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♪ if. joey: good morning being. we begin with a fox news alert. the the idf if announcing they have found six dead hostages taken by hamas inside a tunnel in gaza just days ago. rachel: that includes hersh polin. pete: griff jenkins joins us live with more. >> reporter: good morning, guys. heartbreaking news. those hostages killed before israeli forces could rescue them. all six of them starting with ori and alexander and ark lmog.

you see them the here. , and of course, our american, hersh goldberg-p if olin. now, the idf released a statement saying this: a few hours ago we informed the families that the bodies of their loved ones had been located by idf trooped -- troops in an underground tunnel in rafah. they were brutally murdered shortly before we reached them. just last month you'll recall the goldberg-polin family speak at the dnc, pleading for their son is' release. there they are. they're grieving this morning releasing a statement saying this: with broken hearts, the family is def stated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother hersh. the family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for previous at this time. hersh's mother was on "fox & friends" back in november and had this to say. >> we came to find out that he and his best friend were at the

music festival which was attacked. almost 300 kids at this festival were just mowed down with machine gunfire. hersh and his best friend managed to escape to a bomb shelter, but the bomb shelter came under attack. >> reporter: we're hearing from vice president kamala harris. she say is the her prayers are with the family seeing i strongly condemn hamas' continued brutality and so must the entire world. as a vp, i have no higher priority than the safety of american citizens wherever they are in the world. and we are getting reaction from president biden as well who's saying it is as tragic as it is reprehensible. make no mistake, hamas leaders will pay for these crimes, and we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages. and we're getting reaction from prime minister netanyahu as well, speaking the to the country in hebrew saying this:

whoever murders hostages does not want a deal. we're trying to get more reaction. we'll bring it to you as we get it later this morning, guys. pete: griff, thank you. joining us now is former idf spokesman, senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracy, jonathan connery questions. it's tough muse to take, six dead hostages, one american. these families have been actively hoping they would be found safely, and it sounds like in this raid or -- they were killed, these hostages, right before the the israeli defense forces reached hem. so this is a salve an -- salve -- savage act by hamas. your reaction to what we're hearing this morning. >> it's a very sad day here in israel. good morning to you guys. in israel, it's the another sad day. what makes it even more heartbreaking for the families is the israeli assessment is that your loved ones were alive and endured hell underground for

330 days and then were executed by their hamas captors as they probably herald israeli troops operating in the area, and they executed the hostages and then fled. and they're probably within a day, maybe even less than that israeli troops got to the location and were able to, sadly, only bring back their bodies. but it's t really heartbreaking for israelis to see. there's a lot of political tension in israel but, you know, on the military front what's happening is that the fight continues. today we have another shooting attack, three police officers were gunned down at close range in sumeria, and we've had rockets and krones coming in from lebanon fired by hezbollah. so it's very much war at many fronts, and many israelis feel

that enemies are at the gate wherever we look. rachel: jonathan, there are four americans dead, four remaining in captivity. i know i read reports that these families were hoping for some sort of deal so there could be a hostage release. that didn't happen. you just mentioned political turmoil in israel. talk to us about what's happening there because i know there's tension between those who say we should prioritize taking care of hamas versus those who say the first priority of the israeli government should be to release, get -- negotiate for the release of these hostages. >> yeah. so, i mean, both views are totally understandable, and they hold a lot of content, both of them. i'd say the following: the first and most important factor that cannot be stressed enough is that we are dealing with savages. we're dealing with some of the most cruel, inhumane and

heartless borderline human beings in the way that they're treating israeli hostages and using hem for psychological warfare against the state of israel and against the families. and that has to be front and center of remembering who we're dealing with and why that's the main reason why it's been so difficult to reach a deal and to alleviate suffering in gaza. there's a lot of -- i can't imagine how i would act and what measures i would take, and i totally understand their desquare spare and the fact that they -- despair, and the fact that they will do everything possible to get their loved ones home. and the only venue that the families can vent their pressure is inside israel. they apply pressure to the israeli government. but at the end of the day, what

