alexis mcadams, peter doocy, mark meredith but start on the border between gaza and israel with mike tobin with the duties this hour. mike, where are we now in hello. reporter: we're in a position where all eyes are on the gaza strip and have that remarkable statement from sec secretary of state antony blinken saying the israeli force may be strong enough to defend itself but with the u.s. by its side, it'll never have to stapedius muscled alone. as that happens, we're getting israeli defense force on the record as far as some of the raids, strikes, commando operations taking place in the gaza trip. lieutenant colonel richard heck saying the home of -- was hit and described as operative in the gaza strip and hamas. in the hit on the house he was killed and taken from the house naval equipment and equipment for commando operations underground as well as other armaments and described a number of other strikes on hamas and islamic jihad operatives up and down the gaza strip. and the idf as well as israeli government continues to note connections between hamas and isis. prime minister be

alexis mcadams is live at columbia university with the latest. >> here at columbia there are events happening on a daily basis making some of the students feel uncomfortable and the case at other campuses in new york city at nyu. in a recent video clip shared, a professor here at columbia slammed the ivy league university saying he would never send his own child here and called the president a coward. it's protests like this happening across the country. harvard, mit, duke university and portland. lots of protests happening. pro-palestinian like that at nyu last week are making jewish students there feel threatened, they say. scared to walk around campus. it comes as hundreds of nyu faculty members started a group to support palestinian students on campus. the more than 200 staff members writing online they condemn the brutal killing of civilians in the israeli military's ongoing bombardment of the gaza strip and calling on other faculty promote pro-palestinian speech. jewish student groups are disgusted with nyu. watch. >> i think that nyu faculty has made the statement itself now. nyu is no

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alexis mcadams live in new york city with more on that angle today. alexis, good morning. >> good morning. from college campuses like columbia university to city streets across the country the protests have continued to pop up. many of them have turned violent including one that happened in new york city just over the weekend. 19 arrested there after nypd officers say some of the people at that anti-israel protest were throwing eggs, fireworks and bottles at them. watch this. [shouting] >> in chicago 10,000 people marched down the magnificent mile after michigan avenue standing with the palestinian people. minneapolis a driver sped into a crowd of protestors and later arrested. out in atlanta a similar story with massive crowds that took to the streets saying things like this. listen. >> hamas has been doing is they were just -- what they're doing now is gathering all the materials what they need to do to get back our land. therefore, i feel like whatever hamas did was for a good cause to get back our land. >> college campuses like columbia university

brian kilmeade and katie, but first, alexis mcadams outside of nyu. what are students there telling you, alexis? >> john, good afternoon. the students we have talked to here say they don't believe the university is doing enough to make jewish students on the campus feel safe and it's because of incidents that have happened here like this. take a look, the new video that we got on just a short time ago, this shows there the students trying to pull down these posters there, pulling them down and throwing them right into the trash. those are pictures of kidnapped israelis. thousands of nyu students have signed a petition, calling on the university to look into anti-semitism. it comes as a group of professors, john, formed a group called faculty for justice in palestine. nearly 200 staff members have signed the online document and counting, say they oppose the war in gaza and occupation and brutalization of the palestinians and showing support for palestinian students. >> free, free palestine. >> it's chants like that across new york city and protests like

alexis mcadams is live at columbia university here in new york city. you talked to the students, what are they saying? >> hi, sandra. the jewish students held a press conference, they are different ages and different majors here at columbia university but one message. they say the university and the president specifically are not doing enough to address the rise in anti-semitism and they say that science is making them feel afraid on campus. >> fear feels like walking on my campus and many people just want me to die. i don't know how to differentiate who wants me dead or alive, but the fact i have to contemplate that on day-to-day basis and see someone and say they might not want me to exist or my people to exist, that's fear. >> college campuses have been the epicenter of a lot of these ongoing protests we have seen. not just here at columbia, it's also over at cornell university, the fbi is investigating after some threats posted online, and other areas of violence. cornell, the fbi is continuing that investigation after the series of messages posted

