nato allies. just minutes from now will take you there. he faces new calls to step aside now from a growing number of frustrated democrats publicly warning that biden is going to lose to donald trump come november. hello, everyone. this is outnumbered. i am kayleigh mcenany with emily compagno, also joining us carley shimkus, fox business anchor and cohost of the bottom line on fox business, dagen mcdowell. fox news contributor and host of the david webb show, david webb. top democrat lawmakers, allies, and now even george clooney, a big fund-raiser for president biden, pressuring biden to get out of the race. clooney just out with this bombshell guest essay in the new york times. he writes it s devastating to say it but the joe biden i was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the joe big effing deal joe biden of 2010. he wasn t even the joe biden of 2020. he was this the man who witnessed at the debate. we are not going to win in november with this president
critically low on i.c.u. beds. patients underwhelmingly vaccinated. yesterday in florida alone, more than 2,000 people were hospitalized can covid. 2,000. just one state in one day. florida also now leading the nation with hospital admissions of children. and here is what is so upsetting. there is a way out. more shots and more eligible arms. ment white house did have this little bit of hopeful news today. and we are seeing results. over the past 24 hours we recorded 864,000 vaccinations, the highest in a day since july 3rd. and importantly, 585,000 first shots. that s the highest since july 1st. moving in the right direction, but not fast enough to stop needless suffering and deaths right now. let s begin with cnn s nadia lomero in baton rouge. nadia, what s the latest there? reporter: ann a the state just updated us on the statewide numbers for covid-19 and it just keeps getting worse and worse by the day. let s dive in. hospitalizations, they re up. people who need t
jillian: we don t like that song anymore. todd: has anybody in america ever heard that song other than on our show? right us honor individual social media pages. i m legitimately curious, crickets. jillian: it is going to be in your box. todd: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. jillian: off-limits. former state department officials say they were warned against pursuing an investigation into covid origins over fears of bringing attention to us funding towards wuhan s biology lab. todd: the former white house coronavirus testing czar speaks out on the lab leak the area. reporter: former state department officials received pushback when investigating covid 19 origins. according to a vanity fair report multiple state department officials say there was an effort to oppose any investigation over fears that might, quote, open a can of worms. that report was confirmed through state department officials. they didn t want to bring unwanted attention to gain o
in paris, workers are finally preparing to begin the huge restoration project. this is one of the thousand oak trees that have been specially selected for notre dame. smaller tree trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters. big ones like this will go to reconstruct the spire. and while the coronavirus pandemic has kept most of us locked down it s given the animal world loads more freedom. we thought that animals for example, penguins in south africa have survived perfectly well, we think. but in fact, when we retreated we discovered that the penguins actually normally would be doing very much better than they have been doing for decades. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the number of people waiting to start hospital treatment in england has reached a record high of 4.7 million people. the figure, from the end of february, is the highest since records began in 2007. there were also nearly 388,000 patients waiting more than a year for non urgent surgery