it's april 5th. and this is "fox & friends." parents are outraged after school staff members allegedly taped a disabled student to a chair. the family is going to join us this hour. >> brian: plus we are three days away from a total solar eclipse. hug your loved ones. we will talk to an eclipse chaser. they're busy every 25 years. >> steve: who knew? >> brian: we will tell you the best areas to see it from. >> lawrence: dwayne "the rock" johnson tells us in exclusive interview how he really feels four years after endorsing president joe biden. watch. >> america right now that answer, is no. am i going to do that again this year that answer is no. >> steve: more from will's interview with him as the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. and, remember, mornings are always better with friends. >> ainsley: president biden heads to baltimore today to speak with state and local officials after last week's deadly bridge collapse. >> brian: mark meredith joins us from the details on the short trip and some other initiatives the administration is working on, hey, mark. >> brian, good morning to you. there is a lot of news to get to this morning where president biden will be getting aerial tour of the damage left behind from baltimore bridge clasp. of course, this was a deadly accident there are growing concerns about the economic impact it's having all across the mid-atlantic. we know that the president will be in baltimore for a few hours to not only see what the damage was but also meet with those impacted. the federal government, he says, should cover the entire cost to replace the francis scott key bridge but we don't know how much money that is going to cost or how much additional economic aid made be needed to assist businesses struggling with this disruption. late thursday, the president was also all smiles as he marked greek independence day here at the white house. >> i had a very close relationship with a greek american community for real. i am joe biden on police. >> while the president was all smiles with the greek independence day. he is going to be on the road next week in wisconsin. the "wall street journal" reports while he is there fest attempt struck down by the supreme court. the divorce hope to use the rules to cancel waves of student debt in the runup of the november election. >> the exact timing will depend on how quickly they can finalize regulations. vice president kamala harris was on the campaign trail yesterday. she was in the tar heel state of north carolina telling a crowd they should be thankful for recent efforts to address climate change. >> but, think about it, soon, thoirt thousand more families will have the funds they need to replace drafty windows and install better insulation, to keep their homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer. and here in north carolina, to help you lower that monthly duke energy bill. [ applause ] you're welcome. >> the vice president talking about the efforts to address climate change. but one of the big questions still of this year are is going to be where gas price also go 3.52 an average a gallon. talk about summer driving season. we have seen prices go up the last several months. big question what will we see this summer? two years ago in the summer of '22 that we saw $5 a gallon gas. >> steve: we were just talking about that. >> brian: the vice president said the same thing the president said, when asked, are you trailing in the polls, she said no. they just want us to forget about the numbers? >> well, it's so interesting because obviously when do you hear the president and vice president get those questions about the polls show you trailing former president trump what does that mean you? are right they say we have different polling. they may have internal polling which shows something different as opposed to what you get from "u.s.a. today" or fox or nbc any of the other places that do polling. when you do talk about these polls, you have to say is one is outlier or seeing a general trend? we talked a lot this week, brian about the "wall street journal" showed the seven swing states and biden losing to trump in six of seven within the margin of error. you are right. they are going to keep facing these headlines. what do the polls say? the big x-factor the economy, still. what i just talked about with gas prices and student loan forgiveness what all means will certainly have a major impact on those polls as well. >> brian: get a good pennsylvania poll. >> steve: the supreme court, mark, already said the biden administration couldn't do it. i don't get what they are doing. >> brian: student loans. >> this is a good point. i think we are going to hear more about this on monday. some lines out to the white house to see what it is. the journal says in their report this morning these will be broad outlines of what the white house hopes to do and something they will still have to go through regulatory process. the journal is alooting instead of just forgiving everybody that has $10,000 worth of student loans we will find that maybe you are a certain income cap. maybe you have not been paying for the past 20 years. there may be more conditions as opposed to just kind of a broad stroke of student loan forgiveness. >> brian: and they're not supposed to be able to do it and they keep doing that. >> lawrence: how can it be during election year. >> brian: it's a bribe. >> lawrence: courts and decide they