ainsley. >> ainsley: thanks so much. maria., looking to throw a 4th of july party, easy and inexpensive tips to help you out. and joining us is the founder and ceo, thanks so much for many with us. and this is absolutely gorgeous, and you know, when you're planning a party, you want it to look this pretty. you don't want to spend money. >> definitely. >> one. things a lot of parties do at the holiday season is they have stars and stripes, and that's the thing, mark those up between two and three times, more than the solid color plates. what you can do, the 4th of july, buy, red, white and blue, plates and then instead of spending two to three times, then you can buy the star-- >> a pack of 100 versus a pack of 20. >> then you can reuse them for birthday parties. >> good idea. one thing you might want to splurge on, pretty inexpensive are the picks that have the american flag on them. >> those are so cute. >> where do you get those. >> yeah, like a party store, 144 for like $2. >> i dorable and you used the bandanas in the mason

>> good morning ainsley and heather. when president obama said if you have a business you didn't build that on friday. republicans and mitt romney tried to capitalize saying president obama wants americans to be ashamed of their success. president obama doubled down last night in texas. >> i believe in entrepreneur ship and i believe the market is the greatest system on earth to create wealth and prosperity. but just like abraham lincoln said there's some things we do better together than on our own. >> as president obama say those who start businesses succeed because of individual initiative drive hard work and creativity. there are critical actions that we must take to encourage new ones. that means we need the best infrastructure education system and affordable domestic sources of clean energy. the rnc is making fun of the president's comments now with photos like this one laughing and telling the wright brothers they didn't build their plane. mitt romney is hammering away as well. >> the idea to say that steve jobs d

i am ainsley earhardt. >> hi ainsley. i am heather nauert. thank you for getting up with us today. it is monday july the 2nd. we have live team coverage this morning on the aftermath of those dead stloirms that take place across the north and mid atlantic. first let's start with your 5@5:00. >>> the same al qaeda terrorist who tried to blow planes out of the skies in 2009 hatching another plot to take down another jet. the terror group's branch in the arabian peninsula recruited a norwegian man. the training is specifically targeted jets between now and the start of the olympics in london in late july. >> an airplane crashes in a wildfire. it's a c 130 hercules. it went down in the southwest quarter of the state while battling the fire. the flames already burning 4200 acres there. crews rescuing people from the plane no word on what caused the crash. >>> an up close fist hand look at what caused the damage in the wildfire. 46 thousand people forced to leave their houses in colorado springs now going back to return to see the damage. there's not much left. >> oh my god. i wouldn't b

ainsley? >> nearly 2 million people from il north carolina up to new jersey entering their 4th day without power. this is the number of people killed in this weekend's violent storms continues to rise. kelly wright is live in washington with the details. >> something i want to put out quickly. dc mayor vincent mayor has written a letter to president obama asking the president to declare a disaster area tofor damage relief in the dc area. they have 26 related storm deaths throughout the region. there are estimates more than 2 million people are still without power in the aftermath of the weekend storms. power companies have crews working around the clock right now to restore electricity. the soaring hot temperatures have not helped people at all. people are doing their best to deal without electricity with air-conditioning and lights at night. they are asking one fundamental question why they are taking so long to get the power restored. >> (inaudible) i wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry with

molly henneberg is following this in washington. >> good morning ainsley.t comment was made on a conference call. during that call the obama team was focusing on a boston globe article that sited fileings of the security and exchange commission the fcc listing romney's bane capital a private equity firm. romney said he left spain in 1999ment here is what they said about it. >> he was misrepresenting his position at bane to the fcc which is a felony or he was misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investment. >>> bain capital pushed back after this began making news saying there was a lag in updating the paperwork after romney left the company and reiterated mitt romney left bain capital in february 1999 to run the olympics and has had no involvement in the management or investment activities of the firm or with any of the portfolio companies since the day of his departure. >> after that romney's team bounced on the felony remark from the obama side. campaign manager matt rose s

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. it is wednesday july 11th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> let's get right to our top headlines this morning. we are going to start with your 5 at 5:00. >> passengers thought they were going to die on a flight. >> everybody is screaming. you see the people jumping up and down. it was freaked out. >> basically with the noise and bumps you think you are going down. >> i thought you were going to die. >> it was scary. it was. >> emotional. well the plain just 30 minutes from landing when the turbulence hit. >> another frightening ordeal on a flight. a foul odor forced a u.s. ir ways flight to make an emergency landing in philly. 5 crew members got so sick they were rushed to the hospital. the plane had just taken off from charlotte. it was heading to rome. the flight duke otook off for i with a new plane and crew. >>> lose part of your salary. introducing a bill to penalize members of congress who miss vote. it is called mow show no pay acted. if they miss a vote they won't get paid for that day.

