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Tracking the latest. not a lot of time for preparations. >> if you live across texas, the storm will linger into the weekend into next week in a category 2 storm, 10020 mile sustained winds, new update from the national hurricane center of a strengthening storm which makes it even more dangerous as it makes landfall over night into saturday. we have not had a major hurricane hit the us in 12 years. here is the radar. we can see the outer band moving where rob schmidt is across galveston where we...

Flooding. heather: strong words, catastrophic, unprecedented, life-threatening. as hurricane harvey builds up steam, the time to prepare is running out. rob: rob schmidt picked up coverage from galveston, texas. >> reporter: last night driving into galveston, you feel like we are the only ones coming and everyone else is going out, sign saying hurricane in golf, be prepared, load up on gas, be ready because of what this could end up being. the big story is an inundation of rain, two or three fee...

Thousands of tourists were forced out and now a pair of islands in north carolina could be out of power for another two weeks. thats why they were forced out to begin with north carolina governor roy cooper will visit the outer banks bridge at the center of the outage as they try to work to restore those transadmissions. the island lost power last week when a construction company accidentally damaged three transmission cables. rob: look before you dig and do other things. 37 minutes after the ho...

♪ than this place im living ♪ how far is heaven? ♪ i just got to -- todd: one avenue of the americas. big apple in new york city. good monday morning to you and yours. you are watching "fox & friends first." im todd pirro in for rob schmidt. heather: hanging out in that building somewhere. im heather childers. john kelly will be sworn in as white house chief of staff. rob: first day on the job start of a busy week as tensions with russia intensify. griff jenkins in washington, d.c. with th...

Understandable to me that, you know, peoples frustration is high. i share that frustration. >> now the citys police chief janee harteau resigned friday at the request of the mayor. in a statement harteau said quote i have to put the communities we serve first. i have decided im willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the mpd to be the very best it can be. rob? >> any more information as to exactly -- i heard the theory that maybe it was fireworks...

How are the conditions looking forward? is there a cooldown coming? do we know? >> not a lot. the conditions have been perfect -- you have to keep in mind we just came out of a five year historic drought here in california. then we had a lot of rain over the winter and that allowed vegetation to grow back and created perfect fuel. there is a little bit of good news. fire crews near the detwiler fire up north are getting help this weekend, while it is still hot and dry, the winds have calmed down...

Heat. good news is, rob, that heat is still really intense tomorrow, beginning to back down just a couple of degrees for us on monday and tuesday. it will still be hot but wont be talking about triple digits, 110, wont be in that range in the next couple of days. >> we still have august to go. >> yes, a long ways to go. >> thank you very much. a new jersey home once occupied by a family of russian spies is about to hit the market. investors are planning to flip this house. how much will it cos...

Hes referring to the temple compound where israeli police installed metal-detectors at the entrances following a deadly attack last friday in which two police officers were killed. since then rioters have clashed with police in jerusalem and parts of the west bank. three palestinians have been killed in the violence and more than 400 others injured. since last nights attack, israel has poured more troops into the west bank. israeli security forces remain on high alert and posted outside the old ...

John huddy has more from our jerusalem bureau. >> rob, israeli officials are calling last nights deadly attack in the west bank settlement a massacre. there are crime scene photos just too graphic to show, but in one, the kitchen floor of the home where an israeli family was eating their meal is stained with blood. the attack happened in the west bank settlement, where police say a 20-year-old palestinian man snuck into a home through an open back door and stabbed to death a father and his two g...

Her from inside the vehicle. now noor is on administrative leave, and he has yet to speak to investigators. >> yeah, he doesnt want to talk publicly. i remember that. brian, thank you very much. >> thanks, rob. okay, right now bloodshed in the middle east as tensions boil between israelis and palestinians. look at that. how both sides are reacting to fridays deadly attacks over a holy site there. also hollywood loses a veteran actor. im sure you recognize that face. john heard best known for p...