businesses at each end could have a choke point and cripple the u.s. economy. and one of those chinese owned ports is behind me and president trump has gone further and he says that china controls the canal and he says that panama will not get away with this. so we have the unusual diplomatic situation right now, two long-time allies in a high pressure situation where all options, including a military option, are still on the table. marco rubio certainly has his work cut out for him this weekend. david, back to you. david: steve harrigan, wonderful reporting from panamament appreciate it. that will do it from here. i'm david asman. thank you so much for watching. coverage of the tragic air disaster continues now with griff jenkins on fox news live. griff. griff: six people on board a medical transport jet that crashed in philadelphia have been killed. the dead include a child who is

receiving treatment at a philadelphia hospital and her mother. all on board were from mexico. philadelphia's mayor moments ago saying one additional person in a car was killed in a crash and 19 others have been injured. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins. for the latest from philadelphia, let's go right to nate foy. what can you tell us, nate? >> griff, so the main takeaway is what you just said. we have new numbers of how many people have been killed. we know prior to the news conference of the six people, the six mexican nationals who died on board that jet. what we just found out about was the seventh person who was killed inside their car and 19 others injured as the jet struck the ground there was a large fire, a lot of cars were incinerated, homes caught on fire. it unknown at this point exactly how many people were injured or killed inside their

cars versus homes that something that is going to develop, officially told us, in the coming days. listen to this. >> we have a lot of unknowns about who was where on the streets of this neighborhood last night at the time of impact. so, it will likely be days or more until we are able to definitively answer the question about the number of folks who perished in this tragedy. >> so the n.t.s.b., f.a.a., a.t.f., state and locals are investigating the areas of impact where the jet struck the ground right outside a mall, it's between four and six blocks, but officials say they're still working to understand the scope of this after the plane hit the ground like a rocket at 6:30 last night. take a look at what it looked like for the people in the

are area. [screams] >> the federal investigators right now, griff, are working to find out if this was a pilot error or something wrong with the plane or the engine. we do know that it took off from northeast philadelphia airport and something went wrong almost immediately because the plane was in the air for a minute, and coming down in a crowded area, and the jet fuel hit the homes and made the fire worse. we understand there were five different fires as a result of this plane crash, all of them have been extinguished and we also heard from witnesses that a piece of debris flew through the window of a restaurant and hit somebody inside that restaurant and then we also saw

pictures of an oxygen tank that was on board the jet about a quarter of a mile away from the crash site and that's something that officials just talked about. that they are urging people here in philadelphia to let them know if they find any debris. it's quite a big perimeter at this point, but they still haven't totally secured that perimeter as they are continuing to ask people to let them know if they see any debris after that explosion. we do know that transportation secretary sean duffy has received an update from the n.t.s.b. and governor shapiro praised the interagency cooperation so it's all hands on deck right now sort of in the longer term to figure out exactly what went wrong on na plane and anyone who need to communicate with us, and to you the american people, how many people have been injured or

killed. griff: quite a wide and dangerous debris field. nate, we'll check with you for more. thank you. let's bring in a part of the u.s. helicopter safety team, chris bauer. and you heard nate's report and we have a sound bite from philadelphia's mayor cherelle parker. here is what she said a few minutes ago. >> it was only afloat for a short period of time before something went terribly wrong and it crashed. griff: so, chris, obviously, shortly after takeoff and nate said it was less than a minute that this lear jet 55 crashed. what are your initial reactions to in? what do you suppose may have led to the trouble they got into in very short order? >> thanks for having me, what a tragedy. and my thoughts and prayers are with the families and the victims of this disaster. looking at the data, the

granular data of the plane achieved all the stewed initially 650 feet off the ground, stopped, seemed to have leveled off and it started to descent. what's interesting about the speed of the airport, it doesn't increase as precipitously as the rate of desent. so at one point it began to descend 2500 feet a minute and then that looks like it sort of leveled a little bit and wound up descending over 11,000 feet a minute. griff: wow. >> a descent like that is horrific. even to be inside of an aircraft that's descending at that speed would be incapacity in terms of the g-forces. >> we're showing on your screen

