules all of the gates so tightly it's like, okay, the plane is going to leave at 11:00. >> the next one comes right in. >> steve: right, it's going to be there at 11:05 it never leaves at 11:00 and the one in the ali can't get in another behind it next thing you know it's chaos and that's newark. >> have you seen the i love lucy clip where she's working on the candy line, gets behind and she's trying to find places to put it, that's the airline. it never stopss stops. and unfortunately i spend so much time at the air pofrment you ask me my least favorite

thing at the airport i'm not mad about getting cancelled or delayed on an aircraft where something's wrong or they need to fix it. >> fix at this time. >> yeah, that's a blessing and we can figure it you out. when i can see two three hundred flights slade multiply that by another two three hundred, that's how many people are displaced, so the train reaction people get edgy. the worst part about the airport is a couple thousand people that aren't happy. >> here are some unhappy passengers. listen to this. >> i have never seen so many people at the airport. >> i'm glad i got here early. if i was a little later i don't know if i would have made it. >> getting in it was so lined up i didn't know if we were going to make it today. >> i would have run all over the place because there was no set patterns this morning. >> everything takes so long. everything is do it yourself. for some reason, we had to come around the world to get to this line. i don't know if there's construction or what the rerouting was about, but it was really, really a lot.

>> we've allowed for knowing that it was going to be crowded and not much you can do other than hope to get through before we miss a flight. >> those are the people who used language we could use. >> that's so good. >> everyone at the airport had their attitude about it we would probably be all right. >> that's probably true. pete buttigieg says this is not his fault. listen. >> of course not. >> we had a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. the good news is, on friday, we saw, according to tsa a record number of airline passengers, probably the most ever in america. we saw those cancellation rates stay low. right now we're below 2%. but they really shot up at the first part of the week largely because of severe weather hitting some of our key hubs. i think most passengers understand that no one can control the weather, but anything that's under the control of the airlines and anything that we can do on the faa side, we need to continue pushing to make sure there's the smoothest possible experience

for air passengers everywhere. >> okay. so it's not just the weather. >> i have so much to say about this steve. >> and here's the thing about the faa. they need more staff. they simply don't have enough people to handle all the demand because ultimately that's what's going on. we want to go places and in digging ourselves out from covid and now the travel, apparently, let's see, the demand for this weekend, four million people will be at the airport up about 10% before the pandemic. so many people want to go places. he needs, pete buttigieg and the federal government need more air traffic controllers. they need more staff. the airlines need more staff. because you want to go places. >> what they need is leadership. and, listen, this job should have gone to a respected expert in transportation and it didn't. it went to somebody who the democrat party saw as checking the right box and a rising star that they wanted to give a plum job to, and this is what you get. he is not ready for the job.

and by the way he mentioned, you know, we can't control the weather. make no mistake, this party just sent gazillions of dollars, trillions of dollars trying to control the weather. that's what they're doing. in fact you just did a story yesterday, they've approved research to try and block the sun. >> bio engineer the atmosphere. >> yeah. >> steve: block the sun? >> yeah, this he want to block the sun to stop global warming. >> as a former farmer i don't think that ace good plan. >> not a great idea. >> as a former farmer the demand and weather are two things you can count on, it's the beginning of hurricane season. >> steve: right. when the wright brothers were down in kitty hawk there was weather involved. so that is a terrible -- we're over the weather excuse. higher more people. you know, the other wrinkle and we're lucky it did not impact people is they finally rolled out 5g and around america's busiest airports where you need to use the technology to land, they've dialed it back because apparently it has impacted being

able to land the plane because the altimiders speak to -- there's interference. most of the planes that have not been updated are not flying into those places which is good. apparently delta airlines have 200 planes that have not been retrofitted, the rest have been and they're flying into places like new york where there is bad weather. >> we lost a pie lots because of the covid mandates. to pete buttigieg couple things he can do dstopping us take off shoes. they can use working dogs where i was at an airport where they had really long lines and they couldn't deal witness they brought in the dogs to sniff us and let us all through. and he can promise to never make us do mask theater again when we are traveling. there are things can he do to make traveling better but he's just not an expert in transportation, shouldn't have a job. >> steve: we just want planes to go places when they say they're

going to go. >> a little bit on time. >> steve: we will keep you posted what's going on at the airports because we know a lot of people are traveling today even though it's not a holiday. >> that's right. >> steve: still ahead police are investing several explosions at businesses in our nation's capitol. you won't believe the story, the weekend holiday violence reported across the country coming up. >> and one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in north america shuts down after someone spots a crack in one of the support pillars. we're going to talk to the theme park visitor who reported the terrifying safety concern. >> that's a nope. ♪