alexis mcadams following some big ones going on in new york city. alexis. >> reporter: hi, neil.eds of students walk out of class at nyu and head here to washington square park to stand with the palestinian people. this comes as nationwide protests continue and dozens of college campuses across the country. also one of the people that we talked to earlier this morning, neil, over on "fox & friends" is an american woman, a young. woman, who survived the hamas attack at that music festival in israel. she says when she sees these pro-palestinian rallies going on and walkouts at college campuses, it makes her feel uncomfortable and unsafe. listen. >> this is america. i'm an american citizen. how can, how can people just look away and justify the fact that my friends are captive? their family members are captive. this is not a situation to be putting political opinions. innocent people are taken into gaza, and every day that i am here they're over there. >> reporter: we've seen student protest like this here at nyu before, students for justices in palestine and other groups at dozens

alexis mcadams is on that story live in philly with more on this today. >> good morning. as you can hear the d.a. if philly says he will take this case seriously. locals hope he ends up doing talking about dozens of arrests after people broke into stores all across philadelphia taking whatever they could get their hands on. watch this. [shouting] >> so far 67 adults, five juveniles face serious charges. most of these people arrested are between 18 and 25 years old. police are working to find all of the people responsible for organizing this chaos that started on social media with some messages. we know one social media influencer was charged with six felonies after she live streamed the looting but already out on bail. the new video released by philadelphia police this week shows groups targeting the apple store and the target. you can see them ramming carts and breaking glass in city center. a nice area in downtown philly. not where most of the crime usually happens. local businesses were also hit hard. people who live tell us i want to see tough penalti

several nyu students tell fox's alexis mcadams and on campus, do not feel safe. elizabeth yeah. look, i could not agree with her more. it saddens me to think that i was a student in graduate school just a few months ago. i could not imagine being on campus and witnessing something like this. i cannot imagine how these students are feeling, to be honest. my heart breaks for them, but it also breaks for these other students who are tearing down these photos of kidnaped children who are screaming profanities, who are siding with hamas. these people have been completely brainwashed. they are so misguided. and i do not think they have any idea what this means for their future, what it means for our society's future. but i cannot understand what is going on in their lives, in the last few years. and i think parents have to dive very deep into these academic institutions, find out what their kids are being taught, and put a stop to it immediately. yeah, it's not just colleges either. bill melugin just told you. it's also in the high schools. is your team found out here, nicole, because

alexis mcadams has more from new york. alexis?talked to a chicago man that is out there fighting right now in israel. the scenes as you have seen are gruesome and heart breaking. the team says they're pushing through the pain to help save anyone that they can find still alive. going door-to-door after hamas killed hundreds of men, women and children. watch. >> to see buildings burned down, cars with bullet holes throughout them and completely smashed, bodies of dead, civilians being brought out of the settlement, it's just a shocking situation. to think to see going into a loot of these houses. >> americans like johnny, an israeli middle and the, was called back to fight. he's part of the largest draft in israel. the special operations forces team near the gaza border. that's where more than 100 bodies have been discovered in the small village. the work is far from over. new videos we're looking at show the horrific moments where people in that community appear to be kidnapped by hamas. many taken hostage. crews searching for life

alexis mcadams has a story. >> good evening, across the country we saw big protests spill out into theets including here in new york city. this was in front of the new york exchange, big dog chanting free palestine and it went on for hours as they marched through manhattan classes at college campuses turned violent between students like this. >> is happened yet new orleans, biting and throwing punches after pro- palestinian supporter tried to buy a flight of israel on fire according to witnesses. the university told us they condemned the incident and are investigating. over cooper university and college in new york where inside the school library happened this week leading to possible legal action against the college after jewish students say they were threatened by pro- palestinian supporters. [chanting] >> students tell us librarians locked doors as people tried to call 911. this process they are reaching out to the students involved in are investigating but a lawyer representing students says he wants to press charges of many jewish students at campuses across the country say they d

alexis mcadams is following the story live in new york city. this directly related to the university at cornell? >> right now this morning they're trying to figure out who posted that. it was the on a student message board but not affiliated with the university. a lot of people waking up on campus are worried for their safety. we'll get to that in a second. we know that a lot of these campuses have been the epicenter of ongoing protests. cornell university increasing security on campus after the school said a series of horrendous anti-semitic messages were posted on an online scotian board. they called on people to follow, attack and kill jewish students on campus and threatened to shoot up that kosher dining hall. right now sources telling fox news the f.b.i. is investigating to see if it was a hate crime that could lead to federal charges. keeping a close eye on that. this comes after you might remember that cornell professor called the hamas attacks exhilarating on the leave of absence that he requested after the university said those commen

