Good morning. It is tuesday, september 23. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. A fox news alert. For the first time the United States launching airstrikes against isis in syria. The bombings are part of an historic alliance. Five arab nations working with the United States to help destroy terrorists. But how will syria react . And are we safe at home . Right here at home. Because many have come over here after serving over this. Fox friends on this tuesday starts right now. I wasnt kidding. I meant right now. We want to thank you for joining us. Were going to get right to that fox news alert for you. Overnight the United States and five arab allies launching airstrikes in syria against isis terrorists. Until now the attacks have been concentrated in iraq. Doug luzader is in washington, d. C. Doug, things got started last night about 9 p. M. Eastern time. What do we know so far . Reporter the focus of these strikes has been in syria. What is a little bit surprising about this perhaps, all of the arab nations that were involved in this, these five were involved to one degree or another, four out of those five took part in the attacks themselves. We have amateur video believed to be showing the impact of these airstrikes. Youre talking about strikes that were carried out by carrierbased aircraft as well as 47 tom hawk cruise missiles. As the president will say this was a collective effort. It does raise the question whats next. Isis fighters have known for days the u. S. Intended to launch these strikes. Many figured isis will regroup and many may use
the attacks to boost recruitment efforts. Theyre going to hunker down especially in Eastern Syria and iraq. They have been through this before and know what to expect when american airstrikes come. One final note of the timing on this. Congress has already left town, so these strikes began after Congress Left for their recess. That is interesting because this was this ongoing question of whether the president would need Congressional Authority to do this. We dont know if thats why they waited to this point to launch the strikes, but there are certainly going to be some members of congress that will raise some eyebrows offense the the eyebrows over the timing of this. Meanwhile after the airstrikes, Israeli Defense forces, in another fox news alert, israelis shot down a syrian jet that entered its airspace. Is that related . John huddy live in
jerusalem. What was that jet doing that the israelis shot it out of the sky . Reporter looks like they were hitting rebel targets. Rebel factions have been battling the Syrian Government right along the Israeli Border on the syrian side. It appears at this point that the fighter jet, the syrian fighter strayed into israeli airspace and then israel shot it down with a patriot missile. Really at this point its not connected with the u. S. Airstrikes that are going on. Remember, the Israeli Border is to the south, is in the southern part of syria and a lot of fighting with isis has been to the north. So that said, the Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement earlier saying that the american side by the way, we got amateur video of smoke from that fighter jet as it went down. Were hearing the pilots were able to eject in time. Syrias Foreign Ministry in
terms of the u. S. Airstrikes that have been going on, released a statement saying that the american side informed syrias permanent envoy to the u. N. That the strikes will be launched against the terrorist organization in rakah. It is in the northern part of syria. Its been a main battle front, all that area isis has controlled between the Syrian Government and isis as well. When president obama announced this 12 days ago, the Syrian Government and syrian officials said without consent from damascus it would be considered an act of aggression. Whether syria has given its consent is unclear. But syrias deputy Prime Minister is in new york. He will be speaking, or scheduled to speak on monday followed by israel Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Whether any of this will come up in terms of the fighter being shot down
and remember, i also want to point out that there was a syrian drone that israel also shot down a couple weeks ago because of the fighting along the border. So, again, it does not look whae hearing from the israeli army that this has anything to do with the u. S. Airstrikes or syrias response. Syria was informed by their foreign minister yesterday that they were going to be hitting, we were going to be hitting and it was going to be that night. They did not say a word. Why would they . It works on their behalf because isis eventually was going to get to the government. When you look at this coalition, it is significant. And the president really should be praised as well as secretary of state john kerry. He got bahrain, saudi arabia, the u. A. E. You even have qatar working with the u. S. To attack isis sites. The u. S. On its own struck a different area, we understand, against a brandnew terror group that some say is more dangerous. Al qaeda fighters from pakistan and afghanistan migrated into syria. There were eight separate attacks that occurred there by the United States forces only. You know whats curious about the announcement . By the way, we should point out the pentagon announced last night at 9 30 eastern time that the bombing started. Yet there was a guy on the ground in raqqa who was on twitter saying the sky is filled with drones. What is curious is after the fighting actually started, the pentagon through one of its spokes people by the way were going to talk to admiral kirby in about an hour to find out whats going on over there. Somebody from the pentagon, a spokesperson said last night was the most intense
