Jillian good morning. Youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im jillian mele. Todd im todd piro. Thank you for starting your day with us. We get straight to a fox news you alert, chaos in chicago, crowds clash with police as looters ransacked Stores Across the city. [crowd noises] jillian looters mobbing upscale stores as officers try to keep them at bay. Todd the unrest began after a man was shot by police. Officers say the suspect opened fire first during a chase. Police returned fire, striking that man. Jillian it comes on the heels of a violent weekend in the city, 35 people shot and three people killed. Todd now to another fox news alert. Attorney general bill barr blasting the unrest across major u. S. Cities in an exclusive fox news interview. Jillian barr explained what he feels is behind all of it. Reporter good morning. After two months of protests across the country, all bill barr calling the unrest a new form of gea guerrilla warfare. This is the view in s
Jillian we are hours away from his trip to North Carolina where the rnc gets underway. Fox friends first continues right now. Todd a very good morning to you. You are watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im todd piro. Jillian im jillian mele as always. Thank you for starting your day with us. Lets get to this, the gulf coast bracing for back to back storms. Tropical storm marco closing in on louisiana overnight. Todd meantime, Tropical Storm laura bringing deadly flooding to the caribbean. It is expected to hit the u. S. Later this week. Jillian Caroline Shibley is live in new orleans where marco could make landfall in hours. Caroline. Reporter good morning, todd and jillian. Louisiana governor John Bell Edwards describes it this way, the state could be looking at a right hook from marco, a left hook from laura. Marco has lost a bit of steam but we are in danger of the storm hitting us a few hours from now. Laura just seems to be getting stronger, 11 are dead in haiti and
reporter: just the shock, absolutely absorbing what happened. it looks you can t even accept that this is reality. it looks like a movie set. they re still in shock. but it is setting in. it s just a couple weeks before christmas. the temperatures are dropping now. how are they going to get through the next days, weeks and months? they are feeling reassured by the governor, by the president, saying resources are comeing. the president has accepted kentucky s disaster declaration, that means federal funding and federal resources will come pouring into this part of the country but it s going to be a long haul. they have never seen anything like this. ashley: the memories that people are going to miss out on with christmas coming up and carley: caroline, thank you. great reporting. we ll check in with you soon. president biden s job approval continues to plummet. a new poll shows most americans don t approve of the way biden is handling nearly every major issue facing the u.s. ashle
gone, that are just i mean, gone. i can t describe how seeing my town has just devastated us all. ashley: you re watching fox & friends first. i m ashley strohmier. carley: i m carley shimkus. caroline shibley is live on the ground in mayfield, kentucky. ashley: we begin with alexandria hoff in d.c. with more on the federal response expected from the white house. good morning. reporter: good morning. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for kentucky and said he is willing to do the same for any of the other states impacted if their governors so request it. what that does it accelerate accept to federal aid. yesterday, alejandro mayorkas and a fema s administrator traveled to kentucky and toured communities that have been brought to their knees. they were briefed on what was
all of the pets that are unaccounted for as well and that s family too. carley: yeah, absolutely. so we re praying for everybody in the area, all six states, not just kentucky. kentucky s death toll appears to be the highest by a long shot so praying for everybody affected. ashley: caroline shibley is at the site of the destruction in mayfield, kentucky. she joins us with the latest on recovery efforts this morning. caroline, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, carley and ash ally. we are seeing ashley. we are definitely seeing the recovery on the ground, people getting a firsthand look. this is mayfield. this destruction goes on not just for blocks but for miles and miles. one of these tornadoes is thought to have tracked through kentucky more than 230 miles, killing people in its wake. the governor saying yesterday he fears more than 100 people just in the state alone will probably be found dead. much of it in the candle factory