are going to do in t. any way. >> steve: about time to buy some boats. >> brian: how about car loans? >> ainsley: this speaking of the election, this is what a lot of you are worried about. how far a dollar will take you. the 99-cent stores they are closing 371 stores in arizona, california, nevada and texas they will can't afford to encould up with all these stores. the reason covid. the rising levels of shrinking, shoplifting, employee fraud, administrative errors and inflation. >> steve: here's the thing. the "wall street journal," our sister publication has great item yesterday where they showed in 2019 if you bought $100 worth of stuff you would get four bags, you are would get everything on this table. in some cases over the last five years now, some food has gone up 50%. so, we're going to show you graphically. >> ainsley: this is a lot. i can't even believe this is what $100 would buy you. nowadays it would give you half of this. >> steve: this is what can you buy in 2019. let us show you how much stuff have you got to take out. in other words, today, you have to take out about $37 worth of stuff. so we want to take out the carrots. >> brian: bananas. >> ainsley: oat meal. oat milk. brian has bananas. >> brian: frozen meal. >> ainsley: that's the chicken. >> steve: shear a can of soda. >> ainsley: lasagna over there. >> steve: chocolate bar. >> brian: did you take the crackers out? >> ainsley: gallon of water take that out. >> ainsley: brian you're not helping your table only has two things. brian, take the crackers. so now this is whether a your is $100 will buy you. >> >> steve: this is $100 in 2024. and can you pan over here to the little table? this is all the stuff you bought in 2019 for 100 bucks but you can't get it anymore. sorry, no carrots. no hershey bar? >> brian: think about alice shopping for six kids on the brady bunch comes back with less bags and same amount of money. >> lawrence: half of the kids can't eat, brian. >> brian: probably the girls. >> steve: $37 worth of stuff from 2019 you can't buy today. >> lawrence: serious note? my family grew up on the 99-cent store. we didn't have a lot. my mom would go to the 99-cent store and at that time it's like 1.07 with tax per item and she would say hey, she had her groceries and we were allowed to get two things. i can't imagine having to pay 4 bucks now for some of the stuff that was once 99. that's the whole point of the 9 correct stores. everything is 99 cents. >> steve: my family did the same thing. okay you get tchotchkes and steven stuff a lot of people go to buy their groceries at the collar stories. >> ainsley: we went to the commissary dad served in the army prices were cheaper there i wonder if they have gone up there as well. >> steve: they don't have tax. >> brian: we feel your pain whether it comes to inflation and shopping this weekend and what they keep telling you about inflation is they say it was at 9%. only 3%. it stays at the 9 and then you add the 3. it doesn't go down to 3. it's all above. so you need it to go down to 2%. never get that money back when it went up to 9 it compounds. on a different note. probably most famous people in the world who did it the blue collar way. >> steve: skip bedell? >> brian: dwayne "the rock" johnson came up as football player had aspirations to go to the nhl. went to the cfl and got cut. in wrestling making $25 and $75 a night. then he became the most successful box office star in the movies. now is he going back to wrestling. i'm just wondering at any point did will cain talk to him. >> lawrence: right. >> ainsley: i'm glad you asked. here it is. >> will: as you mentioned, you are very influential to the point of this. we talked about it. you running for president, people talk about it, you've talked about it. >> yes. >> will: are you going to ever seriously run for president? answer that question, consider it seriously and make that that mountain top run for president? >> as of now, no. that's not my intention, will. i'm not a politician. i'm not into politics. i care deeply about our country. i'm a patriot and i believe you are, too, as well. and right now my desire and my priorities are my babies and school drop-offs and pick-ups and things like that. that's important to me. i also feel like in the spirit of bringing people together and bringing our country together. i don't know if that's the right move at this point. i don't know. so, truth is. >> will: as of now you say. >> as of now. >> steve: as of now a moment that you decide to get involved in politics and donald trump found this out the hard way. all the celebrities at him. all at his parties. even the clintons were at his wedding. everyone loves you when you are cooking the thing that makes you great. the moment that you entire into politics, is suddenly when the people that once said they loved you don't like you so much. >> brian: can you imagine if he hopped on the no labels ticket. maybe is he not ready now. his kids are too young he should talk to schwarzenegger. he was just as high when he made that move in a very polarized california and then the kennedys more democrat and alienated the republicans came out and moderate. you have to make tough decisions when you are a politician. schwarzenegger said he would have run for president even though he left unpopular. >> ainsley: only 51 years old. he has time. he is the most followed american man globally on social media. i follow him. it's really