night of the syrian airstrike campaign. All the fighting for the most part, they make it sound like, just happened. If youre isis, its kind of like we made it through the night, well probably be okay tomorrow. Maybe. Looks like theyre fighting arm in arm in terms of these airstrikes here. It raises eyebrows to think all partners here, arab nations, none are european nations. Everyone has eyes on turkey. Will they step up and join the United States, the coalition of arab nations in these air airstrikes. This is significant because it is not the religious war, not the religious attack isis claimed. It undermines their argument that this is about theory and religion because you have sunni fighting extremes. Its very significant that we have four arab muslim countries, all
sunnibased countries attacking a sunnibased terrorist organization. That did not come easy. Many of these were urging the United States to do something about assad before, but now this is isis. So it is significant, in my judgment. Qatar not attacking. Qatar, i think, has problems because they have been aiding isis financially from the beginning, and they also aid hamas. And i always felt we have to do something about this country. Maybe this is an indication that theyre willing to change their stripes. I doubt it. Well see what happens. I thought ita÷ was also interesting too that egypt said, who was not involved in this, not only are we willing to help. We think the u. S. Should expand it to other terrorists beyond syria and iraq. The agreement established under george bush, congress authorize use of force is what it goes back to in terms of did we actually get approval here . Theyre using the ability to go after al qaeda here
in the case of isis. We just into our news room received more video of some of the airstrikes overnight. There so far have been varying reports of the number of airstrikes but lets go ahead and take a look at what we just got into the news room. That is one of the 47 tomahawks shot off last night. The u. S. And our coalition partners, drones, bombers, fighters, tomahawks and for the first time in combat history we deployed the stealth f22. That was used over this as well as we detail what a tomahawk does and how much it cost. 1. 5 million a copy. We shot off 47 of them. About 20 targets. We have about one aircraft i we have oneAircraft Carrier. It is important there are base attacks from the u. A. E. , bahrain and saudi arabia who we thought would only commit to train the free syrian army. Now we find out theyre willing to take action. We have three Aircraft Carriers which are really good. World reaction . The president is going to find out a little later on today. Hes going to be here in new york city for the United Nations general assembly, going to be talking about the Climate Change today. But it sounds like hes going to try to rally the world tomorrow. Speaking of the world, russia has condemned the airstrikes against isis because we did not coordinate them with syria. We did call syria and we said were going to strike. Dont try to shoot us down or that would be really bad. Russia has one real ally in the area. The whole dating thing with egypt did not work out. They have a huge naval base right in syria and they are extremely concerned, as is iran, about losing assad. Were hitting isis, who would in a sense be an enemy of the shia government. Eventually were going to get to them, and thats what russia worries about. There is concern there. The lesser of the two evils were aiming to fight now and what will come. Will turkey jump into this airstrike game, to put it mildly there . They look at syria. When assad got shaky, turkey rejoiced. They want him out. Whatever we do, russia is not going to like it. Look, were out to get isis. Theyre out to kill us, and were out to get them first. Meanwhile 11 minutes after 6 00 eastern time here in new york city. Coverage continues in a minute. Up next, the war on isis has come to our doorstep. Latebreaking details on isis fighters who are on american soil as we speak. And a major update to those three Afghan Soldiers who disappeared from the military base right here in the United States. They were found at the canadian border. What in the world were they doing there . Keep it right here. You can eat that on Weight Watchers . Looks amazing. Looks like my next dinner party. Thats only 4 points . With Weight Watchers you can enjoy the food you really want. Dine out on favorites. Or cook up something new. I can do this every day. Join for free and start losing weight now. Learn how to eat healthier, while enjoying the foods you love. Get inspired at meetings, online, or both. Weight watchers because it works. Here i am. Rock you like a hurricane. Fiber one now makes cookies. Find them in the cookie aisle. I can face my 3rd grade class trip. Tying shoes, fixing pigtails, and chasing after them when their wonder turns to wander. Hannah. New tena instadry. Designed for those unexpected leaks with 864 tiny funnels to zip wetness away. And even when you twist not a drop escapes. Thats Fearless Protection poise maximum cant match. teacher and i can stay perfectly dry. With tena, im not afraid. And you wont be either. Call 1877gettena. U. S. Military might in the middle of the red sea. Youve got overnight firing off at least one of 47 tomahawks that were deployed against isis locations in the country of syria. Thats right. If youre just waking up, we went to war last night with syria. The syriabased isis locations. Were not at war with syria. Were simply trying to take out isis, which is in syria, which makes it a little more complicated. It must be a fantasy for those who fought in iraq who knew syria was a haven to all the al qaeda elements and all those who came into iraq to fight against us. We couldnt go across that line. We were unable to go across that line. We were afraid of expanding the war. Now here we are years later forced to go across that line and syria sits there