now for viewers if you play that one more time. we slowed the descent down because i knew you would have such good insight. this is a slowed down version of the descent which you said 11,000 feet, you can see it coming just to the left of your screen there, it will come into frame here in just a moment, but even at that precipitous rate of the descent that it's coming down, what are the usual causes for something like that to happen? is it engine failure? is it pilot error? >> well, again, i don't want to speculate. i'll leave that, the investigation up to the n.t.s.b. and the responsible authorities. what i would offer is in previous accidents what might have caused this. so, one clue, and it was pointed out earlier in the broadcast when the pilots departed they missed the radio calls and the tower was trying to raise them on the frequency

and they didn't respond and that is indicative of a crew that may be completely saturated with an emergency or incapacitated. incapacitation could happen, hypoxia, but the aircraft is not that high of an altitude so i wouldn't look there that hard. another clue is looking at the rate of descent if the aircraft was in a high speed stall or perhaps, an uncommanded deployment of a thrust reverser, and a lot of these aircraft have had issues in the past with uncommanded thrust reverser deployment. griff: well, we shall see where it goes, as we know from all n.t.s.b. investigations, they look at three things, the human aspect, the machine aspect, the environment aspect. before i let you go, i want your insight because you have experience, extended experience flying blackhawks or the air force's version, the payhawk,

same bird. what do you make of what happened wednesday shortly before 9:00 here in washington? >> what a tragedy, again. and i would just wanted to say as the co-chair of the u.s. helicopter safety team, we also want to lend our support and assistance to make sure this doesn't happen again. we're also offering our pure pilots support program to the helicopter first responders on the scene and i can understand firsthand what they are probably going through as well. the pavehawk, the blackhawk, different variants of it, what a tank of an aircraft. i had the opportunity-- i flew the longest helicopter rescue in history, pavehawk, and flew it into a winter hurricane that took out a 450 foot freighter. that aircraft is about as close to being indestructible in terms of reliability and dependable for the operation.

i think systematically though there's issues with having this route that the crew was flying, the training that they were conducting, aircraft on dissimilar frequencies, so, you don't have everybody communicating with each other where they could be made aware of each other. i think ostensibly everybody was doing what they were supposed to do, but the system itself has a lot of faults in it that can lead you down this path. griff: well, we shall see where the investigation goes and of course, transportation secretary duffy has restricted helicopter flights within the commercial air space around reagan international airport. he did that yesterday afternoon in consultation with the president, but we'll see where this all takes us. chris bauer, the u.s. helicopter safety team. thank you very much for taking time. >> thank you for having me today, bye-bye. griff: speaking of the black boxes have been recovered from the airplane and the helicopter that crashed into the potomac

river in washington d.c. on wednesday, this as new details on the investigation emerge and recovery efforts continue. grady is live from reagan international airport with the latest. >> thanks to the black boxes they'll be able to hear the conversations inside that plane cockpit and inside the helicopter in the moments leading up to the mork collision. and they'll look at flight data on the helicopter and plane, and particularly the helicopter, there have been reports, and president trump stated the helicopter was flying too high and they could tell that with the black boxes and could be a key piece of information, but it's one of many. other pieces of investigation include the debris they're working on recovering from the potomac river. the n.t.s.b. is working on that right now, bringing in barges to help with the process, and then they'll be able to

reconstruct the two aircraft to see if that gives them any clues as to what went wrong. the n.t.s.b. started inviewing the air traffic controllers who were working at the time of the crash. >> what i can say is in this incident, it should not have happened. if something fails, a backup should catch it. multiple layers of redundancy. it's been a long time. >> and n.t.s.b. is not responding to comments of dei hiring of air traffic controllers during the biden administration played a role in this cash, but senator markwayne mullen says that trump is right that dei hiring impacted the training hub in his state of oklahoma. >> i can tell you we're having a hard time filling the classes because of dei. instead of the classes 100% full we were at 80, 70%, it