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♪ >> steve: it has been a violent weekend already with several shootings in a number of cities across the country. chicago reported more than 30 people shot in an historically violent couple of days. >> joey: and dc and baltimore seeing multiple shocking attacks leaving several people dead and dozens hurt. >> rachel: alexandria hoff is

live from washington with more of this crime crisis. alexandria good morning. >> laura: good morning to you. when you look at the victims coming out of this weekend, i mean they are children, adults, dogs, property, peace of mind, the reach was so wide. in chicago as you mentioned more than 30 people shot, three killed, the victims of violence ranging in age from five years old to 85 years old this comes off of last weekend where police reported 29 people shot eight fatally. in a baffling violent multi county crime spree in the dc area has investigators fired up as well. committed three har jackings a homicide and killed two dogs in the process of stealing those vehicles yesterday morning. after an exchange of gunfire with police, the suspect was taken into custody. >> i've done this job for a very long time and it's extremely rare to come across an individual who has such a disregard for life. >> laura: staying in the nation's capitol police

searching for the person who used explosive devices and a molotov cocktail to attack three businesses early yesterday one of the locations was just three blocks away from the capitol building and supreme court. so a truist bank a nike and safe way grocery store were targeted in these attacks. they happened just 15 minutes apart. right now police are working with the surveillance photo. they have a picture of the suspect and the person's car right now. they're trying to track them down. police believe that the businesses were the target in this case, not the people. but that's not the same to be said in baltimore where 30 people were shot in a mass shooting early yesterday morning. most of them were teens. many of them children. 18-year-old a lie a gonzalez and a 20-year-old were killed. police searching for multiple shooters who they say opened fire using weapons on an informal gathering in the brooklyn home section of the city. here's the mayor. >> this was a reckless cowardly

act of violence that has taken two lives and altered many many more. and as i said earlier, we will find those who are responsible and we will not stop until we do so. so many shots fired they initially thought they were fireworks we hear that so often in cities this time of year guys. >> steve: indeed. thank you very much. although it's not, you know, not really reassuring that, as alexandria said regarding the two explosive devices and the molotov cocktail, they were targeting businesses not people because it happened in the middle of the night. it was 4:00 --. >> rachel: do we know why? do we have any indication what stores they were. >> steve: a truest bank a nike store and a grocery store and they threw a molotov cocktail at the grocery store. you have to wonder -- and joey and i were just talking.

somebody at the truest bank likes nike shoes something went haywire at the grocery store. >> joey: their bank card must have been declined. a friend and i were watching the nascar race and made the joke the last lap in the nascar race in chicago comes with drive by shootings. the point is the duality of experience, the whole industry a sends onto the city at the same time 30 people are shot in the city. just shows you what every city's dealing with no matter how safe some areas may be. >> rachel: it's a combination of two things, it's of course, this push towards, you know, decreasing, or putting in das that are decreasing the pena penalties >> steve: soft on crime. >> rachel: soft on crime an agenda that has a lot of money behind it and we're seeing it. the other piece of the puzzle is the breakdown of family. so much of this callousness of life is when people rend trained in their own homed which can

make people cal las when they are's not taking care of children. that's another fatherless probe something i hope all candidates need to address because we need to. >> steve: crime wise a crazy weekend and we're only half way through the holiday. 6:20 in new york city and carley is with us on this monday >> carley: i certainly am, good morning. news out of china, verby secretary janet yellen heading to chinese for meetings with officials. candidate nikki haley concerned about china's growing military strength. >> if you look at the military situation, they now have the largest naval fleet in the world. they have started developing hypersonic missiles. we are just now getting started. they are modernizing their military. our military's taking gender pronoun clanses. >> a top biden official says the administration isn't expecting much of a break through out of yellen's trip.

