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
Riley gaines has told fox news bottles are being thrown. Protesters are spitting in peoples faces. Profanity being yelled at children. Severe storms now being blamed for at least two deaths in the southeastern united states. More than a million homes and businesses have lost power, possibly tornadic activity across the south. There is danger out here. Trees in the middle of the road. Virtually all Commodity Prices are rising right now. Gas prices, up 30 cents in the last month. Diesel is up 34 cents. I am so tired of feeling helpless as a parent but there is a difference between struggling and drowning. Ainsley we begin this hour with this. President biden is on the road in arizona today. But he cant shake criticism of his sons growing scandals. Brian right. Just ignores it. His trip out west comes as we learn hunters long time Business Partner visited the Obama White House and vps residence much more than previously reported. Steve Gillian Turner joins us live from the white house whe
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ainsley: we are back with a fox weather alert. at least two people are dead as severe storms are sweeping across the eastern u.s. more than 50 million americans were under tornado and thunderstorm watches with thousands of flights grounded nationwide. fox weather multi media journalist katie berne is live in maryland where thousands are still without power. hey, katie. good morning. yeah. this is the kind of scenes we are seeing all over the east coast this morning. downed power lines, electric poles, trees. here police about up late in the night rescuing 30 adults and 14 kids trapped in cars just like this. either surrounded by live wires or wedged under some of these ppole that s see. everyone is out safe now. this stretch will stay closed until crews were able to clear what we believe is about 30 high
hvoltage poles that remain down. these hit northeast where we are but also to the southeast killing two people. tragically a 15-year-old boy in south carolina was hit by fallen tree according to the anderson county coroner s office. police in alabama say man in his 20 s died after being struck by lightning. the weather also led to ground stops at least 10 major airports and these delays will push a lot of people s flights to today, which means it will be a busy day at the airports on top of already busy summer travel at peek we know a million americans lost power as focus shift to power restoration. those numbers have improved. the maryland governor just arrived in town to assess the damage and the work that s ahead of them. guys? ainsley: gosh, katie, that is terrible. the little boy the tree fell on top of him you said he died the one in anderson county? yeah. the coroner s office was able to tell us a little bit more