wasn't for a lack of individuals applying for it except each class had a ratio they had to have on it. >> as the n.t.s.b. investigates, d.c. fire is still working to remove bodies from the potomac river. 41 bodies have been recovered so far, 26 remain, and the n.t.s.b. says more than 100 family members who lost loved ones in the mid air collision have come here to d.c. they've been receiving briefings over the past couple of days and the agency says, griff, that it's paramount that they provide them with factual information as they get more details into what went wrong, griff. griff: they seem to have been doing that. i will say, as a reporter that's been with you for the past two days, todd inman, the member of the n.t.s.b. is quite a good communicator in engaging with us to give us details. one quick follow-up, one thing that todd inman told us yesterday we can expect at some point today to see barges arriving from virginia beach to

assist with cranes to lift the fuselages out of the river which they believe there may be bodies or remains in there, a key important thing that a lot of families maybe counting on. have you seen any indication that the barges are arriving yet? >> yeah, exactly right. we haven't seen the barges from this vantage point here from the airport outside this window and we have a couple of live shots that show you the location and haven't seen them there either, but certainly something to keep an eye on as that will be critical for d.c. fire's efforts to remove the remaining bodies from the potomac, but it's critical for the n.t.s.b., another thing that todd inman said at the press conference yesterday, they actually brought in an almost identical crj jet when they remove the pieces of debris from the river, they can essentially replace together this aircraft using the similar aircraft as a reference point so they can essentially reenact

the cockpit of that aircraft once they remove it all from the water. so, it's going to be critical to remove it for both n.t.s.b. investigators and d.c. fire recovery divers. griff: an important aspect there you raise. grady, live, thank you. three more hostages have been released under the cease-fire deal between israel and hamas, they include an american citizen as well as the father of one of the youngest hostages in captivity. trey yingst joining us with the details. >> good afternoon. >> another hostage release with three additional people coming home. american citizen keith siegel was released himself from the port in gaza city. we know that he was taken with his wife and she was released

during the first cease-fire and reacted saying this. >> until now, keith was captive, but now, the nightmare is over and keith is free. so, i want to thank president trump for his work to get these hostages released and back home to their loved ones, but there's more work to do and we're going to continue that w work. >> another man, ofer calderon was released along with yarden bibas. he was taken with his family and they have not been seen. if the hostages were paraded through a crowd again, we do know they were exchanged again for 183 palestinian prisoners being freed. we do expect is similar release to take place on saturday where additional three or four israeli hostages will be freed.

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>> president trump spending the weekend at mar-a-lago and he fields two investigations into tragic plane crashes and as new tariffs are set to kick in for mexico, canada and china. lucas tomlinson live in west palm beach for us with more lucas. >> welcome from west palm beach. last night president trump responding to the latest crash, this one in philadelphia, posting to truth social, so sad to see the plane go down in philadelphia, pennsylvania. more innocent souls loss, our people are totally engaged. first responders are given credit for doing a great job. more to follow, god bless you all. and moments ago, trump's transportation secrean duffy posting a time, this morning, i reiterated that they'll have the full support and i'll give

updates as i receive them. and president trump on the tariffs mexico, canada and china. >> and p tariffs cause great success, there could be some temporary short-term disruption and people will understand that. i had that when i negotiated good deals for the farmers and unfortunately those deals have been led astray by biden and his people because they didn't enforce the deals. >> td economics says the looming trump tariffs on canadian oil could increase prices by 70 cents a gallon and canada supplies crude oil that the u.s. impacts and trump says he wants more oil domestically. and there was a photo showing six americans freed from venezuela and returning to the u.s. and trump reacted to the news on social media and saying in part, it's so good to have the venezuela hostages back home and very important to note that venezuela has agreed to

receive back into their country all venezuela illegal aliens encamped in the u.s. including gang members from tren de aragua. good news for those freed from venezuela and the ones from gaza as well, griff. griff: lucas tomlinson live from west palm beach. thank you. let's bring in former secretary of state under trump's first term and former cia director mike pompeo. let's get your reaction out of lucas' report there. first the tariffs, mexico, canada and china, one of those is not the same as the others when we talk in terms of sort of what may be at play with the intention of the tariffs. what do you make of it? >> it's great to be with you. look, tariffs make sense when you have an objective and president trump has always simply demanded fair, even reciprocal trade and trying to get that with the mexicans, with the canadians as well and certainly with the chinese