>> to the crisis at the border texas sending a second bus to los angeles ahead of independence day. 41 migrants including 11 kids were sent from brownsville texas to a church in los angeles. it comes just a few weeks after governor abbott sent 40 migrants to the same location which he promises to continue to do until the biden administration strengthens its border policies >> to golf, rickie fowler is on top again after a dramatic playoff win at the rocket mortgage classic. >> and ricky returns to the winner's circle! >> carley: fowler shot 4 under par and sank that birdie putt for his first tour win since 2019. he says he plans to celebrate with his wife and 2-year-old daughter and you love to see that big old sigh of relief. >> steve: i don't know who was most excited there, ricky or the caddie. the caddie -- >> caddie makes a lot of money, too, when their player wins so i

think equal excitement on both their parts. >> steve: congratulations to the rickie fowler team indeed. carley thank you >> carley: you're welcome. >> steve: come to the tv listen to this one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in north america has shut down after a visitor spotted a crack in a support pillar. take a look at this terrifying footage of the fury 325 at an amusement park in north carolina. it shows the ride's support beam cracked and shaking the ride on the track. our guest tracked it and alerted staff. what happened? jeremy wagner joins us this morning jeremy how are you. >> good morning steve how are you. >> steve: i'm doing okay. this had to be terrifying i know you had your family on the ride earlier in the day. what possessed you to take pictures of that thing? >> so i went out about 30 minutes early, because i cool down the truck and i told them, y'all ride some more rides and

text me on your way out. so they texted me and i pulled up front to wait on them and i was just taking in the engineering of the roller coaster, it's just incredible and i happened to look up and was like that's not normal. i looked at the other pieces and they weren't like that. and then the car came through and it moved as much as it did and i'm luke, dude, i've got to let somebody know about this. >> steve: right. and so what you did is you did what anybody would do and that is you found the first person wearing the name badge and you said, hey, look at this. what did they say? >> honestly, it was an elderly gentleman parking cars and he said i don't see what you're talking about. so i ended up going -- it was the fourth person before i was able to air drop them the video and then i left the park and the ride was still going when i left. >> steve: right.

so, jeremy, you talked to four people and nobody thought it was a big deal? >> yes. >> steve: holy cow. well, i know it bothered you because on the ride home what did you do? >> i called to see if the ride was still open. i wasn't going to let them know that i was the person that reported it. but after 7:00 on friday night it was -- yeah. >> so i was brain storming on the way home and, you know, charlotte fire department be the responder. so i called charlotte communications to talk to somebody at the fire department and he said i've got their direct number to security and he called me back within 5-10 minutes telling me, mr. wagner, i spoke to security, they have shut the ride down for investigations. >> steve: okay. so you wound up calling the fire department and they shut it down. the company that owns it put out a statement. they said the park's maintenance team is conducting a thorough

inspection and the ride will remain closed until repairs have been completed. safety is our top priority and we appreciate the patience and understanding of our valued guests during this process as part of our presence i have safety protocols all rides including fury 325 undergo daily inspections to ensure their proper functioning and structural integrity. but you really couldn't see that there was a crack, jeremy, unless the car was actually going through because every time the car went by then it pulled away. >> no, actually what caught my attention was i was looking up i saw what looked like a crack and i saw light through the other side. and i was like that, you can see all the way through that so it's not half way cracked, it's completely cracked. before it moves you can see light through it and that's what caught my attention. >> steve: indeedment and they always say, if you see something, say something. you said something, took a little while but you did shut it

down. jeremy thank you very much for joining us we'll keep folks post wind what they do to that ride. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: you bet. good luck. have a nice holiday weekend. all right, that's really something. still ahead on this monday, more than 700 have been arrestedd in the country of france after a sixth night of rioting. a grandmother's call for peace amid the rioting. plus walk it off. see the moment a mets fan was escorted off the field after apparently falling 12 feet into the outfield. that person's story straight ahead on fox and friends for this monday. ♪ new emergen-c crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? [sfx: video game sound] new emergen-c crystals. throw it back. lowe's knows you want to make the most of your summer. that's why we're offering 4th of july deals under $100.

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break windows, buses, schoolsment we want things to calm down. meanwhile, french police unions making their message clear saying all the options must be put in place to reinstate the law of the state. dr. quanta ahmed is a senior fellow with the independent women's forum and she joins us now. doctor, it's great to have you on. as you know thee riots have escalated and then spread to switzerland and belgium. what does the spread of the riots tell you about the nature of the riots. >> i think france is going through an extraordinary cries and many people are thinking about the riots of 2005 which caused tremendous destruction over three weeks. this time it's much more different. you saw the attack on the mayor that happened on saturday night outside of paris, the amount of political violence against elected figures is a concern,

