Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
are several that have made it, seven. you have got vice president pence and asa hutchinson former governor of arkansas that they meet the polling aspect of it but not the fundraising aspect. you are are you meeting the fundraising aspect? we have. yes. we met the fundraising aspect which is 20 different states with 200 contributions and today we are announcing that we hit the 40,000 total contribution threshold so, yes, we have met the fundraising flesh hold. we have met one of the three pollinpolling thresholds we polt 1% in iowa. having the volume to tell my story and talk about the vision for the future of the country is what is going to give me the volume to poll at 1% at the very minimum in two national polls and another state poll which we hope to have in new hampshire, soon. once we meet that threshold on august 23rd, we will be on equal footing with 8 or 9 candidates
raise for that lifeblood to keep the lights on. you have to continue to fund raise and he doesn t have that problem. but he has another problem because he says he ll fund his own campaign. there s a contribution threshold if you re going to make the debate stage. how does he plan to qualify for that threshold? it s a really good question. because we know that other campaigns have had to put a lot of resources and frankly strategize on how they ll hit the donor thresholds to qualify for the debate stage. our colleague reached out the national democratic campaign they haven t gotten back to us if it s possible for bloomberg to qualify for the debate statements. when the candidates stop being on the stage, even candidates who they like if they re not on the debate stage it really does call into question in voters minds whether or not they re viable in terms of that electability argument that we talk about. so it s important for bloomberg to be on that stage and right now we don t kno