ainsley great ladies there. >>> 51 minutes after the top of the hour.en you sit at a desk all day you start to suffer look like this at the end of the day. how can we stand up straight? personal trainer expert nicky fitness is here to show us moves. show us what we can do. a lot of people are at a computer or baby all day. if you are working out you can do exercises but get over stretched you get too tight. we are going to stretch the pecks and strengthen the upper back. you can pick up your weights. >> oh my gosh. >> tip it off to the side bend the knees slightly changing at the hips. you do the reverse slide and you do a row. so the back of your hands to the ceiling and elbow. you are squeezing together bind your back. you want something more challenging this is basically the opposite of a pushup. lay down on the floor. probably can't do it in a dress. you lay down on the floor lift your hands. lift up your hips and head off the floor. then if you want a big exercise>> tell me your timing you would do 20 wheel push ups. >> next we will learn how to ha

there is a teacher behind the wheel. >> the secret to losing weight ainsley it is so simple. folks we are talking about it. we are going to reveal it up next. >> so hard to do simple yet hard. check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on fox and friends. >> good morning ladies. nice to see you on this wednesday morning. fox and friends kicks off right here on the fox news channel. there is this guy out in phoenix he's a preacher who has been holding prayer meetings in his house. yesterday he started a 60 day sentence because they say he can't do that. why? we will tell you all about that. the city of scranton pennsylvania is out of money. we have to pay everybody minimum wage. the cops don't like that the teachers don't like that. we have one of the firefighters with us as well. why is mitt romney suddenly 14 points ahead with independent. could it be the class warfare thing is not working in his favor? if you write out a check today you will notice the date is 7-11. how does 7-11 the convenience store celebrate? they are giving everybody in america a free slurpe and

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. thank you for watching kags fokts and frien-- "fox & friend. >> it was like the sun exploded that description coming from the witness who caught the exact moment when a train derailed exploding into a massive fireball. >> (bleep). >> come on. >> 90,000 gallons of ethanol exploded when 11 cars derailed columbus, ohio. two people were hurt during a second explosion walking along the tracks to investigate. the cause of the crash may have been a mechanical failure. >>> after spending a decade behind bars to get osama bin laden's body guard and driver is now a free man. he is in his country of sudan. he confessed to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism. his release is the first detainee convicted under the obama administration's revised policy to be transferred back home. >>> george zimmerman will be released later today. this is a first look at what fb,i agents had in their investigation. sglirm man says he shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin in self dpeens. >>> for the f

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it's july 16th. thanks for watching fox and friends first. >> there is a massive search underway in the state of iowa for two young cousins who vanished friday. hundreds of volunteers gathering last night but no new clues were uncovered. 8-year-old elizabeth and 10-year-old cousin lyric were last seen riding bicycle. the bikes were found abandoned near the lake. >> searchers are confident the girls are not in myers lake. we have used all sorts of resources we have had and brought in search and rescue dogs and they have found nothing. >> family members aren't giving up hope. >> positive thinking is all we have right now and our faith and god will bring them back. >> a 50,000 dollar reward is being offered for the girl's safe return. >>> a tree was hit by lightening killing two of those men and sending a third one to the hospital. witnesses say it sounded like an explosion. >>> i heard what sounded like a bomb go off and i looked to my left and i could see the ligh n lightening strike hit the top of th

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> let's declare it. it's going to be an awesome day today. top five stories making news at this hour. airline food causing a scare in the air. sewing needles in turk kie. they were in the flight from amsterdam. two people suffered minor injuries from biting down on the injuries. it took immediate action from the caterer and removed it from flights. those companies are cooperating with the fb aishgs current investigations. >> one of the busiest bridges between united states and canada is open again after a bomb threat shut it down. bomb sniffing dogs not finding anything suspicious on that bridge. 25,000 vehicles use that bridge each and every day. the threat came from the u.s. side of the bridge there was a similar threat four-days ago to a tunnel crossing. >>> the fbi was sending in tracking dogs as police were draining the lake where the girl's buys siblings were found. the 8 and 10-year-old were last seen leaving their grandmother's ho

