raised 250 million, some paying 40 grand each. matthew broderick was a no show at his own house. the president said he had a broadway show to run off to. the evening raked in another 2 and a half million dollars at the plaza hotel from 250 guests paying 10 grand each. they got to hear mariah care reap and alicia keyes perform. there was official business he took a tour of 1 world trade center with christie and cuomo. his message read as follows. we remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger. barack obama. out in the president's old backyard in chicago, mitt romney capped off a busy day with fawned razor of his own making $3.3 million at an event at the

public hotel in chicago. he will hold a rally and ice cream social in new hampshire the president will hold a few events for l br gt bride month. they will celebrate a wedding and father's day and spend a few nights in their house there. >> peter doocy, thank you. >> 40,000 dollars. >> that's big money. for a look at who's talking. >> mitt romney and obama going head to head delivering speeches on the economy each sending a different message. president obama saying there is a stalemate over the economy. >> these challenges are not new. we have been wrestling with these issues for a long time. the problems we are facing right now have been more than a decade in the making. what is holding us back is not a

lack of big ideas, it is a misna matter of finding a technical solution. both laid out the policies for all to see. what is holding us back is a stalemate in washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction americas should take. and this election is your chance to break that spell. at stake is not simply a choice between two candidates or two political parties but between two paths for our country. >> mitt romney explaining what he thinks will get the economy back on track and placing the current state on the president. >> as you look at the

president's record it is long on words and short on action to create jobs. and again, talk is cheap, action speaks loudly. look what's happened across this country f. you think things are going swimmingly, if you think the president is right when he says the private sector is doing fine, he's the guy to vote for. but when he said that, there was such an outpouring of response from the 23 million americans out of work or under employed i don't think he will say it again. it will be give me 4 more years even though i didn't get it done in the first 3 and a half. in my experience thinking of people i want to work for me whether it's my doctor or the person painting the house i want to make sure they did a job the first time. if they didn't i want someone who can do a better job. this president has put together

almost as much public debt as all of the prior presidents combined. you want four more years of that? you call that forward? that's forward ore a cliff. >> romney is about to kickoff his first campaign trip over the general election. 6 day trek by bus. the committee says a companion bus tour to counter romney's message in each city he visits. it is time for your 5@5:00. the other five top stories. attorney general meeting with darrel issa over the fast and furious on monday. eric holder now saying he will make an extraordinary accommodation and turn over infe internal e-mails. house committee is set to vote this week over contempt charges against holder. fbi and u.s. marshals are joining the search for surgeon timothy joiner he's accused of

shooting his girlfriend to death. they searched his home in lakeview, new york. there is concerns he may try to cross into canada since he has connections there. lance armstrong now banned from the international iron man contest as long as he is ooing investigated for doping. the announcement one day after they said they were going to press charges against him. armstrong strongly denying ever taking performance enhancing drugs. shocking details an mar alabama lack can i used more than 60 e-mail addresses to speak to his followers. one was with nadal hassan. awlaki used encryption and code words while under investigation surveillance. victims of the fort hood shootings will break their silence for the first time

tonight at 10:00. katherine herridge will be here live to talk about it. >> little darth vader is on the road to recovery. ♪ >> 7-year-old's matt page's surgery went really well. he got national attention after the commercial aired. he had surgery to fix a congenital defect. he was diagnosed when he was 3 months old. now to an extreme weather alert. new evacuation orders in place this morning in colorado. a wildfire is still burning. now it's spreading even further. marianne rafferty has been here all night looking at the details here. hey, mary anne. >> it jumped the river flames racing towards homes in the

glacier view area of the state. mandatory evacuations were tut into effect for 80 homes there. there are 1300 firefighters trying to put the flames out. high winds and thunderstorms opened up a new front for crews to battle. the storm spread embers that started a fire on sheet mountain. we are pulling resources from other aspects from the fire and positioning them in that area. however, it is a priority that we do not lose the anchor points we have established and worked so hard for. resources will made in those areas. they will continue to fight the fire while additional resources addresses the spot fire. right now the fire is only 15-20 percent contained. secretary of the interior toured the area yesterday telling residents the government is ready to help. it caused one death and destroyed 50 homes. many of the local residents say they fear losing everything but one woman breathing a sigh of relief. >> we just found out after day 6

