reelecnt mike johnson. what is the great way trump to, get anhed they want and implemet his agenda fast because remember he only has two years to implement his agenda, especially if democrats retake congressity midterm. soneed republicans need to comen and show front of unity and get : sothings done.he >> charlie: so, do you feel confiden t that the republicans will eventually listen toth president trump,in who obviously endorsed johnson actually did tht hie right thing and put himk in the speakership? >> i2026 think they will becaus they know 2026 iprs right around the corner. there will be primaries and republican voters are watching. >> charlie: ari, kaylee, thank you so much. that is that for us tonight and charlie hurt in for laura ingraham and thank you for watching this special edition of "the ingraham angle." ♪ ♪ >> a fox news alert, fox goes inside new orleans suspects home

as a terrorist and more coming out about his path to terrorism. speaking to former fbi agent on the similarities between new orleans terrorist suspect and the driver of the cybertruck that exploded in las vegas. >> in politics, they will be a crucial vote on capitol hill today for house speaker help president-elect trump starts his second term. you are watching "fox & friends first" on a very busy morning i am todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier and carley shimkus has that they'll. the latest on today's terrorist attack. >> louisiana top tourism is pointing fingers for what he calls excuses from new orleans city leaders as to the missing barricades at the entrance of bourbon street saying this about the mayor latoya cantrell. i've held my tongue long enough. her lack of leadership is an embarrassment and a little angry at the fact the french quarters have been trying to do for years

have not gotten done. and the office responding with this, "the city of new orleans will not be distracted by outside commentary welcomes everyone to join the positive efforts of command partners and dating guy updating reporters on what authorities are learning about the man who drove a pickup truck buying a isis flag through bourbon street on new year's morning leaving thousands injured in 14 dad. >> we have no information anyone else is involved in the attack. we have established the attacker, the same person who planned and ice coolers in two nearby containers. we don't know if connection between new orleans attacked an explosion in las vegas. as of now, has have now and breathed, they have not found evidence of a connection so far appear. >> these new fox photos giving us a glimpse inside the killer's

home with majority of houston, texas, muslim neighborhood. you can see the koran, a book of christianity and teaching children about islam here to those living nearby telling fox they were shocked to learn about neighbor's actions in the bourbon street terrorist attack, guys periods chanley painter lin sergeant jeffrey jeffrey who took down boston palmer over ten years ago. searching, thank you for being here but describe the parallels you see between the two attacks. >> the suspects, they both picked what they thought would be easy targets. large crowds and people carrying items, backpacks and the like. >> ashley: you know a lot of former fbi agents we have spoke to since this happen and law enforcement, even

law enforcement officers i know personally who deal with counterterrorism situations, a lot of them say this could have been prevented. what are your thoughts on that since you did take the boston marathon bomber down here a jillion of the stress and high stress you feel in situations like this. so what do you think about this possibly being prevented? >> they did do a certain amount of prevention to stop vehicles from being able to get down bourbon street and surrounding streets. however, just walking the street is not enough and you have to block the sidewalk, even if it means leaving a 2-foot entryway for pedestrian traffic. they did block the roadway with a vehicle, but they probably, in my opinion, i'm not trying to second-guess that park vehicles across the sidewalk also. >> todd: terrace want to strike events capturing the essence of being an american,

the boston marathon, bourbon street on new year's eve. is it time to treat all of these events and i mean all of these events, the same way we treat te absolute highest level of security? super bowl, times square, new york, city, as opposed to say, oh, it is just new orleans. we can go with half the measures are one quarter of the measures that you would see in times square or super bowl. is a basically time to go all out for every event, sergeant? >> i believe it is. these people, they are hell-bent on creating havoc and disrupting our way of life. i know it is very expensive. and a lot of municipalities struggled to meet the cost to cover these events. but we do have to keep up a high level of vigilance. speed to you talk about the cost and that goes back to something i said with tudor dixon.

