idalia dangerously close to being a major category 3. now within about 100 miles of the florida gulf coast where some areas of florida s big bend could get catastrophic 15-foot storm surge. matt finn is live in saint pete, florida as it idalia closes intricate is beginning to look bad where you are. trace, the wind and rain has been very consistent for several hours now. the beach where we are is a barrier island to the tampa bay area. only about a 20 minute drive rest up tampa bay. this is considered zoned a of evacuation area. this is under a mandatory evacuation because of how low-lying this area is. fema and the national weather service in pinellas county officials have been warning that this area could see a 7 to 10-foot storm surge. anybody who remains here at this hour now perhaps faces that storm surge. governor desantis has warned that if you have not evacuated this area now, if you were to dial 911 are called emergency services, they may not be able to respond t
todd: biden administration taking heat as the 2024 election comes into focus. alexandria with more. good morning. alexandria: 61% of registered voters disapprove of president biden handling of the economy. his campaign believes it is phrasing that is the issue. i think that how you ask the question, the question you ask, you will get different answers. you hear people say they are satisfied with their income, they are very satisfied with their job. we think that is very telling. throw the word economy in a broad sense, you get a different response. alexandria: it is clear the president believes using the term bidenomics will help him earn a second term. what issues are hitting them the hardest. listen. gas prices, gas prices suck. a lot of issue with the economy, it s been rough. my main issue is that most politicians are too old. just not more extreme viewpoints, someone about bringing everyone together. just a question of which poison we want to pick and a
college. brian: division 3. ainsley: great, great players. keep kids out of trouble. he has wonderful children. kids on the team call them up my mom is at work can you pick me up? yeah, gotcha. another kid would call, dad is working he can t. i don t have a ride to practice. okay. gotcha. he said it was like the clown car. kids were just coming out. steve: he was the coach not to keep the kids out of trouble. he was the coach to keep him out of trouble. brian: that s true. we will see a little bit more a little bit later. the family oldest brother number one pick of houston. second brother a star at university of binghamton and other two topics in the u.s. you don t see families like this. ainsley: you helped introduce them to the sport. brian: i didn t screw them up. steve: all right. so great job coming over to new jersey. meanwhile, 7:01 here in new york city. the second hour of fox & friends started 1:229. ainsley: we begin this hour with a fox weather a
same day that trump was in court in florida trying to get another one of those cases thrown out and failing also, kamala harris becoming the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion clinic. democrats are keeping this does issue front and center and trying to get republicans on their heels a post-roe reversal. but the question is, will it drive enough democratic turnout come november and striking revelations are in a new book from one of the best source board reporters on those affairs. what former top trump aides are warning that a second term of his could look like including us withdrawal from nato and abandoning taiwan if china invades i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source they say the timing is everything and for donald trump, that might as well be his campaign slogan right now, he s been a day-to-day combat and core to keep pushing his criminal cases until after the 2024 election. and there are significant developments tonight concerning the timing thre
special counsel jack smith against donald trump. in an interview with cnn, mar-a-lago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trump s inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. with loyalty prized above everything. a world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butler s identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbc s request for comment. in his interview last night, butler says he helped trump s co-defendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nation s most sensitive national security secrets. watch. he followed me. he pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. you noticed that he had boxes. oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. that s what i remember. did you have any idea at the time that