that our house is still standing and so is our neighbors. i have got mixed emotions right now. i feel bad for everybody that lost, but after day 6 we are kind of happy to know it's still standing there. the governor of colorado banned fires and fireworks across the state. they estimate this will cost $7.2 million to fight. an emotional interview from that lady. feel so badly for all of those folks. >> you definitely hear it in her voice. >> it is time for your first degree weather update. hi, janice. >> we are dealing with dry conditions. they mentioned a thunderstorm. you think that that would be good news bringing rain but it is so dry most of that rain evaporates and you are left with gusty winds and perhaps lightening to spread or start more wildfires. that's the problem out in this

area. we have cooler temperatures for the next several days, but look at the winds. the wind gusts up to 25-30 miles an hour as we head into the weekend. the temperatures just sore and yo -- soar and your heart goes out to the people who live there and the firefighters out there battling the wildfire. there's no words for it just prayers at this point. take a look at your satellite imagery over the last 6 hours. the west dry and warm for the next several days as we look at the east coast things are clearing out. that's the good news speegsly for the weekend. severe weather threat today that includes large hail damaging winds even isolated tornadoes for the northern and central high plains outside of denver up toward the dakotas. we will watch potential for showers and thunderstorms and possible severe weather. 88 in kansas city warm across

the west again 78 for new york city 93 in memphis. keep you up to date for all of the weather news ainsley and patti ann. >> talking about the fire puts life in perspective. >> it is 11 minutes after the hour. what is the one mistake both presidential campaigns are making right now? we will tell you what karl rove and bob beckel both sides have to say about that. >> and then a mayo emergency for one man. >> you are calling 911 because you don't like the way they are making your sandwich. >> exactly. >> just walk away and don't buy it. >> funny but so not. that call did not end there. we will tell you how this mayo fix called out. >> coming up a quick look at leno. >> mccain and harry reid called for the government to start regulate boxing. called in to regulate something

so corrupt and unethical?

>> quarter past the hour. time for quick headlines. russia denies it sent new military helicopters to syria. hillary clinton made that claim after video reportedly showed russian made helicopters firing on civilians. stephen baldwin looking his lawsuit against kevin costner. he claims he tricked him into selling shares of the company they owned together just before they won a deal to clean up the oil spill in the gulf. >> as you know the presidential race in full swing. what one mistake is each candidate making? >> last night bill o'reilly asked karl rove just that. rove says romney shouldn't be stumping so early with vice presidential contenders. >> it makes it look like how

well do you perform 30 minutes on the stump with me as oppose to do whae your judgment how good of a partner will you be to me what kind of strength can you bring to the ticket. what has he learned 30 minutes on the stump. >> i don't know what the down side is. i hear what you are saying. >> if you do d with one how many people are we going to have? we will have 8 or 9 or 10 people considered. scott walker and paul ryan and marbling co r marco rubio and c christie and susanna martinez everybody else who is mentioned in the drama. you want the focus to be on your message and you. next up bob beckel on the one that mistakes president obama is doing. >> one thing i would do is get him off the air. i think it's too much exposure. >> you say it's not a mistake to keep blaming president bush for

a window of time. window is going to be closed in june. >> probably until labor day. >> he can blame him until labor day he has to stop blaming him then. >> he has to ease up a little bit. >> i think that diminishes president obama. i am not saying this becau -- y don't say i am a manager of the kansas city oils it's ziggy's fault performing. you say look i am going to get us out of here it's tough. you don't make excuses you are a big boy. >> o'reilly asked beckel if he thinks the obama administration should get rid of attorney general eric holder? beckel says no. >> he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. al allen stanford sentence to do 110 years in prison for cheating investors out of more than