communist party. so i'm hopeful he'll be able to achieve that. i think some of the risk of inflation that people talked about is likely overstated and some of this largely absorbed by the producer and know where the economic risk will fall is difficult to know in advance. the tariffs are legitimate means of an end and i hope we've made known, and for the chinese communist party there are multiple objectives that have to be completed not just on trade, but on national security as well. griff: in terms of the fentanyl, obviously, precursors coming from china and coming across our southern border with mexico, certainly perhaps part of it? >> undoubtedly. you know, i remember this from the first trump administration, president trump made clear to xi jinping he needed those flows reduced and got it for a time and it's now wandered off over the last four, four and a

half years. we've got to get back, this is decimating communities across america and the chinese party has the action to pull it off if they choose and they chose not to. and we have to impose until they do. griff: and the middle east, great news today, more hostages, including keith siegel, one american, released today. we know there are six americans that remain in captivity, two of which we actually believe are alive. what do you make of today's development and where this heads? >> well, it's never bad news when americans come home. it's joyous, it's glorious, and for those families, it's unimaginable to see these folks return home. having said that, i think in one of the earlier report, there were 138 palestinians terrorists released and they'll commit terror again, so the risk to the next set of american families is real and we need to make sure that we continue to support the

israelis in their efforts to decimate hamas, they can never be in charge, they can never reorganize. and on the northern border, we'll have more hostages if we can't get hezbollah to be completely destroyed by the lebanese armed forces and the israeli people 70,000 people still can't go back to the northern part of israel. we have to give the israelis capacity to do that and i'm sure that president netanyahu is heartened to have president trump as his partner and not president biden. griff: is that significant that's the first international visit and what is the goal there? >> look, i think it will reinforce the ties between our two nations and building out the abraham accords like in the first trump administration, they'll look at how they'll get to the root of the problem, the regime in iran, in a way that gives israel the security assurances it needs and reduces

the risk for america and if you put america at the front of your foreign policy, you don't want to send our young men and women to risk their lives and fight in the middle east and taking out the regime in iran is a core part to make sure we don't have to do that to any american family. griff: lastly, mr. secretary, your actions to six americans freed in venezuela, rick grinnell going down there and that they agree to take back criminal illegal migrants, and part of whom may be a part of the tren de aragua gang, what's your reaction? >> that's good news, getting the violent people out of america. and i don't know what the trade was. if there was some deal here. i hope we have not forgotten that maduro is an illegitimate leader of that, and second, an indicted kingpin in the united

states of america and finally, we shouldn't forget, he's in the control of the iranians, chinese and russians. he's evil incarnate and bad for our region and we need to make sure that we continue to use american power in the western hemisphere in a way that protects and puts america first and don't go down the path of thinking we can negotiate with nicolas maduro on the security matters that matter to the american people. griff: and we've got to let you go. it sounds like a caution and trepidation in negotiating or dealing with maduro, something that the previous administration didn't do. do you have a word of caution for this current administration? >> i remember how we handled it in the first one we put enormous sanctions on pressure on maduro and almost got him out of that. and i hope the same, a model to understand if you can get to a great outcome to america so be it, but the chance that nicolas

maduro is going to do anything, but the bidding of the russians and chinese communist party and the cubans seems unlikely to me. griff: former secretary of state mike pompeo. thank you for taking time and joining us. >> thank you so much, have a good rest of your weekend. griff: coming up, what we're learning about the victims of the philadelphia plane crash. dr. nicole saphier is here next. oh no. bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing at the movies!? hashtag still not coughing?! ahh! mucinex dm 12 hour doesn't just quiet coughs, it treats coughs caused by excess mucus at the source and controls them for 12 hours. it's comeback season. stubborn chest congestion? try mucinex 12 hour.

