All right. Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast, this is Sunday September the 9th, this is Fox Friends. We are one day away from the first and possibly the only 2024 president ial debate. And democrats seem to be tempering the exception tampering exception for Vice President Kamala Harris. It will take almost super human Focus And Discipline to deal with Donald Trump in a debate. Ainsley we will preview the showdown with Karoline Leavitt with Tulsi Gabbard and Nikki Haley. Steve yep, we got a big Show Today and a Fox News alert. House republicans revealing the failures that led up to the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan David Bellavia on how the administration put optics over safety and a plan. Brian you are not going to believe this report. Tyreek hill seems to get the last laugh with handcuffed Touchdown Celebration during the dolphins come back win over the jaguars. Steve what a day he had. Lawrence Fox Friends starts right now. And, remember, mornings are better with friends. Oka
Your apples are ripe. It is time to harvest them. What is the best way to harvest those apples . Do you pick them from the tree or do you chop down the tree . Apples are income. The trees are capital. The reason we want a socalled, consumptionbased tax because we dont want to mistreat capital. But to understand why it is so foolish, dont think about marxism, socialism, free market theories think about it this way, if you chop down the tree or more accurately what the current tax system does if you harvest apples by sawing off branches of the tree, what does that do for your longrun prosperity, your longrun income . You obviously will have fewer apples next year. It doesnt make sense to quadruple and triple tax capital. On this issue marxists and socialists are right they agree with sensible economist. You need capital for long run growth. We should have a tax system treats all income equally. No longer tax income saved and invested. You want neutrality in getting rid of all the loophol
Volunteers to assist with Recovery Efforts in at least 50 counties across texas. Safehouses. As the water starts to receipt, recede, this is where rs need to volunteer. To get people act in their homes the very baseline level. And sustained them there. The administrators is the number of people seeking shelter will continue to grow and the work will continue for two years. The Texas Governor says catastrophic rains have moved east from the houston area, to the region around beaumont, texas. He warns that the worst is not yet over for the southeastern part of the state. Governor abbott added 14 more counties are now under a federal declaration. He says the number of National Guard troops aiding in the disaster has it been increased from 12,000 to 14,000. Sunshine is in the forecast for the houston area today, but the worst is far from over. Straight days of rain brought more than 50 inches of water to the area, at least 20 people have died, 15,000 have been rescued come and 70,000 are s
Good afternoon. Stocks steady despite jobs and gdp data financials and tech the best performers and telecom and energy the biggest laggards. Bob evans farms soaring, beating Sales Estimates and raising outlook and chicos taking a hit. Comp store sales also missing the mark. Lets get you caught up on latest headlines on har vixt the governmentrun u. S. Flood Insurance Program now says it has already received 35,000 claims, as of noon today and as of midnight, dumped 21 trillion gallons of rain, and its enough to fill half of lake tahoe. And the storm is hitting louisiana now. The state bracing for tornadoes and flooding weve got you covered. Lets go to Team Coverage on the ground in texas. Brian sullivan live in pasadena with the latest on the refineries Contessa Brewer still in houston where businesses are continuing to get back to business. Lets start with you. All right, sara, thank you very much. We want to look at these refineries and show them to you. Right along the buffalo bayou
Were waiting on the president. This as rescue efforts underway amid texas officials saying situation in port arthur is dire. As floodwaters rise and nations Largest Oil Refinery is forced to shut down. Several refineries are running on reduced capacity or knocked completely offline by devastating rain. Causing gas prices to surge on concerns of a nationwide fuel shortage. You have thousands of people rid now that are still stuck in these shelters. The expectation as things will get worse before they get better. So thousands of people now, out of their homes without their belongs, the destruction said to be worst weve ever seen in terms of national disasters. Major destruction. We hope as many people that can be safe are indeed. I want to go straight to Hillary Vaughn who is actually in port arthur, with more on the refinery issue and challenges that people are now facing there as they, they try an figure out the next couple days. Reporter trish, according to our count 12 refineries acr