Control of the senate. Linda says terrorism and lone wolf terror attacks. Thanks to everyone who responded. Fox friends starts now. Have a great day. Bye. See you later. Good monday morning to you. Its november 3. Im Ainsley Earhardt filling in for elisabeth this morning. Caught on camera. Costumed passengers are forced to evacuate when that ship strikes something in the middle of the night. Details on the chaos and that rescue straight ahead. Just one day before the election, the midterms, and republicans surge in key Battle Ground states. According to one democrat, the g. O. P. Lead in iowa has nothing to do with her policies. [inaudible] if she hopes im michele
bachmann, shes wrong. Taylor swift . It gets worse as democrats fear the worst is yet to come. So much for drumming up support in days leading up to the election as the president makes another campaign stop, get this, hes met by another empty stadium. This as his Approval Ratings sink to an alltime low. Well examine because mornings are better with friends. This is Jimmie Johnson. Youre watching fox friends. Hes the Jimmie Johnson who wasnt in a fight yesterday. Did you see that . Jeff gordon. What the heck . The nicest guy in sports. Right. I thought the other guy was fine. He saw an opportunity to go between the two cars. He took the lead and jeff gordon did not like that. All about a fight, all about an opportunity, all about winning, and thats what tomorrow is all about. Were just about 48 hours from the end of the Midterm Elections. Today is the last day we actually look at polls. You can see that in a number of key states, the republicans are actually doing better than they were last week, and thats buoyant for them. Mitch mcconnell is leading in kentucky by about nine. Which is significant because they thought mcconnell could go the way of a lot of other leaders. Now he leads by two points and now if grimes does lose she has herself to blame. A lot of people are upset because she would not admit who she voted for in the election, let alone support. Now purdue, look at this, this is david purdue running against michelle nun. He is at 48 . She is at 44 . Then you go down to louisiana, and the senate race right now, the republican is leading the incumbent. Bill cassidy at 50 and Mary Landrieu at 45 probably, probably still heading for a runoff unless somebody gets more than 50 . Let me bring up one other thing with that poll. If all three are together, believe it or not, the other conservative candidate running as a libertarian would get 15 . Landrieu is actually in front. When you put them head to head, cassidy would have the lead and mannis indicated if there was to be a runoff and if he were to lose which he is going to, he would side with the republican. Youll be talking to him on the well be talking to joni ernst. She is surging in the Des Moines Register poll. It is led by a republican
in iowa who has had an uncanny ability to get this on the nose. Joni ernst 51 and bruce braley at 44 . There is joni ernst yesterday. What is interesting is the incumbent, tom harkin, the democrat, long time there, says shes really a nice person, but then he kind of goes off the rails with this sound bite. Listen to this. [inaudible] joni ernst, she is really attractive and she [inaudible] i got to thinking about that. I dont care if shes goodlooking as taylor swift or as nice as [inaudible]
but if she votes like Michele Bachmann, she is wrong. Hold it. Mr. Rogers is not on the ballot. Why do we focus so much, especially on women that are running for office, why do we focus on their looks . Why dont we focus on their policies . He talks about she is attractive and she seems like she is nice. That doesnt have anything to do with it. There is a double standard. Isnt there a book about how people in the senate were judging Michele Bachmann for how attractive she is. You cant be a pretty woman and run for office . She is going to be with us at 7 45 eastern time right here on fox friends. Meanwhile, something that is very telling is the current president of the United States, barack obama, is so toksically unpopular, today, the day before the midterms he is not making a single appearance. He was, however, yesterday
in the great state of pennsylvania. He was at an arena, and take a look at this. If you notice, the arena is cut in half because they knew they wouldnt have enough people to fill it up. There is a black curtain that cuts the place in half. Then, as you can see as well, this tom wolf rally yesterday in philly, about half the seats not filled. He comes here on this day with a 44 approval, over 50 you unfavorable rating. Even in the africa he went from 97 even in the Africanamerican Community he has dropped. He wants to be out there, and it bothers them that there is no push to get him out there. I couldnt believe as unpopular as i thought george bush was at the sixyear mark, he still made hundreds of appearances around the country as well as
