hello. hello welcome to bbc news. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, will visit the occupied west bank city of ramallah later on friday, for talks with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas to discuss issues, including stability in the west bank and the future governance of the gaza strip. it comes after he met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials in tel aviv on thursday, during which he called for restraint on the war in gaza. the united states has called on israel to scale down its war on hamas in the near future , with president biden urging more to be done to protect civilian lives in gaza. gaza s health ministry says that more than 18,500 people have been killed since the war began. internet and phone networks across gaza had gone down again overnight, according to the region s main telecomms company. and in the last few minutes the israeli military have said its specialforces have recovered the body of a hostage held
poll revealing 75% say the country is going in the wrong direction. you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning i m carley shimkus. hey griff. griff: hey carley, i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. while biden s away, by the way, the white house launching a victory tour to celebrate all of his so-called accomplishments over the past 18 months, that s said to include the massive spending bill which will likely pass in the house today and head for biden s desk. carley: kevin corke is live in washington with more details on the bidens. kevin, good morning. kevin: carley, good morning to you. voter dissatisfaction abounds as most don t see an economic rebound. that according to the very latest fox news survey with large majorities rating the economy negatively, including, get this, over half of democrats. joining almost all republicans and independents in being dissatisfied. so while the president spent his weekend, as you pointed out, on a luxury island ins
week, a big break in the heat in the coming days where these are your daytime highs you re seeing a lot of spots into the upper 70s, upper 80s or mid 80s along the coast and as i take you through the weekend, moving through fairly quickly here it just stays cool so temperatures there right around the upper 70s around 80 degrees, much cooler less humid air only 72 degrees in washington, dc on monday. that s your daytime high. now, again, those showers that we were talking about taking you out west, rounds of big heavy rain have kind of fired up every time you get into the afternoon, big thunderstorms, and this has been happening every single day. it is the time of year where you see some of those monsoonal rains. this is additional rainfall so not including what we saw yesterday, widespread across the entire area you re seeing fox getting up to two to three inches of more rain, ground already saturated. that is enough for there to be flooding out there carley. so it s just kind of been
poll revealing 75% say the country is going in the wrong direction. you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning i m carley shimkus. hey griff. griff: hey carley, i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. while biden s away, by the way, the white house launching a victory tour to celebrate all of his so-called accomplishments over the past 18 months, that s said to include the massive spending bill which will likely pass in the house today and head for biden s desk. carley: kevin corke is live in washington with more details on the bidens. kevin, good morning. kevin: carley, good morning to you. voter dissatisfaction abounds as most don t see an economic rebound. that according to the very latest fox news survey with large majorities rating the economy negatively, including, get this, over half of democrats. joining almost all republicans and independents in being dissatisfied. so while the president spent his weekend, as you pointed out, on a luxury island inside a fanc
out of kabul. meanwhile, president biden has said he stands squarely behind his decision to withdraw american troops from afghanistan, in a defiant speech a day after the taliban seized control of the country. joe biden said that the afghan government s collapse had happened a lot faster than expected, and placed the blame on the country s leaders and security forces. here, the foreign secretary says details of a new resettlement scheme for afghan refugees will be announced soon. the scheme will be aimed at helping those most in need, including women and girls. the home office says it will be guided by the capacity of local authorities when deciding how many afghan refugees will be allowed to settle in the uk. our first report this hour is from our correspondentjohn mcmanus. breaking short his summer holiday, president biden flew into washington dc on monday, to answer the charge that he had overseen a majorforeign policy disaster for afghanistan,