this he found the place we heard all these years is not helping everything because you take the money away from them and they cannot repair it barricades or get the training they need or update on training they need to. nypd trains multiple times a year on situations like this. i want to get your thoughts on this, trump will be back and vowing moratorium on federal executions meaning suspects like the boston palmer prime notice. what are your thoughts on this, do you agree? >> no -- well, i agree with the death penalty. and these people, we shouldn't having to be able to support them 30, 40, 50, 60 years and prison. i think they should pay for their crimes. >> todd: i think you raise a good point in both of these topics. at some point, where do we put our money and society? you just mentioned, so much money is being used to house this individual in all of the

various appeals and i understand you take away someone's life, there needs to be due process. but the evidence is clear. shamsud-din jabbar was involved in killing people in the boston marathon, horrific day that you experienced. similarly white you need to do to harden a target. in new york city, we have a bunch of dump trucks with sand. that is the most expensive way but also prevents so many tragedies from happening. what are your thoughts reimagining to put our resources and not using age-old, we don't have the resources to give our fellow citizens safe? >> well, municipalities whether it comes from the state level or federal level, money has got to be made available for local municipalities to be able to protect their citizens. >> ashley: yeah, they were so many things we can do to play

monday morning quarterback and to say this could have been prevented. but as you know all too well, the high stress of the situation with police in situations like this, you just never know how someone is going to react or respond. you have to be thinking so quick on your toes. for you we are grateful and everyone in your profession. sergeant jeffrey, thank you so much. >> well, thank you so much for having me. >> ashley: abhors. another big story we are following to take the crucial vote for the house speaker away with backing mike johnson with the gavel. ryan zinke on where he thinks he stands with johnson. >> todd: plus inspiring moment in the face of the tragic attack in new orleans. fans belting out usaid chants at the sugar bowl, but one didn't want to show it and jack brewer

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>> ashley: over 50,000 football fans filled the superdome for the sugar bowl in the first massive gathering in new orleans since deadly terrorist attacks. before the game, inspiring moment as patriotic fans made their voice is. watch. [chanting] that espn is being criticized for not showing those chants here to the national anthem for a moment of silence to honor the victims. a former nfl player and ceo of the brewer foundation joins me now, jeff, why do you think he has been left this out? i feel this is a moment everyone

could unite and uniting as americans and they totally missed the mark on this. why did they leave that out? >> i don't know, it is a saddle, missed opportunity and one amera needed. these are times you can help a nation heal particularly when you have been hit with so much tragedy and a time where the nation was riding high spiritually. now, we are dealing with this and looking around our shoulders and praying for the families of these lost victims. i don't know why espn was thinking. you had to be expecting people to rally together days after something like this happen in new orleans. i don't know, just a big missed opportunity and espn should know better. if anybody should no, espn should know better. >> ashley: absolutely, i cannot agree more with that statement. to todd's point earlier in the show, should in every event have heightened security? i understand money is always

going to be initiate to get security and make sure everything is safe and lock down to secure a standard, but shouldn't we always have heightened security at these events when massive amounts of people? >> exactly. it is a new day in america. this is not america of 1980 by the america of 2025. we need to have security everywhere, particularly large crowds of people gathering. we have gone through so much tragedy in america. nobody needs to be continually in reminded of this and sitting vulnerable. the fact that we have to have a tragedy to heighten security is ridiculous. and so more people half to be held accountable in the city mayors, commissioners, people of the let down all of these families, you know, somebody needs to be held accountable. this should not happen today in the united states of america with all the technology we have

and advances. and you start to hear the city of new orleans and all of the proper road closures, they were not fully prepared for these crowds of people, particularly when you have new years combined with one of the biggest sporting events of the year. now you, you have the super bowl coming to new orleans as well. get right. this is not the time to make excuses. this is the time for accountability and check yourself, new orleans, check yourself, america. we have to do better as a nation. >> ashley: allstate was the sponsor of the sugar bowl and cl put up the statement before the game. listen to this. >> wednesday, tragedy struck new orleans community. our prayers are with the victims and their families. we also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. join allstate working in local communities all across america to amplify the positive,

increased trust, and accept people's imperfections and differences. together, we win. >> ashley: okay, a statement to fox news, allstate writes, "to be clear tom wilson unequivocally condemns the heinous act of terrorism and violence in all forms. be staying with the victims, loved ones in the community of new orleans. that overcoming divisiveness a broader commitment to foster trust and positivity in communities across the nation." was that next signaling to you? >> no question, we are just turning. i got a message to allstate ceo. woke his dad. there was no time for that. joe people are dying. we love fire fellow brothers sisters and stand up against radicalism and not accept people's differences. if you want to be different, be different but in united states of america we are aligning with

