driver s seat in the peach state against his trump backed challenger former senator david perdue and a showdown to come this fall with stacey abrams. we re in a fight for the soul of our state. we win this primary and dana: following a runoff in texas. henry cuellar is fending off a challenge with the backing of the party s progressive wing including aoc and bernie sanders. gillian: another big race is in alabama. three candidates vying for the seat vacated by richard shelby. a late surge by mo brooks is making this a close race now with three strong candidates there again a runoff could be in the cards. dana: that race is interesting to watch. team fox coverage. we re in alabama. and also texas. let s begin in atlanta yeah, georgia with mark meredith is standing by. good morning. there are a lot of notable races to watch in georgia today. perhaps the one getting the most attention the race underway right now to be georgia s republican governor nominee. incumben
infections. and likely unconstitutional. a florida judge appointed by ron desantis says the governor s proposed congressional map is not fair because the judge says it boxes out black voters. but we begin this hour in europe with a dramatic example of how vladimir putin s war in ukraine is backfiring. today finland s leaders say they support ending decades of neutrality and joining nato. the nato chief promises a quick welcome if finland follows through and applies to join the alliance. the kremlin says finland joining nato would definitely pose a threat to russia s security. the president of finland says putin has one man to blame for this decision. well, if that would be the case that we join, my response would be that you caused this. look at the mirror. sweden could soon follow finland. new nato members would redraw the security map and expand along russia s border the alliance putin hoped to weaken with his assault on ukraine. we begin our coverage with h helsinki an
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. we re following the breaking news out of morocco where more than a thousand people were killed after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck late friday. it was the strongest to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter was located in the high atlas mountains just southwes southwest. rescuers are struggling to access the areas after roads were damaged. hospitals were filling up, prompting patients to wait outside as hospital beds were moved onto the streets. more than 700 people are in critical condition. and with intense aftershocks expected in the area, officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i heard people screaming. everyone went out of their houses. the street is full of people and women screaming. that s what happened. even now people can t go back home because they re still afraid. toi want to bring in ben wedeman for more. the destruction is devastating. looking at some of t
election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. when you
with this absolute bias and what they re going to get from the other side of the aisle. why am i saying this? the media is all atwitter, literally and figuratively that mitch mcconnell, whied some new threat. here it is. nobody serving in this chamber can even begin can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched earth senate would look like. the senate would be more like a 100-car pileup. nothing moving. now, not only is this not true, but it is not to be believed. i don t know why anybody is seeing this. with any type of sense of a appre apprehension. it s being viewed as a threat. it is not a threat. it is a promise from a political conniver without equal who s made a legacy of beating the democrats. he eliminated the filibuster for supreme court nominations in 2017. hello? why would you listen to him about this? why would you even consider what he s saying? that was scorched earth. no one can imagine it? you lived it, democrats. you ve lived it with him. he r