you cook, i lift weights. >> ainsley: why the tears? it is your career? >> this was my joy. this was -- so many times in life you don't get to follow your dreams and you didn't have -- no mom, no dad in the stands but there was the fans. the greatest thing was a child told me her grandfather had ric flair and her -- >> dana: god bless you, tire us. a federal judge setting the date for president trump's criminal trial. et sets the stage for a presidential primary unlike any other. mark le vin joins us in moments. first >> people need to heed instructions. a storm is hitting a part of the state that hasn't had a major hurricane on the current track in a long time. >> dana: bracing for impact.

florida governor ron desantis is giving an update on hurricane idalia. bill is off. good morning. >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington. "america's newsroom." the governor is beginning down there in florida and we can listen in to governor desantis. >> forecast to make landfall along florida's big bend tomorrow morning as a major hurricane. the national hurricane center issued a hurricane warning for the gulf coast from sarasota county through franklin county in the panhandle and storm surge watches are also in effect in those areas. national hurricane center advisory includes if this storm hits at high tide storm surge could reach 8 to 12 feet in some areas. that would be life threatening storm surge. i know all those areas are under evacuation notices in the low lying and coastal areas.

you run from the water and you hide from the wind. if you are there in that storm surge you are putting your life in jeopardy when it gets to be that high. so if you're giving those orders please heed those orders. you don't have to leave the state. you don't have to drive hundreds of miles. get to higher ground and safe structure. ride out the storm and go back to your home once the storm passes. there are evacuation orders for coastal low lying areas in 22 different counties along the gulf coast as well as throughout north florida. to make these evacuations easier on families, we have directed f.to wave tolls in several counties and that started at 0:400 this morning. florida has activated with -- if you want to find a hotel go to

expedia.com slash florida. we continue to coordinate with the power companies across the state. we had as of this morning over 25,000 linemen stationed. more on the way. you will have most likely between 30 and 40,000 linemen when the storm hits will be in the state of florida and immediately move to commence power restoration efforts. we've also been working with counties to make sure that they know that we have resources ready to deploy and want to be helpful to support their efforts. we have received more than 450 active missions that we are coordinating. every resource request we received has been filled or will be filled by the end of this morning. we do have 420,000 gallons of fuel staged and ready to deploy and additional assets are expected over the next few days and the gas stations that will be prioritized will be the ones along the heavy evacuation

routes. we have eight urban search and rescue teams activated and 580 search and rescue personnel ready. right now we delivered 431 pallets of water, 303 pallets of mris and tarps to communities and many more gallons of water and things deployed as needed. over 20 shelters open and additional 20 special needs shelters are mobile liesing and on standby throughout the state of florida. 500 national guardsmen activated and have deployed 247 links and they will be deployed to impacted areas as the needs arise. 42 school districts have announced school closures over the next two days and 16 state colleges and seven florida universities. florida department of transportation has more than 600

personnel including over 220 cut and toss crew members with more than 400 pieces of heavy equipment and trucks strategically placed across the state to prepare for cut and toss operations post storm. if you look at that track of where it is going now, you are going to see a lot of debris. there is a lot of trees along take track and it will knock down trees and knock down power lines and there will be a need to be able to clear a lot of the right of ways. florida department of transportation has about 1100 generators en route to impacted areas and they will use that to get the traffic signals up and running as soon as possible when the storm passes. as wind becomes stronger later today and tonight f-dot is coordinating with local law enforcement to close bridges once the speeds reach in excess of 40 miles-per-hour. road rangers will be concentrated along evacuation routes to help motorists.

we have also called up 33 ambulance strike teams with over 200 ambulances that are ready to surge into any impacted area. also requested an additional six strike teams through our emergency management assistance compact with other states. this storm is going to hit tomorrow morning. you will start certainly seeing effects of this in different parts of the state later on today. you still have time this morning to be able to make your final preparations. if you are in one of those areas that's in line for some of the major storm surge and you are told to evacuate, you have time to do that. you have to do that now. you don't have to go hundreds of miles. you can go to a shelter in a different part of your county. go to a friend's house in an area that is not going to be susceptible to the storm surge. hotel. all these things are good to do and you should do that and heed. this is going to be a major

hurricane, likely a category 3 and where it is scheduled to hit along this big bend. we have not really had a hurricane strike this area for a long, long time. i think you have to go back to the 1800s before you would see a path like this. and so those coastal areas there have not necessarily been through this before and i think that being safe is the appropriate thing and erring on the side of caution is the appropriate thing. we will, of course, be mindful of any changes in the path of this storm. i think everybody on the gulf coast from tampa bay until northwest florida must remain vigilant. they have nudged the track a little bit further west over the last 24 hours. we were looking at potentially leavey county. yesterday and today. now we're looking for at taylor county. there are some models that say

