Hi, friends. Good morning. Its the 17th of april. Im anna kooiman. We do have a fox news alert for you now. A deadly earthquake in ecuador sends people screaming. The 7. 8 magnitude quake shaking a nation. At least 77 are dead. More than 500 are injured. Buildings flattened, now the military is being called in to search for survivors. Plus an exodus from gitmo. Nine detainees some listed as high risk sent to saudi arabia. Now the question is whether the country will be able to stop these men looking into killing
americans from rejoining the fight. And what does George Clooney think about the expensive fundraiser he just threw for Hillary Clinton. 353,000 for a couple to be a cochair. Do you look at yourself around thats an obscene amount of money . Yes. I think its an obscene amount of money. At least hes aware of. Are these poisoning politics . He thinks so. He just threw one. Fox friends begins right now. All right. Tomorrow is tax day. So come on down to the plaza this morning, relieve some stress. We have punching bags and massages. We have last minute tax
advice. Did you do your taxes yesterday . Need to write that check. Going to do that tomorrow. Thats right. Learn what your effective tax rate is. Theres bar there. Thats when you learn about what your effective tax rate. We are going to be doing some karaoke this morning. So im hoping everybody at home has some mimosas or bloody marys. None of us can think very well. Can i ask, are we doing mimosas because of tax day . Sing for our supper. America wants to see Clayton Morris to sing. Give the people what they want. Im going to provide that for you. Two minutes after the the hour. Another deadly earthquake strikes within a matter of days, this time on ecuadors northwest peninsula. 7. 8 magnitude quake crumbling homes and buckling a major overpass. At least 77 are dead. Landslides now making it hard for crews to get to the hardest hit areas. It comes days after two quakes in southwestern japan killed at least 29 people and more than 1,500 others. Heavy rains slowing the search for survivors there. Call it the rules of enragement and russia has done it again. On the deck, below the bridge wing. Well, earlier this week you remember we told you about those russian jets buzzing by our navy ships repeatedly. Well, another aggressive display, this time in the sky. A russian jet flying 50 feet from the wing tip of a u. S. Aircraft on thursday. The white house condemning the fly byes as the most reckless acts since the cold war. And man who shot and killed a maryland firefighter has been
released and no charges were filed. 39yearold veteran firefighter John Ulmschneider here on the left died from his wounds. 19yearold volunteer firefighter kevin swain also shot, but is in stable condition. They were responding to a welfare call made by the gunmans brother who was also shot but will be okay. It is unclear why no charges were filed but investigators say it is medically related. A seinfeld reunion of sorts on saturday night live. How exactly are you going to break up the big banks . Break it up. How, how . Once im elected president ill have a nice in the white house gym, ill go to the big banks, yada, yada, yada, theyll be broken up. Larry david is the cocreator of the hit sitcom that starred julia louisdreyfus. There was a whole episode called the yada yada yada. Whats in your tax plan . We dont know. Meanwhile, more this morning out of Guantanamo Bay. The United States had just released nine Guantanamo Bay prisoners to join a real thing call it jihad rehab in saudi arabia. They have ties to saudi arabia. Many of them had been cleared to be released since 2010. Making good on Campaign Promise from president obama, trying to close this. We have seen this drip drip drip. Lets look at who the guys are. The baddest of the bad. Abdallah, he was trained in large caliber weapons under osama bin laden. Another here high risk, former bodyguard to osama bin laden. And then weve got one more
there, if we can scroll up there. Who is said to be like a son to osama bin laden. And the president , pete, said that Guantanamo Bay is used as a terror recruitment tool. Is that the case . You used to be a guard there. I mean, you say that the conditions are pretty good. Theyre incredibly good you you think we havent attempted to do rehab there . They tried to deescalate the extremism. The only difference there is well go back theyll go back to jihad. These guys are very dangerous. This white house is obsessed with closing Guantanamo Bay no matter what. Theyll send them to saudi arabia where well have no control over them. Yet, none of the guys have been charged. So they have been sitting in the legal limbo. Supporters have argued try them in the u. S. Prison. These go back to the george w. Bush administration when he repeatedly tried to close Guantanamo Bay and these guys have been caught in the legal limbo. Not for lack of trying. Theres a commissions process that could be efficient. But because its been caught up in a legal limbo these guys are stuck. Theres no doubt theres a rap sheet on all of them, but the administration they have let go even worse of the folks. But now you have all yemeni to saudi arabia, its too unstable to send them there. Its part of the slow drip. Now to the campaign trail, because we saw last night another clean sweep for republican ted cruz over donald trump in a voterless victory in wyoming. No votes, but delegates. But the Party Leaders may have some tricks up their sleeve. Gareth tenney has more. Reporter its a win thats sure to be criticized by some of
the rivals, notably donald trump. Wyoming awards delegates in a multitiered caucus system. Similar to colorados which is highly criticized last week. Heres how the total delegate breakdown looks now. Trumps lead over cruz is now less than 200 delegates. John kasich still far behind with 144. Ted cruz says going into tuesday momentum is on his side. Youve got the entire spectrum of the Republican Party coming together and unifying. After this weekend when he gets wiped out in new york which he will, he gets wiped out, he no longer has the road to the nomination. Reporter there appears to be some growing discord among Party Leaders. Yesterday, the chairman of the partys Rule Committee accused top officials of trying to prevent changes to the rules that would take away their power at the convention to nominate
