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The first contestants. "fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: holy cow. >> gretchen: we start with a of course news alert this morning. rockets fired by afghan militants hitting the plane for the joint chiefs chair at bagram air base in afghanistan. general martin dempsey not in the plane at the time. wendell goler live at the white house with the latest. thats a new piece of information. what else can you tell us? >> as you say, the general wasnt in the c-17 when it was hit by shrapnel in a rock...

Wright of the good morning again, kelly. >> good morning. the strike occurred shortly after midnight in afghanistan forcing bagram air base into lock down mode for more than an hour. base personnel were ordered into their bunkers. u.s. military officials say militants fired two rockets from a remote timer. shrapnel struck the chairman of the joint chiefs c-17 plane forcing general martin dempsey to wait for replacement plane to leave afghanistan. aides say he was in his quarters during the attac...

So thats actually -- if that kind of progress that weve seen over this year can be extrapolated out to the next 28 months, i think were going to see something thats actually sustainable. >> general dempsey speaking with jennifer griffin prior to that attack that took place this morning. he placed a telephone call to president karzai tuesday morning before leaving afghanistan to reiterate u.s. concerns about the space of insider attacks on u.s. and nato troops, urging president karzai to do more ...

again, tonight, we will show you right here, live protest in new york city for whats being called quote, the million hoodie march, a reference to the hoodie trayvon martin was wearing when he was shot and killed in sanford, florida. new calls for the arrest of a noob hood watch volunteer that shot and killed the 17-year-old boy. martin was unarmed, walking from a convenience store to the home of his fathers fiancee last month in sanford near orlando when george zimmerman shot him. he s...

Engine. the pilot quickly aborting that flight as the engine shut down and passengers call him a hero. >> the scary thing was we were about 1,000 feet until the end of the red light. we didnt know if we were going to go into the water. >> it sounds like a major pop. a heavy vibration. >> captain steve saved our lives. he did a fantastic job. megyn: a replacement plane eventually took the plane to seattle. birds were the culprit that led to the water landing on the hudson river back in 2009. the ...

Safely. >> it sounded like a major pop, a heavy vibration. >> he saved our lives! >> captain seade is the guy to talk to, he did a fantastic job. >> when we looked out the window, we actually saw white smoke coming out. >> were you scared? >> it was unnerving. patti ann: a replacement plane eventually flew in and the passengers landed safely in seattle last night. bill: captain steve should get a beer, dont you think? come on, well done! now a warning, if youre building something without permi...

Company, which runs that mine, is not at todays hearing. a portland, oregon, jury was awarded $1.4 million to a man who says he was molested in the boy scouts. they said that the boy scouts failed to protect him back in the 1980s. the assistant scoutmaster named in the lawsuit admitted to molesting several boys. the boy scouts could be liable for up to $25 million in punitive damages. sickening fumes caused an american airlines plane to make an emergency landing in iceland. several crew memb...