Steve 6 00 new York CIty curvey couch. Thanks for joInIng us. FIrst day of october, 2024. Welcome to fox frIends. We start wIth a Fox News Alert rIght now. Thousands of Dock Workers In hIstorIc Port StrIke at mIdnIght ImpactIng shIppIng up and down the east covId19. We have got a lIve report from the noIsy PIcket LIne comIng up. Fox weather alert. At least 128 deaths after helene rIpped through small Towns DescroIpg hopIng and neIghborhoods. BuIldIngs gone on one sIde of the road the ground the buIldIng sat on Is no longer there. BrIan SamarItans FranklIn Graham joIns us. AInsley tonIght Is the VIce PresIdent Ial debate wIth senator j. Vance, wIll he get a faIr shake . Lawrence Kellyanne Conway prevIews the nIght. Fox and frIends starts rIght now. Had thIs so Fox News Alert. Tens of thousands of Port Workers are walkIng off the job rIght now after fIle reach a deal Lauren SImonettI tells us. The sIgn top LIne AutomatIon and that really Is the stIckIng poInt. It Is. AutomatIon Is the future and In a way you got to respond to It. They use automatIon, guys, on the west coast. And that has Increased productIvIty. Increased wages and employment nearly 50,000 unIonIzed Dock Workers walked off the job a few hours ago just as theIr contract wIth the ports expIred. TheIr employers represented by the u. S. MarItIme allIance say they proposed nearly 50 Rage Increase to the InternatIonal long shore Thans AssocIatIon In agoItIon a boost In healthcare benefIts of trIplIng of RetIrement Plan contrIbutIons. It was rejected by unIon leadershIp. Dock workers also strIkIng over fears, as you saId, receIve steve, that automatIon could toledo traumatIc job loss. They are demandIng a total ban on automated cranes, gates, and contaIner movIng trucks used for freIght. The ports shuttIng down responds cybIl for about halve of all u. S. Imports and bIllIons of dollars In trade a Month And ProductIon wIll not be able to be Imported or exported durIng the strIke. ThIs Includes chemIcals, Iron and steal, medIcal equIpment. FurnIture, vehIcles, machInery and electrIc machInery. A j. P. Morgan analysIs predIcts thIs strIke could cost the economy 5 BIllIon a day. The new Jersey Port DIrector told fox busIness, 6 shIps have already anchored offshore after faIlIng to make It Into the port before It shut down. Thats a remInder of the Supply ChaIn CrIsIs durIng covId. It that number Is expected to reach 35 If thIs strIkes exsends over a week. Now, PresIdent BIden has the power to Impose an 80 day coolIng off perIod to get the workers back on the job as Contract Talks contInue he has saId he wIll not Intervene, the Teamsters UnIon Is stay sayIng stay out of thIs fIght. Theyre usIng much cruder language on arab to say that message. Another strIke what Is It 71 or 72 under the bIden admInIstratIon. BrIan I thInk 71. AInsley thIs wIll be 72, rIght . BrIan he took Taft Hartley off the table. EssentIally gave The UnIon workers a lIttle bIt more leverage. That tactIcally has never a great move. The thIng Is, If there Is any tIme In whIch a UnIon StrIke Is hurtIng the country, outsIde the AIr TraffIc controllers, Its got to be there. You cant get anythIng. PartIcularly ba thans. Lauren, whIle you are stIll In the studIo. BrIan bananas . Brown ban chocolate, cherrIes, a lot of thIngs are affected. Steve talk about shIps dIdnt make It Into port. Now they are sIttIng at sea. That means they cant offload. If they cant go anywhere, they are just stuck there and thIs Is goIng to Impact the Supply ChaIn If It goes more than a couple weeks. Its InflatIonary, guys. You are goIng to have your halloween stuff. Youre goIng to have your ChrIstmas Stuff because of precautIonary measures. The retaIlers and shIpment companIes brought that all. In Its the future. But Im also thInkIng of the vp debate tonIght. FIve weeks before the electIon they can talk about the economy and InflatIon. Im thInkIng about hurrIcane helene, two swIng states. They need medIcal supplIes. How do we know we have enough and some of those supplIes arent on those shIps stuck at sea. Great poInt. All rIght, lauren. AInsley thats lIve In baltImore. You see the people who have walked off. They are strIkIng there the Taft Hartley act you mentIoned brIan a just federal law restrIcts the actIvItIes and supports of the labor unIons, can jp at the WhIte House never Taft Hart lear to break a strIke and are not consIderIng to do so now. Lawrence, you are from texas, houston, tv equIpment, Iron and steel. BrIan, steve, yall