now. have a good day. steve: hello, everyone, 6:00 a.m. in new york city. you are watching fox & friends first for this wednesday, january 17th. welcome aboard. ainsley: from campaign foe to friend. vivek ramaswamy at a trump new hampshire rally. could a cabinet position or even the veep job be in his future? lawrence: pushes for are to be thrown out. prosecutors say cocaine was brian: house floor? ainsley: i thought he said he didn t do drugs? i wonder what happened to the white house cocaine have we looked into that. white house climate caesar snaps. john kerry confronted over climate hypocrisy. why do you think you are more important. your carbon footprint doesn t matter but everybody else around the world. nobody ever suggested that nobody ever suggested that don t make up stupid questions. being here suggests that. stupid question. brian: why is it a stupid question and telling everybody else to stop using oil and gas. fox & friends starts r
at 35 and 40 miles an hour. so it s not too bad yet. but we re watching our friends just north of us. we realize that it is coming. and we re not looking forward to it but we ll take that over the 150 we were talking about 24 hours ago. yeah. i m getting reports now the highest gusts, mayor, 108 miles an hour in davis north carolina. highest rainfall so far 12.73 inches. that s in atlantic beach. so some people are getting pounded. this is the beginning of this. you mentioned that your mandatory evacuation for residents and visitors of your town. it has a population of about 600. did everybody leave? as far as we know, everyone left. we checked all the houses as best we could to try to find anyone that was left. that doesn t mean someone wasn t
election week the days before we get the october report [ unintelligible ] we would be looking at unemployment rate of what? 12% easily that s a minimum. you can calculate a number of other items. first the misery index. you look at history, you see rising equates to higher unemployment. the misery index is 12.73. second highest in president obama s term. it is catastrophic that leaves us to believe there s future lay-offs down the road. sentiment ratings not just for consumer, also for companies, very negative. when you see that companies will not hire. consumers are not spending, companies not hiring. you are looking at double digits we will be dancing with teens in the teens this time next year, scary. neil: todd, thank you, i think. we were showing you a little earlier what has been going on in various sectors within the