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The first contestants. "fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: holy cow. >> gretchen: we start with a of course news alert this morning. rockets fired by afghan militants hitting the plane for the joint chiefs chair at bagram air base in afghanistan. general martin dempsey not in the plane at the time. wendell goler live at the white house with the latest. that's a new piece of information. what else can you tell us? >> as you say, the general wasn't in the c-17 when it was hit by shrapnel in a rocket attack last night. he wasn't hurt. but a couple of american ground personnel were injured. demp...

Wright of the good morning again, kelly. >> good morning. the strike occurred shortly after midnight in afghanistan forcing bagram air base into lock down mode for more than an hour. base personnel were ordered into their bunkers. u.s. military officials say militants fired two rockets from a remote timer. shrapnel struck the chairman of the joint chiefs c-17 plane forcing general martin dempsey to wait for replacement plane to leave afghanistan. aides say he was in his quarters during the attack. he was not in any danger. but two americans from the base were slightly injured. general dempsey ...

So that's actually -- if that kind of progress that we've seen over this year can be extrapolated out to the next 28 months, i think we're going to see something that's actually sustainable. >> general dempsey speaking with jennifer griffin prior to that attack that took place this morning. he placed a telephone call to president karzai tuesday morning before leaving afghanistan to reiterate u.s. concerns about the space of insider attacks on u.s. and nato troops, urging president karzai to do more to prevent the attacks. the general is back in the air on a replacement plane to the united stat...

again, tonight, we will show you right here, live protest in new york city for what's being called quote, the million hoodie march, a reference to the hoodie trayvon martin was wearing when he was shot and killed in sanford, florida. new calls for the arrest of a noob hood watch volunteer that shot and killed the 17-year-old boy. martin was unarmed, walking from a convenience store to the home of his father's fiancee last month in sanford near orlando when george zimmerman shot him. he says he fired in self-defense after he felt threatened. something he would be entitled to do under ...

Engine. the pilot quickly aborting that flight as the engine shut down and passengers call him a hero. >> the scary thing was we were about 1,000 feet until the end of the red light. we didn't know if we were going to go into the water. >> it sounds like a major pop. a heavy vibration. >> captain steve saved our lives. he did a fantastic job. megyn: a replacement plane eventually took the plane to seattle. birds were the culprit that led to the water landing on the hudson river back in 2009. the house ethics committee unveiling formal charges against california representative maxine waters. sh...