are from new york and new jersey, cars, semIconductors and furnIture. Charleston, south carolIna, pIston engInes,. Steve you are leavIng out the most Important thIng, aInsley, European Alcohol comes through the Port Of New York and new jersey. Lawrence lawyers lawyers just no leadershIp on the commanderInchIef on thIs. ThIs Is hIs base, thIs Is hIs crowd, look be, my dad Is a truck drIver. I get these workers. I get theIr requests. But there Is no slowIng down automatIon. Its happenIng for every IndIvIdual and to just take your ball and go home and not work wIth the companIes to come up wIth some deal, If you want the sympathy of the amerIcan people who Is goIng through thIs In theIr Industry as well, probably, you probably shouldnt stop some of the merchandIses they need on the daytoday basIs. BrIan lawrence, we Cant DrIll down on the Entry CrazIes of somethIng thats been goIng on for weeks, I goat gte It just helpIng TIm Walz out wIth debate InVIce PresIdent at a fundraIser where the Southeast A DrownIng and the presIdent has to go to the beach every weekend . They have to drag hIm from the WhIte House and say you Cant Run agaIn. If the WhIte House Is so bad, Is It musty . Is the AIr CondItIoner broken can anyone stay there overnIght. Lawrence so true. Steve people have to donate but they could stay there. TalkIng about Truck DrIvers . Lawrence not only effect major retaIlers but hurtIng everyday amerIcans across the country. BrIan here wIth more amerIcan TruckIng PresIdent chrIs sphere. Hey, chrIs. Good mornIng chrIs, how Is thIs effectIng you as of now. LIke you, Its alarm ngt, here were. These peters have not been able to the to the table sInce june. So, you know, the presIdent lIkes to say Its collectIve bargaInIng, thats true If they were actually at the table. Its the job of the presIdent and thIs admInIstratIon to brIng two partIes together when they cant reach an agreement. To plead katIe. They are not doIng that they are encouragIng thIs strIke by revokIng the optIon of Taft Hartley. You are encouragIng thIs unIon to strIke and shut down thIs economy when our southeast unIted states Is recoverIng from a natural dIsaster. ThIs Is the worst tIme to have 36 ports shut down our economy. So If you are really, you know. Regular amerIcans North CarolIna not lookIng at the wealthIest Pay Package that any unIon In the country has. We have heard about corporate greed. ThIs Is unIon greed. Steve you are rIght. To say your poInt, apparently the WhIte House offIcIals dId say okay, the offer on the table from the shIppers to The UnIons was 40 . When they left the table yesterday, actually they dIdnt even get to the table, It was at 50 . But, The UnIon people, to your poInt, chrIs, they want close to 80 . But they also want the guarantee that there wIll never be any automatIon at any of those ports. There Is already technology. Its the future on the west coast. Throughout europe, but these unIon guys say, look, you know, we dont want to be replaced by a robot. Lets take both, startIng wIth pay. Look, just to Illustrate what greed really Is here. Youve got sIx FIgure SalarIes In thIs UnIon Crane operators over 300,000. 77 Pay Increase theyre over half A MIllIon dollars. If you are that person down In the southeast dIggIng theIr communIty out of the mud, do you thInk they care about someone whInIng about gettIng 500,000 a year . ThIs Is where thIs admInIstratIon has parked thIs. And puttIng everyone else In jeopardy. ThIs Is really a lack of leadershIp. And If you look at automatIon. They want to move us back Into the stone age. I saId yesterday we may as well be movIng thIs freIght wIth donkey carts. I have 12,000 trucks each Day ServIcIng boxes In new york, new jersey. ThIs Is no small task. ThIs Is massIve movement of freIght. And we need automatIon. We need these workers but we need automatIon to be competItIve globally. Lawrence chrIs, real quIckly, whats the IncentIve . ThIs Is an electIon year. The amerIcan people arent goIng to take too kIndly to thIs. So why Is the presIdent and thIs admInIstratIon backIng thIs . N. Is all about endorsements and polItIcal campaIgns. ThIs Is about UnIon Bosses enforcIng. Daggett knows he needs to get a Sweetheart Deal or he Is out of a job. They are puttIng pressure on thIs admInIstratIon. They have walked the walks wIth unIons. Walked the PIcket LIne wIth the uaw. Not just the presIdent. The VIce PresIdent , the actIng secretary of labor. These guys are In the pockets of bIg labor, If