Italy takes MAJOR action as France braces for more RIOTS

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ON "FOX AND. FRIENDS" LIVE THIS MORNING. >> Todd: IN FRANCE CURFEWS ARE. IN EFFECT. THERE ARE FEARS RIOTS AND. LOOTING MAY FLAIR UP ON. SATURDAY. >> Ashley: STEPHANIE BENNETT. JOINS US WITH MORE. >> U.S. EMBASSY IN FRANCE IS. WARNING AMERICANS TO STEER CLEAR. OF VIOLENT PROTESTS, MORE ARE.

PLANNED FOR SATURDAY. IT CAUSED TRAVEL DISRUPTION AND. SPARKED CURFEW ACROSS THE. COUNTRY. IT WILL LIKELY CONTINUE. POLICE PATROLLED PARIS AND OTHER. CITIES WITH HELICOPTERS USING. SEARCHLIGHTS TO DETER CROWDS. THE UNREST HIT TOURIST HOT. SPOTS. THE LOUVRE WAS CLOSED DURING. CLEAN UP. OVER 2000 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED,

HUNDREDS WERE INJURED INCLUDING. POLICE. ONE PERSON DIED AFTER A REPORT. OF CARDIAC ARREST. PROTESTS HAVE GROWN FROM STUDENT. ANGER OVER LEARNING CONDITION TO. BROADER MOVEMENT INVOLVING. PUBLIC WORKERS, UNIONS AND. RADICAL LEFT WING POLITICAL. GROUPS WITH FEARS OF MORE. NEFARIOUS ACTORS BEING INVOLVED. RESIDENTS SAY SOME ATTACKS THEY.

FELT PREMEDITATED. THE FRENCH PRIME MINISTER SAID. NO ONE WILL IMPOSE THEIR AGENDA. THROUGH VIOLENCE, MASSIVE. MILITARY DEPLOYMENT IS BEING. LINED UP FOR NEXT ROUND ON. SATURDAY. HE WILL MEET LATER TODAY WITH. UNION LEADERS. UNREST IS INSPIRING BELGIUM AND. ITALY, ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER IS. PROPOSING TOUGHER SECURITY. MEASURES. >> IF DURING A PARADE OR. DEMONSTRATION YOU GATHER.

TOGETHER IN A GROUP OF FIVE OR. MORE PEOPLE AND START THROWING. STONES, FIRECRACKERS, STICKS OR. ENDANGER SAFETY, YOU WILL RISK. FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND UP TO. $20,000 EURO FINE. >> THE FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL. MACRON ADDRESSED THE NATION. SUNDAY NIGHT CALMING FOR CALM, UNITY AND ORDER. THIS IS SIX MONTHS OUT FROM. CRUCIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. LAST THREE DAYS, HE'S NOT BEEN.

IN FRANCE, HE'S TOURING THE. MIDDLE EAST. >> Ashley: WHAT ARE AUTHORITIES. IN ITALY AND FRANCE SAYING FOR. AMERICAN TOURISTS THERE ALREADY, NOT NECESSARILY THOSE COMING. LATER THIS WEEK. FOR THOSE THERE NOW, WHAT IS. THEIR IMMEDIATE CONCERN FOR. THEM? >> IMMEDIATE CONCERN IS FOR. SAFETY OF CIVILIANS, RESIDENTS. AND THOSE TRAVELS TO THE. COUNTRY. DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH THE. PROTEST, IT IS CAUSING TRAVEL.

DISRUPTION AND MAYHEM. VIOLENCE, LOOTING STORES. BEST MESSAGE FOR PEOPLE IS TO. STAY AWAY FROM PROTESTS AND NOT. GET INVOLVED. >> Todd: I KNOW YOU SAID THERE. IS A PAUSE YESTERDAY AND COULD. BE MORE INTENSE RIOTING ON. SATURDAY. IS THERE A SENSE THERE IS ANY. END IN SIGHT? WHEN DOES THIS ALL END? >> AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS, THREE WEEKS AGO, PRIME MINISTER.

OF FRANCE SPOKE TO STUDENTS AND. GAVE THEM THIS ONLINE PORTAL. SYSTEM. HE ASKED THEM, I WILL GIVE THREE. WEEKS, GIVE ME YOUR GRIEVANCES. AND WE'LL COME UP WITH A. SOLUTION. STUDENTS WILL ADD MORE TEACHERS, THIS HAS GROWN TO A BIGGER. MOVEMENT WITH DIFFERENT GROUPS. GETTING INVOLVED. WE WILL SEE WHAT COMES ON. SATURDAY. PRIME MINISTER IS MEETING WITH.

UNION GROUPS, FIVE DIFFERENT. LEADERS LATER TODAY, WE'LL SEE. WHAT COMES OF THAT. A LOT GOING ON. >> Todd: COME BACK TO FIRES ARE. NOT BECAUSE KIDS WANT TO LEARN. END OF DAY, IF THEY ARE FOCUSED. ON HOW TO SOLVE EDUCATION PART. OF THIS, THEY ARE WHISTLING PAST. THE GRAVEYARD UNFORTUNATE FOR. THEM. BENJAMIN HALL IS C.