♪ >> brian: 7:00 a.m. on the east coast, wednesday, october 9th, this is "fox & friends." >> steve: it is. we start this hour of "fox & friends" with a fox weather alert. look at those live images right now from tampa and fort myers. rain and wind picking up in florida as a category 5 hurricane named milton is barreling toward the state. florida congressman byron donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. he is with us in two minutes. >> lawrence: while americans are scrambling to find safety, the white house is brushing off criticism of their emergency response as misinformation. >> a lot of misinformation. >> misleads people. >> i'm going to divorce the disinformation that is being spread.

your whole premise of the question is misinformation. >> ainsley: fbi foils an afghan national's plot to launch an election day terror attack. how he got here under the biden-harris administration. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ hurricane milton expected to make landfall along florida's gulf coast. >> lawrence: communities are rushing to clean up debris from the other hurricane, hurricane helene and look at this, government researchers flying into the eye of the hurricane. listen. good god. >> lawrence: good god is right. major airports are closing as the storm approaches. theme parks like disney world

and universal and sea world will be closed. >> steve: that is what is going on. check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. janice, even though we are still a number of hours away from landfall, it could wobble a little this way or that way so people in that cone have got to be careful. >> janice: that's a really good point. we won't know where the exact center of circulation comes on shore four hours before the event. we can only give you a best estimation with that cone of uncertainty, tampa, you are still in that cone. and a little wobbled to the east or west, norther south is going to mean the difference between 10 to 15 feet of storm surge or 3 to 4 feet of storm surge. north of the center of circulation is where you are going to get the heaviest rainfall totals. we could get upwards of a foot of rain well inland by the way and south of the center of circulation 10 to 15-foot storm surge. someone is going to get it. it's going to be tampa southward

towards fort myers. that's the area we are going to be watching. the heavy rain already moving over the west coast of florida. we are going to have the potential for tropical storm tornadoes as well. we are at a category 5. even if this storm weakens a little bit to a four. even a strong three. it's still going to carry the same storm surge. i use the example of hurricane katrina. that was a five. very strong five in the gulf of mexico, it weakened to a category 3. but had the same storm surge as a very strong category 5 hurricane. in some cases along the mississippi coast line they had a 30-foot storm surge. so don't pay attention to the categories, the storm surge is the killer along the coast. and then we will be dealing with the fresh water flooding, which is also extremely dangerous. so, there's the category four storm moving somewhere between tampa and fort myers. i can't give you the exact location. but the areas that need to evacuated should have evacuated. because we are talking about a

potential 10 to 15-foot storm surge. that's, you know, a second story, right? it's over top of you, it's over top of your home. so that's going to be potentially deadly. and then, as the storm weakens, the winds expand and that means it's going to effect more of the west coast of florida. not only the heavy rain, the storm surge, the hurricane force winds, duration of time. we're going to have widespread power outages not only for days but maybe for weeks. that's why people are, you know, planning to have a food supply, water supply, generator, that kind of thing for a long duration of time. this will be an event that they have never felt before on the west coast of florida. that's why the warnings are so dire. over to you. >> ainsley: all right. thank you so much, janice. let's bring in florida g.o.p. congressman byron donalds who joins us live from naples residents are bracing for significant impact. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys, how are

you? >> ainsley: we are doing well. you guys down there, remembering all of y'all in our prayers and seeing this video is just astonishing. we know what to expect. we saw two years ago ian hit your area, hit fort myers, hit naples. we know what that looked like this, is a one in a 20 year storm. this is 1 in 100 year storm so it's going to be much worse. what's the feeling on the ground? >> honestly, we are just in prep mode. we have been through this before with ian, the storm surge like janice was talking about was devastating. to the barrier islands region and it was felt inland. people who lived on creek beds. people who lived off of canals. they started witnessing water coming in the back of their houses and so it's something that unfortunately we are prepared for. i was with our emergency teams locally yesterday afternoon with senator rick scott. and, you know, we just looked around the table and said okay, here we go again. but we're prepared. we're rodey to go.