we're dealing with is an organization that i think hamas understands that as long as they hold on to the hostages, that is basically the the last card that they'll have to use against israel. and what we're seeing now is a race against time. what will happen first? will the fighting will of hamas and pitts leaders break, or will we get the leader of hamas? will we be able to the kill him before, or will there be some kind of deal made? it's one of these three options. i hope that israel won't cave for pressure against hamas, and i hope that we will be able to defeat this very horrible and cruel enemy because hamas shouldn't be allowed to see the light of another day at the end of the fighting here. joey: jonathan, on that point looking forward and how this develops after this, this was an absolute tragedy. how does this affect the ceasefire that the biden-harris administration has been pushing publicly so hard for the last several weeks? does this create leverage for

hamas? does it give israel an opportunity to say, nope, we're not interested? how do you think it affects that? >> well, basically any talk of ceasefire, you know, there are two parties who would like to see a ceasefire, i think, hamas because it will allow them to almost emerge victorious and, of course, the families of the hostages. and these are two different sides of the spectrum. in my mind, what needs to happen is for hamas to be defeated, defeated in such a way that a there's no coming back. and if what israel needs to do better is to apply better military pressure, is to do more and yet to the leaders of hamas so that they won't have the ability to negotiate the delay. as long as they hold hostages, that is what keeps hamas alive, and we have to end that and end that quicker. it is a, you know, it's really a biblical mentions, this. it's like a solomon's dilemma here. on one hand, wanting to live and

protect the entire israel, but then on the other hand knowing that the fate of at least 50 hostages that are probably alive are in the hands of these extremely cruel terrorists who see nothing. they have no respect for human life, no values, no nothing. and it's an extremely difficult situation, but even in the -- on this difficult day i have faith in the idf, i have faith in our ability to get the job done, to the defeat hamas. and then the thing isn't over. we still have hezbollah on our northern border, and we still have lots of palestinian terrorists in judea and sumeria, all of them with the fact that they don't accept the fact that the we are here and live in this country, our ancestral homeland, and they want to use violence in order to push us out, and we have to fight against it. pete: jonathan, one detail i want to round out real quick. the hostages, they believe, were shot because israeli forces were close. it wasn't as if the door was

about to get kicked down. you're saying israeli forces were in the area. do you know how close? was this a patrol? was this a cordon of a neighborhood? what was the operation that a led to the killing of the the hostages? if. rachel: was it a rescue mission? that's the part i'm confused -- pete: yeah. was with it a rescue misor a regular operation? -- mission? >> from what i understand are the following: you remember a few days ago a muslim-israeli man was freed from captivity, he was many a tunnel about 60 feet underground. he was extracted alive because his captors fled without killing him, and israeli troops were able to get this and get him out. and the six bodies that were uncovered were within about less than a mile from the location of where that hostage was extracted from, and the working assumption is in the idf that the israeli

troops were in the area, collected intelligence and were searching and looking for hostages. the hamas captors understood that the israeli troops were nearby, perhaps panicked, perhaps got orders. we don't know that yet. executed the israeli hostages and fled and then afterwards israeli troops not within minutes, but we're talking hours, maybe within a day were able to collect intelligence and understand where the hostages were and then got to the location and, unfortunately, found six bodies and not six live israeli hostages. pete: tough stuff. jonathan conricus, thank you for that insight. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. good morning. pete: it wasn't a targeted raid, it was ongoing door to door search operations in an area, and maybe that's when they heard, my goodness when you think about that -- rachel: i can't. i was reading the stuff about

the families. they go up to the gaza an boarder and they pray and they shout out prayers to the loved ones on the other side. at one point one of the family members tried to rush the border, and the israeli soldiers had to hold them back, hold her back because they just, they want -- their loved ones are so close, and this debate within the country of what to prioritize, you know, the war with hamas or the extraction of these hostages and the return to their families, heartbreaking. pete: a lot of that comes back to rafah right now on the border of egypt and questions about an offensive and what that should look like because of the amount of people in that a city, the the hostages that are there and israel's presence. kamala harris, who's running to be the commander in chief, made some pretty clear comments on rafah back in march. so this is march of this year, and she talked about potential for a rafah offensive in an

