raging river below. deadly flooding puts minnesota s dam at risk of total failure. there is more severe weather in the forecast across the midwests. janice dean has everything you need to know. todd: unbelievable. take a look at this. are you serious, man? are you serious? i 16 for this whole place? 16 k? dude, terrible. todd: are you serious? new york city business owner mocked by vandals as they destroy his dining shed in daylight. he is here to tell us what he plans to do numext. carley: mayor adams partying it up in the hamptons. i was out in the hamptons for the day, i m allowed to go and rest. we still in constant contact, i have a great team. carley: what else he is saying about that this morning. you are watch ing fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. busy wednesday morning. happening right now in russia, wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich standing trial 15 months after his arrest. carle
ryan young, thank you for that. a lot of questions for sure. two major u.s. companies are shelving plans to bring their workers back to the office because of the delta variant. american express told employee it is won t fully reopen until late june of 2022. the company had planned for a return back on october 11. and microsoft is scrapping its october plan to reopen u.s. offices as well. they haven t set a new date but pledged to give its workers 30 days notice. in four days voters head to the polls in california to decide whether democratic governor newsom can keep his job. he is facing an uphill battle. here is lucy kafanov. reporter: in one of the country s bluest states, one county is a rare bastion of red. it may be less than two hours north of hollywood by car, but
the city of bakersfield is on the other side of the spectrum politically. newsom out, elder in. reporter: it s where you ll find america s last woolworth s luncheonette counter, serving up burgers, shakes, and a side of nostalgia. california was once a really nice place. governor newsom says a lot of things, but he does all bad things. reporter: when it comes to governor gavin newsom, some of the diners here have had their fill. if there s not a change, my wife and i, we re out of here. really? we re leaving the state. reporter: many republicans here think their voices aren t heard. no, i don t think so. no, not really. reporter: to some degree, they re right. thank you, california. reporter: in 2018, just 41% of kern county voters went for newsom. the best is yet to come. reporter: but he won the state by a landslide. now republicans are hoping to flip the governor s office, an uphill battle in a state where
the city of bakersfield is on the other side of the spectrum politically. newsom out, elder in. reporter: it is where you would find the last woolworths counter, sharing up burgers, shake and nostalgia. california was once a nice place. governor newsom says a lot of things but he does all bad things. reporter: and when it comes to governor newsom, some. referee: of the diners have had their fill. if there is not a change, we re leaving the state. reporter: and many republicans think their voices are not heard. no, i don t think so. no, not really. reporter: to some degree, they are right. thank you california! reporter: in 2018, just 41% of the county voters went for newsom, and he won by a landslide and now republicans are hoping to flip the governor s office, an uphill
incriminations and more blaming. we ve got to pull together as a country, face problems and do the kind of solutions that make sense based on science and are not just ideological in their foundation. do you think governor newsom could have handled the outbreak, the pandemic differently in california? what do you think? i think if he had more knowledge, which he didn t have and nobody did, he could have maybe handled it better. but given what he knew, given what other governors and presidents have done, i think he s definitely par for the course. but we re up against an unprecedented biological adversary. so of course it s not going to be perfect, and it will get better all the time. but throwing newsom out and these clowns running against him with their outrageous demands for zero minimum wage, take away completely a woman s right to control her own body i mean this is we can go from the frying pan into the fire if we don t watch it. and you mentioned afghanistan.