Irwin joining us with. And kay la, i will start you with. At the windy white house there, as it relates to what were hearing from the Treasury Secretary, and from cnbc language, to Plain English here, what it means. Well, its significant because the Treasury Secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government wont be able to pay its bills anymore. Its allowed by congress to borrow up to 31 trillion and change, but its going to hit that number next thursday. After that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. It will be pinching pennies. And it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u. S. Debt. So certainly the Treasury Secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months. I spoke to a seni
into sharper focus. this picture shows fort meyers beach one of the hardest-hit areas before the hurricane and here it is after. homes wiped out. sea of debris and rubble stretching to the horizon. there is this marina during normal times in fort myers. and then after. a scene of utter destruction. the damage throughout florida. 2 million still without power. it will continue for some time. ten people are confirmed dead thus far. the number may change as search and rescue teams work their way through the flooded neighborhoods. we re moments away as dana mentioned and get an update from the florida governor ron desantis back in tallahassee. team fox coverage. city manager marty lawing is standing by. robert ray is back with us today. we begin with track of ian. adam klotz is in our studio watching that. we still have a hurricane as we remember this storm left the coast of florida as a tropical storm but we ve spent a good chunk of time over the atlantic ocean. winds curren
irwin joining us with. and kay la, i will start you with. at the windy white house there, as it relates to what we re hearing from the treasury secretary, and from cnbc language, to plain english here, what it means. well, it s significant because the treasury secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government won t be able to pay its bills anymore. it s allowed by congress to borrow up to $31 trillion and change, but it s going to hit that number next thursday. after that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. it will be pinching pennies. and it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u.s. debt. so certainly the treasury secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months.
this weaponization of government committee that was created by this new house majority, staffed up, populated with members, they might want a piece of this too, and the house intel committee has asked for a briefing on these documents, they are by division a select committee less partisan than other committees but depends what they hear, they too may want to conduct their own investigation. so a significant interest here from the new house republican majority in getting to the bottom of the document story here, at least as it pertains to president biden and his classified documents. right. mike, i ll go to you the the second day in a row we ve seen karine jean-pierre in a position to having to defend the white house and tense back and forth with the reporters in the briefing room all as it relates to the question of transparency, when they knew what they do and when they shared it. yes, that s right, hallie. i mean broadly speaking, and you know this from your time as a white house
is obviously important work but these are not easy missions to be doing on. it was not easy for them to be on that pile in surfside and search for people and unfortunately find many, many people who were killed in that collapse. so now they are in a situation where they are looking and hopefully they find people that are okay or that the buildings are empty. but you don t want to have to see people that had gone that didn t make it through. so it s a physical, it s putting yourself out there in harm s way but it does also take a toll. kevin, why don t you talk about the mental health we re dealing with here. sure. so in the mental health category, if you recall very early on in the desantis administrator the first lady took on the role of providing for first responder mental health to include hiring the first ever in the division a state mental health coordinating