Smash records as he courts republican me maga donors in florida tonight. The war between israel and hamas reach in the six month mark with No End In Sight fears the conflict could spread in the region. New jersey and new york facing Safety Questions in the wake of the rare earth quake and aftershocks that shook the region on friday buried there is some controversy over wh why new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy did not address the public after the quake hit. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. The a magnitude 4. 8 earthquake yesterday stunned millions of the northeast it is leaving many concerned how prepared Government Officials are in the event of a stronger potentially deadly quake in the years ahead. Cb cotton is live in new york city with more on this. Hi jon. United States Geological survey has now recorded more than two dozen aftershocks since yesterday 4. 8 magnitude earthquake. More could continue according to seismologist to say this was one of the largest earthquakes in the northeast and the last century. The Earthquake Epicenter was northwestern new jersey where the states governor did several phone interviews. Made several posts on social media but was out of town to the Democratic Governors Association according to his public itinerary. Critics now have this to say. Our folks in new jersey really have to look to new york officials and what they were saying. Even though the actual earthquake was centered in lebanon, new jersey in the northwestern part of the state. It wouldve been a nice simple if he came back and said everything is going to be okay. Im going to personally review Infrastructure It myself. See with the team has done and then he could have gotten back to the convention, the association he was at. I personally was little disappointed he didnt make it. Wheat reached out to governor philip murphys team to ask about his decisionmaking. We were directed to a post the governor made on x this morning saying quote our state of Emergency Operations deactivate as of 10 00 a. M. Today. We have had no reports of major damage to structures, roadways or infrastructure. As a result a guessers earthquake meanwhile new york city mayor eric adams held News Conferences on friday to say inspections of bridges, roads and buildings would continue through the weekend. Hubbell said today in a statement there is still no damage to report. Some good news there. Geophysicist explained to us while this earthquake was not in the big apple. Had it had its epicenter in new york city there could have been a mess. Of this earthquake had happened in new york city it definitely wouldve been some structural damage from them. I presume many of the bigger skyscrapers consisting without damage. As you mentioned earlier this earthquake and out renewing questions for so many people about the citys preparedness for an event like this in the future. Back to you. Jon i would not want to be on with us upper floors during an event like that, that is for sure but cb cotton in new york, thank you. Former President Trump aims to shatter President Bidens Fundraising Record with the maga donor event tonight at a billionaires home near his maralago estates. His campaign is predicting 50 milliondollar hall. Madison scarpino is light in palm beach with more on that. Jon, 50 million that is some big money. We note tickets to the event tonight some of them are 250,000 and some are 824,000. You can see maralago behind me. Tonights fundraiser is actually at a private home here in palm beach. On the social media bit ago the trout call it the biggest night and a fundraising of all time. Itit said it will double up the divided number of last week at radio city. Now trump is behind his competitor who raised a record 26 million at the new york city fundraiser last week. There is former president s clinton and obama and attendance. Hedge fund and Billionaire Jon Paulson is hosting the event tonight. Oil tycoon harold will be there and casino mogul steve wynn among the many bigtime republican donors at tonights event. Some of trumps former rivals center tim scott, governor doug virga him will also be at the fundraiser tonight. Trump is trying to close that big gap with biden who raised 187 million so far this year. The president also is more cash on hand with 192 million compared to trumps 93 million. Experts say both candidates faced many challenges as the election gets closer. Trump has the problem of having to spend his money on lawyers. Biden has got to be more complicated problem which is its not just trump is running against is also ridding its rfk junior, joel stein, may be others. That is a complex set of messages is going to have to deliver to voters and swing sigs is going to require resources to do it. Biden campaign called Trump The Fundraising Operation to pay off his legal fees saying and part while trump cozies up the billionaires tonight at maralago to raise his money Team Biden Harris firstquarter hall was driven by the strength of our grassroots support. Donations from the fundraiser to go to Trumps Campaign state gop parties and Political Action committee that helps pay his legal bills. Trump Campaign Spokesperson said that pac also covers expenses aside from those legal fees trump has pushed to raise more money continues in next week with fundraisers in georgia, florida, and pennsylvania. Things are heating up here we just saw former president s on don