interview to abc back when she did interviews, and here's what the said. >> we have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major with military operation in rafah would be a huge mistake. let me tell you something, i have studied the maps. there's nowhere for those folks to go. and we're looking at about a million and a half people if in rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them. and so we've been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into rafah with any type of military operation. pete: she's studied the maps. by the way, so this is washington, d.c. dictating to israel where it should go with offensives. joey: yeah. pete: i know there's u.s. hostages there, that's understandable, but when d.c. is dictating your offensive, you probably have limits on what that offensive can be. but rafah is a pot -- i'm going

to pop up and go to our maps which are probably not as detailed as the ones the vice president looked at here. this is a very vague look at the region. you've got israel, judea and sumeria. this is the gaza strip, and we're going to get a better map in the coming hours, and the bottom e part is where that rafah cross. >>ing is. it's how mamas can resupply through egypt. egypt has cracked down on groups inside their own country, but they have a bargain with the palestinians allowing weapons and people to get to the gaza strip through these weapons. israel took control of rafah, that border town, in may of this year. and when they did, they found over 7000 -- 700 tunnels so far and 50 between egypt and the gaza strip. so if you're hamas, your lifeline are those 50 or more tunnels that allowed you to resupply weapons, fighters or, take your leaders in and out of egypt into the gaza strip but

also, guys, to take hostages. there's no reason why hostages couldn't have traveled through those tunnels into the sinai, into egypt as well if this bargain is real. so the consternation of rafah is the palestinians, hamas, want the u.n. to control rafah. is and israel's saying, well, the u.n. has controlled rafah before, and when they did, the tunnels were allowed to operate, and hamas was able to go back and forth. israel's saying, no, we need to maintain control of rafah if we're going to destroy hamas. so it's this porn inflection point because whoever controls it controls the resupply for hamas. rachel: okay, i have so many questions from what you just explained which, thank you. first of all, the first thing you said was we are putting limits on israel on how they fight the war. part of that is because we fund israel. we also fund egypt. so why can't we hold our own

foreign aid over the heads of, say, egypt say you shut down the tunnels if they're coming from egypt up there? if you'll get zero dollars unless you -- pete: we totally should. rachel: do i have to run this country? [laughter] pete: i think that's part of -- rachel: that's pretty simple. pete: that's been some part of the public discussion for a while. rachel: if there are tunnels from egypt to israel and it's in the interest of israel and they're our friend and we want to stop this war and the killing on both sides, i mean, a lot of civilians, 40,000 have been killed on the palestinian side -- pete: that's a palestinian number, a hamas number -- rachel: whatever number you want, even if it's in the thousands, it's horrible. we want to end this war. if those tunnels are part of the process or part of the calculation, egypt, you get no money. joey: yeah, that's the point of contention. do we want to end this war or win this war? the biden administration wants to end the war because it's bad pr, and also just like you said from the human element, people

are dying. rachel: there's a humanitarian element. joey: but if you're not ending the war, you're not winning the war. that's israel's argument a, not mine. and that's really a point of contention between the u.s. and israel right now. pete: for sure. and it is, i don't know, if you can't conduct full-on fencive operations to the destroy -- offensive operations, hamas won't be gone, and you won't get the hostages -- joey: and they're probably coming back anyway, because the is every orphan left from israel's operation, we know this from our wars, become a hamas fighter. they get indoctrinated. war may never end for that reason just like the war in afghanistan, you know? it was the soviets before us and the brits before that. and once you can create a war around an ideology of just hating another group, your kids just adapt it. rachel: and that's why the idea of not starting wars or doing whatever you can to prevent these wars is so important, and

