jeff flock, what exactly does rubio want to know?to drive before you can fly, first of all, ashley. but what he wants to know is some concerns about that company that ford is partnering with, with this new ev battery plant in michigan. it's a great thing, 2,000 plus jobs, but the company called contemporary amporex technology, it's a chinese company, and he has concerns about the company's ties with the chinese communist party. fox digital today is reporting on ties between the founder and ceo of that company with the ccp. and so he has some questions about that. he's written a letter to the secretaries of treasury, transportation and energy. in it he says, and i quote him now, i am alarmed at ford's plan to establish a large michigan-based factory, structures a wholly-owned subsidiary that licenses its tech from catl. i demand that no federal funds, especially monies granted via the inflation reduction act, go the enrich catl or any other beijing-supported company. ford says, hey, you know, a lot of companies do business with china,

jeff flock in philadelphia. jeff, thank you very much as always.ficial is urging countries to invest in more oil. lauren, what? what about climate? lauren: i know, they work hand in hand. oil companies should have a seat at the climate table because green needs fossil fuel. they have to fill in the gap right, when the wind and sun can't cut the needs of people who need energy. these comments came from the opec chief. he also says the oil industry is plagued by years of chronic underinvestment, suggesting they need $500 billion a year in investment in fossil fuels until, not a decade, like biden says, but the beyond and beyond, until the year 2045. ashley: tell mr.widen that. lauren, thank you very much. now this, the department of transportation set to offer 7.5 billion in subsidies to elon musk but only if tesla adds chargers used by its competitors to their own charging stations. the move would give a standard for ev makers including ford, hyundai, honda, general motors and more. hyundai said previously he is open to the idea of combining those c

jeff flock, i'm out of time. good-bye. come on in.o host and is crime the big issue here? >> yeah, crime is. violent crime is the biggest issue. there's no question about it. the reason lori lightfoot won't survive in the runoff. i predict. >> what you'll see is all the constitutional interests that the public sector unions and kleptocacats consolidate around him. stuart: c kleptocrats, want thieves. the guards are telling them they've got orders from higher ups. know anything about this, dan? who's the higher up? >> the idea that the inmates, prison inmates being a constituent is not new unfortunately the real additional layer to have is that those inmates are not inmates long enough and that's the real problem in chicago and that's led the nation for for the last 11 years in the number of homicides and until and unless we get serious. not just with the mayor and prosecutor and the judges and keeping habitual violent offenders in and away from prison and peaceful people and more. stuart: lori lightfoot doesn't get a second term and g

jeff flock for us in chicago. jeff. thank you for that eye opening. sandra. >> sandra: a live look as we await the white house press r briefing after that bombshell report on covid origins, sure to add to the high tensions between the west and china. john kirby is set to headline the briefing a few moments from now and he's likely to face a lot of tough questions about it. peter doocy is live from the white house for us right now. peter. what is the white house saying about the report on covid origins? >> nothing today, but there will be a lot of that later on this hour. if you look at this big picture, covid was the issue that decided the 2020 election. and now the department of energy is saying with low confidence that covid's origin was a lab leak. >> there is a variety of views in the intelligence community, some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other, a number have said they don't have enough information to be sure. >> the chinese government's spin reads like this, certain parties should sto

jeff flock live in chicago with what is in store what with a owners are saying about this jeff? chicago treasure happy foods market, family-owned business been in business 50 years, and just a treasure here, if this is passes, let's read the but will i want to tell you what it says the armed security protection act beginning july 24 a bank gas station, grocery store pawnshop shall employ have on premises at least one guard during time it does business. . >> what are they thinking? >> they are not thinking a ludicrous bill -- for the liability of having armed guard in here? just -- >> people don't understand there is a lot of safe neighborhoods in chicago some people nationwide think this terrible. no, it is not that way. >> it is not that way there are naikdz very safe this a very safe neighborhood. >> at the same time,numbers on crime those are crime problem in chicago. >> what do you do about the crime problem? >> i think you should arrest the people doing it put them in jail incarcerate them. >> if you had to hire security guard would be a huge cost. >> it would be huge, i ca

