ainsley? >> thank you, kelly. down to the state of texas where a massive investigation is currently underway in order to find who murdered a district attorney and his wife in their own home. kauffman county officials are getting extra protection while that killer is still on the loose. >> flags are flying at half staff in kauffman county texas mourning the loss of a district attorney and his wife. their bodies discovered saturday inside their home. >> we were shocked. really shocked and saddened by the news. we can't believe it. >> those who knew the couple say they were a happy couple. >> very nice guy, engaging. >> this latest shooting follows the january murder of assistant district attorney mark hass. the shooting spree left folks in this town on edge. >> it happened in the square and that was such a shocker. but to know you're not safe in your own home. >> a very serious thing -fplgt we need to be more careful in our community and more observant and sphot assume because we have a -- and not assume we're safe.

ainsley?ive for us. thank you, doug. >> you know this one. we have seen a lot of spring snow this year. this year it turns out to be the second coldest start to the spring in all of u.s. history. the last time we had a cold like that was fwh in 1975. >> good morning. good to see you. with all of the snow we received across the midwest and a cold late season temperatures are we are now sealing the snow melting braer lick which. another area per tanning along the area. cl includes floodling itself. 50s and 70s across the area. enport natalie ping pminnesota, south dakota. we are asking the riverer level the to continue but forting to see results. a complete lp sit store row ngs i go. got up into thip prell brig bits yesterday. >>> meter and meansly off pish hal musical rpgs "the rocky (canni(." >> sylvester stallone hopes the show based on herbie loved 1994 blocking fill p could be addressed. payne a pain and ghaiven 20425 million and 43rd from in which ared with 10 upon the bringing together hi

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am patti ann browne. great to see you. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". it is time now for your top 5@5. the top five streers making news at this hour. >> three people are severely burned and in critical condition after that fuel barge explosion. investigators say two barges exploded 7 times. the fire was so intense fire officials had no choice but to let it burn through the night. the blast caused ship wide evacuations aboard the carnival triumph. it was being repaired three miles away from the explosion. >> 5 dead a 6-year-old girl fighting for her life. this man opened fire in a manchester illinois house. he is 43-year-old rick smith, the comblier's nephew. cops caught up with him after a car chase and he was later killed. neighbors claim he was going through a custody battle with one of the victim's daughters. >> plotting with al qaeda in iran to blow up a bridge as a plane goes by. tells a judge he did not recognize the court's jurisdiction. he said the criminal code is not a holy book. the religious lead

ism ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. it is april the 30th. the top fooi stofive stories mag news at this hour. we are getting a look of a mini van michigan police are looking for. this video shows a silver mini van driving away from the gas station when this woman was taken from work. >> there's another car out front but nobody is here. >> the driver is a heavy set man in his 30s or 40s. >> thank goodness that man called 911. >> two small planes in mid care colliding killing a pilot. one of the planes crashed into a rocky area off a california highway. the other plane made a belly flop landing on to a nearby golf course. three people on board the plane suffered minor injuries. they are all expected to be okay. >>> a man car jacked by the c christopher dorner offered a reward during the manhunt. he said he took his truck at gun point and lart killed himself. he told police the exact location and was a key factor in finding the police rouge cop. other people filed claims for that reward. a three judge panel will decide if any one should receive

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. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is friday. you made it through your workweek. it's april 26th. >> a shocking admission from dzhokhar tsarnaev. he told officials he and his brother had their sights set on attacking times square in new york. >> molly has more of this claim. >> this comes from a new york city press conference in which officials say they believe the boston marathon bombers were head to do times square with a plot to set off the rest of their bombs there. siting information from the fbi say the surviving suspect is talking and telling investigators the plan was to use the explosives they still had the five pipe bombs and the pressure cooker bomb similar to the ones in boston. the suspects were familiar with times square. >> we know that dzhokhar was photographed in times square with friends on or before april 18th of 2012. and that he was in the city again in november of 2012. we don't know if those visits were related in any way to what he described as the before's spontaneous decision to target times square. >>> but the two brothers never made it

ainsley earhardt joining us live from london this morning.es until the top of the hour. still ahead, with the second suspect now in custody, police claim that the people of boston can sleep safe. one of our next guests fears that these guys were not working alone. Ç@2x@x@x@x@x@x@x@x@x@x@ [ tires screech ] [ beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned... mercedes-benz for the next new owner. ♪ hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through april 30th. >>> welcome back. we have now learned that an unknown foreign government asked the u.s. to investigate the deceased brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, and in 2011, the fbi did interview him. peter doocy following this part of the story for us live from washington this morning. good morning, peter. >> reporter: good morning, heather. that's right. at some point roughly two years ago, a foreign