that's now become a center of this political election that we're in right now. you have one candidate under which no wars were started and another in which multiple wars have started under her and joe biden's watch. pete: well, speaking of that candidate, donald trump, he was on with mark levin on life, liberty and levin is, a wide-ranging interview a portion of which talked about israel and what's happening in the war against hamas. and donald trump talked about the jewish vote and how they view kamala harris. take a listen. >> how a jewish person can vote for a democrat but specifically somebody like camilla -- kamala, she wouldn't even meet with bibi when he was -- look, he came over: the prime minister of israel. he's in a war. we're heavily invested in that a war. people are dying. october 7th was a horrific day, just horrific. and now you see people that are picketing saying no such thing

ever happened? you know they did that with the holocaust too. they said there was no holocaust. but this one was right next to us because we saw it, we saw it. you saw it, everybody saw it. they saw it. i don't imagine they aren'ting thinking straight. pete: part two airs tonight at 8 p.m. on his policeman. rachel: yeah. interesting. -- on his program. pete: a lot more continuing coverage on this after ace, mom. stay with us. stay with us. theryou that makes it easy to focus more on the cooking... and less on the mess. shop lowe's now for great labor day deals. it's pods biggest sale of the summer. save up to 25% on moving and storage for a limited time. and see why pods has been trusted with over 6 million moves. but don't wait, use promo code big25 to save. visit pods.com today.

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joey: a fox news alert, six hostages, including one u.s. citizen, murdered by hamas terrorists in gaza. prime minister netanyahu making it clear nothing is off the table when it comes to avenging hair deaths. our next guest snow knows all about the war on terror, retired brigadier general rob rob smalling -- rob smalling joins us now. does this change anything for the united states government and how we're responding to no crisis? is. >> well, it certainly should. if you remember during the trump administration the abraham accords, what the trump administration sought to do was decouple the question of palestine with regard to broader middle east peace. and they also did that along

with suppressing iran. so i think one of the things we have to recognizeover this administration's pursuit of peace in the region isn't working, and this is just one example of it. joey: when we look at the landscape, i believe there were -- if my numbers are correct -- around 8 u.s. citizens who were held hostage, 4 are dead and 4 left in captivity. is there an obligation for the u.s. military to be actively on the ground to rescue americans? i know there's a huge push from both sides of the aisle to keep us out of a new war. i would echo those words myself, but is there a the difference between having surgical operations with the assets we have, or is this just such a mess in that area that we couldn't do it? >> no, i don't see why we couldn't lend support. here's the deal, we have been searching for our lost from if wars all the way back to world war ii, even world war i in

europe, and we're still doing that. we're looking for the lost in korea. i mean, these people are alive possibly, and we owe an obligation to them. they weren't lost on the battlefield as a those overs were, and, you know -- those others were. and at a minimum, we shouldn't be putting pressure on the israelis. and, furthermore, we should be thinking about the fact that we do have american citizens or that are held hostage. joey: you're a united states air force general, retired, so you understand the top of the chain of command. you understand how the decisions are made. pete and i were talking earlier on the couch here about the lieutenants and sons, this idea that you don't conquer a people so much that they have nothing to lose because at that point they come back with full force. you try the give them an opportunity to assimilate into the culture that's conquered them. israel is the country in which gaza is enveloped. even with a who to-state solution, the people in gaza

have to learn to live with israel. do you see that as even an option at this point? >> well, i mean, when israel originally left gaza, the palestinians controlled the territory, and then they used that territory to i attack -- to attack israel on october 7th. so i don't think that there is any way that we're going to see the palestinians or hamas change hair tune no matter -- their tune no matter what the israelis do. this is the problem that we have. and there has been overtures of peace for decades now, and the palestinians and hamas have shown no interest in actually going after that. so, no, i don't think, i don't think we're going to see the palestinians or hamas change their tune no matter what israel does, unfortunately. joey: we just have a few seconds left so a short answer, if you can. if israel is in a three-border war in gaza to the north and to the south with hezbollah, the houthis and hamas, does that

mean the united states is involved directly? >> well, i think we're going to be involved because iran is a big instigator. as you know, they've providing the resources. and beyond that, china's supporting iran. so i think this is a much broader war as i've said before that is supported by this growing cold war that we're in, and we just have to call it that and work on a strategy overall for the globe of which the middle east is a part. joey: general spaulding, thanks for your expertise. thanks for getting up and joining us this morning. >> thank you. joey: all right. as the i can df confirms six hostages are found dead in gaza, here at home anti-israel protesters vow to return at columbia. one student speaks out live right here next.