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>> rachel: it's really great that you brought up the energy crisis. this was a self-made crisis. they fell for the green energy agenda and they have put themselves into a box. of course things were exacerbated by ukraine. it's an excellent point. you mentioned some of the damages, a hundred million dollars in damages, 10 shopping malls, 200 supermarket, 250 tobacco shops, 250 banks. this is extensive and at the -- you know, coming into the peak of the tourist season. so it is a big crisis for france. there's also, of course, a racial component or at least people trying to push that as it is. it's interesting, doctor, you know, america's a melting pot, it's not france. we've always been a much more welcoming society. but france is france. so what does that tell you, i mean, they've always been protective of their culture and food. >> if i can interject. great question, rachel. number one, it's easier to

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about to celebrate independence day tomorrow and the french will do the same on july 14th on bastille day, we are the foundation of modern democracy, france and america. this is where modern democracy began and that is to escalate the diplomatic efforts to end russia and ukraine or are we are going to see more instability and the riots of the far right that is falling for escalating state of emergency measures in france and we're going to see the far right in germany, too. so this is an international crisis and we as americans have to help france solve this problem. >> rachel: yeah. well, the americans could have done a lot more to bring a resolution, a peaceful resolution, maybe even not have allowed it to start in ukraine, the ukraine/russia war to begin with, but we're here. but it is having alarming consequences and some of it, as you say, we're seeing in these french riotsment so thank you for joining us, dr. quanta.

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♪ >> joey: if you look at the overall picture, we've seen a lot of improvements but we had a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. >> joey: yeah, that's transportation secretary pete buttigieg responding to an already bumpy start to independence day travel. today alone, 81 flights have been cancelled and 425 delayed after the busy holiday weekend that left thousands stranded at airports across the country. here to react to our ongoing

flightmare is the cohost of the big money show on fox business, taylor riggs. taylor, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. and my flight was only delayed an hour last night so i made it here. >> joey: i saw here, 20 minutes when you sent over some notes and it ended up being an hour. >> yeah. so, i mean, look, the good news is, the consumer is really healthy. if there's any sort of good news to take away from this, there has been so much pent-up demand from covid that people are spending and they want to travel on these holiday weekends, they want to be with friends and family. i think triple-a was estimating, what, four million people were catching flights on friday. the downside is that, and you just heard from the faa secretary, transportation secretary, the faa is just not right now equipped to handle events that we used to be able to handle. the united airlines ceo scott kirby came out last week and said these, quote, weather events tfaa used to be able to handle these. they are no longer due to

understaffing, due to short anxious, due to all these other things not able to handle it. that's sort of the frustration i think with passengers. >> joey: what i'm trying to understand here and i think people at home want to understand is we have now hundreds of millions of dollars invested in this industry are during covid with the relief we gave to the airlines. pete buttigieg is the transportation secretary, he's seen these problems for almost two years now, or over two years. when the faa puts out guidance telling airlines to ratchet back their flights, if the demand is going up, we've invested in these airlines, we should expect the opposite, right? more flights a little bit cheaper tickets, more opportunity. >> in theory, yes, you are totally right. take a look at southwest, right? how many billions of dollars within the stimulus and covid money did we give to the airline to help the infrastructure. southwest is a great example of what happened with all the huge delays we had over the holiday season. remember that back in december? it actually was really starting to show up not just an economic

problem for the consumer where we're now having to rebook all of our own flights and pay the consequences of that, but southwest was saying that they lost millions of dollars in their quarterly report. so it really is impacting those airlines. but to your point, you're right. we did give them all that money, there probably wasn't enough checks and balances on that money when we gave it to them but a lot of people want to make sure when they go to the airport they have a flight it takes off on time the air traffic controllers are there they show up but so many issues right now. >> joey: another topic affecting millions of americans is the supreme court decision on student loans and student loan relief. millions of americans. and so let's explain what this means for retailers as all of these people have to go back to paying those bills. >> so what we don't realize is now is sort of that season where people are gearing up for back to school shopping and then the end of the year big holiday fourth quarter shopping season. i think what people don't quite understand, too, is money, what i always say, it's fungible so

if i have a hundred dollars i can spend it wherever i want but it's finite i only have that $100. so where am i going to spend it. we saw with all the stimulus checks and all that covid money people were shopping, qvs came out with a great record, nike under armour lululemon is in there. but if you only have that $100 you may have to spend it maybe paying back some of student loans. so the impact on the retailers is going to be real. ubs coming up with a study saying a lot of quote impulse shoppers are also those with the largest student loan debt outstanding. so i'm really worried about the holiday season to see how the consumer handles it. as we know the consume senior is 70% of our economy so if the consumer starts to slip that's when we get worried about cause for a recession. >> maybe telling a whole class of americans they can spend their money on fashion probably wasn't a good idea for the last year. i don't mean to pigeon hole ow the politics but that's just the truth and where we are.