it may go further west. so places like tallahassee where we are today certainly you could end up having it hit tallahassee directly and some of the surrounding areas. everyone remain vigilant, continue to watch and listen to the local orders that you receive from your local emergency management personnel. i want to thank everybody. we've been in contact with people from most of these counties over the last few days. everybody is working hard and everybody understands that this is a significant event and they are remaining calm, cool and collected but they are executing and that's what we need to continue to do. i want to thank everybody in the state of florida for working hard. they've been working round the clock and getting the resources where they need to be as those requests come in. of course, once the storm passes -- >> dana: there you have the update from governor ron desantis is florida. they are seemingly very well

prepared with water, fuel, meals ready to eat. ambulances, first responders, national guard. they've been through this before. they aren't taking any chances here. they think it could be quite strong. >> bret: interesting this particular area hasn't seen a storm like this. hard to believe how many major storms have hit florida before. this particular area has not seen a big storm. i think i've covered 18 named storms out of the mix. this area is different. >> dana: let's get to fox weather robert ray reporting from clear water beach, florida from an update. >> hi. clear water beach mandatory evacuations underway. where i'm standing tomorrow will be inundated with storm surge up to seven feet is the expectation as this hurricane churns in the southern gulf and rapidly intensify. expected to be a category 3.

we talk about where it will come onto shore. the big bend. basically rural state park area fishing villages, lots of forestry. the population center is not massive there but there are people and should leave. the surge there could be up to a foot or even more. here on the barrier island of clear water beach and some of the low lying areas in pinellas county, tampa essentially. the mandatory evacuations are underway and expecting significant impacts here. you have to be careful as it ramps up tonight into tomorrow morning. >> dana: i will remember this picture of you today at this moment and think about it 12 hours from now. thank you so much. fox weather is your hurricane headquarters. stream it on your favorite device. always on and free and very accurate. >> bret: the white house

defending president biden over his age and fitness for office as a poll finds 77% believe he have is too old to be effective or another four years. gillian turner is live on the north lawn of the white house with more. good morning, gillian. >> good morning to you, bret. despite the new political reality, the white house is insisting the president's age does not matter. take a listen to karine jean-pierre yesterday. >> if you watch him and seen what he has done the last two years this president has had a historic administration in just two years. if you look at the 13.5 million jobs that he has been able to create. if you look at how he has been able to turn the economy around so it works for middle class americans. >> the biden re-election team is arguing voters may say in polling that age matters but it is not their focus. >> well, why they talk about age, we'll talk about the things that americans are talking about, kitchen table issues.

>> polling also reveals the two frontrunners are garnering strong associations with voters across the board. they associate biden with age and being elderly and former president trump with criminality and corruption. a whole lot of the gop slate of candidates, bret, now are trying to cash in on this. governor nikki haley has been calling for a mental and physical fitness test for all washington policy office holders going forward. >> we cannot have kamala harris as president. we can't chance this. we have to make sure we win this because the thought of kamala harris being president should send a chill up every american's spine. >> the white house is not focused on these issues today. biden will welcome the president of costa rica later in the afternoon. he and the vice president are touting efforts to lower medical costs. back to you. >> bret: gillian turner live.

thank you. dana, it is one thing the poll numbers and people's thinking about the age, but the visual of the president being on vacation as much as he is, on the beach, you know, also factors in here, doesn't it? >> dana: it does. if i were her how would i answer those questions? it's difficult. you can say here are the numbers and look at the evidence. but when you are trying to tell the american people that they aren't seeing what they're seeing gets very difficult and not doing something where they say look how young and vibrant joe biden is. look at him do the interviews and all these things. they aren't doing that. i don't think it is going to change the poll numbers. i said yesterday on "the five" i don't think you could get 77% of the country to agree on a mother's day resolution now. they all agree on this and it's very tough. >> bret: that's true. the calendar is filled with