alexis mcadams is there waiting. what's the plan, alexis? good morning. >> good morning.. that's what we are expecting to see in a few hours. nyu is one of the campuses out of several planning a nationwide walk-out. look at the screen. a live look at washington square park. we expect the students at nyu to walk out of class at 12:30, 1:00 and chant and say they will stand in solidarity with the palestinian people. take a look here. these are some of the other protests popping up across the country including at nyu. we have seen it before here. students for justice the in palestinian and other groups at dozens of campuses encouraging students to walk right out of class calling on the u.s. to difficultest from israel -- pro-israel counter protests are expected here at campuses across the country. israeli organizers all columbia university that we talked to tell me these schools need to be more vocal. listen. >> it is shocking because again i understand there is free speech but to me as someone with common sense, this should not be something that is under the free speech. it

alexis mcadams is in new york with more. alexis. >> harris, those questions you just asked to the viewers who are listening are the same questions jewish students are asking at campuses across the country including nyu. many don't feel safe walking around campus. this is the live look right now at washington square park where i am. a campus walk out. one of dozens planned across the country. expecting to see hundreds of students show up at the park after they leave class to stand in solidarity with the palestinian people. not the first protest they have had here. people including who "fox & friends" talked to earlier, a young woman, american who survived the attack by hamas at that music festival says these walk-outs and protests make her feel uncomfortable and unsafe. >> this is america. i'm an american citizen. how can people look away and justify the fact that my friends are captive? their family members are captive? >> we've seen student protests like here before at nyu. students for justice in palestinian and other group

correspondent alexis mcadams is in new york this evening with the latest. d evening alexis. >> bret, good evening. the tensions erupting across the country and on the campus lehr at nyu and spilling out onto the streets of new york city. take a look here on your screen. this is a rally happening right now in the middle of times square. it's a pro-israeli rally. can you see the flags there flying and lots of people have showed up in support of israel. israel tells us they will show images of hostages and plea to be set free as their families wait to learn if they're even still alive at this hour. this is hundreds of students, bret, walked out of class today at harvard university demanding that the violence in gaza has to stop. just one of the recent gatherings like this at the prestigious ivey league school there. >> the collegiate unrest doesn't stop at harvard two. palestinians students will not stop until palestinians are free e right now. in yu investigating after these three people believed to be nyu students spotted tearing down posters kidnapped by ham

here's alexis mcadams. >> tonight, to protests campuses across country. acclimate university of provosts only show for jewish students on campus. many were scared safety.>> there's opening the death of his release see it through the rallies. they singsong and is just awful. >> on college companies like columbia university students handing out palestinian and rumps even hanging palestinian flags on campus statues. harvard university students standing in solidarity with the palestinian people putting more protest this week as well. member this, the students governmentally ripped down posters of hostages kidnapped by hans could face disciplinary action according to the school. conversing tells fox investigating the incident after nearly 10,000 students signed a petition calling for the school to take action. >> makes you feel scared class. scared to wear jewish star on public. >> from chicago to boston cousins marching with the palestinian people. in the suburbs of chicago and arrested after he affirmed his gun during tooling protests. watch this. out in bro

here's alexis mcadams in new york city. she has the latest from there. ot to report from there, alexis. >> hi, sandra. yeah a lot going on at all of these college campuses including columbia where we just talked the jewish students calling on the university to do more. the silence from the university's president makes them feel unsafe on campus. at cornell also in new york, a lot of incident there's leading to threats and possible violence. the fbi is now investigating this after someone posted online saying that they're going to go around campus and shoot up jewish centers and kill jewish students. the governor of new york was there today. the students said they're afraid to walk aroundch watch. >> i cam here with one strong message. we will not tolerate threats or hatred or anti-semitism or any kind of hatred that makes people feel vulnerable. >> in the series of messages read that people should follow around jewish students attack them and kill them on campus and threaten that jewish dining hall. it's not just on college campuses. in new york, hundreds

