i am heather nauert. >> i am heather childers. it is friday may 3rd. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> brand new details about the boston marathon bombing. we are learning that it was a targeted opportunity. the tsarnaev brothers were actually planning on a 4th of july attack but the bombs came together quicker than expected. >> beatpeter doocy is live with. >> good morning heather and heather. s dzhokhar tsarnaev told us the reason they attacked the boston marathon they accelerated their time line to attack is they were able to build their bombs that isser than they ex -- faster than they expected. the finish line on boylston street was a target of opportunity. with that said we are learning all of the evidence points to clear pre-meditation. the tsarnaev brothers built four different types of ied's, improvised explosive devices which were all effective. national security sources say with home grown terrorists they usually build one kind so they do just build one kind. these brothers built four. sources are now saying the bombs were lik

first". >> i am heather nauert. >> i am patti ann browne. she is finally free.lking about the american mom of 7 children who had been jailed in mexico for a week now on drug charges. she has been released and this is brand new video of her leaving the country. >> hi there anita. >> great to have a happy ending to the story. she is on her way back to arizona. this is the new video of her car crossing the border into the united states. it's believed around 10:00 p.m. last night. the mother of 7 locked up on drug charges walked out of a mexican jail and into her husband's arms. >> glory god i am free now. he sented me good people. i am grateful for my family, my children. >> a judge dropped the charges after court officials had surveillance video of her boarding a bus with only blankets bottles of water and a purse in her hand. this started last week. she was with her husband on the way back to arizona from a funeral in mexico when authorities arrested her. they claim they found this 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat. thanks to the crucial security footage

. >> i am heather nauert. it is may the 2nd, thank you for watching fox and friends first. >> in the two weeks since the bombings in boston a lot of people speculated the two known suspects must have had help. >> now three more men have been charged for covering for their friend dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> it was three-days after the bombing that the three new suspects ladies and gentlemenedly tri -- allegedly tried to help dzhokhar tsarnaev. they are both from kazakhstan. they both knew tsarnaev and another man removed a backpack containing 7 red tubular fireworks with the powder emptied out from his dorm room after it became clear to them that he was the man in the fbi's wanted photos and took the back tack and through it away to help their friend stay out of trouble. there are other chilling details in the complaint we got. he told them that he knew how to make a bomb and when the new suspect texted him about looking like the most wanted man in america dzhokhar's reply was lol. now they are charged with obstructi

i am heather nauert. >> i am patti ann browne. time for your 5@5:30 as we begin with a fox news alert. we have learned that three people who were pulled from their cars after a bridge collapse in washington state are in stable condition this moing. they plunged from 50 feet high into the river just after last night's rush hour. this happened about an hour north of seattle. luckily no one was killed. state officials believe an over sized truck hit the bridge causing the collapse. the bridge which was built in 1965 is considered outdated. >>> we now know that attorney general eric holder personally signed off on the search warrant that had identified fox news chief washington correspondent james rose enas a possible, quote, co conspirator in violations of the espionage act and had his private e-mail take evenlt holder authorized t -- tn holder authorized. state department advisor accused of leaking information about north korea. karl rove going on the record saying the whole thing is outrage gugs. gus. >> i think the administration

. >> i am heather nauert. >> while you were sleeping three huge stories have been developing. >> first texas where three tornadoes touched down one a mile wide. 6 people are dead and 14 are still unaccounted for. brand new details about benghazi. the white house releasing dozens of e-mails and documents that show the state department had a heavy haunnd in watering down t account of the attack. the developing story at the irs the head of the agency was out but was he resigning anyway? take a look at this video from last evening. at least three twisters tearing through leaving at least 6 people dead this morning. more than 100 people have been hurt and 14 are missing at this hour. >>> joining us now with the breaking details, ainsley earhardt. >> good morning patti ann and heather. the city hit the worst gran berry texas. 30 miles southwest of fort worth. officials rushing as many as 50 people to the hospital. crews are searching for even more. >> we have i think 18 personnel had bulldozers out there trying to get people in and get people out. it was a war zone like we have saw in the pa

i am heather nauert. >> i am heather childers. it is friday may 3rd. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> brand new details about the boston marathon bombing. we are learning that it was a targeted opportunity. the tsarnaev brothers were actually planning on a 4th of july attack but the bombs came together quicker than expected. >> beatpeter doocy is live with. >> good morning heather and

. >> i am heather nauert. the deadly tornado in moore, oklahoma.scuers have combed through the rubble they say now three times over. they say they are so confident that no more survivors are buried under the rubble. right now the death toll stands at 24 and that includes nine children. >> the twist was upgraded to ef 5. it caused more energy than the bomb dropped on hiroshima. two schools tower plaza and briar elementary schools. parents rush frantic to be reunite withed their -- reunited with their children. (sobbing) >> the students at briarwood elementary school escaping the rubble unharmed. plaza towers elementary school is where 7 people died. >> moore, oklahoma why one school might have been hit harder obviously than another. good morning, anna. >> good morning to you and everybody at home and listening to the children cry you realize the young survivors are going to be having so many emotions to dole with as school officials and town leaders are going to have answer a lot of questions. how are the schools going to be rebuilt. the two schools

