hello and welcome. friday, september 23rd. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. voting begins today in the four occupied regions on whether to become a part of the russian federation. the areas make up about 50% of ukraine s territory. if they join russia many believe that will provide vladimir putin the pretexts to claim russian territory is under attack and escalate the war. it s prompting people to flee the country in all directions. a long line of cars backed up at russia s border with finland. the government in helsinki is thinking of new restrictions to keep russians from entering. they re crossing into armenia and turkey. according to one witness, traffic at one checkpoint stretched 5 to 6 kilometers. it was a similar scene along the border with kazakhstan. trucks lined up as far as the eye could see. ticket prices are soaring for flights out of moscow. most of which is sold out for the next few days. the kremlin calls reports exaggeration and fake news. the mobi
fox weather reporter robert ray is live in bermuda, what are you seeing this morning? yeah, good morning from bermuda, the small island out in the atlantic ocean, been getting pummelled anyway t by the hurricane issue the category 4 hurricane fiona, it is about parallel with the island of bermuda, look at the video from overnight and the wind is coming in, gusts up to 71 miles per hour and the past few hours that is almost hurricane strength. next two or three hours, it is expected to get more intense and taper off into the afternoon as it makes its way up into canada. if we can, take a look at this sail drone video from out in the atlantic ocean, this was yesterday, just a few hundred miles from the island of bermuda. look at the swells, 50-foot wave and that is happen ing around bermuda, just from the north carolina coast. thus far we are right on the virge of those gusts into the world of hurricanes, hurricane winds are 74 miles per hour and the rain continues to come i
herschel walker a slight lead over raphael warnock despite the attack ad spirit a lot is going on in atlanta and the braves are desperately trying to catch the mets but they lost one and a half games out. ainsley: george is the number one team in the country, was it when they were playing ufc? brian: ted does not talk much but he nods a lot. ainsley: you should be the mascot for the georgia team, t ted, because mascots can t talk. brian: mascots can t talk, that is true. a lot of times they know you and we will talk about that later. all morning long lorentz is having breakfast in washington, pennsylvania. steve: he is at the spring house and joins has now and larence we have big final hour at fox & friends. the biggest names the republican party will be sent down. that is right, good morning, family. we have a house full of republicans today and we have the leadership here. they are going to be talking about their commitment to america where the republicans are
of cheer on wall street: amazon shares soar as it racks up sales of $121 billion in the last three months. hello there. we start in the us, with fears of a recession in the world s biggest economy. in the world s biggest economy are rattling people. official figures out on thursday show it shrinking for the second quarter in a row. two quarters of negative growth are what many countries around the world would define as a recession. not so in the us, as we ll show you why in a minute. us gross domestic product declined at an annual rate ofjust under 1% between april and june. that comes after a steeper 1.6% decline in the first three months of the year. but that hasn t hit the labour market yet. us treasury secretary janet yellen said the economy is now at full employment with the unemployment ratejust 3.6%. meanwhile, prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. he s what president biden had to say. both chairman powell and many
now it is time to do my time. just 30% say that they approve of president biden s handling of the economy. the president trying to salvage his domestic agenda or what is left of it. it is tuesday, july 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. and we begin with the u.n. chief warning that half of humanity is in the, quote, danger zone for extreme weather as heatwaves strike across the northern hemisphere. in the u.s., then tens of millions of people are under heat alerts. and highs above 90 degrees fahrenheit the next week, that is more than 32 degrees celsius. oklahoma and texas are getting the worst of it with excessive heat warnings in major cities like dallas where highs could reach a staggering 110 degrees fahrenheit. the organization in charge of the texas power grid has already recorded 30 days of record demanding since early may. and there are fires including this one in central texas which is forcing evacuations and consuming homes. the w