Pete good morning. Its labor day and we hope you are not laboring at home. We have a good old crowd here at the Nashville Underground in nashville, tennessee. Its 5 00 a. M. Central time. On labor day. [cheers and applause] pete the line was out the door. Folks pumped. They are waking me up because its an Early Morning here on fox friends. Thank you all for being here. Its great to see you. We are at the Nashville Underground on broadway on the strip here in nashville, tennessee. And the only thing missing, guys, is Griff Jenkins and the doctor. The doctor is in the house, dr. Nicole saphier. Good to see you two on remote. Hope you have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend looking forward to hosting three hours with you guys. Nicole we do miss having you here on the couch. Its great seeing you there with all the Energy Behind you. Wish we were there. Griff who knew that crowd loved belinda carlisle. That crowd loves it. Please tell them we wish they were all with us here, pete. Pete oh, indee
in one of the nation s biggest hot spots the governor there is actively opposing mask mandates measures. let s go to austin, texas. steved aler earlier this morning painted a bleak picture for what hospitals in this area lock like right now. he said he visited an icu yesterday. i can t tell you how many times he used the word scary to describe what he saw. there is 2.3 million people living in the greater austin area and currently nine icu beds available. it is a real problem for hospitals. they are starting to put in some of their surge plans which include moving some patients to the hallways of these hospitals just to add more people to the hospital. they are not adding more staff to the hospital. that s becoming a real big issue as well. because when there were staffing issues this time last year the state was able to bring in reinforcements. today they can t bring anybody