governor desantis has done tremendous job in leading our state in terms of putting all of the necessary equipment in preposition format. what i would stress more than anything, is that if you are in a barrier island. a coastal area of southwest florida. please evacuate. in lee county, florida, fort myers, there are 13 shelters that are open. we have pet-friendly shelters that are open. you know, follow rick scott, myself or any local official, lee county government, you will find the list of shelters that are open. please get out of way of this storm. this is very dangerous, the storm surge is life-threatening. and we are not just trying to have an abundance of caution here. everything we are seeing is life-threatening storm surge. n. southwest florida. >> steve: looking live, congressman in fort myers. the wind is picking up. the sky is menacing, obviously. to your point about how the governor has gotten your state

ready, i was reading this morning that apparently this is the largest national guard mobilization in state history. 600 ambulances, emergency vehicles. there is a base camp at tropicana field that 10,000 as well. shelters open all over. one of the worries for the people who might not be in evacuation zone a. right along the coast. is there is so much stuff still on the streets from hurricane helene. people are v. taken out washers, dryers, they are out on the curb. waiting to be picked up. as soon as the hurricane comes in with 100-plus minor winds, those things are going to be just like bombs hitting the thing. >> you are absolutely correct. this is where to my north, specifically in charlotte county, congressman greg steube making this point a lot of debris that has not been picked up if you are in zone a and some parts of zone b. i would tell people right now if you can look outside of your

door and see debris on the street, you might need to evacuate. i would really stress that you do. because, when the winds pick up, that debris might be heavy to you, but to a storm it's like a toy in a kid's room. it will pick that stuff up and it will fling it around. and it is indiscriminate. please, please, please evacuate. i couldn't stress it more. >> congressman, as we prepare for this storm. they are saying this may be a record. the big storm florida has ever had to deal with going have to deal with fema. there is the word that they're running out of money. so what do you know about this package? would you vote for it or should would he be redirecting other funds that we were spending on these other projects to our people here? >> well, i mean, when it documents fema, they have enough resources up until probably the middle to end of november, we will be back in washington and this will be the first order of business. i think in terms of where the

money comes from, you know, having been through hurricane ian, my view is we'll just spend the money but we should definitely take it from other places that the government just doesn't need to be spending money. in i got a list of stuff i can go through, but there are areas that our government is spending money in that we should not be. it's really just political pet projects and to be blunt that, you know, democrat politicians don't want to touch. they passed it years ago. they like it and they want to keep it. but instead of doing that, we should be using some of those resources to take care of americans today. so there's a bunch of money out there that we can definitely use, but this needs to be job one when we get back to d.c. >> brian: mayorkas wants you back now to do it you can take with that what you will. what about re-purposing the sandy funds $4.5 billion just sitting there. unclaimed, unused in case somebody realizes their home was destroyed in a super storm over a decade ago?

so i don't get it? >> neither do i. this is what happens in washington, d.c. we have multiple pots of money like the one you described that just sit there idle. unfortunately on capitol hill they become the pet projects of some agency or some interest group and if you even look at that money, you will get a segment of congress that says oh, you can't touch that, you can't touch that this is the time for leadership. right now whether it's here in southwest florida, the people in north carolina who are still recovering from hurricane helene they have a couple of years of recovery in front of them. those funds need to be re-purposed. borrowing more money when we have idle funds sitting around actually does not make sense. it is physically responsible to use what we have, even though it's not a priority, but use what we have re-purpose your priorities to focus on the american people. >> steve: congressman, thank you very much for joining us live from your florida home. stay safe. >> lawrence: thanks, congressman. >> thank you.

>> ainsley: leads to next talking point about fema and the response we saw in north carolina. many people are saying fema is not there not seeing fema. fema says if you don't see us we are there. when you talk to residents on the ground and you went to talk to them. we have had several reporters gotten soundbites from people that say we are not seeing enough. >> brian: only helicopters can get to them. >> ainsley: exactly. there are all these volunteers going from florida, different parts of the carolinas. all over the united states to go and help. if it were not for them, the people on the ground say they would be completely lost. many of them would be dead. so when kamala harris, when joe biden, when mayorkas, when they are asked about this, their new tactic is to label any criticism about the storm as misinformation or disinformation. listen. >> a lot of misinformation, and i beseech you, i beg to you please not pay attention to it. >> sir what's the risk of