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least one other person perished in this tragedy and this individual was in a car. we can confirm that there are also a number of other victims who were injured in this incident and that will being treated in area hospitals and thus far, our count is that there are 19 injured victims, but again, this is not etched in stone. the investigation is ongoing. investigators are pouring over the crash site right now. >> yeah, that's something that authorities are stressing, the number of people dead and injured, unfortunately, will likely go up. now, all of the people on board that ambulance plane were from mexico. they have not been identified, but we know it's a little girl patient, her mother, a doctor, paramedic, pilot and co-pilot. that's all according to the jet rescue air ambulance spokesperson. shriner's hospital confirms it was treating the little girl for a life threatening

condition. shriner's, it's a nonprofit children's hospital where children get free treatment and that's why the little girl and her mother were in philadelphia finally set to go back home to mexico and she was done with treatment. and learning more about the victims who died or were injured, we'll send it back to you. griff: thank you so much. for more on the tragic crash in philadelphia, let's bring in the medical contributor, dr. nicole saphier. as if we didn't have enough, a young girl from mexico, a medivac plane, what's your reaction to this? >> as we get more details, it's more devastating. is it sounds like six people on board this medical transport, one being the patient herself, which is a child and her mother

and four members of the medical crew. at this point that all six have died and we've also just heard from the mayor, one person on the ground has died as a result of this crash. up to 19 to 20 are still injured. i think that jefferson health said the majority of them 12 or 13 have already been discharged, but some are actually in the icu with some severe injuries. so we are going to keep a close eye on them and how they're doing. griff: let's talk about this debris field. obviously was quite wide and you heard an oxygen tank traveled a quarter mile and in a mcdonald's, debris flew through the window and struck an individual, but yet, there is jet fuel out there and the officials in that press conference in philadelphia a little while ago talking about be careful, this could be a four to six block, more radius. what are your concerns for the people in the immediate vicinity? >> yeah, so, we have to really look at what happened to the

plane, is it going down, was it leaking jet fuel? if it did leak jet fuel on the way down, it could be out there on the way down. and it can be toxic to the brain, and sfef a fire bomb as it hit the ground, a lot of that jet fuel would have burned when it hit the ground. the oxygen tanks are flammable, if they come in contact with a heat source and that can cause an explosion as well. if you find any sort of medical equipment do not look at it yourself, do not try to be near it. we don't know the stability of it and make sure you call local law enforcement that they can take care of it. and we don't know with the explosions if it rattled the instructors or any row homes, are they stable and safe for people to be in and i imagine

people on the ground are assessing that. >> lastly, nicole, the psychological toll, what do you suppose it's taken on just americans in general now watching near back-to-back crashes and horrific videos with tragic endings? >> yeah, you know, i've seen some people on social media kind of making some jokes, oh, i guess i'm going to take the train here on out. while sometimes we do make comments like that, in jest, trying to make ourselves feel better. these are back-to-back ckocon - catastrophes. and i'm happy that secretary duffy is in the position he's in,'s been incredibly responsive and transparent and the investigations that happen they'll do everything possible so it doesn't happen again. i think overwhelmingly we have to remind people that the far majority of air travel is safe and that we just need to make sure that people are still

coming on and talking to us, it's when you don't talk to the american people that people start worrying and people have that fear. so, as long as the administration continues to be as transparent as it has been, you know, i think that as a nation we will pull through it. griff: you're very right, nicole, it's been a hell of a first two days on the job for sean duffy, he's been at the front of it. dr. nicole saphier, thank you for taking time. >> thanks so much, griff. griff: newly minted secretary of state marco rubio is set to touch down in panama tonight, it comes as president trump threatens to retake control of the panama canal, citing concerns about the chinese influence. steve harrigan is in panama live for us. >> the fact that this place, panama city, is the first place for the new secretary of state, underscores how serious this situation around the panama canal is. rubio said the fact that the

two hong kong businesses own ports at each end of the canal is a danger for the u.s. economy and the u.s. national security. he has warned it could create a choke point. one of those hong kong owned ports is behind me now. canal officials here in panama say the canal itself is run by panamanians and no such danger, but admit when pressed that the treaty between the u.s. and panama does allow for military intervention if there is a violation of the canal's neutrality. >> that neutrality agreement, does that allow the u.s. to send troops here if they feel that neutrality has been violated. >> if they see that the operation of the canal is threatened, yes. but they're only to remove the threat. >> the chinese influence here across panama is easy to see. there have been billions of dollars in investment, more

than 200,000 chinese live here in panama and some in the community say recent remarks from u.s. officials have created a real sense of tension for them. >> the north americans who come to panama say they see chinese everywhere and that we're all spies for working for the chinese government. what we feel is fear. >> marco rubio comes here tonight to talk with a close ally and yet, all options, including a military option, remain on the table. griff, back to you. griff: this is a story to watch. the panama canal, steve harrigan in panama city. thank you. multiple top officials in the fbi have been order today retire, resign or be fired. that's next. liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds. with the money i saved i thought i'd get a wax figure of myself.

