and he set a new goal of reaching 200 million vaccinations during his first 100 days. let s go right to alabama for the latest on life-threatening weather. cnn meteorologist derrick van dam on the ground there. what are you seeing? reporter: we have witnessed significant damage across this eagle point community where i am located right now. this is south and east of birmingham. what you re looking at behind me is the tornado that moved through this community just hours ago. you can see some of the shrapnel from the homes behind me. there s also some tiling from roofs. trees have obviously been snapped. there s also been light poles and electrical poles that have been completely taken out. this is just a taste of the damage that is in this area, because in our attempt to report this evening to you guys live tonight, we have been turned around multiple times by local authorities, because they don t want to clog up the roadways within this area trying to do search and rescue o
efforts to change senate rules in order to force his radical agenda. ) todd: did you see this? more people died under president biden than they did president trump. 800,000 people have died. todd: dr. fauci taking a beating during a hostile hearing and a hot mic catches dr. fauci calling one senator a moron. carley: it is suggested biden s education secretary asked for that controversial letter comparing protesting parents to terrorists. more on that. you are watching fox and friends first on this wednesday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: great to be with you, my friend, i m todd piro. we begin with our top story, president biden urging democrats to kill the filibuster to pass their election overhaul. carley: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is left changes rules for their own political gain. griff jenkins is live from washington with more on this speech and what mitch mcconnell has cooking up.ing. quite a lot, carley and todd. he s tired of being q
cardona behind this letter comparing 49ers domestic terrorists. trying to shut down critical race theory. big apple meet with the new manhattan d.a. recall effort. many crazy have a nice day have a nice day have a look around you steve: as we listen to new jersey s own jon bon jovi sing about have a nice day, you are looking at downtown dallas it s partly cloudy and 42. the metroplex is going to be sunny all day and it looks like 4:00 this afternoon they should have a high about 63. welcome to fox & friends, ladies and gentlemen, it is wednesday, january 12th, 2022. and thanks for joining us on this middle of the week show. ainsley: you spent a lot of time there in dallas. your daughter lives there. she went to school there it s such a cool city. we love it in dallas. great shopping great fun and nice people and good food. bribe, how do you feel about bon jovi screaming at you to have a nice day bribe brian we used to have a bon jovi. we don t know what ha
love acceptance speech. now i want to bring in a special guest who is at the state of the union. last night i have with me tonight grammy nominated artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, all around wonderful man, fat joe, nice to see you. hey, laura. what s up? thanks for having me on. i m so glad you re here. i m happy you were in town. you were actually there last night as congresswoman barragan s guest. right in part because, joe, you have been an enormous advocate for a transparent health care system. i mean, you even released a psa with with rick ross, with busta rhymes. others listen to what you had to say. i want everyone to see this. love our nurses, and we need our doctors. but hospitals and insurers rigging a system to make profits off of people that s in struggle is unforgivable. we demand prices and transparency in health care. power to the patients. first of all, you ve got the best beard of everyone we just saw. i m just saying for a second there, don
ditch the other guys and you ll save hundreds. get a free line of unlimited intro for 1 year when you buy one unlimited line. and for a limited time, get the new samsung galaxy s24 on us. 349871, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 987. i m evan perez, a federal court in washington and this is cnn you re. live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start with breaking news. president biden railing against congress for skipping town while russian dictator vladimir putin takes a town this afternoon, biden blamed congressional inaction. the ukrainian military has a withdrawal from a key city and the donetsk region during a call with president says zelenskyy of ukraine moments ago, he once again called out house republicans for refusing to take up the senate s bipartisan foreign aid package saying it s absurd and unethical to walk away from a key us ally ukrainian people fought so bravely and it put so much on the line. the idea that now run out of ammunition to block