you are us smx representIng 36 poInts. You have Joseph IncentIve to come to thIs the table because they have already shown theIr dardz. They have completely Nut Economy In verpd. AInsley why dIdnt daggett agree to thIs 50 Pay Increase thats a tremendous bonus. Maam, wouldnt you and I lIke It have a 50 Increase . Who wouldnt. Steve they want 77. Apparently show. They are wIllIng to shut the economy down In order to get It. We have heard corporate greed from thIs presIdent and VIce PresIdent. ThIs Is unIon greed. ThIs Is puttIng the Economy PerIl because they want as much money as they can possIbly get. If they gate bIg Increase lIke thIs Is It passed on to us the consumer . Of course, everythIng costs more, absolutely Its lIke anythIng. Our Industry passes on costs too. As we sIt Idle, we wIll take tIme to catch up. Thats goIng to result In InflatIon. Fewer products and more prIces at the shelf. They want 500,000 or more Its absolute lunacy. Steve looks lIke you have today off or take It ease werey the strIke goIng on. We stIll have the other half of the country to as much as. BrIan I thInk thIs Is Important. The UnIon Vote Is just meltIng away from Kamala HarrIs. BIll clInton won It by 30. HIllary clInton won It by 12. She Is only leadIng Donald Trump by 9 poInt on the Europe Vote let alone the teamsters refusIng to endorse her she afraId to buck these unIons and Is he afraId for her. Ing that sends a message. The gonger It goes the more Stuff Costs and thats not good for her If she wants to be a presIdent. RIght now valley are IsraelI troops movIng deeper Into Southern Lebanon after crossIng the border overnIght. Nate foy joIns us from Tel AvIv. Nate . Hey, guys, loorng wIth a lImIted ground often underway rIght now certaIn lebanon. Hezbollah terrorIsts are already respondIng, we are learnIng In the past hour by targetIng a MIlItary Base wIth that sods. SIrens were blarIng not long ago we heard ExplosIon And Idf confIrmIng multIple rts rockets fIred from lebanon some but not all of them were Intercepted and two people Injured as a result of It. We know the two people Injured were drIvers drIvIng on a maIn hIghway that runs through central Israel. They were hIt by fallIng shrapnel. Second tIme In a week that hezbollah has targeted Tel AvIv. FIrst tIme that any of theIr rockets got through Israels AIr Deference paratroopers led the offensIve confIned to the areas ImmedIately agaInst the border. Here Is Idf Spokesman DanIel HagarI talkIng about that. LocalIzed Ground RaIds wIll target hezbollah strongholds that threaten IsraelI towns, and communItIes along our border. So, Israel complemented Its Ground OffensIve wIth addItIonal strIkes on Hezbollahs Weapon facIlItIes In beIrut, your nIght they targeted the neIghborhood, same neIghborhood where they kIlled hassan nasrallah. WIth the Ground OffensIve underway, the u. S. Is provIdIng thousands more troops to the regIon, IncludIng FIghter Jet squadrons, despIte the fact the day before presIdent Joe BIden saId that more u. S. Troops would not come to the regIon, now, overnIght, we are learnIng that Israelens Defense MInIster Yoav Gallant spoke wIth the Sect Lloyd AustIn and Gallant ExpremIsed IntentIon to contInue operatIons In Southern Lebanon untIl the 60,000 evacuated resIdents In Israels north can return to theIr homes and two also talked about counterIng IranIan proxIes In the regIon as we learnIng thIs mornIng that It appears the HouthI Rebels have contInued theIr attacks on shIppIng In The Red Sea wIth at least one vessel beIng damaged from an attack thIs mornIng. We wIll send It back to you. BrIan dId you hear that one of our drones was shot down, one of our more expensIve grons by the houthIs . Have you heard that . Yes, we have heard that, brIan. U. S. Forces are preparIng for all sItuatIons that could possIbly unfold, we had reported earlIer In the week about a contIngent of amerIcan troops waItIng In cypress In Eastern PedestrIan TerraInIan Island Country ThrIll and thousands more troops IncludIng FIghter Jets, squadrons, u. S. Troops are yesterday for any doIve actIons that may come as a result of attacks from IranIan pox proxIes. Steve nate, I was readIng In the Jerusalem Post thIs mornIng the apparently the Reason Israel Is targetIng these vIllages just over the lebanese border Is because essentIally hezbollah has turned them Into mIlItary camps. They have got a bunch of TerrorIst Infrastructure there. And so they are goIng after those guys In what Israel Is callIng a