first to alexis mcadams reporting live from columbia here in new york. hi, alexis. >> hi, martha. we talked with jewish students that attend columbia. they say they don't feel safe on their own campus here. the president of the university has been too silent in the rise in anti-semitism. watch. >> the university's enact has made us question whether columbia can maintain a environment where all students feel welcome and safe on campus. >> college campus as cross the country, martha, have been the epicenter of these protests on both sides of this. we've seen it here at columbia and also threatening messages that you just mentioned and violence at others, including at cornell university in new york. government kathy hochul was there to try to take to students who say they're afraid, too. watch. >> i want them to know they're not alone. they have the state of new york backing themg securities. nobody should be afraid to walk from their dorm or dining hall to a classroom. that is a basic right. >> but a lot of students are afraid of just that. now the fbi investigating at cornell after

alexis mcadams has a very latest on the demonstration from new york right here.good to see you. >> there is a lot going on with campuses across the country which is been the epicenter, no matter where they are in columbia and new york for a lot of the protest. some term violent and that led to lots of threats that are being investigated by the fbi over at cornell university new york, this is governor kathy hochul of new york he was on the campus talking with students trying to figure this out after the increase security on campus in the student jewish center overnight says a series of horrendous and anti-semitic messages were posted online on the discussion board, the message is called to follow, attack and kill jewish students on campus and shoot up the kosher dining hall, these are being taken very seriously and fox news here in a few minutes ago that the fbi is investigating if this was a hate crime which could lead to federal charges, this comes after cornell professional who called the hamas attacks a leave of absence, the comments were reprehensible. watch

correspondent alexis mcadams is on the campus of columbia university in new york tonight where some jewishtical of the school's leadership. good evening, lexis. >> bret, good evening. we talked with those jewish students here at columbia university. they tell me the silence from the university and the university's president has them feel unsafe on campus. they want to see the campus do for to fight anti-semitism on campus. >> who is saying these hateful and anti-semitic statements in the death of the jewish people and my people that is the kind of fear i live with every single day. no knowing who wants me to die on my campus. >> there sass 100 columbia university professors signed this letter you are looking at saying that they gravery are concerned that the students rallying in support of the palestinian people are being targeted on campus. calling the hamas attacks against israel on october 7th military action. now, it's not just here at columbia, bret. things are also hang over at cornell university where there is now an fbi investigation after someone posted lots of threats online. say

alexis mcadams is here from columbia university with more on this. that's just up the street from where i sit in new york city. that looked like beirut decades ago. >> that's right. those videos coming out of brooklyn are having a lot of people demanding answers as to what exactly went on. we'll get to more on that after the protestors were throwing bottles and more at those officers. that's when those arrests came. it is also on the campuses at columbia, nyu. look on the screen. the students who were seen on these videos ripping down the posters of the hostages who were taken by hamas and then they threw those into the garbage at nyu. those students could be getting in trouble, could be disciplined. that comes after thousands of students signed a petition asking the school to do something. listen. >> it's supposed to be a neutral space and a place where students come together. it is really the focal point of nyu. once they let that happen in their library and security stands by without doing anything and nobody shuts it down and students feel unsafe

alexis mcadams is outside of nyu in new york city, what is nyu saying about the protest. >> we reachedrlier this morning asking what they wanted to say about the planned walkout in protest, we did not hear back just yet, the watching and then get back to us, the nyu students are to walk out of classrooms at 1230 or 1:00 o'clock and in here to washington square park, take a look at your screen hundreds of students are expected to show up after they leave the classroom, why, they say they are marching and standing in solidarity with the palestinian people. take a look on your screen, this is the video that is popping up in the past few days, the first protest at nyu for pro-palestinian people. students for justice in palestine and other groups of campuses encouraging students to walk right out of class across the country calling the u.s. to divest from israel's occupation and genocide of the palestinian people. pro-israel counter protests are also expected at campuses in columbia, i talked with an israeli organizer over there that tells me these schools need to speak up and be more vocal

alexis mcadams is live in new york city where there's a vigil for palestinians killed in the war. vigil will start any minute. we're looking to see the students gather us behind me here, this comes as a professor at the business school just spoke out in a video that he posted on his own youtube channel calling out the university saying he wouldn't let his own daughter come here and says the university. is not doing her job. watch. >> can you imagine in the city that had to endure 9-11, the worst attacks on american soil, can you imagine that here we have pro terror students organizations? >> protests at campuses across the country continue from harvard, to portland university as they're still at the center of everything happening. at nyu, large rallies just like this here on a your screen have been popping up in the last week. we went to nyu this week and talked to jewish students that say they don't think nyu is doing enough. they don't feel safe. they don't feel safe in the classroom and they say their parents are mad that they spent so much more for what is supposed to be a pres