junior drive viper theres a bunch of supporters out here too, hoping to get a glimpse of trump. Things will get going tonight for that big push to raise the money. Jon i was afraid for second youre about to write up on your harley there, that is what it sounded like. [not me. Jon all right Madison Scarpino thank you. Lets bring in Media Politics columnist and Fox News Contributor joe concha. Joe, the tweet from the president about how his fundraising has been driven by small donors sort of does not jive with what we saw last week at radio city music hall. August 26 million raised by joe biden along with bill clinton, barack obama as medicine just reported the insufferable steven colbert. Trump clearly has the Enthusiasm Edge the money was can continue to come in tonight we are expecting to hear about 50 million being raised that said President Bidens Campaign May Still outrace trump but Hilary Clinton a jon come out raise trump two one and 2016 and all she has as a Concession Speech to show for. Money does not play the pivotal role at used to a National Campaigns that is all thanks i believe to social media in terms of getting the message out which is essentially free. This is a campaign what yes money will be a factor of course but the issues are what really matters and o in on that and tef inflation, and a crime and independence in terms of energy and especially the border and immigration and foreign policy, ultimately thats what will decide the race not fundraisers necessarily. Jon lets take a look at the way the race stance and some swing states. You point out its not really a national election. Various states have ernie pick their favorite. It comes down to basically seven states and we are looking at them. An arizona trump is up five, georgia up three, michigan he is up to paris North Carolina eight, nevada, four, pennsylvania he is up three. The only state to the only one of the seven swing states that goes a blue right now is a wisconsin. Do you want to take a whack at those numbers . The whack is, if that holds an donald trump take six of the seven swing states it will be an electoral landslide as you said and as i pointed out before National Polls are essentially meaningless. Its the polls of those seven states that matter you have to ask the question, what will change in terms of the sentiment on the ground in terms of inflation continuing to rise question of the Wall Street Journal had a great report this week showing food prices for example bunch of people feel amo sets a session with the by every day is up 37 since 2019 for example but what is going to change in terms of Violent Crime . Positive mass exodus out of major cities like San Francisco and chicago in a place like florida, tennessee, texas where things are going to deteriorate or improve the u. S. Border . Thats a number what issue to voters dump donald trump is seen by decisive margin as a present who can better handle and fix that crisis. Will the world get more or less stable over the next seven months . This is an election at this point solid majority of elections feel this country is going in the wrong direction. Especially the swing states we just spoke about. Jon lets compare the two candidates are against the voters are in this next bowl who do you trust more on the issues is the question . This from the Wall Street Journal on the economy, trumbull went over biden by 20 points. On immigration also wins by 20 points. On abortion, joe biden takes that one in the trust category. At on president ial fitness donald trump ahead by again 20 points. Again it is a while until november but its kind of hard to see those numbers turning around. You look at gallup and they have a poll that says what is the most important issue to you . They asked voters the economy and immigration are number one and number two. When you look at where abortion is on the particular scale that is all the way down to about nine or 10 for the president ial fitness thats a very key point around all of this. Three quarters of americans do not believe the current President Joe Biden has the Mental Fitness to be president now let alone if he won four more years until he is 86 years old in the oval office. Then again what will change between now and election date will joe biden get better like a fine wine until we get to november will be more like Cottage Cheese that continues to deteriorate. That is the thing. If joe biden does not show he is up for the job in terms of energy, vigor, Campaign Events on a daily basis and speaking well outside of the teleprompter, he is showing that is a real challenge. Right now the odds are in favor for donald trump to them but emn so many things can happen im not going to sit there and say thats my absolute prediction. Jon we will come back to early november and see how it looks. Got it on my harley got ago. I got a hog im getting a ride. You too. Millions are counting down to mondays total Solar Eclipse that will cross north america. Its been seven years since the last eclipse astronomer say the u. S. Will not see the phenomenon again for another two decades but fox weather max gordon is live which will be in The Path Of Totality on monday. Excitement isnt growing across The Path Of Totality. Places that will be plunged into darkness as the moon crosses in front of the sun. We are done with mexico up through texas, northeast across the United States into canada. Here in cleveland, ohio we will see