unity on the party, that they can get a lot country. done. when they re fractured that s when this begins. jon: let s take a look at some of the incoming members of congress, some of the freshmen class and who is making waves and who is drawing attention to this point? allan west, african-american from florida, he s the one who called out republican leadership for the new schedule and the new schedule calls for basically two weeks in d.c. and then a week back to travel to talk to constituents, to make sure that they re in touch with needs of the constituents back home, but allan west indicated we have a lot to do here, we should northbound d.c. more, and he basically publicly ripped that schedule, so that was a first indication of the problems that republican leaders are going to have in trying to control some of these guys. we saw on the democratic side, people like allan greyson, he was very difficult to control and to say hey, you know, you shouldn t say it like that, it s only
onnor honors, until now the commander of the u.s.s. carrier the enterprise is to be relieved of command. now, only the associated press is reporting this at this point. other news agencies are saying it is a temporary move. but, of course, he has been involved in this controversy over some rather interesting videos, shall we say, that went out on the enterprise s in-house television network, about four years ago. the question is, why did they surface now. and nobody knows the answer to that at this point. but it is enough that the navy put all of its attention on this matter. it appears that at least temporarily and possibly permanently, captain owen honors will no longer be in command of one of the premiere ships in the u.s. navy fleet. we ll keep you updated. jenna: hi everybody, thank you very much for joining us, i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon sko fplt we re here in the fox news room, happening now , countdown to the changing of the guard on capitol hill, a brand new cong
you ve got this, other people pointing to allan greyson s attack on the taliban jan ad, grossly taken out of context, his rival s statements about women and the bible. i mean, what are we to expect? it s october 1st now, right, we ve got a month to go until the elections. what s going to happen over the next 30 days? look, you have just touched the surface of what s going around the country. i was in illinois yesterday, and this morning, and there you have bill foster, a democratic congressman up on chicago tv, trashing his republican opponent with a really, you know, sort of business practices, but really stretching the edge of the argument, and we re likely to see more of this, because this is the year in which you ve got a lot of embattled incumbents who cannot defend themselves on the basis of record, they can t say i voted for health care, cap and trade, all these things were wonderful, i voted for the budget, for the decifit resolution calling for doubling the size of the decif
coming so fast. i knew i was in trouble. megyn: just hours ago we saw emergency responders carrying out water rescues, in pennsylvania, meteorologist janice dean has been watching it all day, live at the fox weather center with the latest. reporter: millions of people are affected by this storm, megyn. that s why we re covering it today. let s take a look at these storm totals, really over the last several days, most of these coming in from the last 24 hours, but wilmington, they haven t seen rainfall like this since hurricane floyd in 1999, ten beach 10 inches in myrtle beach, 6 inches in our district capitol, washington, d.c., close to 6 inches in rich mon and up towards philadelphia, new york, close to or over 4 inches, albany, 5 inches and as you mentioned we re getting rained on across new england. this has been quite an event. we had the tropical choiceture moisture from what was nicole, a storm that lasted only six hours, megyn, then we had a frontal system that
answers on america live right now. we start with a fox news alert, new reaction coming in on reports that the obama administration may be considering a back door amnesty plan for illegal immigrants who are already in the united states. america live has now obtained a company of the customs and immigration memo discussing how this could work. this memo reads as follows, in part, quote, in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, immigration and customs can extend benefits and protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations. this would allow thousands of individuals to become lawful permanent residents. in other words, without congressional approval. now, the agency behind this memo says that it was just exchanging ideas, not actually setting new policy. but some folks are very concerned about where this exchange of ideas goes next. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom, he s reaction to this out of arizona, the hot