rob schmitt spoke to the team about the football event and their coach's legacy, rob.ht, todd, their friend and assistant football coach aaron died inside the school on wednesday. he died a hero, it is a tremendous story and over the weekend these kids had choice to make about whether or not attend and they did so because that's what coach feis would have wanted. >> coach feis would have been here today. >> coach feis is everywhere we were. >> not having him, it looks like from what i saw, you guys still played your hearts out on the field. >> i think these guys they knew that's what he would want. he would want them to come out and like you would say ball out and give everything you had and not only just for ourselves but to support douglas high school and our whole community, we are not going to quit. we are not going the lay down. we are going to stay strong and keep doing what we do. >> how proud of you of the kids? >> oh, my lord. i can't even tell you how proud of the kids i am. it's hard for them to come out here. >> everyone in this program is a family and came

jillian: rob schmitt joins coach feis' players on the field. to come. >> the white house renewing its calls for legislation to strengthen gun background checks in the wake of the florida school shooting. jillian: this as students call for nationwide protests demanding swift action, kelly wright joins us live with the latest, good morning, kelly. kelly: jillian and todd, good morning to you as well. the sadness is in parkland, the students are determine today is to be this from ever happening again. students from "fox & friends" expressed sadness for 17 lives lost and voiced determination to launch grassroots movement to demand politicians to take action to stop the wave of gun violence in america. >> the march for our lives is going to be in every major city and we are organizing it so students everywhere can beg for our lives, because at tend of the day, this is isn't about the red and blue, gop and democrat, this is about adults and kids. >> there's a case of simple please stop, please stop allowing us to be gunned down. >> we want to have co

rob schmitt has that story.the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed. plus 24-month financing ends monday visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. ainsley: we are back with headlines for you starting with a fox news alert. isis is now claiming responsibility for a deadly attack on a church in russia. a gunman armed with a knife and a hunting rifle opening fire on christian worshipers leaving a service killing five women. the attacker shot and killed by security officers. five others, including a police officer, and a national guardsman are injured. and white house chief of staff john kelly throwing down to protect our nuclear codes, according to axios, chinese officials tried to stop a military aid from c

rachel: rob schmitt is live from parkland, florida with troubling details about his past. rob?good morning to you. a day and a half after the horrible tragedy happened in this high school right behind me he, we are getting a clear picture of the young man that carried this out. very disturbed young man with an obsession with guns and violence with killing animals. a young man that has confessed to this crime saying that demons in his head made him do it. he was expelled from this high school about a year ago. three days after his last high school about a year day at school he bought the ar 15 semiautomatic rifle used in this attack. we have a time line to tell you about how how this went down on valentine's day on wednesday when this happened. 2:06 p.m. the young man ubers to the school. 2:21 he enters a stairwell. east stairwell. again, how he got in we don't know at this time. he was able to access the school through that stairwell. at 2:21. he gets in. he prepares and he starts shooting up classrooms on the first and second floor. for only about three or four minutes. he was

griff: rob schmitt is in parkland, florida with the details u good morning, rob.t a terrible story. the funerals have begun and big shocker that came out yesterday was that the fbi had this tip about six weeks ago. somebody called and said hey, i think this kid could be a school shooter. that tip never got passed along to their south florida office. it is really unbelievable. the fbi doing a full confession yesterday sending out a memo that red in part the caller provided information about cruz's gun ownership. desire to kill people. and the potential of him conducting a school shooting. so they had it all out there in front of them and never got passed along. here is robert lasky who works for the miami field office. he defends the fbi. >> the poo fbi something there. we do our best. we have protocols to prevent these things. we will be looking into where and how if something, the protocol broke down and we'll come back stronger than we ever were before. rob: can you imagine how upsetting this news is for the families of the victims of all of this. and governor r

rachel: rob schmitt is live in parkland with the new details. thanks for joining us.d better look at this disturbed young man this morning and yet another missed warning sign in this case. and there have been quite a few at this point. in 2016 nikolas cruz posted a video on snapchat that showed him cutting himself and it also stated that he wanted to buy a gun at that point. it was the snapchat video that disturbed a lot of people and it got reported. the department of children and families actually investigated that video. they found cruz was actually receiving outpatient care from a mental hospital here in broward county and that hospital had deemed him stable enough at that time two years ago to not be an inpatient, to not be hospitalized there at that mental hospital. so we have that. also a local newspaper interviewed the family that took in this young man back in november after his mother died. the couple and their son took in nikolas cruz. they said that it was very clear he is depressed about the death of his mother. he was very lonely. he wanted a girlfriend

rob: i'm rob schmitt, thank you for getting up early with us. fox news a letter -- alert. commercial jet packed with people falling apart, seen 30,000 feet in the air. jillian: horrifying scene playing out in the pacific ocean for 40 minutes as passengers feared for their lives. kelly wright with details. good morning, kelly. kelly: terrifying moments one passenger tweeted, this was the most scariest flight of my life, first they heard a loud boom and the plane started shaking violently. the passengers experience on united airlines flight 1175 during trip from san francisco to honolulu, they were well into that flight, 40 minutes away from destination when the unthinkable happened. >> a really loud bang with the right engine wing. >> the engine right where we were sitting would been on the right -- right side of the plane was completely blown. kelly: not something that you see on a flight. some passengers used smartphones to post photos of the exposed engine. one passenger fearing that it would be the last message to send to family members. >> i turned on my phone and took