totality between 3 13 p. M. Local time through 3 17 p. M. The big question is whether or not Mother Nature will play along because the clouds are in the forecast. A lot of people are converging onto cleveland to see this eclipse. We talked to one guy from North Carolina who says he is going to be happy to see whatever he can see. Take a listen. Even if its super cloudy i think well still see since we are in The Path Of Totality will see it turning dark i think. I think it will still be cool regardless. When that moon completely blocks out the sun it essentially looks like a turn tonight for a bit and i am really excited to see that. Multiple events will be happening downtown this weekend. Of course on monday to commemorate the eclipse according to the city of cleveland between 1 140 and 200,000 people are expected to crowded parks and into the downtown areas. To put things in perspective the cities of the crowd expected here would be s of three browns games are going on simultaneously. Here in the city of cleveland all of the citys sworn Police Forces will be working on monday to manage crowds and respond to service. Go beat road closures, parking on some people are being urged to work from home to ease the congestion but limited cell service is also going to be an issue is so many people gathered downtown. Now, along with this is going to be the guardians home opener on monday. Regardless of whatever the weather does of people are able to see the eclipse is going to be a big day for cleveland. Jon it certainly will, hope they will get to see it but dont look at it without the right classes, right . Fox weather correspondent max gordon awaiting the eclipse in cleveland, thank you. For more on where to watch the Solar Eclipse and what we can expect to see on monday it was spring emmett and jim the director of the Rochester Museum and Science Center planetarium. You must be excited. I am thrilled. Thank you for having me on this is going be such a wonderful opportunity. I think for all of us here at the museum it is such a great chance to have so many people who might be interested in science but is going to be brought to their front door. Deeply Human Experience within a clips like this we are thrilled about it. Going to be so exciting to see all of these folks out there looking up and seeing this a wonderful spectacular celestial event. Jon a century or two ago and beyond that in time in the clips wasnt Out Of The Blue thing and it mustve frightened people. It amazes me the precision we have now but we know exactly when it is going to start. Where it is going to be which states or cities are going to be the most blackened. It is trooper theres a lot of astronomers have done a lot of hard work and relate tedious calculations to predict not only the average area it would cover but you may have seen recently in headlines people talking about how the path had changed a change in path that a more specific calculation of where we expect the shutter to cross down to a very small scale which is fantastic but it means we know exactly where we want to be if we want to see anything. It can get a lot of people prepared to make sure they are in the right place at the right time to seat totality. Because seeing totality is tremendously different than not being within The Path Of Totality if you have 99 coverage, i think from a colleague i heard a fantastic way to describe this is like driving all the way to disney world and stopping at the gates. Being in The Path Of Totality is going to give us such a huge experience compared to being at 99 even. This covers a lot of north america. Jon you talk about people being able to see it we do have to stress it is not something you should just look up and stare at. That is true. If you are going to be looking at the total Solar Eclipse before totality this is really important, you need to have the special glasses. I have some here with me. This is what you are looking for in particular these classes are going to let you seat nothing else. If you tried to wear them for driving your car this could be disastrous. Looking at the sun however it will keep your eyes safe from harmful sunrays he would also run into view tried to look at the sun without these glasses. There are solar filters out there but it is important to note if you are using something it should be clear and you want to make sure its an official cleared by the International Standards organization. Ask ordinary sunglasses are not going to cut it either. Definitely not my prism the wild things from ordinary sunglasses to using dvds or cds to look at the sun. Even people using old film. These are bad ideas and good ideas go down to your local museum on get a pair of Solar Eclipse glasses theyll let you safely view the sun you wont have to worry about anything. However, once Totality Hits so depending on where you are located in the path. When totality finally hits it will get to remove your Solar Eclipse glasses. You can look directly at the sun or at the moon and the way of the sun and get to see things you could only see during a total Solar Eclipse like the corona on the outside which is a wild and mysterious atmosphere of the sun if you will. Jon that is going to be exciting. Alright jall right James Bader E planetarium and rochester new york. Jim, thank you. Thank you jon. Jon still to come Watch Parties 30 3000 night air be in bees a whole lot of a clips safety glasses being sold this w