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pete: we're back with a fox news alert. israeli defense forces have locatedded and recovered the bodies of six hostages in gaza. just days ago, and we're learning about it just this morning. according to an idf spokesperson, alexander, olmag, eden and american hersh gold berg-polin were found, quote, brutally murdered possibly a day or two before idf troops found them. hamas abducted all six on october 7th. hersh's family posting on instagram, quote: with broken hearts, the family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother hersh. the family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for privacy at this time. meanwhile, here in the u.s. students already on high alert as protesters vow to continue raging across campus, pro-hamas

protesters. a new report revealing jewish columbia students were chased from dorms, spat on and pinned against walls after hamas attacks against israel. columbia student what leaderman joins us now to react. noah, thank you for being here. you're returning to columbia. first of all, if you would, what did you with experience at columbia after october 7th as a student there? >> good morning, pete. thank you so much for having me. i'll tell you, i experienced everything. each day was just horrific after horrific surprise, and you mentioned that report, i was the student who was pinned up against the wall actually, so i experienced that directly. pete: pinned up against a wall for what reason? because you are jewish? and who -- what was said to you by the perpetrators? what was the reason for it? >> i'll tell you, i have no idea who he was, i don't know if he was a student, if he was an outside agitator, but i was

walking back to my dorm getting ready for shabbat. i was wearing a shirt with a flag and a peace dove on it and some hebrew writing. this demonstrator motioned for his friends, and he sort of pinned me up against the wall, and when i got out, he said run, keep running, keep f if ucking running. pete: powerful stuff. i can understand your passion on it. this report, a 99 1-page report -- 91-page report, spat upon, stalked, pinned against the walls, one female student who had a mezuzah outside her dorm room had her door pounded on all throughout the night in october just to intimidate a female jewish student. here's a statement from columbia's interim president on this anti-semitism report, so your president at columbia. let me be very clear, the painful and distressing incidents of anti-semitism recounted in this report are

completely unacceptable. they've antithetical to our values and go against the principles of tolerance and inclusivity that is have defined us. columbia has aid saw all these things -- said all these things for so many years, and then there's a moment where there's a group being targeted, and they didn't do anything. what, do you feel safesome do you think things have changed? what's the environment at a columbia? >> well, i'll say that i'm encouraged by president armstrong's words, and i really hope that she acts in a manner that's consistent with her statement. i'll say i'm dispinted -- disappointed and really shocked that the former president failed so spectacularly. you know there was the building takeover on april 29th -- pete: yeah. >> i am worried that since these demonstrators and protesters who violently seized a building faced little to no consequence, i'm concerned that this year we'll see an escalation because if there's no consequences being

given to the demonstrators or protesters, what's to to stop them from continuing to the act in the same manner and even worse manners this year? pete: it's a great point. so i remember hearing the news that most of them just a little slap on the wrist, they're not expelled after taking over a building. are you in school already? if not yet? what's the the vibe? what's the feeling? if are you talking to other jewish students like, hey, crossing our fingers here? what are you thinking? >> i mean, i'll tell you i'm back in long island, i'm getting ready to move in soon, but i've talked to many of my friends, jewish students who their first year at columbia and they told me that from convocation, you could hear the chanting of the protesters from outside the gates. as i understand it, the group chats i'm in, people have been talking to me and say saying yeah, it's already starting. they're already at the gates protesting, demonstrating, chanting, everything. so we are all sort of crossing our fingers, but we're also