cute. he has tea parties with his kids. >> steve: and how many times have you heard the expression you vote for people you would like to have a beer with. everybody would like to have a beer with this guy. he is universally beloved by at love people. i think you are right, if he were to ever say okay, i'm going to run as a republican or a democrat, then suddenly a lot of people don't like him anymore. that actually got started not-i famously we saw that with donald trump as you just detailed, brian. but, remember when ronald reagan, the former governor of the great state of california, he decided, you know what? i'm going to go for it, after he did all that public speaking and he ran away with it. and for the most part, he kept all of his celebrity friends. >> ainsley: the rock is going to be the main event in wrestle mania. 40's first night in saturday on philly. >> steve: tomorrow night. >> ainsley: yesterday tomorrow night. he is the third generation. his grandfather. his father was the first black champion in wwe history. left of center in the hall of fame. and is he about to induct his grandmother in the hall of fame. >> brian: you got to figure as good a shape as is he in 53. >> ainsley: 51. >> brian: is he going to get thrown all around the ring how the hell do you do that. >> ainsley: most intense training in a long time he told will. >> brian: i just have to lock up with him and make sure. i would love to do that and just see if he could take a beating. >> lawrence: will you be making a camo appearance at the match? >> brian: unfortunately it doesn't work with my schedule. if it was at the garden. >> steve: do you know what? i have got an idea that he is probably watching this right now. so if you would like the rock to call him, give him your phone number right now. >> brian: what i'm. >> steve: 1-# hundred. >> brian: i'm going to get body tattoos like you have so when i take my shirt off you will be a little intimidated. right now i'm just picking out my ink. >> ainsley: we have seen you wrestle before you were taken down. [laughter] >> brian: i'm going to train with tyrus to take on the rock. >> ainsley: you were like a blanket. he threw you on his shoulder. [laughter] >> steve: rag doll. >> brian: train with tyrus to take on the rock maybe that will be a better idea. >> steve: she didn't even say a doll she said a blanket. >> ainsley: flipped him over his shoulder. >> lawrence: i agree with ainsley. ainsley: rock, if you are coming to new york city please come in here and wrestle brian. >> brian: remember, steve, i wrestled the undertaker, too. remember the undertaker he choked me. >> steve: i do remember you jumping on the back of numerous guests. >> brian: that's true. >> steve: and i know donnie osmond and i know some other people. there were always a lot of tumbling, a lot of rolling around on the studio floor. and you are fine now. >> brian: b.j. penn and done any oz monday two toughest opponents. >> ainsley: have you ever been injured on the show? >> brian: i don't think so. i'm a rock. >> ainsley: one rock to another. >> brian: exactly. get more of the rock interview with will cain. that's going to come up a little bit later. i'm sure he is going to have it on his podcast, too. >> steve: in about an hour. coming up on 7:15 in the east. speaking of the east, carley has got news from georgia. >> carley: i certainly do. good morning to you. new emails revealing athens georgia marry kelly gertz defended sanctuary city policies days after laken riley was murdered. in emails obtained by congressman mike collins, mayor gearst tells the clock county sheriff's office quote i support the detainer policy that is, one, both humane and following the well-documented propensity of immigrants in the u.s. to less criminally inclined than the native born population. the news follows georgia state lawmakers passing a bill to require law enforcement to cooperate with ice. exclusive new photos shows sean "diddy" combs riding his bike and living it up in miami. these days taken after homeland security led two raids sex trafficking investigation. a music producer and friend of the rap mogul says comes was in his mime home during the raids. defended the rapper's parties highlighting how hundreds of stars would attend them. taking a look at the before and after of los angeles' infamous trash house. crews have removed more than seven tons of garbage in the last two days. l.a.'s mayor saying at least one ton of that trash was flammable and hazardous. the sister of the man who lived there revealed the family bought him the house, which is located in a wealthy neighborhood. now they want to take it over so they can fix it up. madonna asking a court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her by two fans. for starting her new york concert late. her lawyer stating in a filing no reasonable concert goer and certainly no madonna fan would expect headline act major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time. the plaintiff in the class action lawsuit claimed the material girl broke the law for false advertising for starting the concerts late. my goodness. now to a slip-up oh boy ceremony ahead of the 2024 summer olympics, the french diver bouncing the wrong way, falling onto the diving board during the opening' of an olympic aquatic center in paris. he later told reporters his leg gave out from underneath him. the swimmer assured fans his back is okay. but his ego is definitely bruised that hurts to watch one couple outrage online: the couple was asking their guests for $5,000 in honeymoon funds two months of home expenses amounting in $3,000. 