as the nominee. this has been fox news breaking valve breaking coverage. looking at the news of the hour. president biden announcing he will not continue as a democratic nominee. asking donors to give money. drying up for the biden campaign asking to support her. i want to offer my full support to meet the nominee of my party this year. democrats, it s time to come together and beat trump. let s do this. huge earthquake in american politics. we have a change on the democratic side. we have a convention coming up in chicago. it is not entirely clear how things will play out in the week ahead. whether the party will coalesce around vice president harris. it is been quite an afternoon in american politics. my colleague john roberts is standing by. john. i don t know if they have the microphone working or not. apparently, yes, they do. we had some idea that this would happen. reports that he would drop out as early as this weekend. i had thought he may wait until it s over hi
you listen to pentagon briefings they said it is not all going to be fun and games. jillian: you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. todd: i am todd piro, 30 or veteran of the police force & killed outside in fbi building hours after another officer and two federal agents were shot in chicago. jillian: president biden touched down in the windy city. here is more on the meeting between the president and chicago s mayor. reporter: terre haute police say a member of the police department and fbi task force was ambushed and killed in broad daylight wednesday afternoon outside in fbi building, the suspect later shot by another agent and is in custody in the hospital. police have not said what the motive was an are expected to release more details today. it is not a good time to be a police officer in america. this is an example of who they are. we are not bad people. his death, three undercover officers riding in an unmarked car were shot a few hours in
promise to quote, shut down the virus. the president also put some of the blame on his predecessor, former president trump. president biden: let s talk about how we got here. when i took office 10 months we were 10 months into the pandemic. even so we had no, zero, over the counter home tests in the united states, none. this is not like march of 2020. the beginning of the pandemic. we re prepared and we know what it takes to save lives, protect people, and keep schools and businesses open. look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved at the state level. wall street journal editorial board calling president biden out on that saying if this is the way mr. biden is going he should notify the supreme court that he plans to have osha withdraw its overbroad vaccine mandate. that would be consistent with his message monday on a lack of a federal solution. in a few moments we ll speak to dr. marc siegel on the cdc cutting quarantine time in half. let s go to rich edso
u.s. more than 58% of the new cases have been determined to be omicron. that is double the percentage of just one week ago. as you mentioned, economy being hit hard. multiple states including new york, new jersey, massachusetts, hawaii, puerto rico. they re all setting records for the number of new cases in the past week. broadway shows shutting down, number of stores limited business or no business at all. goldman sachs, the bank making the case that as of february it will only allow staff and visitors in the u.s. offices who have the booster shot, not just fully vaccinated, but the booster as well. israel experimenting with a fourth covid vaccine. the experiment with about 150 medical personnel, all volunteers. they might need the vaccine for population in danger, especially the elderly. u.s. medical officials say it s too early to tell whether the u.s. will need that fourth shot. finally, colleges extending winter break. princeton university going a step further not only e
right there on the screen. but not as much as the kremlin clearly expected or hoped. nick paton walsh joins us now live from southern ukraine. nick, what progress, if any, have the russians made in this second phase of their campaign? well, certainly it is unclear if they are seeing that dramatic change in pace and territorial gains that they had advertised ahead of this regrouping and pushing to the donbas. ukraine seems to be on the counteroffensive in some areas and still in this city of mariupol, predominantly under russian control, azovstal steel plant is holding out relentless bombardment, civilians caught inside and i think a sense of this being so symbolic now for ukraine s tenacity here. we spoke to a ukrainian marine who served in the same city, in a different steel plant, taken by the russians and he talked to us about what he endured in the fight there and after he was taken prisoner, injured there. this is how the war ends. but if you told him he was lucky, he