running out. governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency for all 67 florida counties. six of them now under mandatory evacuation orders. live just a short time ago desantis gave this warning. the impacts will be far, far broader than just where the eye of the storm happens to make landfall. in some areas, there will be catastrophic flooding and life-sleetening storm surge. you don t want to put yourself in harm s way unnecessarily. and doesn t mean you need to go across god s creation to evacuate. just get to the higher ground, get into a safe structure. harris: fox weather and fox news reporters are stationed across the state of florida. we re tracking the storm 24/7 to keep you continuously updated. fox weather s nicole valdez reporting live from tampa. nicole. good morning. mandatory evacuations have been expanded for the tampa bay area and additional 90,000 people are now being told it is time to get out. that as we watch home and business owners put plywood
plus russia meeting with allies in vienna and may announce up to 2 million barrels a day production cut. bad news for you and president biden. dana: the president visited saudi arabia this summer in hopes of convincing the kingdom to increase its oil output. that strategy now appears to have fallen flat. the white house is in damage control. when the president went to saudi arabia, he said i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. what happened? you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america s position. as i just mentioned, he took action these past several months. every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump. bill: james freeman on deck with analysis. jacque heinrich is live at the white house where we begin this brand-new hour. good morning. good morning, bill. we re seeing the first reports of these cuts could be much deeper than expected between 1.5 and 2
another state going against the science tonight. the state of wyoming announcing it will repeals it mask mandate, meaning that as of this hour 15 states now do not have a mask mandate and three more states, including wyoming, are planning to end theirs in the next coming days. dropping masks, despite coming a plateau of the number of cases in the united states. right now the united states is averaging about 60,000 cases. now it is just hovering there. it is plateauing. it is exactly where we were in the summer when many of the states, including texas had mask mandates. so here is the problem with this. if we get it right now, this could be the turning point. there is so much that is critical that is riding on the next two months. how quickly that we vaccinate versus whether we have another surge really relies on what happens in march and april. so, it is crucial right now. on that front let s take a look at what is happening in boise, idaho. there is a burn the mask rally
absolutely not, bill. we said at the time even before he left the trip was not about oil. it was about larger national strategic and national interest goals throughout the region to try to foster more integrated cooperative region. we said we would welcome an increase of production. there was a small increase of production after that trip. now they are adjusting back their numbers down a little bit here. opec plus has been saying and telling the word they re producing 31/2 million more barrels than they actually are. so in some ways this announced decrease really gets them back into more align with actual production. we haven t seen we haven t seen any dramatic shifts in the price of oil. still coming in at $90 a barrel. we have to see how it plays out over the long term. dana: the united states under president biden has been releasing a million barrels of oil per day from our emergency strategic petroleum reserve. that irked the saudis and probably putin as well.
thank you, gentlemen. harris: we know border patrol has apprehended a record 2 million illegal immigrants. note, that is a fiscal year record and the year isn t over yet. since president biden took office the number is 31/2 million so far. what will it look like for the next few years of his presidency? all of that doesn t include the estimated 800,000 gotaways who try to sneak into the country undeteblthed. that was a new number given to me from border officials who were there. i went on a ride along with the texas department of safety to see what they re up against. it turned into an overnight mission to get the gotaways. this is part of operation lone star. we update troopers working private ranchs looking for illegal immigrants, who don t want to be caught trying to avoid apprehension.