one thing, one nation under god and we have each other's back and we stand up for united states of america. there should not be any other message coming out of anyone's mouth no matter if the ceo of any company. let stand up for this country and come together as brothers and sisters. the united states of america go to a nation built from people all over the world, that is who we are. that should be the only message coming out right now. and i pray for all those people in new orleans and across this country that are having to deal with all this enus violence. >> ashley: before we let you go, i want to talk about half-brother of new orleans terrorist attack suspect. he did not see warning signs this could happen. he struggled to find himself throughout his life and his half brother joined the army to find something to set him straight and ground him and find a viable career path. following two divorces, his brother said he was looking for some type of guidance.

what is happening to these people being radicalized? because we see it more and more. this guy fought in afghanistan for america and turned out years later and does this to americans so how does this keep happening? >> it keeps happening because we have a culture now that is not addressing mental health in the way that we should. this guy, obviously his mind is gone somewhere. but we are focused so much dei and wokeness and all these things that don't matter that we continue to allow and accept people to do what they want to do. we need to keep people accountable. the military is not a place to start talking about these dei initiatives and ways of thinking. so we need to stop that. we need to find people that have these issues and we need to do something with them. we need to treat them and attack it. we don't need to accept it.

we have too much acceptance going on in the united states of america. we are accepting wackos to do whatever they want and call it normal. we have to stop normalizing idiocy. that is the issue in the united states of america, in my opinion. speed to oblivion and no idea how something like this would hn coming from mentally unstable people and like you said, we need to attack this head on and get ahead of it. thank you jeffrey for your time is always. >> god bless you. >> todd: a fox weather alert, widespread winter storm will sweep across several states this weekend. some areas bracing for several feet of snow. >> ashley: winter storm warnings in place across the plains man to the northeast. meteorologist with adam klotz with the weather. >> a one to punch some folks out there mixing snow already coming down this morning but this isn'e big storm you see on social media or other news outlets because this is the

storm they are talking about currently coming down and squeezing out a lot of moisture. some of the worst snow will be in the apalachee mountains. to that across ohio and pennsylvania and all areas where you see snow. again, this is not that really large one but still snow coming down 8-12 inches. this has row number one and row number two on the back half of the weekend, saturday night, sunday into monday at a big low-pressure system coming out of the mountain sweeping across the plains ultimately through mid-atlantic and yes, could affect new england as well. this is a big snow maker, swath across the middle of the country. you are looking here at areas missouri into illinois, indiana. you see some of the purple colors. you are talking 1.5-2 inches of snow the high-end macs but isolated areas with pink 8 incho 12 inches and i tell him back to you, everything you see on the

southern end of this louisville, st. louis, kansas city, kansas, city, those spots could be ice. takes down branches and power lines and that is when you get a major nightmare where it doesn't snow like this very often. >> ashley: i will tell you my family is planning for severe ice on sunday. just a little bit of ice can do so much damage. >> that will be the big story. >> todd: 3 feet of snow. >> ashley: you will be stuck with ice until it warms up and there it will not warm up for a while a while. >> todd: president biden reportedly planning to block the sale to a japanese company as early as today. speed to cheryl because sound to break down what will happen n next. i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine

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>> but at this point, currently, and this is another position in fact i want to be clear on. we did not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack except for jabbar. >> todd: nicole parker a former fbi specialists in fox news contributor and joins me now. 24 hours after telling us this was not terror related to, the fbi comes out and says this terrorist act that allowed to alone. can we trust with the fbi is telling us? >> todd, that is a great question and as a former fbi agent, i can tell you that fbi agents trust that questioned the fbi as well. i want to believe that yes, you can trust the fbi doing the real work, rank and file look at trying to do the right thing for the right reason. obviously the message coming out

with the press conference in the 82nd new orleans division was not good. she was given incorrect information and contradicting what the locals were saying in the mayor was saying and called dan from headquarters, the counterterrorism division and assistant director and got him down to mike yesterday. he was able to set the record straight and spoke with mark on. i know from new orleans when served in miami division and i can tell you certain individuals that may be should not be in leadership roles at the fbi. i appreciate they brought someone down yesterday with extensive experience and able to kind of instill confidence for the american people. >> todd: understood. pledging allegiance to isis right before the attack. does the fbi has the capacity, nicole, to his puppets in real-time quite frankly the same way it has capacity to spot conservative buying hunting gear from dick's or online message?

