anna kooiman is joining us today for gretch. great to have you. >> anna: thank you.ut you're running a triathlon. it's two weeks until race day. >> steve: we have to have a camera so we get pictures. >> anna: with a wet suit on. >> brian: who gets to win the lottery? >> steve: run alongside her for one mile in the hudson. >> anna: everybody has been trying to scare me. >> steve: all true. it's only a mile. >> anna: yeah. 8:01 is the time. we need to get to your headlines on tuesday. the office for illinois congressman jesse jackson, junior, making a strange announcement. after two weeks of absence, the congressman is taking a medical leave for exhaustion. he hasn't been seen since june 10. but at his off, it's business as usual. they sent out ten news releases. none related to his absence. aides claim they withheld his medical issues for, quote, family reasons. the illinois democrat is currently under investigation by the house ethics committee over allegations he helped raise money for former illinois governor dennis rodman in a possible effort to get president obam

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anna kooiman is live in our new york city news room with more. >> hey there, the combat program reached veterans across the country through a travelling program and about 40 at the print making center of new jersey. the program started in 2007, and vets come together every sunday to get coffee and share war stories as they make the combat paper. three step process. deconstruction, next reclamation, make them into paper and the process, they are looking at experiences and communication, it becomes a platform for vets to talk about experience through images and poetry. >> each veteran has their own experience and unique past and however they approach the uniform, some approach it with anger, and some approach it with deep respect, deep reverence for the uniform and some approach it with love. they love their time in the military and want to be able to use the uniform as an expression of that. >> combat paper served vets from every war since world war ii. one retired soldier and surgical tech who served in somalia in the '90s, says this group is the best therapy she's ever had. >> with a g

i'm anna kooiman in for gretchen carlson. were sleeping, he put the white house on notice. congressman darrell issa challenging the president saying you're either involved with fast & furious or breaking the law. >> meanwhile, the supreme court, so what? the obama administration vowing to ignore the ruling on arizona's illegal immigration law. >> what they said to arizona is drop dead, arizona. drop dead and go away. we're going to ignore you. >> that's the governor there. is this payback for not getting their way? we're going to report and you will decide. >> all right. al-qaida is branching out turning a type of terrorist that can get through airport security no questions asked. we'll tell you about it. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> welcome aboard live from studio e in the heart of midtown manhattan. it's "fox & friends" program. >> there you go. it's already started. >> can you cover me? >> we'll talk between the two of us and people will look here

joining us is anna kooiman. >> we are going to start with smokers. if you are a smoker out there and you are watching there is now a vaccine that can prevent you from being addicted. c they have developed a vaccination that has been effective tore mice that keeps them from being addicted. it blocks nicotine from going to the brain. it stops the pleasurable effect. this will be tested in humans over the next couple years. hopefully it will be on the market. so many people suffering from smoking also it say lous the body to build up its own immunity against the nicotine which is different than other vaccinations in the past making it more consistent and more reliable. >> that is huge. that will be big. >> what about the next story. they injected rabbits in this next story and brought them back to life. what happened? >> this is pretty interesting, too. this is a medical break through some boston researchers are reporting that allows people actually, possibly to survive for up to a half hour without breathing. they say it could save millions of lives ea

patti ann: anna kooiman is live in new york city where it is already in the 90s. anna, hi.he country dealing with? >> reporter: we're starting to melt on the plaza on sixth avenue. in a separate ceremony in new jersey multiple relatives of high school graduates were hospitalized for heat exhaustion. the scorching temperatures are expected to stick around from yesterday. record breaking temperatures from new york city to burlington, vermont. look behind me, the ticker there is 90 degrees at 9:54 in the morning. but these scorching temperatures are expected to stick around. more than 450 cooling centers are open around new york city which is under a hot weather advisory. mayor michael bloomberg encouraging people without air-conditioning seek out cooler spaces or visit city beaches. >> we all think it is tough and nobody thinks it is a big deal. sadly we have to relearn a lesson. it is a very big deal. we all should be very careful. >> reporter: paddedty ann, every state in the lower 48 except north dakota is expected to have 90-degree weather until saturday. patti ann: wow!

