abby hornacek joins us from alabama. you can take it or leave it commenting on tom brady. t, to each his own, leave it there. all eight teams are playing in birmingham, alabama, known as the magic city. part of the magic that was supposed to go on earlier, i don't have enough magic to make it happen on time. magic is in local businesses, these folks are heart and soul of this city. we popped around and talked to them ahead of the big weekend and here is what they said. take a look. >> the usfl will be hosting all 40 regular-season games over 10 weeks here in birmingham, alabama. it is great news for local businesses. >> we are super excited. >> it is crazy. >> every building will have i line. >> something big for birminghamming. >> the city is expected to bring in upward of $20 million. we get ready for kickoff, we'll chat with folks and see how they are doing. >> hi. >> hello. >> welcome. you must be isha. >> i am. what was your reaction when you found out usfl would be in birmingham? >> i signed during covid, stepped out on faith. football is something people love, that w

pete: check in with abby hornacek. abby: i have head coach wilson here. in the nfl and then you also spent seven years in pittsburgh with the steelers. now you get to coach the pittsburgh maul lers what does that mean, it means a lot. city of pittsburgh, it's a lifelong dream. it's something i don't take for granted and imseeks ited and looking forward to tomorrow's kickoff. abby: what intrigues you most about this league in general. >> the opportunity of what it represents. reached out to me and i was excited to accept it and build a team from the ground up. our guys are all bought in and they can't wait. abby: you guys are taking on tabernacle tomorrow. what are you guys doing to get your guys ready. >> we call it paying attention to the little things and detailing all of the assignment of the execution of it. which take place live we know we have a good game plan and players and can't wait to see how it looks. abby: how it looks is crazy. what do you think all of those innovations. >> i will leave that to the people who do it. basically i'm just a foot

. >> rachel: is abby hornacek all geared up. >> brian: eye plaque. where is the eye black, abby?i left my camera, the hat with the camera on it unfortunately, but, you know, that's what our camera guy is actually wearing. that's how he is filming this it's going to be really exciting. like you mentioned all this new technology. i talked to some of the players about it they are really excited about it the viewers after the home are excited. the action i can canning off right here behind me. ahead of the big weekend, i walked around to different local businesses to talk about how that they are having usfl here how that is going to affect their businesses hopefully bringing in people from all over the country. they love to share their product with people from out of town. we are going to get to that get to all of that technology we talked about. all coming up in this show. everyone is very excited here. >> brian: right. nbc has the earlier game. fox has the later game. it's a partnership and gives a bunch of players a chance to go pro-either to nfl or nothing. now they have a place

let's go to birmingham, alabama, where abby hornacek is live to recap last night's inaugural usfl game morning, abby. reporter: good morning, guys. happy easter to you, happy easter to everyone watching at home. there is so much hype around the new league. last night was finally the moment to find out if the usfr would live up to all of its hype. i'm happy to report it absolutely did. the stallions took home a dramatic 28-24 victory. i think a big part had to do with fangs. i went around the stadium, talked to some of them last night. take a look. who are you here to see play. >> the stallions. >> the stallions. >> we will boo the other team and cheer the stallions. >> go stallions. >> go stallions. reporter: what brought you guys to the first usfl game? >> the excitement of it. >> birmingham the spotlight. >> we want to make sure we keep the usfl here in alabama. >> i love fat pool. >> can't make the first game if you don't buy the tickets. reporter: what insider you to be out with the american flag. >> honor and privilege. >> america, i love it. >> go generals. go stallions. reporter

i'm out here with abby hornacek and joey jones who are out on the course.ugh, one of our big stories of the morning. u.k. prime minister boris if jobson. -- -- johnson making a secret trip to ukraine. alexis mcadams is in to poland with more. >> reporter: good morning. this all comes as attacks continue in ukraine. here in poland we saw intensive nato training exercises between the united states army which they have thousands of u.s. soldiers stationed here in poland as well, and this all comes as ukraine continues to ask for more weapons from nato allies. u.k. prime minister boris johnson, you can see the cameras rolling as he met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, the prime minister pledging new military assistance including 120 armored vehicles and also new anti-ship missile systems. they're also guaranteeing financial aid as russian attacks continue. the u.k. has been tough on putting more sanctions into place against putin. listen. >> we are going to ratchet up the economic pressure, and we will continue to intensify week by week the sanctio

fox nation host abbey hornacek is here to discuss abbey, welcome to the national infantry museum abbey abbey thank you, abby be tainted anyway. i think an even worse punishment would be making him do an unknown distance march at the end of a top ranger competition day one. the reality is, pete, this actually helps the academy their viewership of the oscars went up by 511,000 people that's according to variety during that 15-minute span. will smith says he is a man of god but he should have turned the other cheek but not slapped chris rock across the cheek? pete: at least a consequence. you and i had one of the best possible assignments covering this amazing competition best ranger competition called america's top ranger on fox nation. and thankfully we have had a chance to do some -- get a firsthand look at some of the weapons the rangers will be using, here is a look at with a abbey and i had a chance to do a couple days ago, watch. >> we are we can hear why. we are at the best ranger competition. fox nation america's top ranger and we're getting a chance to take a look at what the rangers will be firing b