political figures sharing misinformation during this time? >> misleads people. puts people in circumstances where they panic, where they really really worry. >> so i'm going to divorce the disinformation that is being spread from any one individual and just say this. disinformation harms survivors of a disaster they lose trust in their government. >> peter: there is not enough money in north carolina right now that's not misinformation. >> no. it is. the whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir. what you don't. >> peter: which part? you can't call something you don't like misinformation. >> steve: to peter's point he was quoting a letter that mayorkas made to the leaders of congress get you guys back and give us more money. i saw on "the washington post" this morning that now they say fema has enough money for this storm but it is unclear what is going to happen to other things,

long-term programs like, you know, what the clean up efforts in maui and with the bridge in baltimore and stuff like that. but, these are fair questions. but this administration during a political season, there is an election less than a month away, suddenly they are saying those people who are critics those are misinformers. >> lawrence: it's not just the questions that are being asked about the press. but when the vice president says to ignore this information that's coming out. she is asking you to ignore the lived experience of residents of north carolina. i mean, for them to say that these people are making it up, i think it's so wrong. i mean, at first i thought there's no way our government could be abandoning -- i went there. and unless the government is in all of these unmarked vehicles, you don't see them there on the ground. when you see the residents who -- by the way, they should be more angry, but they are so kind and they are coming

together, having each other's back. and the administration just simply there. and then yesterday we reported kamala harris release as tweet about all the money going to lebanon and north carolina is only getting a fraction of that. >> brian: j.d. vance wrote an editorial one thing beyond reproach. didn't call the army in quick enough. >> lawrence: that's a fact. >> brian: get by north carolina by children's hospitaller. chilchopper.making everything ws not the case. "wall street journal" took in editorial from j.d. vance. disaster response every second counts. a week went by while the citizens suffered without the equipment and soldiers into needed to save lives and recovery. they were yesterday last monday, last monday not from two days ago. >> this is the sort of bureaucratic hiccup that engage political leaders. a competent leader would have ordered those men and women in to motion earlier. bureaucracy be damned. ms. harris and mr. biden treated

this situation like a pr disaster instead of a real one. trump and i are realists we know there is no perfect disaster recovery and storm like helene will bring hardship to american towns no matter how the government responds this was not the response people of western north carolina deserved that stems from the democratic governor who has to ask the federal government for help. and it's slow. a lot of times the federal government will say don't you want to ask me something? i'm ready, i don't think i you can handle that watching the federal government's back. >> lawrence: let's not be mistaken. this is not the first crisis ron desantis is just so good when it comes to these disasters. you watch that press conference yesterday. he was amazing. having the people in place. can you imagine this administration having to deal with that? it's because he has been able to effectively deem with that in florida in other crises that

their incompetence hasn't been on display. >> steve: because they have talked about misinformation and disinformation so many times, i went on the fema website. i have never seen this before. they have a thing that says there are a bunch of rumors about fema so we're going to answer them. there is about a dozen or a dozen and a half, something like that. one rumor circulating is that fema is con city skating donations and turning away trucks. they say that's not true. donations of food and water and stuff handled by other agencies, they say that another rumor is fema is only giving out $750. that's not true. apparently there is other stuff available for people. and one of the ones from the previous hurricane helene was that the faa was restricting airspace for helene rescue and recovery. they say no. so there are rumors from the people on the ground. but none of them, lawrence, speak to what you were talking about and you saw with your own two eyes which was a delayed federal response. particularly when kamala harris is running for vice president,

she has got to look like the administration is doing great. and according to your reporting, not the case. >> ainsley: i don't understand how this is america. you know, we rattled off all the numbers that are going to other countries, we shouldn't be just providing money to fema storm by storm. oh, we have enough for this storm. do we have enough for the next storm? hurricane season goes through november 30th. how do we know what is coming around the corner two weeks three weeks and four weeks? we need to have enough in that piggy bank. >> lawrence: that's right. >> ainsley: enough to cover the entire season at least. when we see that we are giving billions of dollars to other countries, i mean, look at the images we saw in ukraine. look at the images we see in israel. look at the images in north carolina. this is right here at home and we have to help them. it's different than florida. florida can you easily get into these neighborhoods. it's flatter rain pretty much. >> lawrence: mountains. >> ainsley: houses are just in the middle of the woods. you have to go down dirt roads to get to them. >> brian: this is why the governor is such a let down.

