pete: it is the 7 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend starting with this, secret service director kim cheatle set to be grilled on capitol hill tomorrow amid if mounting scrutiny over the trump assassination attempt. rachel: this as the former president makes an emotional return to the campaign trail, rallying battleground michigan alongside j.d. vance in the first public event since the attempt on the president s life. let me begin this evening with a very special thanks to americans nationwide for your extraordinary the outpouring of love. will: meanwhile, president biden still recovering from covid in delaware, but there may be no recovery for his campaign as even more if democrats urge him to drop out. and you ll never guess who at least one columnist is float being as a replacement. the second hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 7:00 here in new york city, and you re looking at a beautiful picture of myrtle b
deal with isis as it arrives. but we re not going to be in any combat mission. meantime, the white house says the number of people getting vaccinated is on the rise after weeks of slowing down. but there is concern that the increasing number of covid-19 cases has led the veterans affairs department, new york city and now california to require their employees to get vaccinated. california governor gavin newsome joins us live in a few minutes to talk about why he made that decision. and some of the democratic members of the texas legislator that are pushing congress to act on voting rights will testify before a house committee later this week. we ll check in on their progress with texas state representative jasmine crockett. but we begin this hour and kick off our coverage with abc news national political reporter, new york times national political correspondent end lisa layer. they added adam kinsinger to the committee. he joins liz cheney. can we expect more republicans t
weather is approaching some western parts of the uk, particularly the south west here through the night, this is showery rain, showery means on and off, one minute it is quiet, then heavy then quiet again, but the vast majority of the country early on tuesday morning, pretty clear, with some morning sunshine. now here is the problem with tomorrow. so, low pressure often brings strong winds but this is large and there is very little wind in it, and that is not necessarily a good thing, because with the strength of the sun all of the moisture, will see big showers forming inland. some will be thunderstorms, some will be downpours as well and there is very little wind to push this round, so where the storm forms it dumps that rainfall and that leads to flash flooding, but flash flooding the localised. sud, most of us don t get it. it will be in spots round the country. on wednesday there will be more of a breeze in the southern half of the uk and the centre of that low transfers
man, oh, man he makes it look so easy. branson and his crew now back on of planet earth after a near picture perfect landing. he is expected to speak any moment now. we will of course bring you his remarks when he steps up to the microphones in new mexico. virgin galactic plans to offer private flights to space beginning of next year. jeff paul live at the site just miles from the launch pad and where they landed. man, jeff, what an exciting, historic day this has been. what was it like? eric, you can probably hear a celebratory mood here in truth or consequences, new mexico, a very hot day but also a very exciting one. years and years of work finally paying off for require ingalactic owner, richard branson, getting to that milestone, getting to space after working at it for so long. to of day started a little rocky with a 90 minute delay due to weather what happened overnight but that was really the only hiccup in the operation. everything else went at planned. you see the
state fire marshal saying crews are using high-tech tools, battling conditions made tougher by mother nature. rain creates challenges, lightning creates challenges. shifting in the rubble creates challenges. if the rubble shifts we have to stop because you can t take chances with people s lives below. we have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news. that is excruciating. we have them coping with the news that they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope against hope that they will. they re learning that some of their loved ones will come on out as body parts. this is the kind of information that is just excruciating for everyone. in april, two months ago, the president of the tower association sent a letter to residents warning the building was in need of repairs. the letter urged residents to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems in the building. the condo board president wrote the concrete damage to the buil