fundraisers. When i s saw that tweet, the picture we just showed you, i was shocked this morning, because its a half of a half. Its a fourth of that basketball arena was full, and not even the top tier. I mean, you would think when the president comes to town, more people are going to go and hes the president of the United States, and its election time, and theyre in true blue pennsylvania. He couldnt even fill up half of half. I wonder if this is telling of what were going to see tomorrow. You just never know. Mitt romney says tomorrow is not going to just be the opportunity for people to express their frustration with how things are going, but its really the last time to weigh in on the president himself. Here he is. This is really the last chance for america to pass judgment on the Obama Administration and on its policies. People want to see real change and recognize as long as you have all the same players, harry reid and barack obama, blockading any kind of progress, youre going to see america going in the
same direction weve seen it. Again, lets see what happens. You still have ten senate races within the margin of error. Here we are a day before election day. Lets see who shows up. Lets see who turns out. And then well examine what will change, if anything, within the final two years. Its all about voter turnout . Are you going to vote . If you dont, you cant complain, so you better vote. Lets turn it over to leah gabriel. Good morning, friends. A halloween horror crew becomes a real life nightmare when something in the ocean hits a ship as it leaves the bahamas. Everybodys scared. The ship lost power forcing hundreds of costumed passengers to put on life vests and evacuate. The lights blew out. We were all eating. It became total chaos. There was nobody able to manage what was going on. Passengers stayed in the
bahamas for a night before boarding another ship back to miami. Investigators say it is not yet clear what the ship actually hit. New overnight. The ntsb indicating pilot error was involved in the crash of the Virgin Galactic space ship 2. Investigators say cameras inside the cockpit show a pilot unlocking a lever used to slow the aircrafts descent too early. Two seconds early the spacecrafts tail lifted upwards and started spinning at speeds of 700 miles an hour. The space ship broke apart killing one pilot and injuring another. Investigators say theyre still trying to determine the root cause. In a matter of hours test results are expected in a possible ebola case at Duke University. North Carolina Health fishes hon torg a officials monitoring a patient who developed a fever days after returning from liberia. In the meantime, nurse kaci hickox publicly apologizing
for being uncooperative with authorities to people who live in her town. I understand people who live in the community have been through a lot in the past week and i apologize to them for that. I will not go into town and into crowded public places. Kaci hickox tested negative after treating patients in sierra leone. A district judge ruled she cannot be forced to stay in her home but she will be monitored through the 21 day ink base incubation period. This morning one World Trade Center opens for business in new york city. Hundreds of employees move into americas tallest building today and by early next year thousands more will occupy floors 20 to 44. So far nearly 60 of the 102 floors have been leased. Those are your headlines. Back to you guys. It is such a beautiful
building. Thanks, leah. Coming up, the president playing no role in Sergeant Tahmooressis release from a mexican jail. Former governor Bill Richardson provided a plane and flew home with tahmooressi. What does he think about the president s silence in all of this . Well ask him live next. This tshirt pushing feminist ideas is gaining popularity but wait until you hear who makes the tshirts. People might think twice about the cause. Fact. When you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. Wherever it is. Advil stops pain right where it starts. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. nn big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. Hello. Im an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. So my buddy here is going to help me find it. Here we go. Woo who, woah, woah, woah. Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart associations go red for women campaign. If you see it i hope youll let us know. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi freed tbra mexican from a mexican prison and back on american soil today thanks to the efforts of an american Bipartisan Team including former governor who even provided an airplane to get tahmooressi home. He joins us now to talk about what it took to free the retired marine. Good morning to you. Thank you. Nice to be with you. What took so long . Well, this was an effort led by a wonderful mother, jill tahmooressi, who organized a coalition of, as you mentioned, bipartisan congressmen, republican congressmen, myself, a very sound legal