he knows the terrain he should have known, too. >> ainsley: compare that governor to the one in florida. >> brian: keep in mind, too. joe biden, the optics i could not believe on "60 minutes" it didn't come up. why did you campaign during helene and why was the president at the beach? meanwhile the vice president must have gotten the memo. >> lawrence: this is incredible. >> lawrence: she has done almost no interviews, no press conferences, now even since the debate. now all of a sudden you see her on "the view," you see her on howard stern, stephen colbert and then "60 minutes." and did some 20-something podcast the other day which is a raunchy sex podcast that even some college students thought that should not be where a future president -- >> ainsley: what about howard stern is he still like that. >> brian: sometimes. people are trotting out some of his past stuff wearing black face and doing all of these things because now he is so politically correct. one thing i noticed, there is only one candidate that has been -- been only one candidate

who is the subject of two assassination attempts, and it was president trump but, yet, the question of safety came up yesterday. >> lawrence: here is howard stern asking kamala harris if she feels safe if trump wins, watch. >> let me ask you this, if he wins, god forbid, would you feel safe in this country? would you stay in this country? >> howard, i'm doing everything i can to make sure he does not win. >> lawrence: what type of question is that? >> steve: we have heard for a very long time from the couch for decades, actually, if so and so wins, i'm moving to canada. i'm moving to france. we have heard that a million times. >> ainsley: they never do. >> steve: he asked the question how many times hear a list celebrities move to france. they never move. it's a good question. >> ainsley: not that anyone cares if they did. >> lawrence: do average day americans feel safe in their communities right now? crime is out of control. you got tren de aragua on the

run right now. they are taking over neighbors right now. you have got people violent crime, das releasing people and you are concerned about the vice president's safety, protected by secret service? by the way, there hasn't been two assassins come after her as well. it's just a stupid question. >> ainsley: i hope there never is. >> lawrence: yes. >> ainsley: just answer the question. >> steve: i want to hear some yes and no answers. >> brian: he kissed her ass to the pointed she was embarrassed. view came up 60 minutes compared to what howard stern did. she talked the whole time. i listened to the whole thing. one or two word answers and he would come up another topic how bad trump is. ains la. >> lawrence: a big ad. >> steve: ainsley is, brian going to have to put a dollar in the cuss jar. >> brian: used to be iraquis interviews. and if you were a well rounded person who was self-effacing.

>> lawrence: steve, did he disappoint you because yesterday. >> steve: i hope he did. he didn't ask the hard questions. >> ainsley: we knew they weren't. "the view" no hard questions either. >> steve: well, i knew "the view" wasn't. >> brian: i think it shows she is trailing. you don't do this if you ever winning. >> steve: our viewer from right here look over there and there is carley. >> carley: update on the artist formerly known as twitter. x is back online in brazil. lifts band on elon musk's social media platform after prolonged battle on free speech and misinformation. the ban that took effect in late august was lifted only after x complied with a list of demands including blocking certain accounts, paying outstanding fines and naming a legal representative in brazil. teamster's president sean o'brien whether the g.o.p. could soon overtake democrats as the party of the working class. watch this. >> democratic party is a party of the working people. they are bought and paid for by big tech. big tech companies.

and you have got the republicans who are now saying hey, we want to be the working class party, right? and okay, you have got a great opportunity right now to do that. >> carley: interesting comments there. the teamster's union if you remember is not going to endorse presidential candidate this election. first time remained on the sideline since 1996. playoff baseball new york mets beating the philadelphia phillies 7-2 in game three of the mlbs at cityfield. >> stadium and this time he cranks it. it's a no doubt shot upper deck. 2-02 to 1 after narrowly winning game 36-5. tune in to sf 1 tonight at 9 eastern to watch the phillies take on the mets and face the padres at park. those are your headlines.

>> brian: eight each other. juiced to be the giants and dornls now it's the padres. >> steve: thank you. >> ainsley: thanks, carley. afghan national arrested here in the u.s. and oklahoma. accused of plotting an election day terrorist attack. >> brian: how the chaotic afghanistan withdrawal allowed him into our country unvetted. ♪ nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid before it begins. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. if you have generalized myasthenia gravis, picture what life could look like with... vyvgart hytrulo, a subcutaneous injection that takes about 30 to 90 seconds.

