ian are unlivable. the scenes, apocalyptic. responders working by boat and aircraft. nearly 2,000 rescues in southwest and central florida since last week when hurricane ian hit the state. this morning, the number of customers without power is now below half a million in florida. president biden travels to florida tomorrow for a firsthand look at the devastation. cnn s randi kaye is live this morning in fort myers beach. randi? reporter: john, i know you ve seen fort myers beach from the air, but seeing it on the ground firsthand is certainly like nothing i have ever seen before. there were stairways to anywhere because homes were literally blown out of foundations. there were homes on top of homes. as you said, fort myers beach is still closed to residents, but we got a firsthand look up close with a search and rescue team out of miami, florida, and here wrap we saw. this is our first look from the ground at fort myers beach. hurricane ian s winds combined with storm s
sad over everything we ve gone through, the lives that have been lost but i m hopeful because of the vaccines and because we are seeing reopenings. i m really hopeful on this day that it will be better for us. remarkable jump by some governments, not so good by others. over in the uk everything is still sharp, every restaurant, every nonessential shop, families allowed to see other families. we ve had a lockdown that is taken away personal liberties, we look across at the us within the and hope that our leaders can follow suit and fall you guys out of what has been a pretty dire year here and around the world. jillian: we say good morning, you re watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. benjamin: tonight president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the pandemic started in the us. jillian: the white house releases new details on the speech. reporter: minutes ago we received additional guidance from the white house on what the speech would loo
at the border. the number of unaccompanied minors taken into custody has tripled to more than 3,200 in just the past two weeks. former customs and border patrol commissioner mark morgan is sounding the alarm. trust me, if we had over 1,000 apprehensions in a single day it was a bad day. we re looking at now getting close to 5,000 apprehensions a day and they still refuse to say it s a crisis. the mandate has been to release them and process them and release them as fast as possible. on the back end prevent ice from deporting them. reception centers on the front end, sanctuary country on the back end. that s where we re at right now. harris: from a crisis to what you might call a national emergency. republican congressman andy biggs is here to talk about it. he led a delegation to the southern border and he will join me in just a few minutes. let s begin, though, with white house correspondent peter doocy. peter. good morning. it has been a week since president biden sai
our country, theirs.ther now, for whatever reason,hi i woke up, i kid you not at 3:00 a.m. this morning and i woke up kind of with a start. tf then i made the mistake of reaching for my phone. never do that. then i made the mistake of scrolling through the first two hundred and sixty pages or so of the senate s four thousand one hundred fifty five page, one point seven trillion dollar omnibu $s spending bill . now the pork projects, it funds the insane increase 10% and pentagon spendin 10% in gine the unforgivable length too long for any congressmanths, too to read. the text kept secret untilt after the election. afthe fact that it s going to be rammed through by the bush cheney wing of the party beforet a new gop house gets to haveut any input in the new year. tha ree fact that republicans left the dealmaking to eighty steps d eight year old richard shelby, who steps down from the senate inown january now who thinks shelby drove a hard bargain for fiscal restraint. okay, al okay, all
steve: house republicans d.c recently voted to continuousing congressional earmarks to allocate millions of dollars to their districts with pork projects. it s corrupt and at odds with the constitution. california congressman and member of the house judiciary committee, tom mcclintock. t i can t believe republicans want this stuff. it s a consequence of too. much spending.f to we are spending and putting trillions of dollars we don t have.. it s the biggest debt in our history. it ignited the worst inflation in0 four years. the next congress will have togh learn to pronounce the word nord and earmarks make that job so much harder. we talked about this on theis