Pollution. And ill report on libya on the poachers who have become helpers. Talks are underway in london to try to lay the ground work for peace talks to end the conflict in syria. Foreign ministers from the friends of syria group are pushing the opposition to attend a conference in geneva but the Main Coalition says it will not go unless assad will be removed as president. Reporter syrias war is now the battle for check points like this. In this town east of damascus, rebels break the offense, Regime Forces fight back, but the rebels prevail. Its impossible to say which rebel group took this action, but these battles rage across the country. In the damascus countryside, in this bee sieged town, violence continues. Even as the fighting continues a planned peace conference, dubbed geneva two finds itself enthralled in controversy. It says it would like to resume discussions outside of the talk. Meanwhile the syrian president has said the planned peace conference still has much work to d
Our top story, the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins show that there are now more than 16 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide. We begin with brazil. It recorded more than 50,000 new cas cases saturday for the fourth straight day. The country already has the second highest case count in the world. But that is not stopping the alwaysdefiant president bolsonaro from taking off his mask in public. Thats him in the middle, riding a motorcycle. Well have more from our Nick Paton Walsh shortly. And mexicos president says a mask isnt scientifically proven to help, so he wont wear one. Health experts disagree. Mexico just reported more than 6700 new cases and has the fourthhighest death toll win te world. But it is the United States with more than one fourth of all cases worldwide, seeing the biggest jump in absolute terms, 64,000 new cases saturday. Months into this pandemic, individual states are still setting daily records for infections and deaths. Florida now with the secondhighe
Im elizabeth plan. Thousands of people remained without power and dangerous flooding affects much of the state. More than 2 Million People live in the houston area. At least five people have died in the governor says more than 1000 people have dirty been rescued. Caroline shively tracking it all from houston where the waters continued to rise. Hey, caroline. Reporter hi to you, elizabeth. Numbers coming in absolutely staggering. Two feet of dirty hit us in houston. Another 10 to 15 inches expected today. This thing is not running out until midweek. Arena solidly coming down. Take a look in the uptown area. We drove basically as far as we could, drop anchor because it is a river now. You can see some if you peeked out there where they run into each other, still some trucks are able to push through. Certainly a very dangerous time right now. You mentioned about half a dozen people found that. As the rescue teams come from all areas of texas, as they come from as far away as virginia, the
Than reagan. Rob taking the taxcut to the American People, the plan he says will come to fruition. Jillian you cant wear shoes according to troops but in honor of Colin Kaepernick, fox and friends first continues right now. Scream and shout and let it out oeoeoeo scream and shout jillian you are watching fox and friends first thursday morning. Rob thanks for starting your day with us, it is thursday and our top story donald trump could be on the verge of a major victory in the fight for tax reform. Jillian the Senate Clearing a major hurdle is the final vote can come as early as today. Leland joins us with the next crucial step. Reporter partyline vote 5248 last night taking up the issue of tax reform and republicans are under intense pressure to deliver a win. Senators debating tax reform for 20 hours, that starts today, evenly split between republicans and democrats. Sources close to the tax reform effort, still plenty of work ahead. No surprise, democratic majority leader urging law