$7 billion. joining us now with more on that is lauren simonetti on the fox business network. >> good morning. this ponzi steam is right up there with bernie madoff. allen stanford the texas billionaire from ma hey awe texas. he sold them cd's and said those cd's were invested in stocks and bonds but he awed it for shoddy real estate investments. he made the forbes list of the richest people in the world. that's what he did in front of everybody else. >> if you are thinking of having baby how can you expect it will cost to raise a kid. >> for a regular middle class family nearly $235,000. this is for child care, education, food, housing. these costs have all risen to the tune of 3 and a half percent in one year. the courts use this kind of data to figure out child support issues and everything else. that's for a middle class family. it goes up with the money you

make. >> that is precollege. >> what about youtube. they are going to start charging us to use youtube? >> a youtube executive thinks the fees are on the web. they are thinking of charging for content. particularly the content from cable with smaller audiences. they figure they can charl for that. it is 19 minutes after the hour. he is considered one of the front runners to be mitt romney's running mate. now a shocking admission from senator marco rubio. a bird, a plane, a ufo. >> what did it look like? >> a ufo. die really know. >> was it something out of this world? that story straight heyed. >> oo national average 3.52.

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>> 23 after the hour. time for quick headlines. california buckling under budget woes. today america's boek enstate will announce it is laying off and cutting pay to hundreds maybe thousands of public workers. they will start handing out pink slips today. investigators expanding the investigation into jeep line of suv's. the gas tank may explode. grand cherokee and jeep liberty

models and jeep cherokee. are all of the ads to be trusted? james rose enhas more. good morning once again. three presidential campaigns ago in the era of bush v gore the candidates own campaign and republican parties produced little more than half of the ads we saw during that cycle. the landscape has changed considerably with analysts suggesting more than half of the ads will be produced by independent outside groups. it's a function of campaign finance laws and supreme court rulings over the past decade which has the effect of tripling amounts. they can raise and spend and put limits on what they raise and spend. >> they make too much of the united decision. they have had an influence but it's not like really really rich people didn't write really really big checks before

citizen's united. in 2004 george can thorough wrote $25 million checks for democratic groups to air ads against george w. bush. >> super packed priority usa co founded by bill burton to help president obama to win reelection. it spent 4 million on this ad. romney campaign called the ad misleading and selective in its presentation of the facts. former staffer of the democratic campaign told fox news these ads and videos spin the truth at the peril of the spon sponsors. >> the public doesn't get to go out there and convince them to do something that is not what they believe in we are lying to ourselves. the public is very smart. they know what they want and they know when they are being duped. >> industry analysts estimate half of the money raise the in

politics at the house senate and presidential level all added up is used to purchase tv and radio time. now back to ainsley and patti ann. a fox news exclusive coming up. frightening de tale of shortage of critical drugs. it already led to delays of treatment. >> this guy taking his mayo emergency to a new level. >> you are calling 911 because you don't like the way they are making your sandwich. >> exactly. >> just walk away and don't buy it. >> we will tell you how that emergency end -- ended. >> emergency. ho home defense ma. with a new continuous spray wand. and a fast acting formula. so you can kill bugs inside, and keep bugs out. guaranteed. ortho home defense max.

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♪ >> nothing like a little sugar in the morning. def leppard is pouring it outright here on fox. the rock legends will be here live for the all american summer concert series. that is later on on "fox & friends". >> they are here to warm-up. >> i am patti ann browne. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> president obama had plenty of stars in his sights last night. he spent the evening in new york city for fundraising and celebrity mingling.