anna kooiman from our new york city news room, anna. >> to tell you more about the cause, reminds youngn group, aware of is your roundings and plan ahead and trust instincts. this psa an airing in virginia with the goal gaining national support. morgan is urging parents to talk to their daughters about safety in hops they won't have to go through the same pain. >> she was going to do big things and create a lot of goodness in the world. we're making sure that that happens anyway, and that the world doesn't lose out on what she might have accomplished. >> reporter: the fbi released this new rendering of morgan's suspected rapist and murderer, linked to a 2005 assault in a neighboring county and another multi-cross effort was launched to try and catch this guy. >> harris: i know the band metallica all along has given their support, but they're getting involved in this investigation. >> they are, after disappearing from their 2009 concert in charlesville, virginia, metallica, the fbi, police, are using a new sketch in this psa, billboard and social media sites to try to track him down. and

anna kooiman is here with me now in studio. how do people qualify for this?they could get compensation as long as a good case is made it was caused by toxic dust. some mac or esophagus may qualify but cancer in the foot may not. many firs responders do now have cancer there is still little scientific evidence directly linking cancer and the toxins at ground zero. it only covered asthma, acid replucks disease and chronic sinus irritation. daniel hanson represents multiple first responders. he says the existing $4.3 billion program needs more money. >> what is going to happen in the future will pull the program right out of money. like i said there's 1.5 billion to take care of potential pool of 60,000 people, 40,000 responders when you divide the money out and include cancer, it is woefully inadequate. >> no official estimate has been made on how much the addition of cancer could cost that program. >> the example you gave us of the esophagus firsts t-- verses the foot that is a good one. what are medical experts saying about this? >> dr. mark seigel talked to

park, among them 40 wounded military veterans, many of them amputees pounding the pavement and anna kooimanlongside one another in manhattan central park for the large s race of its kind. 40 members of the achilles freedom team of wounded veterans are inspiring us all after competing in the 10th annual achilles hope five mile race. it provides injured servicemen and women, the opportunity to compete in mainstream races throughout the country. >> people that say they can't run. they do run. people who say they can do, do, and it's inspiring in this day to do that. >> he says it's a blessing to be at this race. >> it's challenging, but the guys on the team, achilles has helped me so much. and there's visually impaired guys that trust somebody and run without knowing where they're going and guys bilateral above the knee and singles, missing arms, they don't care, they want to keep going and we were blessed to be here unlike the ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice. >> some volunteers raced in memory of fallen warriors as well. >> and when we meet the families, the mothers of the ones we're go

rick: anna kooiman is braving the midday sun in midtown manhattan right now. n on that plaza, anna. there is not enough shade there. you need to get more shade. >> reporter: 9 3d grease and not even lunchtime yet, rick. as you mention the graduation ceremony, another one happened in north bergin, new jersey where multiple relatives of graduates were hospitalized for heat related illnesses. these scorches temperatures are expected to stick around from yesterday. from new york city to burlington, vermont. 450 cooling centers have been opened in and around the new york city area which is under a hot weather advisory. mayor michael bloomberg encouraging people without air conditioning to seek out the cooler spaces or visit the city's beaches. >> we all think we're tough and nobody think it's a big deal but sadly every year we have to relearn the lesson. this is a very big deal. we all should be very careful. >> reporter: doctors say take special note of at risk populations like the elderly and sick. noticing loved ones are confused that is a true emergency and take

fox news own anna kooiman is in the studio with more on the enterprise.about 15 minutes ago. the space shuttle enterprise was scheduled to leave jfk airport where it's been for the last month and begin its river ride to its final resting place. manhattan museum. the transport process from jfk to the intrepid sea, air and space museum which is actually a converted world war ii aircraft carrier began yesterday. a crane lifted enterprise on to it a barge that is ferrying it from the museum to jfk. the tug boat will pull shuttle enterprise along the shores of queens and brooklyn today. tomorrow it will be in new jersey and tuesday, ernesto prize will pass by the statue of liberty and the world trade center before stopping at the intrepid on the hudson river. a lot of patriotic photo ops there. we watched on april 27th as nasa jumbo jet carried enterprise from the smithsonian national air and space museum to jfk airport. little bit of history for you. enterprise named after fictional starship from the tv series star trek. designed as prototype and never went t

. >> our own anna kooiman is standing by talking about the gathering at the beautiful castle. >> we'reassic here. joined now by the one and only big daddy, the organizer of the event. good morning to you. >> good morning! >> we have an american boxer here, the oldest world champion winning at the age of 46 last year, bernard hopkins. good morning to you, too. >> we'll get into a staredown in a minute. you have dozens of celebrities coming out here, mike tyson, michael strahan. who else is coming? >> we have tiki barbour and we have mr. everything, ronnie lott is here, hall of famer. everybody is excited to see him. we have fox's own bill hemmer. you know i have to have my guy here. i want people to come down. >> now, big daddy, this is benefitting brain aneurysm research and tell us your story back in september of 2008. >> it was discovered that i had an aneurysm and, you know, thanks to the help of dr. taylor of the north shore health system i'm standing here healthy and everything is good. >> yeah, we talked to him earlier. you can find that segment on line as well. bernard hopkins,