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
even know what burisma was. take a listen. nothing was unethical. i later learned of burisma nothing was unethical. here s what the deal. with regard to ukraine. we had this whole question about whether or not because he was on the board, i later learned, of a burisma. devon archer and other of hunter s former associates claimed in recent deposition that the president actually attended a burisma dinner back in 2015 and also, this biden penned a letter to archer in 2011 after the two both attended the same lunch writing, quote: i apologize to the not getting a chance to talk to you at the luncheon yesterday. i was having trouble getting away from hessing president hu. i hope to get to see you again. ps, happy you guys are together. all of this is prompting the house speaker to renew his calls for impeachment inquiriy. this is about hunter biden. this is about paying to play for the biden family. because the money goes to nine
hunter s former business associates claimed in a deposition that president biden actually attended a burisma dinner back in 2015. biden also penned a letter to archer in 2011 after the two attended the same lunch writing, quote: hope to get a chance to see you again soon with hunter. these new developments are giving even some democrats pause. if hunter biden committed crimes, hunter biden should face justice and accountability for those crimes which, by the way, is a sentence that i have heard very few republicans say about donald trump for much more massive crimes. the president is now heading out west to highlight his green energy agenda and the climate crisis. the white house is hoping to avoid answering more questions about his son, at least until thursday when the president comes back here, bret. bret: gillian turner live in the white house briefing room. gillian, thank you. stocks were up today ahead of key inflation data. the dow jumps 407 and a half. the s&p 500 gained 4