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am patti ann browne. the first top five stories making news at this hour. president obama's top advisors find out who is behind a recent rash of security leaks. the white house fell under suspicion after they mysteriously became unclassified after a foiled not and attack on iran. house lawmakers launching their own investigation after attorney

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. hope you had a great weekend. >> it is monday july the 30th. thanks for watching "fox & friends first". >> it is time now for your 5@5:00. the top five stories making news at this hour. the search has ended for the plane which vanished last week. ed described his family as a seasoned pilot. he took off in his homemade plane but never arrived at his destination. he was the only person on the plane. crews have searched areas around there that he might have flown over but still no signs of him. there wasn't an emergency beacon to help with the search. >> video coming into the fox newsroom as firefighters work through the night to put out an electrical fire. power lines going up in flames last night after a severe round of thunderstorms there. you can see this road right here the road is actually steaming. heavy winds and rain also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people in this area over the weekend. the severe weather being blamed for at least two deaths. talk about a scary ri

as ainsley earhardt explains... she died yesterday...her battle with pancreatic cancer.- cancer. she will forever be known as a trail blazer. sally ride served as an astronaut on the 19-83 space shuttle challenger crew. the move cements her in history as the first american women in space, planting a foothold in the field that was once dominated by men. milt heflin / long-time ride colleague"...well, i guarantee you she opened, she opened a door and in fact // she still opened doors to young women around the country..." ride logged more than 300 hours in space over two shuttle missions. the second mission took place in 19-84. a planned third flight was canceled when the challenger shuttle exploded in 19-86. along with her pair of outer space trips, ride has many other notable accomplishments. she was a physicist, a physics professor, she wrote five science books for children, and served as president of her own company. friends say she was also passionate about trying to motivate youngsters to pursue careers in science. george abbey / form

maybe ainsley does.tick around. >> it's now 2 minutes until the top of the hour as we take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly. first, the good. the lifeguard that made national headlines after he was fired for leaving his designated area to go save a man's life is being offered a new job. florida's water park legoland making tomas lopez an offer to come work there. the park also offering jobs to the nine other lifeguards to quit in support of lopez. next, the bad. two window washers dangling from the 42nd floor of this new york city high rise. something went terribly wrong and they were stuck there for over an hour. they weren't injured. that's good news. finally, the ugly. a big resume oops for a college student at york university in toronto. she mistakenly attached a picture of nicolas cage to a job application instead of her resume. she claims she was thrown by the numbers in the file name. what? >> definitely not clear on exactly how that happened. >> how that happened, i don't know. >> i don't

ainsley, heather back to you. >>> thank you so much. if that is leaving you feeling a little bit poor. >> more money out the window. >> the next question is one for you. time for us to brew on this. here's what we would like you to brew on today. half of americans believe it is impossible for them to become wealthy in the course of their lifetime. according to the new poll about taxes by the hill.com 40 percent of 1,000 people surveyed say they will never get rich. 37 percent of those people poled said they could. >> this leads us to the question of the day. do you think the ability to get rich one day is possible? or is it an impossible dream? send us your comments you can tweet them to us at fox friends first or shoot us an e-mail at fox friends first.com. >>> someone has to win the lottery. >> from using public wi-fi to sharing too much information on-line. how you can be responsible for ruining your own credit. we have tips on how to avoid all that. >> this is stuff we haven't heard of before so stick around. >> talk about a starry

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. >> now time for the top 5@5:00. a potential break in the case of missing indiana student expirer. a human skull disappeared near where he disappeared a year ago. they are awaiting lab results to see if there was a match. she was last seen on june 3rd of last year leaving a friend's apartment. >>> those celebrating a pool party are recovering today after a backyard deck collapses under their feet. a group of 20 people were on the deck. it is built on a hillside. a deck fell away sending them falling nearly 40 feet. >> fell inward not outward. so when it fell in it had another chance of toppling back over. people inside the pool were holding it. they had to be inside the pool holding the deck from collapsing on them. >> 6 people were gotake tone th hospital. they are all expected to be okay. anthony wiener's wife expected to give a tell all interview. uma has been pushing him to give a sit down interview over the texting scandal which ended his career in congress. she think it is will clear the air and allow him to mo