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ticket behind at a liquor store and the owner then tried to claim the winnings for herself. lottery officials were suspicious when the store owner attempted to present the ticket ripped and burned. she is currently facing several charges including larceny. meanwhile you can throw your own hat in the ring for tonight's lottery drawing ahead of independence day. the powerball jackpot now soaring to $522 million after no one had the lucky ticket for saturday's drawing. the winner could take home almost 270 million bucks if they choose the cash option. it is the second time this year the powerball jackpot hit the half a billion dollar mark. that's a lot of money guys. >> rachel: sure is. >> steve: that story about the store clerk with the winning ticket. >> rachel: i know. larceny. yikes. >> joey: could fund a war with that money. >> steve: for a minute. all right. thank you very much. >> rachel: thanks carley. it's the day before independence day and we're thinking about what makes us proud america.

>> joey: and what better way to celebrate than at the largest stadium fireworks show in the united states. >> steve: so sit back and relax and enjoy the show because fox nation host abby hornacek is joining us live from provo utah with a preview of the big show. hey there, abby. >> reporter: hey there, steve. as you can see behind me, they are setting up balloons for balloon fest which is happening a little bit later today but we have already been having so much fun here. the red white and blue really did take center stage at stadium of fire as tens of thousands of people came together celebrate country, family, faith, music and, of course, fireworks. take a look. ♪ >> reporter: we are at the stadium of fire and just looking around you can tell why this is one of the country's premier independence celebrations. we've got the biggest stadium

fireworks show, an f-35 flyover, a legendary performance by journey. i'm walking around going to talk to people and i can tell already that the patriotism is here so let's go. i don't know if i have the authority to do this but you guys might be the best dressed here. what is this planning like? >> well, we just thought we'd look best for our country and, yeah. >> and our mom. >> we have got such a fun group over here. you said you've been to stadium of fire before. what makes it so great? >> everything about it. it's so patriotic, best singers, performers ever. the dancers. but my personal favorite, the flyover. >> i do this every year and you don't feel more american than you do at the stadium of fire. >> as we celebrate the fourth of july we are also celebrating our nation's veterans especially the world war ii veterans being honored tonight and i had a chance to catch up with them. ♪ oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

♪ >> the battle was on, a battle would ignite for the first few seconds and we would realize we were in trouble or be in danger. in the dark i could hear guys praying. i could hear guys swearing. >> dad mentioned the he heard people praying and swearing and i think i did both. >> you have a message to the people who have served our country? >> thank you for your sacrifice. we wouldn't be here without that. >> what makes you proud to be an american? >> freedom, standing up for my religion and family. >> free to be myself in every way i can be. >> family and freedom. >> yeah. it means a lot. >> reporter: what makes this so special it brings you back 20 years in a reverts for us journey is special because my dad loved journey. ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: guys as you can see just there, this truly was a 1-of-a-kind experience and those fireworks were incredible to see. if i may just mention, that was also broadcasted to a hundred million military men and women across a hundred countries so pretty great way to celebrate the fourth of july. >> rachel: yeah, journey, fireworks. i don't think it gets any better than that. >> joey: i think that looks like an assignment i need next year. i think i need the fourth of july off next year. >> steve: i understand abby it's really going to be hot out there today. i just looked at your forecast for provo, looks like 95 degrees

as they get ready for the big show >> reporter: steve i never look at the weather because ignorance is bliss. i prefer to be hot than cold. >> steve: i don't blame you. >> rachel: my girl. i love it. thanks abby. >> reporter: in that package --. >> rachel: go ahead. >> reporter: just quickly, we heard from two world war ii veterans there we're going to have coverage of them over the next day also, they truly were such incredible people to talk to. >> joey: beautiful. >> steve: great interview. >> reporter: tune in for that guys. >> thank you very much >> stay tuned for more fox news coverage of more proud american coverage. >> rachel: absolutely. >> steve: it is 7:00 in new york city, the second hour of fox "fox& friends" starts right now. ♪