ainsley earhardt has the brand new details for us. >> students there say he is usually seen on campus carrying a stuffed monkey around. tod yesterday it was replaced with a box cutter. he slashed anybody who got in his way. 20-year-old dylan quick faces assault with a deadly weapon. he left 14 people injured two of them critically. quick told cops he planned the rampage like you said, patti ann for a long time and fantize -- fantasized about doing it for years. he did catch up with quick and tackled him to the ground after following him. >> as soon as i put him on the ground i asked him, why, why, why is he staping people? we knocked his hearing aid out and he couldn't hear me. i was so enraged. >> 1250u dents barricaded themselves signed one of the classrooms saying that was their only option. >> god protected us in our classroom and we wish we could protect ourselves with guns and stuff. we wish the law would let us carry guns because we are legal adults and carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. so far all we have to reply on s god. >> the campus reopens for all classes and all

. >> ainsley earhardt is here with the details. >> good morning to both of you but not such a good morning for some of these families. the pictures incredible. the four kwar church in arkansas a pile of rubble. the pastor of that church naturally upset seeing the church the one he helped build destroyed. >> we built this church probably 10 years ago. heartbreaking. just heartbreaking. >> this 13 wheeler flipped on its side. >> all of a sudden i started spinning out of control for a long time. then all of a sudden it stopped. then all i did was pray and asked the lord to not let me die. >> over to missouri check this out lightening striking the gateway arch in st. louis. high winds knocking huge trees into houses in the town of hazelwood. they are looking for damage for any one who might have been injured or buried underneath. there were no serious injuries. minnesota storms packing heavy snow and ice. there might be no relief in sight unfortunately more snow expected there this morning. it is spring heather and patti ann. >> as the sunrises we will tell you more about the devastation in th

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i'm ainsley earhardt. >> i'm heather. it is tuesday, april 2. thanks for tkpwegtd up with us -- getting up with us. we're getting new details at this hour about how a texas district attorney and his wife were killed over the weekend. a new search warrant reveals mike and cynthia mcclellan were shot multiple times by an assault rifle. their bodies were discovered by a family friend. police are checking the couple's phone records for leads as suspicions turn to a white supremacist prison gang for that attack. in harris county security was out in force in and around the criminal courthouse. district attorney mike anderson admits he and his wife are a bit unnerved. >> she said be careful, told me she loves me and i told her to be careful as well. >> outside the galveston county courthouse police are working around the clock. >> the safety of everyone is primary. we've increased patrols in the parking lot. >> the main focus of police work is in kaufman county where the couple was killed. no arrests have been made as authorities said little about thei

ism ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. it is april the 30th.t this hour. we are getting a look of a mini van michigan police are looking for. this video shows a silver mini van driving away from the gas station when this woman was taken from work. >>

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is friday. you made it through your workweek.s april 26th. >> a shocking admission from dzhokhar tsarnaev. he told officials he and his brother had their sights set on attacking times square in new york. >> molly has more of this claim. >> this comes from a new york city press conference in which officials say they believe the boston marathon bombers were

ainsley earhardt has more on this announcement. i'm going to miss leno. >> it is the end of an era, ending weeks of speculation, nbc confirming after 22 years jay leno will be stepping down as the host of the tonight show. jimmy fallon, currently the star of late night, will take over. fallon got the news right -- or got to that news right off the bat last night on his show. >> this is late night with jimmy fallon for now. you guys probably heard the news, i'm going to be taking over for the tonight show next february. [cheers and applause] >> jay leno taking some time during his monolog to wish the new host well. >> i want to congratulate a good friend, jimmy fallon. he is a hell of a guy. he's going to do a great job. i just have one request of jimmy. we've all kicked and scratched to get this network up to fifth place. now we have to keep it there. jimmy, don't let it slip into sixth. we're counting on you. >> nbc plans to make the switch next year after the coverage of the winter olympics. the last time nbc tried to replace jay

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am patti ann browne. great to see you. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". it is time now for your top 5@5. the top five streers making news at this hour. >> three people are severely burned and in critical condition after that fuel barge explosion. investigators say two barges exploded 7 times. the fire was so intense fire officials had no choice but to

ainsley earhart joins us live here in the studio. >> good morning.re on edge, of course. extra police patrolling parking lots and escorting workers in and out of buildings. officials say they have no solid leads in the murders of district attorney mike mcclelland and his wife, cynthia. a search warrant reveals they were shot several times with an assault rifle. their bodies discovered by a concerned family friend. investigators are turning their focus to a white supremacist gang already being looked at for the murder of this man, the assistant d.a. the cold blood crime has cynthia mcclelland worried. >> she made the statement to me that she didn't think that was going to be all the killings, the guy that got killed over there. i said, what about mike? you think he's safe? she said yeah, i'm not really worried about mike, you know. >> a warning about the white supremacist gang was issued back in december, saying they might target police and prosecutors. both mcclelland and hassey were working to indict four leaders from the group last year. meanwhile,