jeff flock following it all. jeff? >> neil, hello to you from the humboldt park neighborhood.o have criticized her performance with crime and the relationship of the business community, i'd say be careful what you wish for. it is a big race, a big field. nine candidates, eight of them challenging the sitting mayor and f them in fact maybe the majority of those that polled well are to the left of lightfoot. take a look at the man surging lately. brandon johnson amount cook county commissioner. he's policy, tax the rich. $100,000 if you make that, it will be a $3.5% tax. anybody making $100,000 or more. he wants to take trades. he wants a 66% increase in the hotel tax. and chewy garcia from chicago, he has a solution for crime. he has more gun control legislation. the person with most support among police and the business community is paul vallas, he's a former school chief. handcuffs need to be taken off of the police. he said that he thought he was more republican than democrat, but now he's a life-long democrat. lori lightfoot can be seen as the middle of the ground candidate

debate that i think is going to be reignited about all you this in particular what happened in ohio, jeff flocknk you for that live report from new jersey. and i want to bring in right now ohio resident amanda, she lives 10 miles from east palestine shocked to find all chickens dead last week you say the day before all your chickens i think a rooster as well but perfectly fine, and then what happened when you walked out your door? >> -- my son and i went to do mourning rounds every day things my son's chickens his responsibility, an, we went out that morning, and there were -- just dropped where they stood from previous day. >> no signs of tampering any kind of -- other animal could have gotten into the pen they were just -- dead? >> yeah, there is no -- no intruder into pen everything was sealed o properly was the way it should be . cheryl: did the air smell amanda did the air smell around you? were eyes watering your son's eyes watering. >> absolutely. as soon as i opened my door 10:00 monday night it was overwhelming. my eyes watered it was my nose, hard to breathe my dog didn't want to go o

bring in jeff flock from pennsylvania. he's got a lot more on everything debt. jeff, good to see you. reporter: good to see you, cheryl. president making big news cheered by the folks that sell electric vehicles and ford dealer ship behind me and that's because there's $5 billion in the infrastructure law and building out charging stations and the president today saying the people best at building those stations and that's the guys at tesla, they'll open their chargers up to the competitors. yeah, the super chargers. there's about 17,000 tesla chargers around the country right now both super chargers and regular ones. elon musk will open them up to all vehicles ford, gm, whatever and perhaps take some of the $5 billion in incentives from states or originally from federal government and going out to states to help further build out that network. great news as we said to the folks behind me at ford that sell the f-150. unfortunately if i step out of the way, maybe you can see something rare, that's a ford f-150 lightning pickup truck and the only one on the lot, an

jeff flock in philadelphia, thank you. john. >> john: all right, sandra.ear and frustration after a train derailment in ohio and the transportation secretary slow response. we will speak to a person who lives just three miles from that accident about the situation on the ground. plus, bret baier on new inflation numbers, dr. nicole, and molly hemingway on a cdc move to vaccinate babies as young as six months old to covid, and bill haggerty reacts to the flying objects on u.s. air space. all that and a whole lot more as "america reports" rolls on. no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's doing, he's ready. and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. >> john: all new at 2:00, republican senator josh hawley wants the feds to set a legal age to use social media. he says if you are not 16, you can't log on and it's passed time to start fighting back ait

jeff flock, come in. good morning to you.h money did china give to our universities last year? reporter: well, the short answer, ashley, as we hear sirens in the background, billions, billions with a b. on the campus of the university of pennsylvania, which is one of the universities -- hundreds of colleges and universities that got billions since the '80s, but a fox analysis of some of that data finds that since president xi took power in china in 2013, $2.6 billion flowed from china to colleges and universities. here at the university of pennsylvania, home to biden penn center, which was across the state the center of the classified documents issues, we reached out to them and there's concern about some influence or exposure and we told fox business and i quote them "the penn biden center never solicited or received any gifts from any chinese or foreign entity and university never solicited any gifts for the center. 100% of the budget comes from university funds". another data shows they got $54 million in chinese funds and