do they have the same capacity? >> a very important question but the post to facebook right before the incident occurred and obviously coach i can't go into certain techniques the fbi uses and as go to but it limits things in real time. that you make an extremely important point, todd. the fbi has lost the trust of the american people because they have investigated with vigor and tenacity of those who are conservatives, republicans, trump supporters and trump himself. january 6 individuals who walk inside that capital and took a picture with their phone and charged with misdemeanor. number of resources, town, doj has put into going after january called him is mind-boggling to me. at the main temp the same tenacity, perseverance and vigor to go after terrorist

organization groups such as isis at making americans feel safe to prevent something like this from occurring? i believe senator kennedy is really holding the fbi accountable and i appreciate and the press conference, he said, look i will give you the amount of time to do the investigationi want answers. want full transparency." that is a problem with the fbi there has been little accountability and little transparency. under this administration all you need to say is ongoing investigation and please stop asking us questions. those days will be over. they will be a changing of the guard, changing of leadership. all. all of a sudden, the fbi is much more transparent. at the end of the day, the american people are the boss or to the fbi say needs at the bureau, no, actually the needs of american people and needs of the victims. that is who the ultimate boss is. they are the taxpayers and that is who we should be pouring into. the fbi needs complete reform of

the culture and the need to get leadership back in there. they are good people holding the line. fbi 1 and fbi 2 nfp i 1 doing their job and don't like political weaponization but fbi 2 are using law enforcement power to push political and social agendas. but is totally unacceptable. we need to get b back to fbi 1 100% across-the-board and americans need to regain trust in the agency, which rightfully they don't have the trust and away from the fbi. >> todd: 17 days away and you mentioned isis law enforcement sounding the alarm isis could use new orleans attack to radicalize other citizens and noncitizens alike. the fbi said it had no intel on this terr terrorist, nicole. are you confident the fbi has the capacity and i am focusing on capacity, everything to root

out isis sympathizers in people who potentially could be are vulnerable to being radicalized right here within our borders? >> right. that is a very complex and big ask. it is difficult to track down individuals. a lot of the cells, it is very difficult. but again, i will go back to priorities. with the number one priority of the fbi is to stop terrorist attack and put as much energy and vigor and tenacity into stopping terrorist organization groups as we have seen them doing going after going after conservatives, i have no dell fbi can step up to the plate. >> todd: it is difficult that no one is saying to your point, nicole if you have the right focus you have a much better chance of catching the next isis attacker before he or she strikes. that is what the american people need. nicole parker thank you for joining us. we appreciated. fox news alert, president biden

reportedly to block nippon steeles $14 billion bid for u.s. steel. >> ashley: cheryl casone from fox business network, hi, cheryl. >> hey, guys, good morning to both of you. this will be very interesting because basically according to reports, president biden is going to block the nippon steel takeover offer at the u.s. steel. this is after recent ps you of ford and national security. but they raise concerns but they didn't come to a unanimous decision. $14 billion deal that has been on the works and became political hot button as you both know. look, it depends on a lot of things here. went to put this out to todd, the low year, my friend todd piro, the lawyer that basically you could see challenged in the court by nippon steel. they have been other offers for

steel button upon came out the winner of the deal and it could be one issue. that here is what president-elect trump say koji he would make u.s. steel strong again through a series of tariffs we will make it strong again and it will happen fast and i will block this deal from happening so buyer beware. now the united steelworkers union just yesterday criticized nippon steel for reductions in production saying, "ticking capacity means mothballed lengthy equipment allowing to rust away at that point it is no longer feasible to restart. nippon steel and they actually try to sweeten the deal over new year's day holiday saying they buy do everything to preserve jobs and also preserve capacity. another issue here, remember the first term of donald trump, he put on strong terr tariffs, can,

mexico, year a. the thing is this company started in 1901. if you look at the willis tower of chicago or the united states will make nations building in new york city, that is u.s. steel appeared to that company look at that steel built iconic american structures. so since big american company and political hot-button issue, again, we do expect according to cbs news recording this that we will get something from the white house. >> todd: you have both a biden administration and incoming trump administration opposed to it that tells you something. don't miss "cheryl with mornings with maria." >> ashley: republicans passing president trump's agenda. >> todd: ryan zinke on the g.o.p.'s razor-thin majority and how he expects the vote to shake out when the sun comes up.mo hen is next.