peter doocy is live with more on the business. good morning, peter. >> good morning. mitt romney made anothmore monen president obama in the month of may. last night they both held fund raisers. with the help of famous friends the president out paced his opponent by more than a million dollars in one night. the first money making stop was in the west village at the 4 story brownstone home shared by sarah jessica parker and matthew broderick. broderick was performing on broadway so couldn't make it. 50 people in all paid 40,000 dollars each to attend. they got to hear mariah carey and alicia keys perform at the plaza hotel. 100 people paying 10,000 dollars each. the president took care of official business. he took a tour with new york governor andrew cuomo, new

jersey governor michacrist tee cuomo. he took time to sign a white beam with red marker. he wrote we remember, we rebuild we come back stronger barack obama. >> the president's two events raised 4 and a half million dollars. out in his backyard mitt romney was raising money, too. he held one event at the public hotel which contributes 3.3 million to his cause. the oromneys are attending a wedding and celebrate father's day while spend ago few nights in their chicago home. he will be wrong gone we long g before the first family lands because he has a rally and ice cream social in new hampshire. peter doocy, thank you. president obama's new york city visit coming straight off a trip to ohio. he and mitt romney delivered dueling speeches on the economy.

doug luzader has more on this. people in every swing state should look at what happened in ohio yesterday. that's what they are in for over the next few months. the president carried ohio by five months in 08. looks like it will be closer this time around. he spent part of the day in cleveland to talk aout the economy. the white house called this a major framing speech. no new proposals really. instead the president spoke for 54 minutes about his overall economic vision. he bashed republicans along the way. what is holding us back is a stalemate in washington between two funt fundamentally different views of which direction america should take. and this election is your chance to break that spell. >> mitt romney in the meantime tried to steal some of the president's thunder campaigning in cincinnati lobbying economic

attacks of his own. he said the president's policies are putting the country on the path of europe. this president has put together -- he has put together almost as much public debt as all of the prior presidents combined. you want four more years of that? you call that forward? that is forward over a cliff. >> he will have a bus tour over the swing states 6 of them over the next five days. democratic party is looking closely at its itinerary. they will have their own bus following romney every step of the way. >> back to you guys. >> i am sure they will thank you very much. doug. the top five stories making news at this hour. fox news obtaining an exclusive copy of a congressional report revealing an unprecedented shortage of critical drugs. it led to delays in treatments

and interruptions in care. the shortages began in 2010 after margaret hum burg became the fda commissioner. since that time they have failed to secure enforcement is carried out properly. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel will have more on the report. >> it's a bird a plane, a ufo. this causing a commotion. many seeing that picture they were on twitter talking about this and even called 911. >> what does the picture look like? >> what does the picture look like. >> a ufo. i don't really know. >> does it look like a martian type of thing or a shapaceship? >> great conversation. turns out it was a military drone transported on a flatbed truck to a naval air station in maryland. >> from cold hard hail to cold

hard cash. it is proving to be costly as well. >> oo you can see the hail is baseball size. it cost $400 million in damage. the storms smashing car windshields the hail also damaging homes tearing down tree limbs even tracked a movie marquis. a man calling emergency workers after a deli worker messed up his sandwich order. >> i specifically asked for litt a little turkey and a little ham, a lot of cheese and a lot of mayonnaise they are giving me a hard time. >> are you calling 911 because you don't like the way they are making your sandwich. >> exactly. dispatcher eventually told the man to walk away. >> he is considered to be on the

vp short list for mitt romney. for marco rubio making a shocking admission in his brand new autobiography. he may quit in the senate race against charlie crist. he was sure christie's popularity power and money would be too much in a primary. christ he won in a land slide. his book "american son"" comes out on tuesday. that is your 5@5:30. before you leave the house this morning let's get the first degree weather update with janice dean who is tracking a possible hurricane on the horizon? >> yes. this is carlatta. winds are 70 miles per hour. expected to become a hurricane in the next advisory off the coast of mexico out cease of acapulco. we are dealing with a lot of heavy rain in this area as well as hurricane force winds. you can see the time line as we