ainsley earhart, fox news. fox >>> we still have plenty ahead, your weather, traffic and all of your top stories. >> fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts right now. right now. >>> live look outside right now at the washington montana on wednesday, july 11th. it is hump day. a little bit of nasty weather outside last night caused some problems. it is clear outside right now but last night, it was not the case. it looks like a river but it is some of the streets in northwest d.c. a heavy rain storm caused flash flooding near first street and rhode island avenue. the downpour left a bloomingdale neighborhood in northwest submerged in water. the storm also affected home in the area. many of the houses experienced some kind of flooding and thousands of people lost power. >> good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. >> let's check in with tucker barnes to get the latest on our weather. >> i didn't realize that it had even rained when i went to bed but woke up to see this. >> i

i am hert nauert. >> i am ainsley earhardt.0 minutes after the hour. >> top headlines it is 5:30 on the east coast. the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others at a colorado movie theater will find out what charges he will face today. they will likely charge holmes with numerous counts of murder attempted murder also sag vated assault along with possible other offenses. they will say whether they will release the gag order to get access to information about his psychiatrist dr. lynn fenton. >>> a shortage of doctors in the u.s. likely to get worse according to estimates by the association of american medical colleges the country will have nearly 63,000 fewer doctors needed in 2015. that number will more than double by 2025. health experts say there is very little the medical profession will be able to do to close that gap by 2014 when obama care kicks in and begins to extend coverage to 30 million americans. >>> the greatest legislative success may never have happened. an explosive new book released next month v

ainsley earhart, fox news. >> we still have plenty ahead. your weather, traffic and all of your top stories. >> fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts now. happy wednesday, july 25th. hump day at 4:30 in the morning. tucker barnes will join us in just a second to talk about our weather situation. >> he is slowly making his way over here. i'm wisdom martin. >> i'm sarah simmons. i had to call you out. i'm sorry. >> and you don't have the coat on this morning. >> not ready for it yet but it's okay j -- but it's okay. >> not a sign of things to come. >> it will be much more pleasant today. this will be the pick of the week ads our temperatures will be in the mid- to upper 80s. should be bright sunshine throughout the day. you might be able to see the blue sky during the course of the day. should be a nice one. 75 in washington. 77 in ocean city. 70 out at dulles and winchester. many of these temperatures will fall back into the 60s before dawn. looking at the radar, very quiet conditions. our frontal system from yesterday is now pushing into souther

i'm ainsley earhardt.now back to greta. >> chris christie made a surprise move. what did he just do. he is throwing his support by putting sales taxes on online shopping, tax flee online shopping could be a thing of the past. more and more republican governors are taxing internet sales. why the sudden change. i imagine this is popular a tax increase by republicans? >> it's not technically a tax increase. everyone is supposed to pay taxes on online taxes at the end of year. obviously nobody does that. so the states are not collecting the sales taxes so the governors see it as a way to help them balance their budgets without technically raising taxes. >> i have a sneaking suspicion this is not a tax increase. technically people are supposed to gather it up at the end of year. i think most people feel it's a tax increase? >> sure i think a lot of people would say that. there are some people some tea party groups see it as a tax increase and oppose it. but a lot of republican governors, rick snyder, mitch dani

ainsley over to you. >> thanks heather. new jersey men facing charges today that they created a fake 9-11 charity. then pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in donations. >>> good morning. the two guys are scam artists. they drove around collecting 10's of thousands of dollars in donations for a phony 9-11 charity. 66-year-old mark nimcheck and thomas scaljione. a truck had the names of 9-11 victims on it. they would sollity donati-- sol donations for families who had loved one die. they collected money for a donation that never exist. he would come to charity events and tell people he was a former navy seal when in reality he was an ex-con. >> he was too much self promoting. i know for a fact navy seals would never, ever do what he was doing. navy seals probably the most humble people on earth this guy was the complete opposite. >> the two defendants used a national tragedy to dupe the public. these defendants are causing additional emotional distress for their alleged grieving. he called into question his motive and trea

i am ainsley earhardt. >> hi ainsley. i am heather nauert. thank you for getting up with us today.is monday july the 2nd. we have live team coverage this morning on the aftermath of those dead stloirms that take place across the north and mid atlantic. first let's start with your 5@5:00. >>> the same al qaeda terrorist who tried to blow planes out of the skies in 2009 hatching another plot to take down another jet. the terror group's branch in the arabian peninsula recruited a norwegian man. the training is specifically targeted jets between now and the start of the olympics in london in late july. >> an airplane crashes in a wildfire. it's a c 130 hercules. it went down in the southwest quarter of the state while battling the fire. the flames already burning 4200 acres there. crews

