It feels wonderful to be here. I am thrilled to see so many people eager to join in dialogue about where we as a nation find ourselves in the strive towards freedom and it seems particularly fitting that we would have this conversation today, the day after our nation paused its daily business to pay tribute to reverend Martin Luther king jr. s life and his legacy. And it seems fitting that we would have this conversation the day after our nations first black president was sworn in for his second term. Now i know much of the nation has already moved on and president obamas soaring rhetoric about the promise of america, life, liberty, justice and equality for all has already been forgotten by many. And i know that many, many people in america will not think of dr. King again until his holiday rolls around again next year. But i would like for us to pause tonight and think more deeply about the meaning of dr. Kings life and his legacy and what it has to teach us about our nations presiden
From Angela Merkel and the German Foreign minister. It took two rounds of voting in a secret ballot among members to choose their new boss. He is the first former olympic champion to head the ioc. The ninth president of the International Olympic committee is thomas bach. [applause] the outgoing ioc president has passed on the olympic baton, making thomas bach the new lord of the rings. His first speech as the most powerful man in International Sports was emotional. I want to leave the ioc according to my motto unity and diversity. I want to be a president for all. [applause] the 59yearold german lawyer is also an olympic fencing old medalist. His team won the foil event at the summer olympics. One year later, he was crowned World Champion fencing in when osiris. He has also proved himself a force to be reckoned with at the ioc. A former president took him under his wing in the early 1980s, pegging him for greatness. Thomas bach i will say only one word. Thomas bach is the future. With
Than 8 billion in emergency funding to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Health officials have reported 11 deaths from the virus. The latest we reported yesterday in california. The patient had taken a cruise from San Francisco to mexico last month and now that cruise ship has since gone to hawaii and back and is quarantined off the coast of california with thousands on board. Were expecting an update on the situation in San Francisco at any moment of the further north in washington state, the feds are investigating a nursing home near seattle. Thats where most of the ten patients that have died in the state were living. The virus has killed more than 3,000 people, 200 people around the world. And has infected more than 95,000 in 80 countries. Those numbers are rising every day. We have complete coverage this hour. Dr. Adams is standing by at the white house. First, Claudia Cowan is reporting live from San Francisco on the latest with those people. Cant be too happy being off the coast o
Rob you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Jillian thanks for starting the day with us. The big story of the day, urgent new warning about coronavirus testing from the nations top doctor on the White House Task force. The system is not really geared to what we need right now. What you are asking for. That is a failing. It is a failing. Rob cases a covid19 surpassing 1600 with 40 does, the biggest outbreaks in Washington State and new york. 29 states under a state of emergency. Jillian steak futures are up after wall street suffered its worst day in decades, the dow dropping 2300 points, falling so fast trading had to be brought to a standstill. Rob the pandemic is shutting americas favorite pastimes, professional college sports, disneyland, even broadway, students in more states told to stay home until further notice. Jillian live Fox News Team coverage on everything you need to know this morning. Rob Griff Jenkins live where congress is racing against the clock to a
For your civil liberty . Its not good. They will sound off and a disastrous unemployment is a heartbreak, how much longer can our country stay under the lockdown . Steve forbes have some thoughtprovoking analysis on that. Plus, big city mayors they can criminals not to misbehave. Yeah. If youre not going to believe, sexist man of the year, Raymond Arroyo breaks it down in a much needed friday folly. This is america and shut down. They 18. Im going to do something thats a little bit different from what ive done in the previous nights. Im just going to share some stories. A top oncologist on one of manhattans most respectable hospital called today and i know him by reputation and hes of course very worried about the ongoing crush of Covid Patients in new york City Hospitals rate of 304 people might have died there since yesterday and another 1200 deaths nationally. But when he really wanted to talk about was another disturbing part of the story thats getting frankly very little attention