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speaker johnson has spoke with every republican not committed to supporting him today and he is hoping to be reelected the first round of voting. >> people are tugging through process changes they want and i am open to that. i think tomorrow will go well. >> he can only lose one vote before extended. lawmakers as a whole do not want repeat at two years ago in 15 rounds to elect speaker mccarthy. failing to reelect johnson would unable to certify the election results on the sixth. there is no? that he won the endorsement of johnson will go for the handful of hard-line republicans who feel johnson was weakened in the budget battle last month. >> what we want to see happen is 119th congress is not what happened in the last two years have 118. be asked to make the case and hopefully, mike will. >> we will make a decision tomorrow. bet that the speaker needs to

discuss some things and a lot of things i agree. i will vote for mike or mike johnson. >> i will bow for money jackson. this has to be wrapped up fairly quickly. house speaker johnson said i don't want to make deals or concession with contractors because that did not work out for mccarthy. >> todd: alexandria hoff. led spring and ryan zinke and pick up, congressman where alex left off and likely last-minute deals and some horsetrading that some of the potential holdouts are trying to negotiate with mike johnson to get concessions. what last-minute concessions are you hearing ear to the ground with colleagues to get from johnson to secure their vote? >> mostly fiscal discipline and the big argument we went through a 1500-page bill and you look at it, a lot of giveaways.

he took some harsh criticism. this is not my first rodeo. we watch the battle for speaker bain or, numbers of course. they voted in an unanimous prior to the floor. at the floor, all of a sudden different modes came up and same thing mccarthy's 15 rounds. the difference is donald j. trump. most of the congressman on republican side endorsed by trump and believe in the trump agenda. not having a speaker in place only loses time and actually works against the trump agenda. you look back and forth and negotiating. at the end of the day, what you are negotiating against really if you don't vote for johnson is the trump agenda, which most republicans elected to make sure that agenda promise made, promise kept. >> todd: you vote from positive wins the trump agenda should be top of mind but also

reality of politics. do you think at the end of the day, mike johnson caves to the members currently potential holdouts? where do the members potential holdouts cave because donald trump has done a little bit of armed listing and i'm sure mentioning primary of those a timer to. >> fiscal discipline, i don't think it is a cave but necessity. we should go back to the constitution how it is formed and how we find on the house side. funding they'll start in the house with regular appropriations or follow article not. 36 trillion reasons why we need to get back to his school discipline. i understand the point, but again, what is the outcome? the only way to achieve that is to have a speaker of the house. the only way to achieve going forward is to have a speaker that works with the president. while we are a second branch,

there is no doubt president trump is enormously influential what happens in congress. i am an optimist. at the end of the day, we will elect a speaker and that speaker will be mike johnson and we will get on with the business of what we are supposed to be doing in congress, getting things done. >> todd: we will see if end at the date is actually end of the day friday. i want to get your thoughts on this the senate to come from national security team as soon as possible after of course new year's day attack. and incoming senate majority leader john thome will lead confirmations and rights "before will outlast this administration and clear example why the senate must get president trump's national security team in place as soon as possible. congressman do expect new orleans attack to force democrats to reconsider potential opposition to trump's national security nominees in order to get them in place as soon as possible and protect the nation? >> i think the department of defense is probably j job one.

peak pete hegseth is young i've heard criticism that they didn't have experience. perry did not have military experience and less has been did not have experience, obama had an account as department of defense. what i like about pete hegseth, you know what, the soldiers in the field because he is one of them here till we fight with our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marid we fight with people. with pete hegseth, he is one of them and well-liked as he should be. i'm thinking we will get through at least four or five day one as we should. remember, you look at the team that biden has. there is no comparison! with the quality of candidates and the quality of the nominees and the quality of the people and experience, there is no comparison. so politics, let's get on with the business of serving the american people.

