Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and
justice department personnel were dispatched to the house, even though many of them were not cleared to view top secret materials the biden team is refusing to go into detail about almost any aspect of this scandal but it s justification for that silence is being challenged every day. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich tried to get clarification on that this afternoon. she starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. there are new reports that the justice department considered having fbi agents oversee the search at the president s home but decided against it. it is unclear who made that call or why. but we were told today by the administration that prides itself on transparency effectively not to expect answers on much from them is. the white house will not be taking questions on the investigation into president biden s apparent mishandling of classified documents anymore citing doj protocols. anything that is
defend taiwan with u.s. troops if china invades. setting off another episode of confusion over american policy and prompting a condemnation from beijing. there were also comments about inflation and his own political future. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. this was president biden s first sitdown interview with a u.s. reporter in more than seven months. and in it we learned white house officials have been holding out on us because it s unclear when or if they planned to tell us the pandemic is a thing of the past. which way are we going? this way. pete: president biden back in the u.s. after the queen s funeral and the country has changed a lot since he left. the pandemic is over. it wasn t just four days ago. we are dealing with at global challenge of a once that generation pandemic. and it isn t for administration officials who claim they have legal grounds to canc