strategy. Im going to give credit to the Mexican Government. The attorney general recommended that based on ptsd there should be a humanitarian release. A judge accepted this. This is a good story. The story is that we should never leave our veterans behind not just in conflict, but in civilian life. But we need to learn more about ptsd. But Sergeant Tahmooressi, i spent a lot of time with him, a wonderful human being. Positive, goodlooking kid, patriotic, war hero. Its a good story in the midst of all this dysfunction in government, in the midst of all this policies in washington that dont work that republicans and democrats teamed up together to produce a very good outcome. Governor, it was nice to see the video when his feet hit the ground, american soil. You were on the airplane. You provided this. Your airplane. We all say thank you for your efforts in getting him
home safely. What was it like being on the airplane with him . What was he talking about and what were some of his thoughts . Well, what he was talking about was he wants to spend a little time decompressing with his family. You know, he mentioned that he had been in prison for seven months. He wants to have no eyes looking at him. He wants to spend time with his family. He also mentioned to me before that he wants to get some stone crabs at joes stone crabs in miami. But he, i think hes going to probably be very quiet for awhile. But his mom, jill tahmooressi, deserves enormous credit. And i think you guys at fox, you raised this issue with the american public. But i think what is important here is the Mexican Government deserves credit. They dont like to be pressured. They were nationalistic. Theyre very nationalistic. So the outcome is a very good one. Governor, when people are at their brutal worst,
they send you to talk to them. You talked to saddam hussein, you go to north korea. Then you have to step up to help tahmooressi get out. And i know you have to deal on a diplomatic level with the Mexican Government but you cannot give them credit. They deserve no credit. The reason they give to let him out, is ptsd, im sorry you have to suffer with that to get out but they should be condemned, they should not get applause at this hour. Well, i dont agree with you. I believe very strongly that the strategy, the legal team that andrew had to pursue a strategy do you know how brutal those conditions were originally . Thats not the way a neighbor treats a marine. I visited that prison. What i think we have to understand is the mexicans have very little experience with ptsd. Theyre not a nation at war. What they wanted was
evidence, medical evidence but he did nothing wrong. He made a wrong turn into a country which is ridden with outlaws and gangs and cartels. They took a marine and kept him for 214 days. Look, look, i think the importance the state Department Also played a very good role. The Consular Service in tijuana, roberta jacobson, assistant secretary. To say there wasnt a comprehensive effort pushing for this, but you have to be careful. You cant show its diplomatic and heavyhanded pressure. So the strategy was one, i think alerting the american public. A lot of marines have been in touch with us. And the crowt come is good. Its because of a strong u. S. Mexico relationship. Im going to give you guys credit at fox. You alerted the american public. You brought this to the attention, the mexicans were watching. We should celebrate a good
story instead of trying to find problems. I heard the story about the 214 days he was there. Youre absolutely right. Fox did take the lead on this. We were led by Greta Van Susteren. She is going to be joining us a little bit later on today and she will have the first interview with Andrew Tahmooressi. All right, governor, thank you for joining us from new mexico. Thank you for your hard work on this. It will be interesting to see if the president does speak out because he still hasnt made a comment on Sergeant Tahmooressi being on. Maybe he didnt want to be part of the diplomatic pressure the governor was talking about. 21 after the hour. She wanted to die before the cancer killed her. And this morning she did that. Brittany maynards last words straight ahead. He is one of americas funniest comedians but did chris rock go too far this time . They should change the name from the Freedom Tower to the never going in there tower because im never
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the iraqi city that fell to isis in january. Canada still reeling from two separate terror attacks that we detailed on their homeland. Brian over to you. Hes one of the funniest comedians in america but did chris rock go too far this time saturday night . They should change the name from the Freedom Tower to the never going in there tower. Because im never going in there. What do they have . Does this building duck . What are they thinking . And who is the corporate sponsor . Target . Youve been training for a year. You finally get to the finish line and somebody screams run all right. Many in his audience not exactly laughing. Here to react to a cousin of a 9 11 victim joe connor. Joe, you didnt watch it live. We asked to you watch it in the back and give your
reaction. The fact that were talking about the Freedom Tower which opens today and the boston bombing, amongst those dead and wounded is an eightyearold child. Am i missing it or is that something we should not be kidding about . I couldnt believe what i was hearing. I think humor is a good part of our society you think hes fantastic . I love chris rock