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675,000 estimated to have been lost in the 1918 flu pandemic. this is now the deadliest disease and mass death event in u.s. history. today there was hope of shielding young children from the virus, that is parents who are willing to give them the vaccine. pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children 5 to 11. and there has been heat on the travel ban over foreign visitors. the white house will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to fly into our country in november. and as mentioned, biden will make his debut at the general assembly tomorrow. this is at a time after the afghanistan withdrawal and when france is angry at us. we are committed to those alliances, the threat of leveling the economic playing field. those are all issues we will continue to work with our partners on. the president s ambitious push to rebuild the infrastructure and safety net is running into the realities of the house and senate, back in session for the first time since july. looking to ....
we closed in on a go time. on saturday. a veteran reporter from the los angeles time was there at the scene. to witness the peoples streaming in. to witness the huge crowds converging. ready to make themselves heard. that reporter, doug melbourne from the l.a. times, was able to capture the scenes. as we closed into that noon hour. he captured the scene this way, at 11:33 am anne yes that was. it. and this isn t just a shot that was taken in the wrong direction. or a shot that was taken of the sidelines. if you look where we re reporting out there, that s the big screen. that is the stage. that s the center of the main event. less than a half hour before the whole thing was supposed to kick off. worries everybody? now, to be fair, this was 11:33 am. things did fill out a little bit by the time noon actually rolled around. but, not by that much. this was a s biggest the whole thing ever got on saturday. this was around 1 pm. about an hour into it. when there is a big mar ....
reaction to the maskless emmy awards. fox & friends first starts right now. todd: you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. gabby petito s father posted an em mention nail tribute after emotional tribute after a body is covered in the wyoming national park. todd: carley shimkus has more. reporter: todd, jillian, the petito family attorney is asking the media a not to contact gabby s family as they grieve the loss of their daughter but you re right, we are hearing from gabby s father who posted that touching tribute on social media that shows gabby as an angel, he wrote hashtag gabby petito, she touched the world. this is after the denver fbi agent, charles jones, confirmed a body was found in grand teton national park that fits the description of the missing 22-year-old. i would like to extend sincere and heart-felt condolences to gabby s family. we ask that you all respect the privacy as they mourn t ....
a person of interest in this case. his parents taken into an fbi van for a time today. and abc news tonight cob tanning a previous search warrant with the final text message from gabby petito s phone to her mother. the alarming images from the texas border tonight. the white house calling the images horrific. what were some border patrol agents doing? and all of this as the biden administration now puts my grants on flights back home to haiti. kenneth moton from texas tonight. the school shooting tonight in virginia. police racing to the scene. students locking doors, hiding in closets. and there is late words coming in on the suspected shooter. president biden set to address world leaders at the u.n. as the u.s. now eases covid restrictions on international travel into the u.s., allowing fully vaccinated visitors from more than 30 countries. and questions tonight about the world leaders coming to new york city for this. will they be fully vaccinated? new york cit ....
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices beca ....