10, $100 delta airline gift cards. five, $200 gift cards and more. one person saying it's an outrageous witch list saying, quote: they should hide the total amounts. that's what is making them sean seem greedy to between. usually ask for wine glasses and colander. these are very specific amounts of things they want, too. >> steve: and, carley, the guy put his qr code there so the people could venmo it. the extraordinary thing about this is in addition to that money grab, you add it all up, it's close to $30,000. 27,500 i read somewhere. >> brian: wow. >> steve: turns out it is a destination wedding. the wedding is in italy, a fortune to go and figure out what you be going to give them. ainsley: he is an american and she is from italy. and he asked his best friend who is one of the guys in the wedding beyonce to help him with this registry. put some of these amounts on your registry and people will probably be glad to hip. she read it and she said i am just floored. i'm flabbergasted that he put this amount. maybe as a man he just doesn't know that this is tacky. and she is in italy. maybe she doesn't know etiquette in america. she said he sent -- he hand delivered the invitation to her in-law's because they are close family friends. and they have a lot of money. so she said inside their invitation was the venmo code and the list of where can you go to their registry. >> lawrence: i agree with it, too. >> brian: take the pressure off. i wish everybody would register their birthdays and register mother's day. it would just be so much easier. >> ainsley: what would your grandmother say? what would your mom and grandmother if you sent out a wedding invitation with $30,000 of gifts? >> lawrence: you are right, ainsley. >> ainsley: so tacky. >> steve: if you would like to contribute to our honeymoon fund. >> ainsley: that's fine. >> steve: it's broken down. this is 1,000, this is 3,000, this is 5,000, these are ten, $100 steve. >> lawrence: people showing up to weddings and not bringing gifts. >> brian: really? who is doing that. >> lawrence: people do it all the time. i have seen the criticism on social media. >> steve: smart guy then. >> lawrence: didn't bring me any gift it's like $200 per table for the food there it turns into a little family get away vacation. maybe they went a little over their skis but i think they're speaking for some people. >> ainsley: they are asking everyone to go to italy. that's so expensive. steve. >> lawrence: you don't get to have a destination wedding. >> brian: best thing about new york the squatters? no, the best thing about new york cash. people give cash. >> ainsley: in south carolina when you get married your closest friends might get you your -- one piece of your fine china that might be $100. those are my parents' best friends would have done that my friends maybe a $30 gift, $50 gift. move to new york. i'm invited to a wedding and asking hair and makeup. what is the protocol here? and they said you basically if the wedding -- where is the vin venue that might be $500 a person or $300 a person. if you or your hesitate are going you need to give them $600. i was like, what? >> brian: two things have to happen for a wedding be in love and make a profit. >> lawrence: brian, you haven't heard my rule about weddings. get a nice ring or get a nice wedding. i'm not doing both. >> ainsley: they have to take your last name. >> lawrence: if you want the ring you have to take the last name. >> steve: cash, first wedding i went to in new jersey, lavish, and then at one point the bride went around with a bag and people put money in the bag. >> ainsley: i was in a wedding and there was a bird cage. >> lawrence: with the bag? >> steve: it makes it easy. that way you can. >> ainsley: i was in the wedding a bird cage outs outside of the church and put your envelope in there. someone ran off with the bird cage. >> steve: i think a.j. hall from our show at his wedding we all went. i think he had a bird cage. >> brian: there was a cover charge. you walked in and had to pay a door man. let's stick around general jack keane is here. no charge to you. ♪ (vo) in three seconds, this couple will share a perfect moment. 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♪ steve all right. let's get some headlines for this friday morning. the cdc director says that agency is keeping a close eye on the spread of bird flu. and there are plans to mass produce vaccines just in case there is a bird flu pandemic. this comes after the nation's largest producer of eggs temporarily shut down production in michigan and texas after the bird flu was found this their facilities. bird flu has reportedly infected dairy herds in six states they are in, as you can see those yellow states right there, ohio, texas, kansas, new mexico, idaho and michigan. also happening today lawmakers are holding a field hearing in miami on a series of cyber and infrastructure threats coming from china. they will hear from the commander of the u.s. coast guard cyber commands. owners of a shipping company and others who operate our ports. this comes after the u.s. pledged to invest billions of dollars to replace chinese made cranes. and those, brian, are some of the headlines. >> brian: let's take this story international. >> israel has