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>> president trump's shake-up at the fbi is underway as the doj orders the firings of some of the bureau's top brass. other agents and employees are told to either retire or to quit. fox news correspondent madeleine rivera joining us live. this is quite a story on a friday night. >> it's unclear how many people this will effect. acting attorney general ordered the termination of half a dozen fbi employees by tuesday and asking for a list of former and currently fbi personnel assigned to the january 6th and case. case in point. acting director brian driscoll says he's one of the employees as is acting deputy director. and the order for review came on the same day top justice officials ordered the firing of prosecutors who worked on the january 6th cases. the trump administration is

looking to end the quote, weaponization and returning integrity, accountability. democrats are calling the terminations and ousting as a purge. and kash patel said this about firing at the agency. >> are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, fbi agents or personnel associated with trump investigations, yes or no. >> i'm not aware. >> thank you. >> and the fbi says dismissing potentially hundreds of agents would severely weaken the country from national security and criminal threats and settings up the new bureau and its leadership for failure. fox has been told many employees are planning to sue as they believe they're being dismissed without cause.

griff: and they're doing it before patel is confirmed, he has that to stand on. thank you very much. >> you've got it. griff: for more on the massive fbi shake-up. bring in fox tuesday contributor, and nicole parker. i imagine your phone must be blowing up from your former fbi colleagues? >> yes, griff, that's correct. and i have stood true. i was a rank and file agency at the fbi. i have clearly distinguish between fbi one, the good, solid, hardworking fbi agents that want to get the job done and keep their heads low and nothing political. and fbi two, individuals often in high level positions and executives who use their law enforcement power to push their political and social agendas and frankly, fbi two sadly intril infiltrated all the way

down. but i want to tell you there are fbi employees that do the right thing, and they're on edge, hey, if you even touch january 6th you're on the list. i feel strongly in my sole that that list will be looked at and those just doing the honest hard work, i believe, that, you know, the right thing will prevail in the end and i believe that those that had the intent to maliciously go after their political opponents, i believe that they will be held accountable. again, we're talking thousands of people that probably touched january 6th. this investigation was the number one priority of this last administration for four years. but again, if there were individuals that may have done, you know, a simple interview or a simple search warrant, that's very, very different than those that were salivating at the chance to go after trump, his supporters and again, it does not matter where you stand on the political spectrum, this is not about your political persuasion, this is about using your law enforcement power, gun and badge and doing the right thing and upholding the constitution in a fair and

unbiased manner. griff: well, and the politicalization of the fbi that you talk about, nicole, that, senator john kennedy brought that up in kash patel's hearing. here is what he said, listen. >> for better or worse, either in reality or perception, in modern times the fbi has been politicized. it started with mr. james comey. and so did peter strock. and so did lisa page. and so did michael sussman. so did attorney general garland. it's got to end now, clean it out, but lift it up in accordance with due process and the rule of law. griff: do you agree with that, nicole? >> i 100% agree with cincinnati

kenn senator kennedy. and i noticed the weaponization when james comey came out and said no reasonable prosecutor would charge hillary clinton, and was out of his lane and a prosecutorial discussion and operation hurricane after that. fbi one,ed good, fine men and women of the fbi are disgusted by the politicalization of the fbi and they want to make sure those negatively impacting the fbi are held accountable, but those doing the honest good work, they need to continue to stay in place, do the right thing, hold the line and keep americans safe. we are at a time when, you know, foreign terrorist organizations groups and violent crimes, threats are at an all-time high we need the solid fbi employees and agents to stay put and keep doing the job. i know it's a tumultuous time

there, the good people you know who you are, america supports you, keep doing. those not doing the right thing should be held accountable. griff: we leave it there, nicole parker, thank you as always. >> thank you. griff: much more ahead. fox news live continues. stay with us.

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