jeff flock is in chicago. what are business owners saying about this proposal?u could guess what they're saying. they're po'd about it, to put it very simply, mr. varney. walking the aisles of one of the thousands of businesses in chicago that would be forced to pony up, hire their own security guards. take a look at what the bill says. called the armed security protection act. beginning in july of 2024, a bank, a gas station, a grocery store or a pawn shop would have to employ and have on its premises at least one armed security guard. he has run happy foods, neighborhood grocery store in chicago for 25 years. your reaction is, to mr. varney. >> it's ludicrous to have this kind of regulation right now. it is not necessary. >> reporter: i was going to say you're in a fairly safe neighborhood here but this would be hundreds of thousands of businesses have to do this. >> exactly, and the regulation is not necessary. enforce the laws on the books, put criminals in jail. that's it. >> reporter: we do have a crime problem in chicago. maybe not in this neighborhood bu

continuing beijing setting first focus on america importants universities as well fox business jeff flock is live from university of pennsylvania i want to get your take on what we hear, jeff good morning to you. >> maria, good morning to you from campus of university pennsylvania this morning, yeah, those balloons flying in the air perhaps under radar, as focused on something else, figuratively under radar amount of money given by china to ufshgs us colleges universities fox analysis of amount of more than based on federal records shows that between years of 19896, 2022, 2.8 billion with bai., dollars was given, gifts grants other considerations from china to u.s. universities, on campus university of pennsylvania notably hosted, the biden center was at the center of the confidential documents concerns, the university got 54.6 million dollars, just between years of 2014, and 2019. 23 million of that came anonymously, this is something that some lawmakers have been wanting to do something about for a while a bipartisan bill last session didn't make it through but some language did make it

i'm jeff flock in chicago.efore the break, some businesses in chicago to combat crime have hired their own armed security guards. a new bill would force all grocery stores in chicago and other businesses force them to hire their own security. take a look at the bill as proposed right now. it is called the armed security protection act. it says, and i quote it now, beginning in july of next year a bank, a gas station, grocery store, or pawn shop shall employ, have on its premises at least one guard during the time it is conducting business with the public. that would be an awful lot of security guards. barbara eastman run as neighborhood happy foods. you're not happy about this. >> i'm not happy at all about that. >> reporter: tell me why. >> it is not necessary. we have laws on the books, enforce those. have the police do their job, fund them and just you know, incarcerate the criminals. >> reporter: sounds simple. they are not seem to be able to do it at this point in time. crime, if you take a look, neil, num

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so explain -- we can lose the jeff flock chicken -- [laughter] even though it's very transfixing.explain exactly how this system works. >> so you get a new bun -- bin for your kitchen that is beautiful, easy to use and doesn't smell, that's the biggest hinge. imagine the stinky trash situation, gone. no more drippy bags, no more fruit flies, and what's cool, it aches weeks to fill up. liz: okay. and then what? >> then once, twice a month when the bin is full, you put a box on your front porch, and we pick it up through the u.s. postal service and get it back to the us so we can turn it into chicken feed, turn the it into eggs. liz: okay, let me back up. so if i have table scraps or food scraps, let me describe to you my food scraps. lime rinds, 'cuz i'm always making mow here toes. on the weekends, of course, but you're going to make a chicken eat lime rinds that have been broken down, i guess, into these grounds? >> so chickens are omnivores, they eat everything. but two, we're going to blend thousands of homes' food scraps together to make a very uniform, accomplishes and nutrit

maria: jeff we will be watching this one thanks very much jeff flock, in chicago. the effects hour -- next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. . . >> good tuesday morning. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i am maria bartiromo. it is tuesday, february 28, top stories right now 8:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast, today, the final trading definite february has marked trading up futures a gain start of trading at highs of the morning right here dow industrials up 90, quarter of a percent s&p up 13 1/2 a third of one percent nasdaq higher by 51 almost one half of 1%, stocks are down for the month though, take a look, at month of february with the dow down 3 1/2% on the month nasdaq down 1% s&p 500 lower by 2 andid that percent in february, however, the averages showing gains, year-to-date, the nasdaq and s&p, nasdaq up almost 10% in 2023, s&p 500 higher by 3 3/4% thanks to very strong january we are looking ahead to retail earnings this morning a sense of the consumer heard from target earlier this morning, as guidance was sharply below a