head into the overnight and into tomorrow even into monday it will be a slow mover. it will dump a ton of rain. we are worried about the potential of flooding and mud slides. we will keep an eye on carlotta. >> we can see large hail damaging winds even isolated tornadoes across the northern and central high plains today. current temperatures 78 kc, 60 in rale leiigh. if you are traveling both coasts looking great no problems at all. boston, new york, memphis, dallas looking really good at this point. philadelphia down through portland really light travel delays. shouldn't be any travel delays if i was in charge but you know how that goes. back to you patti ann and ainsley. >> all right janice dean thank you. for all of you tech novices out there. do not panic. there is never a dumb question

for our tech guru and weekend anchor clayton morris. great to see you. asked for viewer's questions got a few interesting ones. what are your thoughts on ios 6 coming out this fall? >> i have been out this week covering it. there are over 200 new features. i think the biggest thing is maps turn by turn directions. there are a lot of exciting features. a passbook is exciting. think of getting rid of your wallet all together. you go to your gym membership you have a card for that. grocery store. they created a thing called passbook which enables you to keep it on your iphone go to the store hit the button show it you don't have to carry your wallet around. i will be diving into these features and tweeting about it and writing about it. >> that sounds cool on its own. cannon shot tweeted us, would you wait for the next ipad or wait? >> we have no idea what will be

in the new ipad. they relosed it march of this year. the current version has the retina display. it is a beautiful display. it has the next generation wireless which is lte. it's super fast. if you are going to wait you are going to wait a whole other year to get an ipad. we have no idea. if you are thinking go getting one go get one now. >> for father's day you are running out of time but you can still do it. >> what is the coolest thing i can do on my iphone with siri? >> sir,is the voice activation service. personal assistant aid they call it. create a lunch meeting with patti ann browne thursday next week at 2:00 p.m. you can say that it will create it for you. 6 i got to play with are really exciting. say you love the phillies like i do. who won the philly's game last night. who has the highest batting average in the major leagues right now. all of those questions you can

ask it. one of the things i like asking my favorite thing out to dinner asking someone to break up the bill. how much do you pay and i pay and a 20 percent tip. >> clayton morris thank you for joining us. >> i say you pay every time we all go out. >> let me ask. says no. >> 41 after the hour. coming up he told passengers to say their prayers the plain was going down. can you image? now those images fighting back against jetblue. they are suing. do we have this case? a father who just lost his son besieged with calls from debt collector's over his son's student loans. with the spark cash card from capital one,

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>> some quick headlines now. why double dip when you can go for a triple dip. danny donahue the head of the largest government worker's

union is able to cash in on three different pensions totalling 130,000 dollars. a spokesman for the civil service employee's defends the pension amount. eek eek city has unique -- oklahoma city has unique honor voted the most manliest. it has the number of pink houses and home improvement scores to make the decision. staeak and potatoes. it is quarter to the top of the hour. they fear for their lives. now ten passengers are filing suit over a march jetblue flight where the captain had to be locked out of the cockpit and restrained after yelling about al qaeda. you remember this story. do those passengers have a case? we are going to ask attorney and former prosecutor elliot. do they have a case here? >> i think this is completely frivolous. >> why? >> because life is full of scary moments. we don't have to lawyer up every

time we experience one. i am in favor of criminal prosecution of the pilot. he's going prosecuted been indicted facing 20-years in prison. i am in favor of the faa looking at the airlines to make sure they do everything they are required to do to make sure they are physically able to do. >> did they? >> they are required to have two physical exams every year. by all accounts he did have those. he passed them. >> something went wrong. what happened? why did this dwie do this? he is pleading insanity. someone would have known about it, right? >> not necessarily a seizure can happen for the first time. a breakout can happen for the first time. we want the airlines to make sure they are safe. thou they will doing everything they are required to do. do we have to lawyer up every

time something goes wrong? >> these litigation costs and potential reward costs they are passed on to the consumers they are passed on to us. >> our country is so litigious now. can they sue the doctor if they determine he is a preexisting condition. can they sue his wife? >> they are looking for any source of a potential payday. >> what does all of this go down? >> first the pilot is investigated he's being arraigned and indicted the fbi is investigated. he's facing potentially 20-years. those are determined before civil matters get determined. i don't think the folks have a case. i saw the press conference yesterday some of the plaintiffs some of the passengers couldn't articulate what they thhad experienced. they were sitting in other sections of the plane were barely affectd in anyway. >> they are saying not enough.