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>> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. smoke rising beirut after hezbollah fires rockets into northern israel. reportedly hurting several people. the fighting comes as president biden is expected to hold a call with prime minister benjamin netanyahu today and nate foy joins us "fox news live" tel aviv. nate? >> nate: hey, good morning. so prime minister benjamin netanyahu demanded that meeting with president joe biden before allowing defense minister yoav atlanta to visit the united states u netanyahu got his way and he is set to discuss with biden israel's plans to respond to iran. after last week's massive ballistic missile attack. we're also learning of a terror attack that just unfolded north of tel aviv. take a look at these new images from ha dara where we know at least six people were stabbed. terrorists drove off on an scooter and found and shot by

police will hit damascus, syria. they targeted a building used by iran revolutionary guard core. continues to get mum not only killed hassan nasrallah. the two people behind him. he spoke directly to the lebanese people. listen to this. >> today hezbollah is weaker than it has been for many, many years, now you, the lebanese people. you stand at significant crossroads. it is your choice. you can now take back your country. can you return it to a path of peace and prosperity. >> nate: today the idf found a weapons storage facility in lebanon. hit a series of hezbollah command centers. and the deputy chief of hezbollah, that each kassem is

publicly endorsing cease-fire talks. happened within hours of hezbollah launching 100 rockets at the northern israel center of haifa and the sirens are again blaring in northern israel at this hour. meanwhile today representatives of hamas and fattah the party of palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas are meeting in cairo, egypt to discuss the management of gaza and the border crossings after the war. but this morning the war rages on. brian? >> brian: we appreciate it. afghan man living in oklahoma charged with plotting an election day terror attack right here in the u.s. on behalf of isis. the 27-year-old arrived in 2021 after the disastrous withdrawal of afghanistan. and just one day after donald trump gave this warning. >> the country has never been more unsafe. we have people pouring in through our sensory border which everyone is forgetting about right now because of the travesty of afghanistan. if you look at the people coming in by the hundreds, by the

thousands, and these are not the people necessarily that wanted the protection. these are people. so are they tastes? terrorists coming in. >> brian: at least one is former dsh senior adviser charles moreno. found in oklahoma, selling his stuff. ready to do a major plot on election day. how concerned are you? >> well, very, i have been concerned from the start of this administration. once they unveiled their policies and stood down the policies of the trump administration. which defied common sense, when it comes to securing the country. look, this is all predictable and preventable. but biden, harris and mayorkas decided they were going to proceed and go against the best practices when it comes to securing the homeland and implement policies that actively undercut the very departments and agencies that were created in the aftermath of september 11th. >> they were able to tap into telegram and see his communications. they also saved isis propaganda

on i clowvmentd participated in pro-isis telegram groups. and he was here, not grateful, just thought what a great time to hit back at america. wanted to sell all his stuff and get some money when he died as a martyr he would be a hero. think about how many other 27-year-olds are like this that we brought over here out of the goodness of our heart. under president biden, there were 370 -- under trump under 4 years. that's 3,000 percent increase. that's just across our southwest border. how could anyone feel good about that? >> well, they shouldn't, they are in every community now across the country. i can tell you the vetting, as far as that goes, the vetting is only as good as the systems we vet against. and the truths is that of the 180 countries being encountered many special interest locations. we just cannot thoroughly vet, not only the people that we're encountering but also you have got this large growing bucket of

got-aways, which has stayed at 2 million since the first year of this administration. and in all reality, is likely more closer to 4 or 5 million. so, we have got people evading the system. we have got people exploiting the system whether they're being encountered because this is a rush to process. this is a rush by this administration, based on their politics, to quickly change the demographics of this country, despite what it does do our overall national security. and this is a fact. >> brian: this was going to be an ahit on election day, and we know that christopher wray warned everybody about this multiple times at multiple hearings. he is the fbi director. thanks, charles, appreciate it. >> you got it, thanks, brian. >> brian: straight ahead, campaign homestretch, yep, here we are trump is set to rally in battleground pennsylvania today as harris taps obama to obama battleground state tomorrow. what she learned next.

