now the cdc has dramatically reduced its estimate for how prevalent the omicron variant actually is in the united states. but the president says more covid-related mandates are still possible. watch. will you make a decision? many republican governors say mandates are the wrong way to handle covid. south dakota governor says she will continue to fight them. he doesn t have the authority to put the mandates in place and why south dakota and many other states and governors and attorney generals have challenged the federal government on this authority in court. it will be heard in january. and we ll win because this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people and sometimes the only ones that are left to fight are the governors. either owe update the breaking news with steve harrigan. home of the cdc in atlanta. this white house covid response team meeting comes at a critical time when it comes to numbers. seve
simultaneously pushed to defund police all across america. but tonight, we have some good news in the liberal war against law enforcement. minneapolis the epicenter of the defund police movement has done a complete 180 they have reversed a year of policies defund the police. it includes over $191 million for the police department restoring its funding to nearly the level it held before george floyd was killed in 2020. so, essentially minneapolis is right back where they started from. but, at what cost? in the month that the city council looked to hamstring their own police department, countless lives were needlessly lost in minneapolis including 6-year-old aniah allen who was fatally shot while eating mcdonald s in her family car. or 9-year-old trinity smith whose life was tragically cut short while jumping on a trampoline at her birthday party. these children were the cost of the minneapolis city council chasing a trend, a perverted fad to buy off votes and popularity. how d
carley: you are watching fox & friends first, i m carley carly shimkus. . we have more on the federal response expected from the white house. carley: we begin with caroline shibley live on the ground in mayfield, kentucky. good morning. what are you seeing this morning? just terrible you, ashley and carley. this looks like a movie set. it doesn t seem real. you re seeing a sliver of the devastation behind us. this building collapsed on the truck. you can see a bike behind me. that scene goes on for blocks and blocks, for miles and miles, the city of mayfield, kentucky, absolutely decimated, of course at the epicenter of this, the candle factory that was working an overnight shift, 110 people in there, bodies are in there. the governor is worried the death toll in the site could top 100. one tornado was on the ground, i ve got towns that are gone, that are just, i mean, gone. reporter: some of the tornadoes originated in arkansas and that s where we re hearing stories
meteorologist at the national weather service. our meteorologist in charge, the national weather service in paducah, and we have had several teams out surveying the damage. of course, as you all know it. spans a good number of miles, so it s a lot of ground to cover. but i did do an aerial survey yesterday, and i can tell you that the track is continuous from south of casey in fulton county all the way until at least beaver dam where we finally turned around. so the damage that we have surveyed so is far indicates that the rating is at least an ef3, however, we have more renowned experts on the surveys right now and also experts within the national weather service that are looking at the data, and we ll be looking at possibly upgrading that as well. on behalf of the national weather service, our hearts go out to each and every person that has been affected by this tornado. it not only affects us here locally, but across the entire weather service where we ve had numerous peop
kennedy and in the center seat joining us for the very first time on outnumbered bestselling author and journalist douglas murray. author of the magness of crowd, gender, race and identity. welcome to you, sir. thank you. emily: we are learning from documents just released from the new york attorney general s office that chris cuomo acted as one of his brother s top advisers helping to craft strategy, including critiquing the governor s response to accuser charlotte bennett. here is what he should have said. i have carefully considered ms. bennett s statement and my own conduct. i don t dispute that our conversation was, as she reports, and then ending with i also apologize to the people of new york state who have a right to better conduct for their governor. this will not happen again. and the younger cuomo certainly didn t seem to treat his brother s accusers as crime victims. cnn host working to dig up information on them like anna who claimed the governor grabbed and