Century. All right. Fair enough. All right. Thanks, guys. I really appreciate you joining me today. Thanks to All Of You for being here. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now this morning, a race its transformed. One candidate surging in the polls, the other flailing on social media. All as we count down to the democratic convention and hacked Donald Trumps campaign says hostile foreign actors breached. Its Internal Communications and stole information from the campaign. What an anonymous source said to politico about j. D. Vance . The Paris Games are over, but the fight for a metal is not the new twist in the Battle Over Whether American Gymnast Jordan chiles gets to keep her bronze medal. Im sorry. Sure. Aside with Kate Bolduan and john berman. This is cnn new central exactly. One week before the Democratic National Convention in america is waking up to a Race Track thats formed completely, at least for now. New polls show Vice President harris leading Do
Brian its 8 00 on the east coast, it is monday, august 5. Israel bracing for imminent attack from iran and progressive. President biden will meet in the Situation Room. Trey yingst is on the ground, well check in. Steve trey is coming up, veepstakes watch. Kamala harris could announce her v. P. Any moment. I dont care. The problem is Kamala Harris record and policies. Ainsley we were able to sit down with j. D. Vance wife Usha Vance and discussed how their life has changed and who jd is as a family man. There is nothing he cares about more than being there for his kids. He wakes up after a late night of travel, at 6 00 a. M. To make sure they have an elaborate br breakfast. Ainsley i need to do that. Im a terrible mom, i dont do that. Final hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Brian we begin with v. P. Stakes we expect Kamala Harris to announce her Running Mate soon. Ainsley handful of C Contenders met with her yesterday. Steve it was like an audition. Mark meredeth is outside the White
You re watching fox friends first on this friday morning. I m carley shimkus. Ashley: i m ashley strohmier. Todd an jillian are off this morning. Now to the border crisis, homeland security secretary new mayorkas announcing border crossings hit a 21 year high. Carley: griff jenkins is live with brandnew audio recordings that are telling. Reporter: we haven t seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. Secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a fivefold increase over last july. The situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. It is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. Reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. These numbers cannot continue. We cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we re going to make sure that do
Into the public. Tennessee senator phil haggerty and brian kill meet will join u coming up to. The day after a big reversal at the cdc unmasks, they biden ministration may be ready to make a big shift when it comes to vaccines for federal workers. Hi, sandra, happy wednesday peart began sandra smith in new york. President biden says a vaccine mandate for federal workers is under consideration. It is a sharp departure just months after saying he would no make the vaccine mandatory. We have coverage for you thi afternoon. Dr. Marty mcgarry will join us this afternoon. Correspond or petey or dc standing by outside the white house for as. The president says he supports this big update to the cdc guidance that requires masking vaccinated folks in areas of substantial or high transmission, but today he doesn t want to talk about that or about these reports that he may soon require every federal employee to get vaccinated or tested regularly, but. Are you going to require mac vaccines for the
Historic day for space travel. Richard branson going where no billionaire has gone before. Virgin galactic s super sonic space plan the vs ss unity taki them to the edge of space. And here is rachel crane report willing on that breathtaking moment when it detached from the mothership named eve. Reporter: you can hear the crowd cheering behind me. This is that historic moment that richard branson and his team have been waiting for for nearly two decades. And we have release. The engine has ignited. This is the moment that branson and his team have been waiting for. I have to pause, i have to take this in, this is really an i incredible moment. It was an incredible. And it was an hour long journey and a few minutes of weightlessness as well. But the journey to get here was decades in the making. Not only did branson make it happen, but he brought all of us along with him. Experience of a lifetime. And congratulations to everybody for creating such a beautiful, beautiful place. Congratula