>> todd: without a doubt he is a coach and to say he does not have experience, b is not making up the conversations i've had over the last several years. has significant experience and i think it would behoove america to get here and then all the other nominees as quickly as possible. congressman ryan zinke i hope for your sake you don't have a very long night. hopefully it gets done soon and we have a speaker and can move on with the business of governing and governing america. i appreciate your time. >> less trauma, more action, happy new year, everyone. happy new year to you my friend. one of the victims of former terrorist attacks stand up wide receiver at princeton being remembered for his big heart. his aunt joins us to honor his memory next. >> ashley: what is coming up on fox & friends, lawrence. >> rolling and that the victims names coming in and we will do our best to honor them this morning. thank you so much a big friday

show. president biden failing to go after isis following a terrorist attack in new orleans. jeh johnson took them on head of the hs and as the trump team appears to take over. on and off the field, came jordan announcing $25,000 donation to the victims of the attack. he will join us live. exclusively. house lawmakers will decide if mike johnson remained speaker of the house. jim jordan think that he has the votes? if he doesn't, will he stepped in to replace the speaker? we will ask him. halliday a good champ, a preview of the nascar season. we have a big friday show coming up. we will see you at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪ ♪you did it!♪

is >> todd: one of the victims in the new orleans terror attack being remembered this morning not just for his talents on the field but also as a loving brother and son. martin beck known to everyone as tiger princeton 2018. on new years tiger was in throz hunt and fish with college friends and supposed to fly home on new year's day. >> ashley: terry is the aunt of tiger bech joins us now. my heart goes out to you and everyone else affected by this horrible tragedy. as todd just said he was there to hunt and fitch with his

friends. that is something that so many people can resonate with. people go to have a good time and rest. especially the new year. tell us about tiring. what did you love about him? what do you want the world to know about him? >> first of all, thank you so very much for having me. i appreciate y'all giving me the chance to get on here and honor tiger. he was amazing. he was the life of the party. he was super athletic. i mean, even when he was a toddler, i just remember being amazed at what he could do with any kind of sport, hitting the ball over the fence as a 3-year-old. just always wanting to be outside and play ball. you know, fishing like you said. we have a pond in our backyard. he comes here, fishes are as soon as the sun comes up. he really just took advantage of

every opportunity he was in and enjoyed life to the fullest. he enjoyed people to the fullest. he is one of four siblings and they are just very super, super close, tight-knit, and his support for jack, watching him in football -- tiger worked in new york. he would work his tail off all week, take the latest flight he could friday night, get here 1:30 in the morning, wake up early and be the first one out there to support jack watching him and his tcu football game. he was also very supportive of his other siblings. cousins, friends, just everyone. he is just truly amazing. >> todd: you mentioned tiger's brother jack he has declared for

the nfl draft. can you put into words what goes through jack's mind when he hears him name called on draft day and think about the journey he and his brother had to both get to the nfl and then realizing that draft day is so soon after the death of his brother, tiger? >> you know, he knows that tiger's presence will be there with him. we're all firm believers in jesus. and you know, we are just holding jesus' hand as we are going through this difficult journey. if you heard any of jack's interviews so far, that's what he says is pulling him through. his faith and i just think, if anything, this is going to propel jack to just to take the grit that tiger had and to give the next step in his career his all.

>> ashley: cher c cherry, you said something to our producers, almost like he was saying his goodbyes for weeks and didn't even know it. how much does your faith and you leaning on your faith right now help you get through this time? remarkable. as devastating as this is god's presence. i wanted to share on new years night we learned the news of tiger and my daughters and i were sitting at our dinner table and one of my daughters looked at me and said, mom, you know, someone killed my cousin and i forgive him and it's through our faith in jesus that we're able to forgive such a heinous act of crime against just innocent

people. and i just want to take a second and quote the scripture that just keeps popping up because, like i said, god just keeps showing up in such remarkable ways. that's isaiah 41:10. don't be afraid for i am with you. don't be discouraged, for i am your god. i will strengthen you and help you. i will hold you up with my victorious right hand. and i want everybody to know all of the praying for all of the other victims' families and just it's a difficult road but together we can all get through it and we have a huge family. >> todd: we are praying for you the whole world. >> ashley: god bless you. >> todd: cheri belch god bless you and your family. "fox & friends" begins right