ainsley earhardt has more on this. >>> sources say holmes sent a notebook to a psychiatrist at the university of colorado medical center. what was inside extremely disturbing. >> don't know how specific it was to what actually happened but there are definitely gun figures shooting at other stick figures. >> fox news sources say this is video of the notebook being removed on monday. even more troubling it might have been there in that mail room unopened for up to a week. the package was either postmarked or delivered on july 12th. that was a full week before this massacre. the university of colorado claiming it was delivered four-days after the attack monday and found that same day. we hear the psychiatrist is also a professor there who also treated patients at a psychiatric outpatient facility. it is unknown if the suspect and that doctor had any direct contact. the fbi is investigating that notebook. a neighbor talking about the music blaring in an attempt to cause even more death and destruction. >> from exactly at midnight to 1:00 a.m. the music played and then it shut off. we don't know w

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is monday july 23rdrd. >> colorado and the rest of the nation are remembering the victims of the midnight movie massacre. ♪ >> family members, friends and other loved ones had a heartbreaking vigil inyesterday. >> dave briggs is live in aurora with the information for us. >> when you read the cover of the denver post the local paper says it all. this is a bit strange my home town aurora, colorado. wint to high school 8 miles from this theater at smoky hills high school. i can tell everyone is indeed hurting. that is the mood. people are starting to tufrn the page starting to rally together come together and try to move on. not be angry not be vengeful but to show the best of humans in the wake of this tragedy. they had the vigil last night hundreds of people gathering together to honor the victims not just the 12 killed in if the shooting at the midnight show the other night but also the 58 injured. after every name the name was called the crowd cheered. they are saying we are not

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i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to greta in colorado this morning. i will see you at 5:00 a.m.s first. rdt and now back to greta. >> greta: so who is james holmes? the man accused of massacring innocent people a man that happened to go to a midnight movie. we're learning more about him. we caught up with a colorado man said he had drinks with holmes a few nights before the shooting. what impression did he make on jackie mitchell. >> reporter: this the bar a few blocks from james holmes apartment where one regular customer says she shared a beer with him. >> when did you last see mr. holmes and what can you tell us about what he was wearing and what he was saying to you? >> tuesday, it was 6:30 or so, we were all on the patio and the guy was at the table. we were talking sports to another table. he was there. he had input on a couple of things, nothing serious. >> reporter: so you were sitting at a table with friends. did he comes out and sits next to the table next to you but nobody next to you? >> just him. >> reporter: how did your conversation strike up. have you seen him th

i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record" with greta.es, check out our web site, foxnews.com. have a great morning. ord" with greta. >> greta: is this a political blunder for the obama campaign? for almost a year, president obama has been coming under intense fire for the failed loan to the belly-up solyndra. so is it smart to appear in a $35,000 a plate fund-raise wer two key players in the solyndra mess? he was hob knobbing with the supporters, including two key figures. who were they? abc news editor rick klein is here. okay. who were they? >> faces in the crowd. steve wesley is one, a well-known venture capitalist. he was so close to the inner circle, he was raising flags about solyndra. he knew based upon his contacts that there was a problem -- >> greta: he get ace gold star. he tried. >> he tried to stop it or warn the white house. but another figure was matt rogers, a former department of energy official. he was in charge of getting the money out the door to companies like solyndra, despite the push-back in this case from the off

i'm ainsley earhardt. back to greta. >> greta: four olympic medals. star of the 2008 olympics and he won the championship on "dancing with the stars" and at the yug -- young age of 20, she was forced to retire from gymnastics and she has written a book, called "winning balance." welcome. hi. thanks for having me. >> greta: okay. let me, since noun -- none of us will ever know, that's what like to win a gold medal and have that put around your neck and hear the national anthem? >> it's the biggest honor to wear your country's colors and knowing you did them proud. so: i would give anything to have it again. but unfortunately, you know, that's the one iville to remember -- which isn't a bad one by any means. >> greta: why -- why are you so great at this isn't gold medal on the balance beam. what is it -- how much is natural talent? how much is drive? there is some reason you are the best in the world. >> i think natural talent in nigh my sport has a say in it, has a part in tbut i fell in love when i was so young, just really wanted to pursue it as much

i'm ainsley earhardt. greta van susteren. >> greta: a new report shows that programs that are supposed to help americans get jobs are costing you a fortune. last year, the government accountability office found that taxpayers are spending $818 billion on job training programs and there is no evidence that the programs even work. so what has congress done to fix the programs? oklahoma senator tom coburn says -- nothing. why? we asked him about the results of this brand-new study. nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> greta: i have a new report on job training programs, particularly in oklahoma. how's it going? >> we are going to spend almost $200 million of american taxpayer dollars this year. we have 40 programs, out of 47. we have one town of 16,000 people. we have 17 separate federal job training programs in that town. you know, this started when we forced the g.a.o. to tell us what we are duplicating. so i sent staff out. and we did over 70 site visits in the state and collected all the information an