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>> bret: looking live, florida governor ron desantis in tallahassee continuing the briefing with officials on the ground about hurricane idalia. we'll bring you any news from it as develops. we're monitoring it. >> dana: a federal judge

overseeing president trump's election interfere answer case setting a trial date for march 4th. the timing puts the trial directly in the middle of the republican presidential primaries with super tuesday slated for the next day. mark levin is with us. when we first heard the date of march 4th yesterday i think people politically minded thought isn't that around super tuesday? it's the day before it turns out. >> so your federal judge sitting there and saying to yourself what date can i set that would not interfere with the election, that would allow the defendant to actually defend himself? you pick march 4th? six months from now? in a case that involves 12 million documents, scores of witnesses, where he can't possibly have effective representation and i'm sure there will be an appeal based on that. a couple of things. this judge not only set

march 4th, the judge who by the way whose father -- excuse me, grandfather in jamaica was a marxist in the "new york post" today. and was imprisoned by the jamaican government for a period of time. chip off the old shoulder there. there is something called the anti-suit injunction. the department desighted they would bring two federal cases so close to each other donald trump wouldn't have the ability to defend himself. they moved for early trials in both cases. moved for january trial in d.c. they moved for a january, february trial or maybe march in florida. you are talking about tens of millions of pages of documents. so they are piling on trying to smother him. i would file a motion under the anti-suit injunction. the anti-suit injunction is for a case like this. when you have the department of

justice, the biden administration, piling on cases, piling on charges against a single defendant and it is supposed to be tried within months of each other, the judge in florida set the date for may. now this judge in d.c. blowing off the judge in florida. she should have waited in d.c. until the first trial was done and the first case was done. if she had any desire to show due process rights for the defendant but she jumped the other judge, the second case. that's how important this issue is. it is bigger than march 4th. the motion should be filed with the first judge in florida. that motion should say look, we can't have two trials at the same time overlapping each other with tens of millions of pages of documents. with a presidential candidate. the department of justice scheduled it this way

intentionally. the judge in d.c. jumped the line, she is the second case not the first in order to get her case before your case, and for whatever reason, that's what she did. the anti-injunction act would be judge cannon issuing an order against jack smith and the department of justice telling them to cease the prosecution of the case in d.c. until the case in florida is completed. that's the way it should be. because it is hard enough to defend against one case as opposed to two case essential or in trump's case four cases. i want to mention also grand juries. nobody has talked about this to my amazement. the grand jury process is set up in the fifth amendment. it is in the bill of rights. you are to be indicted by a grand jury, not a prosecutor. but what happened when jack smith moved his charges from washington, d.c. to florida? he was in the wrong venue in

violation of the department of justice rules. but he gets his indictments and moves them to the grand jury in florida. now the grand jury in florida inditties. okay. but a grand jury's indictment is not supposed to be a rubber stamp of another grand jury in another jurisdiction. what exactly did that jury vote on? did they ask for witnesses or any documents? this investigation in washington is going on 2 1/2 years and there are piles of information. in one week's time they indict the president in florida on top of the indictment in d.c.? i think that's fast and loose. i think mr. smith actually violated the grand jury rules in florida. again, i would file a motion of grand jury abuses and i would want to know exactly what they told that grand jury because they are supposed to be truthful and present facts and explain the law, supposed to ask if they want to talk to any witnesses,

scrutinize any documents. i doubt that happened for the most part. and in georgia. -- i was going to say georgia is a huge problem. >> bret: tough to get grand jury, isn't it tough to get what they heard and saw? >> it is tough to be a defendant in any case when you are up against the government. all your motions are difficult to pursue. this is unique. the circumstances are quite unbelievable. why did he bring the indictments in washington, d.c.? that's not supposed to happen when the material activities and events being charged occurred in florida. so there is more basis for getting behind what took place in this case with grand jury abuses than there would be normally. the government opened itself up and doesn't have a good explanation for why it did that. none. in georgia -- >> bret: let me ask you this. this sets up for, it seems like a lot of issues on appeal. but because these are happening

realtime during an election, is there a fast track process that somehow the appellate or supreme court gets involved earlier? >> the motion for the anti-suit injunction can be appealed if it's ruled against the president and the other co-defendants immediately because it is an issue about the trial itself. you can't go through the whole trial and then go back and say by the way, you should have issued an order to stop the other trial. the judge in d.c. has pushed up the date to march 4th. so this is the immediate issue. it is a pre-trial issue and it is an issue -- we don't call it an interlock tore appealed but immediately appealed to the circuit. grand jury abuses supreme court has ruled you need to lay it out before the trial. if you lay it out during or after the trial you have no

basis. you have to raise it now. that provides a basis for an interlock tory order. both of these cases would go to appeal, if necessary, before the commencement of a full trial. to answer that question. real quickly, i know we're out of time. in georgia when they posted the grand jury indictment before the grand jury came to the courthouse, before they met, before they voted, and in georgia you don't have to use a grand jury. when you do you have to use it properly. that's a perfect case for grand jury abuse and since in georgia there are no secrecy rules as we know, it would be easy for defense counsel to find out what the hell took place in that grand jury. so these are things that can be done because there is no question that the department of justice has abused the law. they are piling on the charges. there is no question that the