. >> heather nauert joins us with how this tornado stacks up against the others. good morning, heather. >> in that interview you just did let's pick up on that right now. the preliminary reports on the tornado putting it in the very same league as some of the country's worst tornadoes in history. the national weather service classified yesterday's tornado as an ef 4. that is the second most powerful type of tornado that exists. yesterday winds reached up to 200 miles per hour and take a look at the path of destruction here. at points the twister was more than 2 miles wide and traveled more than 20 miles but experts say what really made the storm so devastating was how long it was on the ground. this thing sat and spun on the ground for about 40 minutes. this isn't the first dead tloirn doe to hit the town of moore. there was an ef-5 that hit may 3rd, 1999. both tornadoes cut almost exactly the same path on this map right here. that 99 tornado packing winds of more than 300 miles per hour leaving 44 people dead. it caused more than a billion dollars in damages. the

i am heather nauert. >> i am patti ann browne. >> thanks for watching fox and friends first. >> we beginws alert. finally free, overnight the american mom jailed in mexico on drug charges was released. this is new video of her car crossing the border into the united states. >> anita vogel is live for us in los angeles with breaking details. congratulations to her, right? >> that's right. she is one happy camper this morning. good morning to you guys. she is on her way back to arizona. this is brand new video of her car crossing

. >> i am heather nauert. it is friday may the 24th. we begin this morning with a fox news alert.oming out of washington state. you are looking here at a bridge collapse. it sends carts plunging into 10-foot deep water. this happened in washington state an hour north of seattle. three people were pulled from the water. right now there's no word on the extent of their injuries. officials confirming no one has died in that

i am heather nauert. >> i am patti ann browne. it is 29 minutes after the hour. is time for your 5@5:30. the top five stories making news at this hour. we have learned former cia director general petraeus will be doing more than just teaching college students. the four star general has hooked up with private equity firm kkr. it will focus on public policy macro economic forecast and advice for emerging market. he resigned after admitting he had an extra marital affair. >> president obama is set to nominate cia official turned hedge fund director. he served in the bush administration but refusing to a reauthorize a warrantless wire tapping program. no word from the white house on his nomination just yet. republicans gearing for a fight in a statement senator juk grassley said if he was nominated he would have to ask t answer questions about the recent work in the hedge fund industry. he wants to know if he could build a case against former col peeings if he ever had to go up against wall street. he made nearly 150,000 dollars in illegal campaign contributions sena

heather nauert. thank you. >> reporter: thanks.r coverage of the deadly tornados in the midwest continues. a live report from kansas city is next as we watch the threat for more severe weather today. >>> new reports that the wife house chief counsel knew about the irs targeting scandal before the news became public some what does this mean for the congressional investigation? . bill: the midwest is bracing for mow violent weather right now hours after the tornadoes ripped through there. maria molina live for us now. >> good to see you. hello, everyone. we are talking about another round of severe weather across many of the areas that saw severe weather over the weekend, take a look at where we saw tornadoes on sunday or at least reported tornadoes. 24 reports of tornadoes across parts of oklahoma, kansas, missouri into iowa and even the state of illinois. a pretty widespread area that some of the tornadic activity. we had that confirmed ef1 with winds up to 110 hours near wichita, kansas. one hundred reports of large hail and 200 r

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heather nauert standing by with details. >> good morning to you.u can see how some homes have been completely devastated, while others seem to not have been touched at all. we are waiting just about 30 minutes from now, officials planning to hold a press conference to update us on the widespread damage outside of dallas. this as we get a better look at the devastation done near there. the violent twisters, one was a mile wide, it completely destroyed houses, hurdling people far from their homes. at least six people are dead and dozens more have been hurt. listen. >> it was loud, very loud, you could just hear things crashing and banging and everything like that. i was terrified. i was because i didn't know what was happening. of course, they were both terrified. being my grandchildren, i was freaking out. >> officials are trying to account for 14 people who had been reported missing so far. there was a massive evacuation last night. some families were separated from one another. we are certainly praying this morning that they will be reunited with

i am heather nauert. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is wednesday may 22nd. for watching "fox & friends first". let's get to the latest on the devastating tornado in moore, oklahoma. this morning the search and rescue phase coming to an end. the fire chief there says he is confident there are no more survivors left in the rubble. >> that is hard to hear. >> crews combing through every damaged building they say. they say they have done it three times each just to be sure that no one has been left behind. in total 24 people have been killed including 9 children. >> the tornado upgraded to a rare em 5 tornado. the most powerful of its kind in the ground ore on the ground for 40 minutes. that tornado had up to 600 times the energy than the bomb. >> pry ar wood elementary is won and tower plaza school we heard so much about. emotional video shows terrified students emerging from briarwood after the storm. take a look. >> while the students here made it out safely, 7 students at plaza elementary school did not survive. anna kooiman is live for us on the ground she