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alexis mcadams live with the details. how long after the crash did she get the new car? >> john, it was only a few weeks according to court documents before she got the keys to a brand-new benz after she ran over a guy and killed him. now new dash cam video shows the moments after the fatal crash, watch. >> why was the guy in the middle of the street? >> that's what we are trying to figure out. our job is to investigate everything that happens, that's what we are trying to do. obviously the more information. >> i didn't do anything wrong. >> no, no. >> and president menendez is willing to suppress the charge, it shows, now the wife of senator bob menendez, in new jersey after the crash that left her car, you are looking at here, badly damaged so she wanted a new one. police questioned here and charges were never filed and the crash stayed out of the headlines because of that. this comes as menendez and his wife have been charged in the federal indictment for bribery, alleging this miss menendez needed a car is badly that the senator was willing to try and suppress that u

alexis mcadams has more in new york. >> we've been watching these campus wide walkouts today includingre at washington square park, we saw it fill up with hundreds of people that told me they were here to stand with the palestinian people. i tried to talk with many people in the crowd. they didn't want anything to do with me. i talked to one students that didn't want to be identified. he said she's the group's liaison and said why it's so important for people to be on the ground. watch. >> support their tactics. their tactics do nose to liberate palestinians. i'm more concerned about the palestinians that are being murdered. for every one that has been killed, 23 palestinians have been killed. i'm more concerned about that. >> so jewish students on call pus say when they hear things like that and they see the campus protests and the campus walkouts, they don't feel safe here. they want the school to speak up and do more. watch. >> there's justice for palestine rally that is going on. we've had one almost every single day here. they genuinely don't make us feel safe. we respect everybod

breaking news and alexis mcadams following that in the news room. >> hi, we're getting in new video and new information and alarming alert from former leader of hamas calling for day of jihad on friday telling muslims to take to the streets across the world and protest against israel. also telling people of neighboring countries to join the fight against israel specifically, dana, asking qatar, jordan, syria, lib lebann and the egypt to stand up and fight back. he heads the space he's in qatar and posting a lot on the video tape in the past few days and telling people to head to the squares and streets of the arab and islamic world saying we declare friday, the friday of the flood as a day of general possiblyization rather and our arab and islamic worlds and among the free people of the words. that's his statement coming in just a short time ago saying it's a day to rally and support and offer aid to the people and participate actively. we see some of the areas here in new york city, day narcs with a large jewish population, largest outside of israel trying to harden up the soft targets

alexis mcadams is outside ivy league columbia university here in new york city.saying? >> sandra, just a short time ago he posted a video on youtube he wanted the world to see, specifically parents who might think about sending their sons or daughter to columbia university, it costs a lot of money, supposed to be a good school to go to, and he said he would not send his daughter here and doesn't think anyone else should, calling the president of the university a coward. watch. >> i'm talking to you, i'm speaking to you as a dad. and i want you to know we do not protect your children from pro terror students or demonstration. because the president of columbia university will not speak out against pro terror students organization. >> protests like this at campuses across the country have continued for days, from harvard to mit, cuny law school in new york and portland, too. protests rage on. at nyu, large rallies like this in support of palestine have jewish students feeling threatened on campus n in the classroom. they are saying they do not want to go to classroo

. >> sandra: alexis mcadams live in new york city at columbia. >> calling on congress for more bombs and more weapons. which we know will only lead to more violence and more death and more atrocity and absolutely not, absolutely not -- most of america is not with you, mr. president. [cheering] most of america is not with the people that don't want to deescalate and to facilitate a ceasefire. to obviously not talking to these americans. >> sandra: that happened just moments ago, congresswoman rashida tlaib and cory bush, they are demanding a ceasefire as the white house asked congress to send billions in new aid to the middle east. more on this this hour, but breaking news, a source telling fox news hamas has released two american hostages and that is great news all over the world. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: very good news. john roberts in jerusalem, "america reports" as another alert goes off on my phone, we are working to confirm more information about the hostage release, but we are told that the pair are a mother and daughter, went off again, hamas says they released t