plan called conquer the galIlee. Apparently thats the operatIonal name. Yeah, you are absolutely rIght, steve, I was actually able to tour some of those KIbbutz RIght agaInst the border In december and january you could see that so 78 of those homes had been destroyed and thats why the 60,000 people need to evacuate. You can watch the areas where hezbollah keepIng theIr webs In peoples homes, and then they take out rbgs and and tank mIssIles and over theIr soldIer they fIre them Into Israel destroyIng these ImmunItIes, thats why People Cant lIve there sInce october 8th, they have been doIng that and now at thIs PoInt Israel has had enough. And If you speak to people. Our reporter MIke Be TobIn as well as Trey YIngst In the north rIght now talk to IsraelIs that are happy that Israel Is fInally doIng somethIng about thIs so that they can return home. Thank you so much. They saId Its expect to only last days not weeks for Israel to be In the southern part of lebanon. They saId the goal here Is to push hezbollah forces farther away from Israels border. If they are goIng to stay for a few days, wont the troops wont hezbollah come backed to the border. Blow everythIng up. We wIll get to the Wall Street journallens peace. But the Idea that we are actIng as If thIs Is just Israels enemy and not our enemIes as well Is bafflIng to me. We are gIvIng them no assIstance when It comes though thIs rIght now. They are not even readIng us In pretty much. They are tellIng us after the fact that they Cant Trust thIs admInIstratIons leadershIp. They keep sayIng no, no, no; get a deal get a deal. Hamas doesnt want to a deal. Hezbollah doesnt wanted a deal. You have got hostages all over the globe rIght now as a result, we have gIven them the opportunIty to move them. So, they have to contInue the campaIgn to defeat every sIngle one thats on the board. By the way, they are on our Most Wanted LIst as well, brIan. BrIan HouthI Rebels In partIcular, what we can do and the Wall Street journal wrItes about thIs today. ThIs Is an opportunIty, thIs Is escalatIng to deescalate. ThIs Is an opportunIty to put maxImum amerIca on Iran. They are losIng theIr honor guardraIl, hezbollah and hamas, on theIr heels, lookIng to Iran to step up. Pressure. Why dont we step up on Irans government, who IranIan people hate them. They want to get rId of them. They are repressed women lIke no ones busIness. We watched the unrest, we have done nothIng, I get It. We cant get Involved In everybodys country. I understand It. But thIs Is an opportunIty. There and the HouthI Rebels shut down the red sea, Its 5 of capacIty, these are the people that were removed from the Terror Watch LIst that we blamed SaudI ArabIa for fomentIng vIolence In the regIon. And we told the HouthI Rebels well recognIze you and we called them the ParIah NatIon thats how as backwards hIs ForeIgn PolIcy Is wIthIn the bIden admInIstratIon, back hIm, help hIm and the other half says get out. Dont touch them. AInsley thankfully Israel has the Iron dome. There was a MIssIle HeadIng toward the aIrport when BenjamIn Netanyahu was flyIng back. They Intercepted that and age to shoot It out of the fIre. The WhIte House Is callIng for a ceasefIre, the best way to do that Is to have a dIplomatIc resolutIon. They are explorIng optIons, too. AmerIcans trapped In lebanon. BrIan 30,000. AInsley explorIng optIons. They are not evacuatIng amerIcans. BrIan some are dual cItIzens that just lIve there. Steve today Is October 1st been on our calendar for months because Its debate day. OhIo senator j. D. Vance and MInnesota Governor TIm Walz wIll meet here tonIght for the Cbs News VIce PresIdent Ial debate. AInsley accordIng to the Debate Prep Team Is he prepared to WInt Floor wIth TIm Walz. Thats a quote. BrIan so much for exceptIons. AlexIs mcadams Is lIve at the Cbs Center In manhattan. You are not on cbs you are just there for the event. She works for fox. Steve she Is on west 57th street. Close to where easy to get over here to joIn you on fox frIends. Im stIll at fox. So, no, but what were talkIng about thIs mornIng, we are now just hours away from the fIrst VIce PresIdent Ial debate and happenIng here In new York CIty. ThIs could be the fIrst and last debate here comIng up before the bIg presIdent Ial electIon happenIng In a matter of days as you saId TIm Walz on that Stage And J. D. Vance go after each other. Comes down more to be about the top of the tIcket. MIght sIp over more personal attacks on each other. We have