>> just one more. they want a bigger payday. >> thank you so much for coming in this morning. >> my pleasure. >> it is 48 minutes after the hour. coming up a midst a bustle of president obama's surprise stop for barbecue? they over looked one key detail, the bill. a brand new report shedding light on the port coming out of washington. we will breakdown all of those numbers. first we check in with brian kilmeade to see what's coming up on "fox & friends". a little birdie tells me eli is coming on. >> how dare you give it away. we went over this in rehearsal this morning. ainsley i will start fresh. hank crump will be on he designed the word afghanistan that blew up the taliban in a matter of weeks. he will be talking about the investigative leaks. why am i sit hearing behind the jump set? def leppard is here. they had 15 top 40 hits. they are going to be here live as part of our summer concert

series. and as ainsley mentioned for the first time in the history of eli manning's career he is going to be playing our show the two time super bowl mvp. it will be exciting and great. we have a lot of fun in store. first things first free food straight ahead.

>> quick headlines for you. massachusetts spending $18 million on healthcare for illegal immigrants out of staters and other people who can't prove they live in the state. records show the staggering amount from october 2010 to last september. critics say it is proof the state needs more regulations. debt collectors hounding a grieving father for their son's student loans. he died in a car crash days

after he krad gated fr -- gradu from college. now his father says he's getting harassing phone calls. even worse it is nearly impossible to track down where the loans are coming from because the banks keep selling them off. 53 after the hour a new government waste report details have $2 billion of your tax payer money indirectly subsidized to advertising for companies and trade organizations. diane macedo has that story. >> this new report released by republican senator focuses on the federal government's market access program or map for short. they make the argument that with the government looking to cut spending every where it can, it seems like this is a good place to start. according to the report despite making billions of dollars in combined sales companies like welches, sun kwis akis and blue

diamond they made money for product pro portion. tyson foods, purina, her she and jack daniels received money for overseas advertising. this is nothing new. since 99 blue diamond growers have received 28 million from map. sunkist growers one of the biggest cereals of fresh fruit received $23.1 million. the indiana reality tv show left behind receives 20 billion and even those investing in dogs cats and horses gets money from map. >> this is just a few examples. the trade group also receiving other money from other outlets. at a time when we are cutting funding for our troops taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the filming of reality film shows in india wine tasting for foreign journalists and even ads for pet shampoo. viewers can read the full report

at co burn.senate.gov. it is titled treasure map. it is now 5 minutes to the top of the hour. the food must have been really good. the president enjoyed a great meal. he forgot one thing, to pay the bill. it is the word of the day all scrambled up. we will show it at the bottom of the screen. we will figure out what the answer is.

>> look at the good, bad and ugly. a wounded war hero is about to get a home that makes his life easier. homes for troops built for corporal mccloud. >> i didn't want to freak them out. i suck it up. >> homes for our troops building 111 houses for wounded service members.

next the bad. a california church told to keep quiet. people who live near the new life they can hear loud muc all nights. they have to stop playing the music until sound proofs is involved. president obama dining and dashing and had barbecue in washington d.c.. the problem he or his staff porgot to pay the bill. the white house took care of it later that day. it is one minute to the top of the house. steve doocy is here. >> steve: there is a p in there. >> i can't help you with this. >> steve: leopard. we have def leopard. i made the mistake on twitter.

steve doocy thangs. "fox and friends" starts now. >> gretchin: it is friday and tgif, everyone. june 15th. i am gretchin karlson thanks for being with us. check in the city . president obama partying at sarah jessica parker. this is a pricey party. the who is the president reaching out to? >> steve: tired of blame bush routine. survey said that helps brian >> brian: we are americans, but not legally. this new cover creating controversy. only ones willing to work hard? "fox and friends" starts now.