demand answers. todd: and there s this. definitely no great pleasure to call out democrats, i was a democrat. todd: did you see this, a hollywood actress and former democrat throwing her support behind republican gubernatorial candidate larry elder, the stunning allegations that is made as voters prepare to head to the polls in california s recall election. good morning, you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m jillian mele. todd: i m todd piro. the fight against the president s vaccine mandate heating up as republican governors vow to challenge the order. jillian: lauren blanchard is live with the backlash as new york city begins enforcing its own mandate. reporter: the list continues to grow by the day, the governors say the vaccine mandates are unconstitutional and an attack on personal freedoms. we have had people that have been working hard for months and years, throughout the whole time, and now he wants to cast them aside. he s got no a
scientists who refuted the lab leak theory, 26 of the 27 scientists had funding connections to researchers in china. did he get another one? lindor again. what a memorable night wrapping up the subway series. steve: good morning everybody in washington, d.c. this is your 6:01 wake-up call right now. it s 72 in new york and 72 in the district of columbia where today they are going for a high of 90 degrees. look who is here? we have rachel in for ainsley. brian: you didn t work enough over the weekend. rachel: i didn t work enough. steve: i think today is ainsley s daughter s first day of school. rachel: good for her. steve: anyway, good to have you. rachel: thank you, always a pleasure to fill in for ainsley. brian: still dealing with the legacy of 9/11 saw some of those tremendous features look back 20 years seems like 20 minutes ago. still dealing with the legacy fox & friends because of where we are right now what happened. attacks came from afghanistan plotted an
protests, using force and the role of encounters with police. and federal laws, and a measure named off george floyd still being negotiated in washington. the president wants to sign the bill tomorrow. but a joint statement, we are still working through our differences on key issues. you can bet that s true. the police reform bill, one of several items on the president s list. there is the $4 trillion infrastructure, and a voting rights measure, both up against formidable opposition. today, the white house was asked about these goals. we will assess internally. and where it goes from here. the george floyd act, he is encouraged there is on going progress, and there is a sense from negotiators there is a path forward. now, this bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate 1/6, the riot, and insurrection, now in the senate where a vote could take place by the end of the week. republican support remains rare and spars. i will bring the bill forward soon. i m sorry
thanks so much for joining us. at this hour, the united states is making incredible gains in the fight against the coronavirus. by virtually every measure, america is heading in the right direction. j ust in time for memorial day weekend. and the unofficial kickoff to summer. st new cases down 56% in the last month. the lowest level since last june. deaths down 23% in the last four weeks. that is a lowest they ve been since last july. hospitalizations also down nearly 30% over the last month. and on the vaccine front, the u.s. is hitting a new milestone. nearly half of the entire population has now received at least one dose. the nearly 40% of americans are fully vaccinated. but the numbers of vaccine doses administered each day has fallen from more than three million at that high point a month ago to 1.8 million right now. but overall, these trends show that we re reaching the long sought hope on the horizon. that always felt just a little bit out of reach. but really it d
holocaust. and the u.s. is reeling from a deadly weekend that with a dozen a dozen mass shootings as gun violence is surging across the nation. let s go straight to alexandra field. she s joining us from new york right now. alexandra s america s re-opening is on an even faster track right now just days before the unofficial start of summer. reporter: a story told by numbers across the country and you have half the population having received one dose of vaccine. in four states they re reporting about half the population has been fully vaccinated and perhaps most significant of all the number that tells the story of how effective these vaccines are, six states over the past week reporting fewer than one daily death on average. . it s the feeling sweeping across the country. it s time for us all to be together. new york city s public schools will fully re-open for in-person learning by the fall. welcome back to school! los angeles schools announcing the same plan. s