i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to record roar. death? row, eight years ago in a trial that became a national tv event. he was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, lacy, and unborn child. prosecors said he dumped her body from his boat into the san francisco bay. he appealed his death sentence on pretrial pu publicity, and perhaps most importantly the jurors experiment in the boat. while viewing the boat, some jurors went in the boat and one of them went on the record and told us why. could it be the interview that gets peterson a new trial? take a look. >> why did you want to get in the boat? >> because there were questions about the stability of the boat, that when we listened to expert, i don't think those questions were answered in our minds. we needed to have a little bit more to that, and i climbed in the boat, and you know, to look like everybody was saying, at pictures, it didn't mean much to us. not being able to get in the boat originally, when we walked out there, we were like hands off, kind of walked around with our hand

. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm ainsley earhardt.e most destructive wildfire in colorado history is contained. the toll is massive. the waldo canyon fire killed two people and destroyed nearly 350 houses. thousands were forced to evacuate and 20,000 others never received the orders. officials claim that the emergency calls didn't get through because of the heavy volume. the captain of the doomed cruise liner apologizes. francessco telling an italian tv station he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly before the ship crashed into a reef on january 13. the accident killed 32 people, including an american couple. he is facing numerous charges of manslaughter, caution the accident and abandoning his ship. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to greta. earhardt. back to greta. >> greta: four olympic medals. shawn johnson became a huge star of the 2008 olympics and he won the championship on "dancing with the stars" and at the yug -- young age of 20, she was forced to retire from gymnastics and she has written a book, called "winning ba

ainsley earhart, fox news. >>> the world aids conference continues this week in d.c. and so many we've learned that still have a lack of understanding about the disease. >> we want to help you answer your questions about aids and hiv. from 7:00 to 10:00 this morning, we'll have a panel of medical experts on hand to answer all of your questions. can you call the number on your screen from 7:00 to 10:00 this morning. >> fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts right now. ts right now. >>> happy tuesday, july 24th, 2012. interesting weather to say the least. up and down, hot, cold, humid. some rain, no rain, we get it all here in washington, d.c. in the summertime and tucker barnes will talk about that in just a second. >> that is why we like it here. >> we do. i'm wisdom martin. >> i'm sarah simmons. let's get the latest on our weather out there. the humidity likes to stick around. it knows what time it is. >> yesterday, it felt like a wet blanket outside. it was pretty much unbearable. today, lots of humidity, lots of heat. could be some afternoon storms and that will set us

as ainsley earhardt explains... military is facing a reduction of 4- hundred-92 billion dollars over the next 10 years... with a 55-billion dollar cut beginning in january. that is... unless president obama and congressional leaders can agree on a plan to avert the cuts. cuts. it's being called the "preserving america's strength" tour. a number of republicans are hitting four battleground out against automatic spending cuts to our defense budget due to go into effect in sen. john mccain / (r-az)"no uniformed military leader who we trust agrees that these cuts would do anything but devastate our national security." a number of lawmakers say they oppose the across-the-board cuts under a process known as sequestration. some say those cuts will have a severe impact on our military.sen. kelly ayotte / (r-nh)"...our fleet right now is 285 and that if we allow sequestration to go forward, that would drop our fleet to 230-235 ships which would be the smallest navy since 1915..." the automatic cuts are slated to take effect

in new york, ainsley earhart, fox news. >>> more serious allegations against george zimmerman and this was nothing to do with the trayvon martin shooting. >> details of what one woman said he did to her repeat lid when they were children. we hear that in her own words next as we check more headlines. stay with us.  >>> new this morning, an outdoor barbecue in toronto ends in fire leaving two people dead and 19 others injured. police believe multiple gunman fired shots into the crowd of more than 200 people late last night. they say one person of interest is in custody and they are looking for another suspect. >>> two americans kidnapped in egypt have been released unharmed. you saw them there. the older man in the white garb and the woman in black. the boston area residents were taken off a bus friday along with their egyptian tour guide. the accused kidnapper said he wanted investigators to release his uncle. he let the americans go when he was promised authorities were working on getting his uncle out. >>> another big story making headlines. molestation allegations