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>> steve: we've got a fox weather hurricane alert. rain coming down right now. you are looking live at tampa, florida on the west coast of florida. and it's looking soggy in sarasota as well as florida braces for hurricane milton to hit late tonight or early tomorrow morning. fox weather's area salazar laurie is live in orlando. oaari,it's supposed to hit orlas cat 1. >> i wouldn't be surprised cat 2. going to be moving at decent clip. not like it has a ton of land to lose all of his strength. this really does have the potential to be historic storm. a lot of the different impacts

here. you the one most talked about the one we evacuate for is the storm surge along the west coast of florida. western gulf of mexico west to east trajectory and setting up close to tampa bay. the devil is in the details. it's going to be absolutely critical where the center of it comes ashore. if it comes in north of tampa bay, that's a nightmare scenario, huge catastrophe. if it comes in a little bit south of tampa bay like some of the latest models have been trending toward, obviously a better situation for tampa bay. they are still going to have surge. won't be quite as catastrophic but then the worst of it will be farther toward the south places like venice beach, sarasota, fort myers, et cetera. i object lands a big problem, here in orlando, at a shelter right now. lots of shelters open in orange county. wind and rain a big swath of rain is incoming. probably going to have power outages for a long time. >> lawrence? >> thanks so much. stay safe out there. so today former president donald trump is back on the trail in

battleground pennsylvania. fresh off his massive rally in butler with elon musk. reportedly planning more appearances with the campaign. pittsburgh based columnist and washington examiner political reporter salena zito spoke to musk over the weekend about the stakes of this year's election. she joining us now with what she learned. salena, you have been on top of this. you predicted the trump rise back in 2016 i know elon is registering people to vote in paye. what is the race looking like there. >> the race has been tight, obviously, if you look at the polling. but, i think i would still give the edge to former president trump in that he is making appearances along with ohio senator j.d. vance in the areas that are most important. right? a lot of people focus on

pittsburgh and filly and filly and pittsburgh. obviously the race is run run in places like cram bee a county, scranton and that zern county and erie and north hampton. that's where have you physically seen them nonstop. and that is -- those are the counties that are going to decide this race. pennsylvania has moved right ward and i don't think a lot of people have know that incremental change. >> lawrence: musk said this in the interview he said that he recognizes that the people here in butler and in place all across the country, not located in the center of power and wealth are the ones most concerned about protecting and preserving both free speech and the seamentd and i guess my question is, when you are look at the race right now, according to our fox news polling, haste is at 50% and donald trump is at 48%. but that's in the margin of error. so, it's a dead heat right now. i'm curious, what is the number one issue for people in the state that you are hearing?

>> oh, it's the economy. it really is the economy. costs have never gone down. yes, inflation has gone down. but those costs that peaked at 9% are still there. they never moved. and they have still moved up incrementally 2%, 3% since that high water mark. and voters are feeling that pinch, not just with the groceries. not just with gas. although that's gone down a little bit. but, also insurance costs. and costs to build things. improve their homes, you know, everything is sort of at a stabbed still. and people are making choices they didn't think they would have to expect to make because of how their pocketbook is being pinched. >> lawrence: saleen be that they are bringing out former president barack obama. everyone knows is he a good speaker. is he smooth. but he is not on the ticket. he is going to be campaigning in

pittsburgh. does he play role? is that impact on the voters in the state of pennsylvania. >> barack obama is coming back to a state has changed wildly since he won first in 2008 and then in 2012. people tend to forget that he earned 300,000 less pennsylvania voters in that second election cycle. and, you know, what is interesting to me about the obama event in pittsburgh, is that it is very much like the events that harris has held. nobody knows where it's going to be. it's invite only. so you not only to measure enthusiasm. and so i think a sara gatt is good. obama is good -- surrogate is good but who is going to see him. who is going to get excited about it. what vote is going to change? >> lawrence: it's interesting. he was so great at community organizing. and it looks like this campaign

is really not focused on that. so it's going to be interesting to see election day how it all plays out. salena, you predict a lot of stuff. we will be looking forward to your final prediction. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> lawrence: you got it. so the sun is coming up and the wind is picking up in southwest florida as category 5 hurricane milton barrels toward the -- and could reactivate. shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks. and it could wake at any time. think you're not at risk for shingles? it's time to wake up. because shingles could wake up in you. if you're over 50, talk to your doctor or pharmacist about shingles prevention.