someone outside of the current candidates. Something that many Establishment Republicans have discussed since they view both trump and cruz as undesirable options that are likely to lose in the general election. Back to you. Thanks so much. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, you know, a tale of two candidates. Hillary clinton going out to the west coast yesterday and to hollywood for a big sit down, a big fundraising dinner with George Clooney and his wife. And Bernie Sanders going to the vatican to meet with the pope. Meanwhile t criticism about clinton and the big money events 353,000 per couple to go to this George Clooney dinner. And thatt have had gold flecks or diamonds in it. We talk about the xosh tantd exorbitant dinner costs but this is a way its 353,000 per couple. Not per plate. Nbcs chuck todd, i almost
said todd chuck, he sat down with George Clooney to ask him about the obscene amount of money in politics. Do you look at how much is being raised and i think the i think its 353,000 to be a cochair. Do you look at yourself and think thats an obscene amount of money . Yes, i think its an obscene amount of money. We had some protesters last night wh we pulled up in San Francisco. And theyre right to protest. Theyre absolutely right. It is about obscene amount of money. The Sanders Campaign is right. It is ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics i agree. This money is poisoning politics. What a great Hillary Clinton surrogate. This is why donald trump said, he said im not flying out the wyoming, im not doing to spend all this money to take out
the delegates and schmooze them. Its a big difference talking to delegates than hollywood types. Delegates are grass roots activists at the end of the day, and hollywood elites who can afford 350,000 is a whole other echelon. Let us know what you think. Is George Clooney right . And a Record Number of snowfall yesterday. Its not over yet. Yeah. Thats the same wicked weather that also is expected to bear down on the great plains. And Rick Reichmuth has the latest. Theyre correcting me yesterday i meant its the 16th, when the snow hit. Yes, i dont know what day it is. Theres something about tax stuff going on. Can somebody get a calendar . Today is the 17th. Tomorrow is the 18th which is tax day. Either way, heres what you have to put in perspective. Denvers second snowiest month of the year is april. Its spring, it shouldnt be snowing, but its not abnormal at all. Its big snowfall to kind that kind of snow. When you have that this time of the year you have a lot of warmer air generally in front of it. Thats what we have going on across the Central Plains. 63 in kansas city. 31 in denver where you have all that snow and still snowing this that area. This is blocked where we see this nothing going on across the east coast. All of that pressure is trying to move up to the east, but it continue, and its stuck there. We have the rain across the plains it will fall again today and tomorrow and even into tuesday. A lot of flooding again across parts of texas and oklahoma. And the snow is falling for a little longer across colorado. Dont worry, it will warm up this week. Well be back into the 60s and 70s in the latter part of the
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not taking it for granted is the issue. Because what were saying is you must come with some clear, concrete proposals. Not sound bites, but lay out a plan. Well, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton competing for al sharptons endorsement. Both speaking to voters at the Action Network convention this week, by do they have the africanamericans best interests in mind . Joining me right now is mayoral candidate dr. Michael faulkner. Thank you for being here. Before we talk about the mayoral race, democrats are trying to bid for the black vote here in new york city. Compare Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on that. Well, i think hillary historically has feels like she has a lock on the vote. I think bernie has stimulated
the interests, but its to me its more of the same. While bernie stimulates the interests of the millennial and the younger voter, i think hillary represents the establishment and the failed policies and plans that have been going on for 50 years. It just hasnt worked. You talking about policy. What has Hillary Clinton done to have a lock on the black vote . I dont think she has a lock on the black vote but certainly the poll numbers and her record thus far has shown an overwhelming amount of black voters have voted for her. But they havent had any choices. In the republican contest, thats where the choice is really going to be made, to give them an opportunity. Im out there every day talking to real voters in new york, particularly in the africanamerican community. Because i wanted to start there because i really wanted to see if the message of Republican Values would really resonate there. And it is resonating in an overwhelming fashion. And i cant tell you how many people are telling me theyre tired of the promises for relief through a welfare state. Theyre tired of the failed policies for the past 50 years. It just hasnt worked. They know it hasnt worked. And the democrats dont have anything new. So hillary is more of the same. So before we get to the republicans on the democrat side, youve got the Unemployment Rate amongst the black community almost double that of the general population. Under a black president. Under a black president who said hed improve those conditions and heal the nation and we have seen a substantial racial divide unfortunately. What is Bernie Sanders offering thats different than Hillary Clinton. Can he bite into the vote . He might bite into the vote per se, but his policies the things hes talking about are unrealistic. Most serious voters understand
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