agreed to send more aid delivers to gaza following a warning from president biden as we learn more about the idf airstrike that killed seven aide workers mistakenly. biden demanding immediate cease-fire in his call with netanyahu while threatening to end u.s. supports if things don't change. the white house insists biden's commitment to israel remains firm. >> how much is his support unwavering but you are also reconsidering policy choices? >> both can be true. peter peesht they cannot be true. they are completely different things. >> no. he made it clear to the prime minister in his call that our support for israel's self-defense remains ironclad. >> brian: here to react is fox news senior strategic analyst retired four star general jack keane what does it mean when he says to netanyahu start -- do what is necessary to have a cease-fire? >> well, what's taking place here is go to a cease-fire and make concessions to achieve that cease-fire, certainly negotiations have been going on for some time and netanyahu has had a six-week cease-fire on the table for weeks. but, hamas -- in those negotiations, has been quite impossible to deal with. now, what have we done? we just strengthened hamas' hand, rather dramatically. and leveraged them in those negotiations. and we -- it's quite appalling. we should stay out of this and give israel some credit. this is a horrible thing that happened, certainly. but, within 24 hours, they admit they made a mistake, they apologized for it and began an investigation. they have conducted a preliminary investigation, not the final one. they have relieved two officers. they reprimanded two other officers. and the fact that they relieved someone and reprimanded someone also is a credit to them. i think what it is going to come down to, likely, certainly they misidentified the wck vehicles as being hamas. it will come down to maybe what was the evidence you had that this was hamas? why did you pull the trigger thinking this was hamas? what triggered you in terms of this was an okay shoot to begin with? so, that's a thorough investigation done by a values-based organization, that is holding its people to a very high standard. and, certainly our standards are going to be much more than hamas'. there is no equivalency here. but the israelis are taking right steps, given the horror of what took place. and they should be given some credit to it as opposed to being wire brushed in public and being forced to concede to the adversary in negotiations. that is really outrageous in my view. >> brian: just remember why we are there, october 7th. that he was the only research why israel is there. they never wanted to go into gaza that should be reminded every day before anybody talks about condemning how you fight in one of the most brutal environments on the planet today. here's the statement that just came out as we started this segment from the idf. the investigation found that the forces identified a gunman on one of the trucks. following which they identified an additional gunman, after the vehicles left the warehouse where the aid had been unloaded. one the commanders. mistakenly assumed that the gunmen were located inside the accompanying vehicles and these were hamas terrorists. so that -- they follow up the reprimand and everything. it seems to me we have the finest military in the world and best intelligence in the world. we make mistakes too. it wasn't too long ago under the biden administration we killed 10 civilians including seven children because we thought that was the family of the bomber that blew up everybody at abby gate. it turns out he was loading water jugs. did you really want netanyahu to reprimand us then, general? >> actually, that incident you are referring to 10 killed and seven children. we call that a righteous strike at the beginning. it took us weeks before we divulged to the american people and certainly to the afghan people that we made a horrible mistake. you know, as a result of that. and, likely similar here. a lookout of things went into the judgment that this is actually an enemy vehicle and certainly have authorization to strike is that vehicle. listen, human beings under stress in combat situations, these are challenging things. we will hold ourselves accountable for that and they will do the same. our adversary certainly isn't going to do anything of the kind. we shouldn't be enforcing israel to make concessions in these very difficult negotiations that are taking place while they are trying to get their hostages back. i think implied in this is a bigger thing, brian. i think the administration, without saying it publicly, really wants this to stop. the fighting to stop right now. put the weapons down. let's end this thing. and, if that happens, and we leave hamas with multiple battalions and their leaders in place, they win. >> and that's the reality of it. and israel's security is going to be threatened as a result of that. and the people in israel want hamas to be destroyed. that is a fact. the majority of the people are completely behind the prime minister. they may disagree with him being a prime minister as enduring prime minister because they are holding him accountable for some other things, but they all are behind destroying hamas. why is that? 