But the taliban is warning the u. S. Will face consequences if troops stick around past the 31st deadline, calling it a red line. And later this hour, the president will join an emergency meeting with world leaders to talk about all this. They re expected to put pressure on the president to extend with their own citizens as well as tens of thousands of americans and our afghan allies still scrambling to get out. And growing fears of more violence around the airport. 20 were killed in the past week. The u. S. Evacuated 63,000 in july. Geoff bennett is at the white house, courtney kube at the pentagon, we start with ken delanian. What do we know about the cia meeting? sources tell me that the cia director welcome burns met face to face with the taliban de facto leader in what amounts to the highest level contact between the biden administration and the taliban. The irony is that he is a man the cia helped to capture and jail in 2010, he was kept in pakistan eight years. During that time,
Let s start with the handling of the pandemic. Remember two weeks to slow the spread and then that two weeks became two months and threatening six then a whole damn year. And then there was this. Stay safe by washing your hands and covering your cough and staying home if you are sick. Masks do not work for the general public in preventing them from getting controversies. Lawrence: then a few months later they changed their mind saying that they were trying to stop a run on ppe when it came time to reopen schools, the federal government gave states the cover to keep them closed. Even when we knew it was safe for our kids to return. Then they lied to us saying they didn t cave to the teachers unions on reopening guidelines only to have the head of the union come out and admit they did just that. How about immigration? for months the biden administration got up on the podium and told us that there was no crisis at the border when we could see for ourselves it was exact opposite. And now m
Fox and friends first starts right now. Todd: you will be singing this next time you go to chickfila, pick one. Jillian: will we go on with this? it is a big deal. In general. Todd: we had a good run, let s close it up. No more chickfila songs. It is really good. Jillian: good with french fries? todd: all of them are good with everything. The note you just gave me. Good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Jillian: some serious news, colonial pipeline research operations 5 days after being asked suspended operations. People still face supply shortages across the east coast, griff jenkins joins us as the white house tries to minimize the impact. They are trying indeed. The pipeline is open but prices are soaring, people are panic buying and tempers are flaring, check this out, a fight breaking out in north carolina. A man and woman throwing punches, both arrested for fighting over fuel as more gas stations close. 69% of north carolina, 52% of virginia, 40
Dana: violence in the middle east escalating as israel trades rockets with palestinians. And iran backed hamas. Bill: the crisis at the border no sign of letting up as migrants stream into the u. S. Cdc under fire from numerous fronts over these conflicting and confusing guidance measures we ve heard by the day. Dana: in a moment a live report from the white house and senator mike lee will join us to react. Let s begin with the gas shortage in the southeast where the cyberattack led to panic at the pump. Jonathan serrie live from atlanta. What does it look like this morning? good morning. Right now we re at a qt station in atlanta and there is a steady clientele moving in and out of the pumps here. This station still has diesel and regular. We were at a different qt yesterday and when we arrived they were out of premium and mid grade. After an our of our arrival they ran out of gas all together. I checked back this morning and they were still out. This particular qt still has regular a
biden administration, if you ve been watching the new no doubt know by now, this is also a tense night in the twin cities, already on edge of course because of the trial of derek chauvin, happening just about ten miles away, tonight a dusk to dawn curfew is in effect amid the second night of protests, after police in the minneapolis suburb of brooklyn center just north of the city of minneapolis shot and killed a black man at point blank range during a traffic stop over the weekend. last night, demonstrations were followed by looting and violent confrontations with police officers, national guard members called out to patrol the streets. the anger and grief erupted after 20 year old dante right was shot and killed during a traffic stop on sunday afternoon as police tried to arrest him for an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. officials released body camera video of the shooting earlier today, our usual fair warning, it s disturbing. [inaudible] taser, taser, taser. i just sho