being proactive, figuring out how we cannot just be the victims, how we can defend ourselves and each other. pete: last question here s. the administration at columbia, are they being proactive? are they reaching out and saying hey, these are the steps we're going to take to make sure this never happens again? >> i have seen e-mails and reports of administrators saying, oh, this is what we're going to do, but the school year hasn't started yet, it starts on tuesday, so i really hope that we see something and that they hold their students accountable. that's what needs to happen. pete: i hope so too. noah, keep u.s. posted. shouldn't have to say good luck about going to school, but that's where we are. >> thank you so much. pete: all right. moving on. housing hurdle. investor home purchases hit a 32-year high -- 2-year high. the impact on young americans looking to buy coming up next.

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♪ ♪ rachel: new day from the real estate company redfin showing a massive increase in investor home purchases in the second quarter of the year. 69% of the purchases they made this quarter were single family homes, and experts believe they're holding on to them to cash into the rental boom. now look at this, 29% of miami homes sold went to investors

along with 24% from san diego, 222 in las vegas -- 22% in las vegas and to 20% in phoenix and cleveland. so what does this mean, and how could it impact younger americans looking to buy a house? here to discuss is real estate developer and licensed broker uri man. uri, thank you for joining us this morning. explain to our viewers why these multi-national investment firms are snatching up these single family homes. >> yeah. this shines a light on the tremendous housing shortage that we have in the united states. right now virtually every market all across the u.s. is missing housing units, and we don't have enough homes for people to buy. so the american dream is under attack. and, of course, when things are scarce, you get investors that want to come in because values are going to the go up. so right now investors are coming into big cities buying homes, and people who have been on the sidelines because of the high interest rates they've

been, you know, holding off on buying homes hoping the interest rates are going down, is that's why you see a larger percentage of investors in there. and this is bad news for first-time home buyers because a lot of the affordable housing units are just going away. you know, when you're an investor, you come into a market and buy a home, you typically will fix it up because you want to charge a much higher rent, and that's exactly what's happening in these cities. rachel: no question, they want to turn them into rentals, and if your land lord is some soulless, distant investment firm and not a landlord living inside the apartment or whatever, that's a problem too. i'm not generally a government intervention person, but is there something that the government should do? because as you said, the american dream of owning a home is slipping away for young americans. >> yeah. you know, right now in certain states like desantis passed a new law, s.b. 103, live, work act which allows developers to the come in and transform

commercial properties into residential properties, and they can build high density, affordable housing units. but most states the government really isn't doing too much. housing is really a local issue. in houston, texas, for example, we have one of the most affordable housing markets, and that's a great place to come in and buy a new home today. but if you listen to what's happening right now, the two candidates that are running, you've got harris and trump both talking about the affordability crisis. people want to be able to buy a home, and everybody is worried that the american dream of being able to purchase a home is going out the window. and the policies that are being promoted are really in some ways crazy. what harris has said recently is she wants to give everybody $25,000 to buy a home. well, if you do that, all you're doing is creating more demand. more command. what happens when you have more demand? the prices go up even further -- rachel: of course. >> that means the prices are higher, real estate taxes are

higher, insurance is higher. everybody ends up losing with that kind of policy. rachel: yeah. very, very quickly because we only have a couple seconds left, what should young people do to prepare for this rising cost housing market? >> well, they should be saving a deposit right now. if they want to own a home, start saving early and make sure hay talk to their mortgage brokers and look at -- look for markets where poem homes are actually -- where homes are actually affordable. places like i mentioned, houston, texas, over cities where you have a large variety of homes and the american dream still exists. rachel: uri man, really appreciate you joining us this sunday. >> great to be here. rachel: you got it. from serving our country to serving soft serve, a father-son veteran duo open their own's cream shop, and they give us the scoop on their tasty treats next. ♪ here and now, nowhere else in this world. ♪ you and me, indiana it good to be alive -- ain't it good to be