judge in d.c. is a partisan, one of the most radical judges in the federal bench of all the thousand district court judges and there are ways to at least seek relief even if they're tough. you don't roll over and play dead because what the american people are seeing here is an abuse of the justice system and judges, at least the judge in d.c., the judge in manhattan and we'll see about georgia, are going along with it. in other words, they are allowing their courtrooms to be used to interfere with an election and to deny trump and other defendants their due process rights. this is very, very important. >> dana: we'll see what the trump attorneys do. i'm sure they are meeting. they have a lot on their plate and a pleasure to have you on "america's newsroom." thank you. >> bret: thanks, mark. >> thank you, god bless. >> dana: be sure to catch a fascinating interview tonight. former trump attorney john eastman when he sits down with laura ingraham tonight at

7:00 p.m. eastern. one of trump's 18 co-defendants in the georgia 2020 election interference case. that's happening tonight. we're tracking hurricane idalia as it moves closer to landfall in florida carrying life threatening storm surge and strong winds. plus this. [sirens] >> dana: nevada rangers bulldoze through a protest. causing a huge traffic log jam. we'll have the latest. >> get down, now, on the ground. >> get down, now, on the ground. he's not struggling with cpap anymore. all that rest is working wonders for him. inspire. learn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com. are you a veteran, own a home and need money for your family? newday usa can help. veterans have earned a lot of va benefits with their service, but the va home loan benefit

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police have yet to say publicly what they think may have motivated the alleged gunman to show up at the lab building. open fire killing a unc faculty member. the suspect being charged with first degree murder. for students on campus yesterday there was a lot of chaos, confusion and fear. it happened around 1:00 yesterday afternoon when 911 calls reported gunfire at the campus. students were seen running with hands up and polices courts like we've seen in other school shootings. we heard overnight from the chancellor. >> this loss is devastating and the shooting damages the trust and safety that we so often take for granted in our campus community. we'll work to rebuild that sense of trust and safety within our community. >> the search for the suspect

police posted pictures publicly while looking for him and lasted 90 minutes. people who live near the campus took video of the suspect being taken into custody. we believe the suspect is a ph.d. student at unc with ties to louisiana and china. the charge is first degree murder and investigators stress they don't have all the answers yet. >> to actually have the suspect in custody gives us an opportunity to figure out the why and even the how. and also helps us to uncover a motive and really just why this happened today. why today, why at all? >> already investigators have shown up to this building. you can see police cars behind me. gone in within the last 20 minutes continuing their investigation. all the classes at unc are canceled for today and the university is also offering resources to students who may be impacted. i've seen a few students

bringing flowers this morning. the campus coming to terms with what happened. >> dana: thank you so much. in florida authorities releasing video of the jacksonville gunman's movements before opening fire inside a dollar general store. it shows him briefly stopping at a family dollar store where he bought some items and later putting on a tactical vest. three people were killed in the shooting on saturday in what investigators are calling a racially-motivated attack. the suspect did take his own life. [shouting] >> bret: no kid gloves there. nevada ranger using his patrol truck to force a group of

climate activists off the roadblocking the entrance to burningman festival creating a miles' long traffic jam. jonathan hunt with that. >> good morning, bret. when you drive into the desert side of the annual burning m man fest i val it's one way in and one way out. when it's blocked it causes chaos. that's what the climate activists wanted. with signs reading abolish capitalism, general strike for climate and ban private jets the climate protestors put a trailer across the road and refused to move. apparently the burning m man festival. it upset the activist because it is popular with affluent people who don't live the stated values

of burning man. that may or may not be a valid argument. i have no idea who goes to burning man these days. the tribal police who were responsible for the desert area where the event takes place were having none of it. after warning the protestors to clear the road and getting no cooperation, they did this. [sirens] >> get down now, on the ground. all of you on the ground now. >> that was the end of that. the six protestors were handcuffed and removed. one of the rangers apparently drawing his gun as he confronted the protestors who said they weren't armed. now the group organizing the event created an online petition demanding that burners of the world unite and that those attending the event lead that charge to ban private jets, single use plastics and what they called unnecessary propane

burning. four days after it was created the petition has been signed by 137 people. bret. >> bret: thank you. it is quite something to see. michael shellenberger was on with laura talking about this. take a listen. >> what we've seen is climate protestors becoming more infant aisle in their protests. throwing soup as van gogh paintings. spilling milk on the floor. gluing hands to the floor. these are behavior of toddlers and now up to law enforcement to deal with their tantrums. >> dana: the least persuasive protestors are these infantile kids out there and her defense was we're environmental pr