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>> i found out about it when the principal called and let us know about it, about the incident. and we were really shocked a and -- just to hear that really hurt us. >> ainsley: yeah. of course. mark, how did the principal find out and did you see the video and what was your reaction? >> so the principal apparently found out where another teacher at west clermont took it to the attention of the principal and said, you know, this had happened. she had seen the video. we didn't really -- we didn't really learn anything about it until about two weeks ago we went to the police station and actually watched the video. and, like i said, when you watch the video if you are just a normal person looking at the video and you see a kid getting -- it was all fun and games. to us it wasn't fun and games. that's the point we are trying to make. it should have never happened. and what we're trying to get out of this is definitely for our special needs classes, especially the ones around in our district, to get cameras in the special needs classes. that way, if there is an incident and we want to look back on the videos we can actually see the videos and that's what this whole thing is for. we just want clarity on something if he comes home with a scratch or a bruise, you know, it could happen out on the playground or whatever. we want to know. >> ainsley: you have to be his voice. >> a lot of people with down syndrome kids or special needs kids that's what they want to know. >> ainsley: what did the teacher and aide being accused of this say? >> we haven't heard anything from the teacher or the aide. and i just want people to get out of this the fact that it's just -- our special needs kids are -- i mean, they are very -- they are special and you don't want to treat anybody else's kids other than what you would want to treat your own kids. >> ainsley: i was reading that his hands were down on his side. taped around his waste all the d only move his fingers. >> ainsley: how is dustin doing? you said he is resilient and loves to go to school. what's the reaction now that all this happened? >> well, i mean, and i'm not trying to bash west clermont. all through school we have had great teachers. teachers that have liked him and loved him. he loved going to school with the teachers. he is definitely is resilient. we hung up some birthday balloons and got out the tape and he said scared of tape. that threw us off guard. other than that, is he just -- he is a happy kid. he does good. he loves life and he makes us smile every day. >> ainsley: for parents watching this. if your pa your kids go to schoh special needs children what's your advice love them and treat them the way you want to be treated. >> treat special needs kids -- i grew up in my school being an aide, helping out special needs kids and i have always loved being around them and dustin was a blessing to us for sure. when you got a kid in the hallway that has special needs, you know, don't make fun of them. you know, they are human, too. >> ainsley: love them. >> that's our point. >> ainsley: well, thank you all so much for coming on. god has big plan for your life, dus continue. thank you so much. god bless you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: you are welcome, sweetheart. >> ainsley: have great weekend. we did reach out to the school for a statement but we did not hear back. 44 minutes after the hour. we have more "fox & friends" coming up.p. coming up.p. ♪ missing teeth forever. it changes how you eat, how you feel, and how you enjoy life. it changes your smile and how others smile at you. clearchoice network doctors have changed over 100,000 lives with dental implants, and they can change yours, too. because a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. we've never spoken. but you've told us many things. that you love stargazing, hate parallel parking, and occasionally, your right foot gets a little heavy. the lexus es didn't begin in a studio — it began with you. ♪ >> steve: have you heard a total solar eclipse is going to be arriving on monday for portions of the united states and it will be the last one visible here until 2044. >> ainsley: our next guest has traveled the world chasing eclipses since 1970. >> brian: his name is paul mollie he joins us from a boat in the middle of california. paul, what's the fascination? >> well an eclipse is probably the best thing you can ever hope to see without an interference factor. it's just the most amazing eyesight, emotional experience. it's the kind of thing that addicts people to eclipse chasing. >> ainsley: paul, if we have children how do we explain this in layman's terms in simple form what an eclipse is? >> well, you can speak about the moon and sun essentially lining up with where they are on earth if they are under the path of totality and indicate how rare this is because the last time we had one was seven years ago, the next time it will be be visible over the continental u.s. excluding alaska will be 2044. >> steve: do you know other eclipse chasers who have gone to being in the path of the eclipse and you get there and camp out and they look up and it's cloudy or rainy and they miss the whole thing? >> yes. and that has to do with bad planning, i think, on their part. you can't guarantee the weather and we hope for the best in every situation. >> lawrence: paul, can you tell us why it's important to have the right glasses to view this? >> sure, you have to protect your eyes from the ultraviolet radiation. when you look at the sun on a normal day and your eyes react saying don't