good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first", i'm rob schmitt. eycarley: and i'm carley sh. let's get straight to stop story, the political fire storm over controversial memo alleging fbi abuse reaching a fever pitch. rob: house intel committee to release whether or not the democrats counterreport today. carley: live fromnation's capital with head to head partisan battle, good morning, doug. >> it would have to go through same process as republican memo last week. remember all the drama we saw when that happened, the question remains the same, what information did the fbi rely upon to make it surveillance warrant case in some of the earliest cases of russia investigation and specifically what did fbi director andrew mccabe say about reliance of clinton opposition research to make his case. >> i was there, i was part of the questioning, i promise you that the intent of his answers was that we would not have gone forward were it not for this dossier. >> i asked andy mccabe, that's not what he said, i don't understand why they won't quote from the tr

rob: i'm rob schmitt, president trump expect today unveil massive trillion dollar infrastructure plan lay out budget for road map. jillian: that's right, griff jenkins with what we can expect, good morning, griff. >> good morning, jillian and rob, what the president calls crumbling infrastructure and later today he's meeting with state and local officials who will share the burden on paying for it. it's aiming to fix what the white house calls a broken system of funding for infrastructures, here are the four goals of the plan, first, want to stimulate 1 and a half trillion in new investment, shorten the permit process to two years under one authority, he wants to invest in rural infrastructure and fourth, to improve the workforce training, improving -- excuse me in previewing the new 2019 budget omb director mulvaney says he'll focus on things like the new infrastructure plan. >> take the money that the democrats want to put in social programs, move to opioid relief, things that are if line with the president's priorities because if it does get spent, it gets to the right places. >> a

. >> i'm todd pirro in for rob schmitt.s head back to class at stoneman douglas high school as staff preparing for return today. jillian: calls for sheriff to resign are growing as the investigation into law enforcement's response to the shooting intensifies, griff jenkins live in washington, d.c. with what's next. good morning, griff. >> good morning, jillian and todd, classes won't start till wednesday but students began to return yesterday to gather backpacks and belongs. here in washington the nation's governor are gathering for their winter meeting. president trump will be hosting them this morning at the white house with school safety as top national priority. >> we will be talking about parkland and the horrible event that took place last week. i want to thank governor rick scott of florida, stand up, you're doing a great job. [applause] >> i think we will make that first in our list because we have to end our country of what's happening with respect to that subject. >> florida's governor has been leading the calls f

morning in parkland, florida shooting, gunman confessed to killings and revealed details on timeline, rob schmittith the latest now in parkland. rob, good morning to you. rob: maria, good morning to you, we are right outside the high school where this happened just about 40 hours ago, there was a vigil last night where thousands of people attended a very somber event there as you can imagine and we are getting more details about the 19-year-old man that had obsession of killing animals, guns, violence. he had been expelled from the school a year ago and three days after expelled he bought the ar-15 legally that was used in this mass shooting. we also know that his adoptive money had recently died and that might are played a factor into why he lashed out in this way, in the horrible way. we can give you a timeline exactly how this went down on wednesday. in the afternoon about 2:06 he calls uber, taking uber to the school, at 2:21 he enters the east stairwell of one of the buildings here where all this happened and he gets ready in that stair weapon -- stairwell and begins shooting killing and inj

steve: "fox & friends first" co-host rob schmitt joins us now with more on this awful story. rob? country needs a secure border. a twice-deported illegal immigrant from guatemala managed to get back into the country a third time and police say he got drunk saturday night and ran over an indianapolis colts linebacker and his uber driver very early in the morning on super bowl sunday. and both were killed. 26-year-old linebacker edwin jackson was a passenger in an uber being driven by 54-year-old jeffrey monroe. police say the driver pulled over to the shoulder after jackson apparently got sick in the back of the car. and that's when 37-year-old manuel who had been deported from the now sanctuary city of san francisco in 2007 and again in 2009, smashed into both men while driving a ford pickup truck drunk it appears one or both men were outside of that uber when they were hit by is sabala flen foot but found a short time later. he gave police a fake name driving without a license and blood alcohol of .329. according to police about three times the legal limit. very intoxicated. the

ainsley: rob schmitt is here breaking it all down for us. one of everyone's biggest nightmares. pens over the ocean. even if there is emergency landing where do you go? horrifying to even imagine. one passenger even tweeted out it was the scariest flight of my life. i would hope. so first a loud boom was heard and plane started to shake violently. this video showing what passengers experienced. this is on united airlines flight 1175. trip from san francisco to honolulu maybe five hours or. so well into the flight. only 40 minutes away from hawaii when the unthinkable happened. >> heard a really loud bang when the right engine went. >> engine right where we were sitting, which would have been on the right -- well, the right side of the plane was completely blown. >> this was the casing around the engine that protects the engine from the elements. it just came right off the pilot and flight crew took immediate action to deal with this crisis. of the pilot alerting air traffic control in honolulu to have fire trucks on the ground 679 the fire crew told passengers to put their heads

steve: in the first hour before us, rob schmitt said he had never seen me wear a green necktie.reason and i don't wear this very often. you are wearing a green necktie. brian: i have no idea why. ainsley: y'all are wearing it that guy in chicago that is smoking pot -- running for office and smoking pot. rob said you are wearing the green for that guy. brian: coming up a little bit later. by the way, i don't think that's a good idea to smoke pot in campaign ad. steve: i think wearing a green tie is a good idea. ainsley: just getting ready for march. march 18th saint patrick's day. brian: rob is already at the bar. he left. he can't hear you where he is right now. ainsley: getting ready for saint patrick's day. steve: a considerable time ago the president of the united states essentially tweeted out the obama administration wiretapped him when he was in the tower. now we are learning that the attorney general of the united states has taken the suggestions that the obama administration may have had some fisa abuse in the fast pasw what he is doing is having the inspector general fo