and everyone what are your favorite restaurants in florida how do you get such good stories with jeff flockew. that is two questions. i don't get out much but ashley what is your favorite florida restaurant? >> i'm not far from saint augustine called river in fort. it is very good it's right next to the bay. anything over the ocean is great. >> in florida i would say carbone in miami fantastic spaghetti. >> i don't go out to eat any anymore. >> this is from hugh kudos to ashley for his excellent filling for stuart. a special recognition for his good manners that many guests continually call him stewart. you have ten seconds. ashley: i think three guest yesterday call me stuart, i say that the real honor. i am pretty chuffed that they would call me stuart. i am not bowing down to you but even one of the fox news reporters called me stu from the white house. they mistake me for you, that is good. >> it was all in a row and i feel like i was next after them and i was like ashley i made sure to emphasize your name. >> you should've called me stu. >> i should've. >> we are both the same we were

. >> lawrence: nine candidates in the race in april runoff, almost guarantee jeff flock is with joiningm the windy city. hey. >> hey, lawrence, it is great thing about america we can go to florida and think come to chicago where people think differently. it won't be a republican mayor, i can tell you in chicago anytime soon. all of the nine candidates that you see in this race are all democrats. people think differently in this town. the nine candidates ensure, making it pretty sure that we will not see anybody win tonight. you have to have 50% so probably a runoff pier at the top for coal mayor lori lightfoot as you point out who had a rough four years and crime has skyrocketed on her watch and whither we blame her, we will decide tonight, and paul vallas the closest you will get to in this race. but he said he's a lifelong democrat but the handcuffs need to come off of the police in chicago. and he said he's more republican than democrat. now, a lifelong democrat. jesus garcia lost to rahm emanuel and brandon johnson got the attention of the business community not in a good way becaus

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jeff flock is in p.a. lsboro. ut the long-term effects that east palestine residents could be facing, jeff? >> reporter: tells us story, this will not be over for them in east palestine anytime for them soon. i'm on the site of this derailment right now that took place 11 years ago. if you look down the way, down the tracks that is a railroad bridge over what is called manchua creek. multiple railcars in 2012 fell into the creek. we have pictures in december of 2012 when this all took place. as you report, 20,000 plus gallons of vinyl chloride into the air and eventually the groundwater. in addition to the stuff that took place at the time what about the property have use in the town? east palestine will face that, they faced a huge decline in property values. the school district because of lower tax revenue from property, sued the rail company in that case. yeah, indeed, we talked to people here who say the effects of this are not going to be over anytime soon. >> it's true for paulsboro, also true for ohio. the i

another guy to have you riveted, jeff flock following up and down nature of oil prices, following newst inflation data in our country. something has folks concerned. what is the latest, jeff? >> reporter: i think my rivets are coming loose, neil, i'm not sure here but i can tell you the impact of that move in terms of russia cutting production limited impact. take a look at, first let's look at brenda because that is most interesting when it comes to russian oil. that bumped over the weekend or on friday when the announcement came out but now, pretty much flat. wti just went up a little bit, over $80 first time in a while but the impact has been minimal. you know, what the biden administration has done here, is, with the situation in russia and ukraine, saying hey, that makes a great case with the weaponization of oil by russia, that makes the best case for green energy. listen to secretary granholm just this morning. >> their december and january report that just came out talking about the incredible acceleration of renewables as a result of the war because so many of these countries

box business correspondent jeff flock is live in chicago with more on the race today. where do the candidates stand on crime? >> we have nine candidates, and their views on this are pretty diverse, actually. i'm in the humboldt park neighborhood in chicago, you see the campaign signs are all out here. yeah, if you take a look at the various candidates, i would say the toughest on crime would be paul valas, the former head of the chicago public schools. he has said crime is out of control in the city. he asked that the handcuffs be taken off police and says that's what he would do if elected, and he has been endorsed by the fraternal order of police. next in order of perhaps toughness is mayor lightfoot. she has taken a lot of heat for the crime rise that has taken place in chicago during her administration but she says she has been tough, she says her plan is working, and she says, you know, she deserves more of a chance because the other two front runners in the race are even softer on crime. that would include chewy garcia, he's the congressman from chicago, he says