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
a stark difference from antony blinken. she s back at her hotel and followed a dinner with the chinese central bank. this is the most busy day that the secretary had in beijing today which culminated with china s new vice-premier. it was supposed to last for three hours and went more than five hours. in the opening remarks, the secretary pointed to a record number of bilateral trade for the reason for not decoupling and added this. i also believe that the united states and china should seek a relationship of healthy economic competition that is not winner take all, but with a fair set of rules would benefit both. and the trade deficit heavily favors china. the readout from the secretary says that she raised concerns and it was a candid, constructed and comprehensive meeting. the new vice-premier took appointed approach in the beginning of the meeting and even mentioning quotes some airships happened causing difficulty in the relationship. authorized by president xi jinp
international city. i was president of the u.s. conference of mayors and in my year and a half as president of the conference of mayors, i not only traveled across america but i traveled across the world and built relationships in the middle east with middle east leaders. i went to asia and, of course, created relationships with leaders in our own hemisphere so, yes, i think i have equal public you know, foreign policy experience with many of the candidates that are running for president. in the course of a long presidential candidacy you are going to have stumbles and make mistakes. what is important that you own up to it, get better, prevent it from happening in the future and you grow. i think, you know, as president, as mayor, as governor, in any public or private sector position, you re not perfect. but you get better and, of course, you articulate your vision in a better way going forward. bret: mayor, the debate stage starting to get set as we close in on august 23rd, the g.
hampshire saying how she would do things differently. to andrea hoff in d.c., to talk about the 2024 campaigns. good to see you, alexandria. and nikki haley revealed she s met the republican national committee s donation criteria to make it to the debate stage in milwaukee. they must have unique donors in territories she says she s received 150 donors from all 50 states. she s spent a lot of time in the granite state and last month as well. another debate qualifiers, must hold at least 1% in national polls. according to fox news polling, former president trump holds 34 point lead over his closer competitor ron desantis. in iowa he emphasized under the