on their hands because they know thats an enemy they cant handle. In the persian gulf we have a crew of ctomahawks and will be fired from that. For you, the enemy is among us. The white house confirming american fighters for isis are back on suflt u. S. Soil. Peter doocy from washington with the latest on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. Summer is over and there may be an isis homecoming underway because some americans who left the states to trean and fight along to train and fight alongside isis are believed to be back in the u. S. The white house says theyre being watched with a Senior Administration official telling reporters that, quote, some who have gone to syria, some who tried to go and some have come back and under active f. B. I. Surveillance. The best guess is 100 or so
u. S. Citizens have tried to become part of the Islamic State and the white house says they have a pretty good idea what they have been up to overseas. These are individuals who have been trade, have access to military equipment and have indicated a willingness to die for their cause. There is new isis internet video where one militant tells followers to carry out lone wolf attacks against american and french citizens because their air forces have been targeting isis targets in iraq. They may be tough to stop. The call from isis for people to act on their own, thats very, very difficult to detect because youre not going to get, youre not going to get communications that you can intercept. Youre not going to have informants that are going to get you the information. Youre just igniting all these people who are selfproclaimed jihadists to do whatever crazy they think they want to do. So far this havent been any announcements about
sweeping changes that could be put in place to stop american isis americans or wanna bees to come home and commit terrorist attacks. It is pretty clear the f. B. I. Is watching those members who went over this and came back here. What about the people who are over this right now and may try to come back . Are they going to have trouble getting back in the country . So far what weve been hearing is the f. B. I. Is going to treat those on a casebycase basis. We havent seen travel advisories look for these people. We havent seen faces on wanted posters. This man might be an isis, woman might be an isis. The f. B. I. Now going through on a case by case basis. Britain did not take any time with that. A week ago they said we might not let them back in. I think they are possibly
going to have their passports revoked once they travel there. Once it becomes clear what were doing in the air over syria and iraq. We want to be clear what were doing here to protect us and a measure of heightened awareness and action if you see anything as well. Those lone wolf encouragements from isis are to be taken seriously. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. Live News Coverage continues for you in a moment. Coming up, all eyes on bin ladens inlaws. Hes on american soil about to face a judge. Why some are saying the timing could not be worse. Brandnew details about this guy, the man wanted in connection with a missing college student. What we just learned about him and why police let him go in the first place. [ male announcer ] automotive innovation starts. Right here. With a control pad that can read your handwriting, a widescreen multimedia center,
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mr. Matthews car. What one of the detectives did was look inside the vehicle and they saw fresh dirt inside the vehicle as well. Thats when they were able to get the search want for matthews home. When they went into matthews home, this is what my source is telling me, the police took out several bags of evidence. We know that, elisabeth, because i was there last week when they executed the search want. Several bags of evidence and some of that evidence was shoes. They took carpet samples and fibers, hair fibers. That went to a laboratory and the results are expected back today by noontime. Your sources indicating about the dirt and mud on the tires, is that also indicating they are matching that to a specific location . Excellent question. Theyre trying to do that. Heres why i think this source is accurate. The day after the police executed the search want, the police chief gave a press conference and in that press conference he made it clear and i watched it myself. He said he wants people in
that community to look on their properties for fresh tire tracks. Why did he say that and why did he emphasize that . Because he had in the back of his mind, he knew that because of what they found on this car it should match up somewhere in that area. One other thing quickly here. The police are also trying to figure out where was mr. Matthew a week ago saturday and sunday . He worked at the hoe cal hospital there. But we dont know whether or not he called in sick or if he just took a couple of days off. But they cannot account for his whereabouts those two days right after hannah went missing. I think everyone is frustrated by the fact that they had him. They had him right there for questioning and didnt go any further. He wasnt trying to talk to the police either. Thats what my source told me. He wasnt trying