Carley the first polls are open in vermont on the biggest day of the president ial primary calendar. Next polls open in virginia in an hour, east coast kicks off huge election day. Delegates are up for grabs across 15 states in hunt for 1215 delegates needed to secure the gop nomination. You are watching fox and friends first, im carley shimkus. Todd 5 00 a. M. In vermont, early worm. Ill todd piro. Former President Trump leading nikki haley. On the democratic side, President Biden looks to overcome the pesky line that made its way to todays contest. Carley Madeleine Rivera has the things you need to know, including other big races. Good morning, madi. Madeleine a lot tawatch today. Former President Trump has a big night, he could become the presumptive nominee by middle of this month. He won north dakota with 84 of the vote after scoring major victory on monday prosecute scream court rejected colorado effort to kick him off the ballot. His opponent nikki haley has been crisscrossing t
sandra smith. some are forced to drive to their destination instead. with 43 million americans expected to travel throughout the week, are the roads ready. bryan: jeff flock is heading down the pennsylvania turnpike as we speak. jeff, what are you seeing out there? you know, i don t think i ve ever seen a holiday travel day that s been any calmer and better than this. take a look at the pennsylvania turnpike. we are just approaching valley forge, which is appropriate, general washington spent some time there in 1777, but it s clear out here now, despite the fact that we are facing, we think, according to the aaa, at least, record travel both by car and by air. take a look at the numbers. 50 million people, they say, aaa. bigger than at any time pre-pandemic. 43 million of those as you point out by car. and you know, the numbers really seem to bear that out. if you look at the tsa checkpoint numbers, they came out this morning from the department of transportation. they sa
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
happening now, president biden delivers an impassioned plea to african american voters in south carolina, hoping the state that propelled hem to the democratic nomination in 2020, can recharge his reelection campaign, this as top republican hopefuls hit the final stretch with just one week under the iowa caucuses. in georgia, donald trump is asking a judge to throw out the state s election subversion case against him. the former president once again claiming immunity, the same argument a federal court will hear tomorrow with trump in tapedance. plus, we have breaking news about the terrifying mid flight fuselage blowout aboard an alaska airlines plane. now united airlines says it s uncovered loose bolts on the own flight of boeing 737-max-9 aircraft. i m object object, you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with president biden ramping up his reelection campaign, the president trying to rally support from african american voters, a key piece of his winning coa
full term as president he would be 86 years old. in other words, four years from 93 these are not trivial facts about joe biden. these are the central facts of joe biden s life. joe biden s age defines him and all of us, that s true for every person. age is just a number, you ll hear people say but they are lying to themselves. age is more than a number. agents especially of core biological reality of human existence which is that at some point it comes to a close. age is the way we chart our progression from birth to death as we back pass from this world is billions before us have and replaced by others. they use to be called the cycle of life. no one has ever change it. no one ever will. our choices between accepting a reality we cannot alter or denying that reality even exists. the democratic party has chosen the latter. tomorrow is march 1. that means a year from today we ll be in the middle of the presidential primary season. joe biden has given every indication he plans