. >> i am heather nauert.t is may the 2nd, thank you for watching fox and friends first. >> in the two weeks since the bombings in boston a lot of people speculated the two known suspects must have had help. >> now three more men have been charged for covering for their friend dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> it was three-days after the bombing that the three new

. >> i am heather nauert. >> while you were sleeping three huge stories have been developing. >> first texas where three tornadoes touched down one a mile wide. 6 people are dead and 14 are still unaccounted for. brand new details about benghazi. the white house releasing dozens of e-mails and documents that show the state department had a heavy haunnd in watering down t account of the attack. the developing story at the irs the head of the

. >> i am heather nauert. it is thursday may the 30th. thanks for watching "fox & friends first".e begin this morning with a fox news alert. you are looking live right now at london where any moment from now one of those two suspects charged with the murder of a british soldier in the muslim terror attack that occurred last week will occur in court and we will bring you that when it happens. the 22-year-old was charged late wednesday for that gruesome attack on soldier lee rigby. he was off duty when he was run over and stabbed to death. both men were shot and wounded by police and taken into custody. the other suspect is still at the hospital. >> we have learned former cia director general david petraeus ln doing more than just teaching college students. the former four star june rale pi general hooked up with an internal institute focusing on public policy mac troe economic forecast and advice for emerging markets. he resigned as cia director after admitting he had a extra marital affair. >>> a tragic accident late last night and it left 7 people dead. a trailer became detached

heather nauert is in the newsroom with more. heather?: what first made this passenger suspicious to customs officers in detroit that his passport was actually missing a page all together. that raised security concerns at the airport over the weekend. then the saudi man was arrested on saturday after he landed on a plane from saudi arabia via amsterdam. according to the criminal complaint officers questioned hussein about this missing page and then after his answers, they decided they needed to search his bag and that bag was what was carrying a pressure cooker. it is not illegal to carry a pressure cooker but law enforcement trying to remain extra vigilant from the boston marathon bombing this from a former fbi agent. >> god forbid they didn't check this out and this was a dry run and the next one was a bomb and you would be questioning the u.s. government the way they acted. >> reporter: when he was questioned by customs officers and allegedly lied and changed his story about why he was carrying the device in the bag. council on america

heather nauert is live in our newsroom with more on this story. heather? >> reporter: good morning to you, jenna. this is quite a story, the mother right there, looks like she should be sitting in a pta meeting and not behind bars in a mexican jail. a married arizona mother of seven will have to spend another day locked up. she is accused of being a drug smuggler trying to sneak 12 pounds of pot from mexico into the united states last week. a devout mormon and a u.s. citizen, her name is yannira, maldonado. she spent better part of yesterday in a mexican courtroom. despite the pleas of innocence, the judge decided to keep her in jail longer. listen to her brother-in-law. >> we're finding there so much red tape an bureaucracy in the mexican government just to get evidence that will prove innocence submitted to judge is a huge, huge, bureaucratic mess. >> here is what happened last week. she and her husband were on a bus and headed home to phoenix from an aunt's funeral in mexico when 90 miles south of the american border that bus was stopped by mexican offi

. >> i'm jenna lee, -- i'm heather nauert in for jenna lee. jon: easy to get those things mixed up in once a in a while. >> on a serious note the state department employees who claim to have knowledge of the hours long siege will speak publicly for the first very first time. we have interview one. men inside the attacks. gregry hicks is his name. he tells house oversight committee that he thought it was terrorism from the very beginning and he reported it that way. despite initial comments from the obama administration that it was a protest that spiraled out of control. congressman darrell issa who heads the house oversight committee said earlier this morning on fox news that hicks's information was not welcome at the state department and i was ultimately silenced. listen to this. >> he will be the one who can tell what the last words, outside of benghazi were of the ambassador, which is, greg, we're under attack. he will be able to explain when he expressed that, both in realtime and then later to beth jones at the state department. these wer

heather nauert is here with this developing story. >> good morning.t a warm welcome she's getting home. moments ago yanira maldonado arrived back home in goodyear, arizona, where she's from. she spoke at a press conference. listen to this. >> i'm free! i'm free! i'm free! i was innocent! so i was very, very happy. first i was very sad because it was -- i was there, because i was innocent. i was told that i would be, you know, sent to another prison, a federal prison. my faith and my family kept me going. >> her faith and her family kept her going. last night around 10 p.m. mountain time the mother of seven who had been locked up on drug charges for about a week now walked out of that mexican jail and into her husband's arms. a judge dropping the charges after court officials reviewing video that showed maldonado and her husband boarded a bus in mexico with blankets, a bottle of water and her purse in hand. she was with her husband back to arizona from a funeral in mexico and that's when authorities arrested her. they claimed they found 12 pound of mar