Its thursday, its april 18th, and this is fox friends. We start with a fox news alert. Protests flaring overnight right off Columbia Universitys campus after faced a reckoning on capitol hill. And happening today, former President Donald Trump due back in court case one as attorneys gear up for Opening Statements as early as monday. Plus snacks under attack but could be for a good reason from cheetos to lucky charms. Why they could be banned. That should be our lead story. Second hour of fox friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with snacks. We have a lot of Breaking News overnight we begin with your headlines, two suspected spies arrested overseas. Accused of plotting Sabotage Attacks on u. S. Military facilities in germany. On behalf of russia. German prosecutors say their goal was to undermine support for ukraine. The suspects are germanrussian nationals who were allegedly prepared to carry out a bomb and arson attack on military facilities. Including at one of
ingredients that you need to know about. lawrence: carley shimkus. carley: bills are advancing in multiple states which could ban thousands of your favorite snacks. new york, illinois and pennsylvania are introducing measuring to ban 13 additives over suspected health risks. new jersey and missouri are considering this, too. the snacks that could be on the chong block include lucky charms oreos, gator aid and flaming hot cheetos there are concerns that the food dies in these products may cause health problems. lucky charms contains the yellow 6 additive that some say is linked to adrenal tumors. flaming hot cheetos yellow 5 and yellow 6 which studies show it can cause d.n.a. mutations in white blood cells. oreo contain blue 1 with concerns that it could potentially cause kidney tumors and damaged nerve cells. and the food dye gatorade cancer
education you think is unscathed by budget cover proposals at this point? right. here s what we know. education spending has been on an unsustainable path for the past three decades, more than three decades now. when we look at the president s fy 12 it looks to increase that spending by 20% over 2010 levels alone. ultimately it s really not about spending more money. we need to start thinking about how to spend that money wisely and better target those resources to the schools that are most in need. leona, you say there are things for parents here to be concerned about right now. we know that, you know, the national education association praising the president and the budget deals for preserving pell grants and preserving head start, but some associated with teachers and some associated with education are concerned overall about what they say is this feeling as though education is going to get cut, it s going to be on the chong block. right. well, we know from this budget deal th