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bylaws don't define what a woman is. that the court will not do so, either. >> i wasn't talking about bringing in little green men or flying saucer. i want transparency. people in the pentagon say they don't exist. yet we watch video footage of some of the best pilots in the world that happen to be american pilots chasing some craft that is not -- nothing that we have. >> bret: last month's hearing on ufos leaving americans with more questions than answers. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are on a mission to uncover the truth themselves. brian graves is a former f-18 pilot co-founder of americans for safe aerospace. ryan, thanks for being here. you think it is a big deal. some people say it is a waste of time for lawmakers to be doing with all the big issues.

what do you say? >> this is something that pilots are dealing with. the pilots flying around the country are seeing objects during flights and we have to remember that these pilots deserve the tools required to keep us safe in what they're flying. now there have been other claims about government cover-ups and misappropriation of funds that mr. brush made. if the united states people are concerned about the spending their government is using. >> bret: they have to move forward you are saying. nasa official is convinced something is out there. there could be multiple explanations if we look at technology. i think we lost him. yep, technology. alien technology ended that interview. >> dana: i wonder what happened there? might be a little conspiracy. >> bret: aliens strike again. we'll have ryan back. it is an interesting issue and capitol hill is taking it seriously even though chris

christie did not on the debate stage. >> dana: he might not have liked that question for that particular moment. feels like there is enough there it's a question worth explaining. the guest is back. aliens are blessing us. >> bret: we lost you for a second and finishing your thought about why it is important. you see this stuff and talk to people who see this stuff? >> we're receiving reports almost every day on safe aerospace from commercial pilots and veterans seeing these objects and they don't have the means to report the objects. we are looking to advance americans for safe aerospace. >> bret: when you hear someone say there is definitely something out there. it might not be friendly. it could be from other places on earth, that would be scary or natural phenomenon. this is nasa officials say this. what do you think? >> you know, whether it's nasa, department of defense, whether it's the secretary of defense,

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borrowers confused. it is leading to mass chaos. now borrowers are receiving new payment schedules from serviceers they've never heard of. interest on federal loans restarts friday. the first payments are due in october. >> part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house. contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness. >> bret: republican candidate ramaswamy receiving praise for calling out what he describes as an epidemic of fatherlessness. there are almost 16 million kids living with a single mother in the u.s. william la jeunesse has more. good morning, william. >> about 30% of u.s. children are raised by a single parent comparing to 7% worldwide and 3% in china. many consider it a major problem when you look at this. 40% of all u.s. babies are born

out of wedlock. among blacks it's 70%. hispanics 53. whites 28, asians 13 suggesting a breakdown in the conventional nuclear family. >> education starts with the family and the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. >> bret: when a child is raised without a father they are more likely to grow up in poverty. >> these boys are hurting. they know something is wrong. most respond out of anger and frustration and that's what you see is going on. >> john smith baker started fathers in the field. it mentors boys without fathers attending church and enjoying the outdoors to provide a strong role model. >> being raised up without a father was like always wishing

like i want somebody more stable. >> linda was raised without a father. her husband grew up in los angeles with both parents. the couple say many of their generation are unwilling to sacrifice their own happiness for the good of the family. here their 2-year-old daughter and son levi on the way. >> your father gives you a lot of confidence. i feel like my dad has given us a lot of my siblings confidence. >> in 1960, 5% of children were born out of wedlock. today 40%. that's an ideal or stable environment to raise a child. >> bret: thank you. it's a big story we don't often talk about and vivek ramaswamy is bringing it up on the trail. >> dana: everybody on stage last wednesday night at the debate would have agreed with him. he just had the opportunity and the presence of mind to deliver that message in the way he did that resonated. what's interesting is if you go back you covered the obama

administration and president obama himself also made this case. so it is a big problem that's leading to multiple other problems in our society and i don't know if government is necessarily the answer. when vivek was saying about the government benefits keeping people from being a family unit there might be more of a debate to be had on that. >> bret: the stats on single mothers is a big number that affect a lot of communities. >> dana: stick around and watch this. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: bret, i wanted to show you. a.i. is striking out. columbus dispatch paper using an a.i. tool to write sports stories but pulling the program like this. the worthington christian winning team. on saturday one thing is for sure, bots are worse than

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