look at me. but, when you have the eclipse glasses on it allows you to safely view the sun prior to the total eclipse. >> brian: where will you be? >> right now we will be southwest mexico, maybe 200 kilometers out. that's our plan right now. >> brian: why? >> sorry. again? >> brian: why? why is that the best place? >> it may not be the best place but we are using statistical historical data indicating it may be the least cloudy place along the path. >> ainsley: paul, i just bought some glasses on amazon, are they approved? how do we know if they are the right ones? >> well, that's a good question. the best way to do that is to look on the back of the glasses to see if it has an iso 9000 set of texts. but, many of these fake glasses and there are some of those out there, the best thing to do is to pick it up, put it on your forehead, attempt to view a light in your room. if you can see that light, then chances are they are not going to be suitable. >> steve: whatever you do, don't just try it with sunglasses because that dog don't hunt. >> absolutely correct. >> brian: but what do you do when you are not chasing an eclipse? >> well, that's a good question. i observe eclipses of stars by asteroids, watching them pass in front and cause a very short eclipse. analogous to a solar ellipse but far more -- >> ainsley: what happens after monday? what's your next project? >> my next project will be going to easter island in october. >> brian: nice. >> for an annular eclipse. >> lawrence: cool job. >> steve: no kidding. paul, thank you very much. i hope you see it all. >> thank you very much. >> ainsley: he was great. that was good information. >> brian: we like paul. who likes carley? >> ainsley: we all like carley. >> carley: good, thank you, i was so nervous. >> brian: i was nervous, too. i didn't know what they would say. >> carley: look at this set, carley. >> carley: you guys are near the eclipse. >> carley: is it cold up there. >> ainsley: hayden plan tear >> carley: will cain exclusive interview he opened up about all the success he has had opening weekend of the ufl. >> yeah, we had a great opening weekend ufl serves as just the opportunity to great opportunities for players to live out their dreams. >> carley: week two of the ufl kicks off tomorrow and on sunday afternoon the houston roughnecks take on the d.c. defenders only on fox. the women's final four tipoff tonight south carolina gamecocks take on nc state and uconn huskies battle caitlin clark and the iowa hawkeyes. comes a day after clark claimed second straight a.p. player of the year. tomorrow both uconn and north korea state will also play in the men's final four that tips off tomorrow. the uconn huskies will be playing the alabama crimson tide and nc state will be playing perdue. in honor of march madness, so fun. garden and gun magazine is on the hunt for the best southern biscuits. the competition started with 32 options and now down to the final four. the contenders are parker's kitchen, hardee's tudor's biscuits world and handsome handbiscuits. we will do a taste test right now how lucky are we we have our biscuits. >> steve: i have tudor. >> i have parkers. >> brian: halifax, virginia. >> ainsley: by them at gas stations and convenience store. >> brian: bacon cheddar ride eye pork sausage and gravy. >> steve: tudors has my vote this is delicious. >> carley: i had the handsome biscuits. >> lawrence: gravy. >> steve: mine has a hash brown. >> carley: brian doesn't eat on air. >> brian: i will tease out. stay with us. take a bite. ggest selection of kubota tractors, zero-turn mowers and utility vehicles, including the #1 selling compact tractor in the usa. plus, the year's best deals, like 0% apr for 84 months, or up to $3,300 off select compact tractors. orange goes all day; sale's ending soon. visit your local dealer today. find your nearest dealer at kubotaorangedays.com ( ♪ ) my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back... now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer...♪ ( ♪ ) ♪ i feel free... ♪ ♪ to bear my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ( ♪) with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and most people were clearer even at 5 years. skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions... ...and an increased risk of infections... ...or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms,... ...had a vaccine, or plan to. ♪ nothing and me go hand-in-hand, ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin, that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ now's the time,... ...ask your doctor about skyrizi,... ...the number one... ...dermatologist-prescribed biologic in psoriasis. learn how abbvie could help you save. the future is not just going to happen. you have to make it. and if you want a successful business, all it takes is an idea, and now becomes the future where you grew a dream into a reality. the all new godaddy airo. put your business online in minutes with the power of ai. voices of people with cidp: cidp disrupts. cidp derails. let's be honest... all: cidp sucks! voices of people with cidp: but living with cidp doesn't have to. when you sign up at shiningthroughcidp.com, you'll find inspiration in real patient stories, helpful tips, reliable information, and more. cidp can be tough. but finding hope just got a little easier. sign up at shiningthroughcidp.com. all: be heard. be hopeful. be you. >> steve: it is 8:00 here in