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a hold a phone call hezbollah's intented replacement of its former leader is also dead now. >> brian: a lot of people are dead there fox news senior correspondent benjamin hall joins us now. benjamin, what an operation with hezbollah. they are actually asking to let's talk cease-fire. can you believe this? >> there is no hezbollah cleared hide. nowhere at all. human intelligence the israelis have is they know where they are. how they move. and the pagers that they gave to

thousands ever them. >> steve: benjamin, can you put your microphone back on? it fell off. thank you perfect. >> can you hear me. >> brian: that is much better. >> what i was saying there is nowhere that hezbollah leaders can't hide. the israelis have complete intelligence support watching where they are and how they are moving. looking look at the leader about to be declared leader and remind you iranian connection. trained in iran. the cousin of nasrallah. his son was married to the daughter of kassem soleimani. and this is the big question for israel right now. can you remove all the leaders of hezbollah. but can you demolish hezbollah without going for the iranian regime. that's the question israel is asking right now as they prepare to respond to the ballistic missile attack fired last week. >> lawrence: it look like hamas was banking on the u.s. pressure on netanyahu. and since netanyahu essentially said no, i'm going to go along

with my invasion, they haven't had a strategy after that. right? >> no, wasn't going to say that u.s. support at the moment has not changed benjamin netanyahu's decisions at all. he has been going ahead, as he thinks is best for israel. and the biden administration has been very clear in saying you have to hold back. please don't go this far. i think benjamin netanyahu is realizing there is a moment right now where that's changed. everything is happening on the ground. i think that's why they are going to go and the strike on iran will be pretty significant. >> ainsley: benjamin, the idf took out the head of hamas. they took out three other hamas leaders. they took out the head of hezbollah. and many more with that pager attack. and now bye-bye is saying nez la's replacement was taken out. the man you were talking about it's. a year since october 7th. why now is all of this

happening? beginfully operations against hezbollah. hamas. but, with tens ever thousands of israelis unable to move to their homes in northern israel, you know, israel decided that hezbollah had to be dealt with as well, the rockets continued to fly from lebanon. and so that's their move. they had to deal with it. it appears they knew how to hit hezbollah they wanted to deal with gaza and hamas first. the only way to deal with so many of their threats is to start going after the people supporting hamas, supporting hezbollah, supporting the proxies in syria and iraq as well. >> brian: the lebanese are very happy. hezbollah is looked as as a cancer power and thugs and taken over that country. maybe lebanon has a chance at independence. >> steve: speaking of hamas, you have a special on fox nation but that is nothing compared to the special at your house. congratulations. i was just looking at "people" magazine and you have got -- we

knew you had three daughters before, now you have a fourth daughter with your wife alicia. tell us about sage scarlet jennifer hall. >> ainsley: oh, look at that hair? >> we talk about the news. we talk about the bad things that happen in the world, every single day it's our job. but you go and you have another child and you realize it's because there is so much greatness, so much joy in the future. you have a baby and you are reminded of that she joined us just a few weeks ago. and there she is with my three other daughters. it just means that you want to go out every single day and make the world a better place. stop the evil that's out there. she has joined us i also can't help but think if people hadn't come helped save me in ukraine and get me when i most needed it and the support i received from fox, from my colleagues and my family, from all those people out there, this baby sage wouldn't be alive today. and so, you know, when bad

things happen, there is always goodness and positive things on the other side and that's what this baby matters and feels like to me and to my family. it really is a sign that you can get through almost anything. beautiful things can happen. my dog bosco. >> ainsley: what does sisters say. >> we didn't know if it was going to be a boy or girl. all three of them wanted another girl. so they got what they wanted. and they're the best babysitters out there. the only trouble so much struggle who gets to hold sage first. such a happy family right now. >> ainsley: they are going to help with the changings and feedings. >> yeah. already doing so. it's great. i got three babysitters i can call on all the time. less work for me. i will say all goes to my wife alicia, she is absolute star. she does so much work. the greatest mother and greatest wife. >> steve: that's great. >> i wouldn't be here and the bean wouldn't be here without

her. >> steve: folks should read the article, "people" magazine. i just did. how lucky you feel you are that you have got this baby whose middle name scarlet is your wife's mom name and jennifer is your mother's name. so it is a beautiful tribute to the women in your life. benjamin, thank you very much for joining us live. >> ainsley: congratulations. girl dad. >> thank you all. >> ainsley: what a wonderful story. ♪ one hundred republicans who worked in national security for presidents reagan, both bushes, and for president trump.

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