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joey: we're back with some headlines. san francisco rookie wide receiver is in serious but stable condition after he was shot during a robbery attempt yesterday. he was walking in san francisco's union square neighborhood when police say the

gunman tried to steal the his rolex watch. officers say parisol put a fight over the weapon which fired several times, hitting him in the chest. the suspect was also shot and is recovering. charges are expected to be announced as early as tuesday. and at least 7 people are dead and a dozen more hurt after a bus overturned on a mississippi highway yesterday morning. authorities say 43 people were on the bus which was heading to the atlanta from dallas when the accident happened. federal officials say the bus suffered from a tear failure leading to the crash. it is currently under investigation. those are your headlines, want to toss now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: good morning, joey. we've got a cold front that's going to have big impacts for us. anywhere behind the cold front,s it is a beautiful day. such a great weekend in store in places like chicago and up towards fargo. problematic down here where you

see these oranges. that's warmer air, the day's going to the heat up, and this right here is the cold front that's going to have the big impacts. showers and thunderstorms, maybe a little bit of severe thunderstorm activity this afternoon right across the mid of atlantic. but behind this, you can get the idea on the satellite radar imager humidity is going to drop behind that. in front of that front it is going to remain warm and humid, and that includes across the central gulf. this looks almost exactly like it did yesterday, more rain from interstate 10 and points south, that's where you're going to have potentially flooding from this and maybe a chance for tropical development from that. but yesterday this was giving a 50% chance, now national hurricane certain's dropped that to a 40% chance of development over the next 7 days. it will get in towards the western caribbean, this disturbance, and that is around 6-7 days from now, so plenty of time to watch it, and we'll keep telling you about it right here. of guys? rachel: thank you, rick. well, after a serving their country, a father-son veteran

duo are now offering soft serve, opening up their own ice cream shop in san antonio. joey: chill out tasty treats opened three months ago offering everything from milk shakes to old school ice cream all while giving back to first responders and military. pete: joining us now is the owner and manager of the chill tasty treats shop, roger combs and roger combs ii. thank you both so much for joining us. thank you for your service. it was in the air force and the army and, by the way, your wife/mom was also in the army, so you're a family of vets who have served, and now you're in the ice cream business. either of you, how'd you get into that business? >> we just sort of wanted something that was more laid back and fun to do. [laughter] rachel: yeah, no question. well, e heard, roger, son, that actually a trip to hawaii kind of inspired this. am i right? >> yes. rachel: how -- was it a pine

pineapple treatsome. >> me and my wife went to hawaii, and we went to the dole plantation, and she loved the dole ice cream, the soft serve that they had, so when we come home, she wanted it. i got it for her, and that turned into the ice cream business. joey: i've been to that dole plantation, and for me, it inspired me to not work as hard when i saw how hard it is to grow those pineapples. but for you, it inspired you to open an ice cream shop. i know a lot of people get dole whip. tell us what people can get at your shop. >> well, we have the dole pineapple, strawberry e and mango, we'll have dole pineapple-mango twist, we just included a lot of hershey products from hershey's pints where we're putting in a new scoop station for hershey's hard

eye ice cream. we have milk shakes, banana splits, specialty items like the oreo lovers' sundae, reese's lovers' sundae. our mango -- [inaudible] is quite popular. so we've got quite a bit of different flavors for everybody to try. pete: clearly, a ice cream a aficionado which is what you want from somebody running an ice cream shot. military members and first sponsored get a 10 discount, and you mentioned nothing exceeds $8. you're saying, hey, we want to the make it affordable too. >> yeah. >> right. we're trying to keep -- we want everybody to enjoy it. joey: yeah, that's awesome. rachel: well, we love that. especially if you have a lot of kids, it can get expensive going to the ice cream store. [laughter] thanks for keeping that affordable for big families. roger and roger, thanks for joining us and good luck with the shop. >> thank you. >> thank you. y'all have a nice day. pete: chill out tasty treats in san antonio, texas. if you're in the area, go check

it out. we've got a big show still ahead. we'll be back in just a few minutes. there are

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