Floor, The Spaceship has moved upstairs. Will is waiving it in we have carley shimkus. Carley hello. So good to be with you. I think i have been on with both of you guys in boxes. Now we are on the couch together. A little far. A rope i want to be pulling. Pete a lot of pillows in between us. A. Will a lot of pillows and safe distance. Here we are in studio and on the couch back together with you. You got the pillow straightened out. Carley this the first time on fox Friends Weekend is up here on the mezzanine level. Pete correct. Pete little known fact i spent six months up here by myself on the couch at the beginning of all of this. And then will joined me and we were downstairs for six months and now we are here with you. Carley guess where janice is . Pete where . Carley she is at the preakness. We will check in with her because the big Horse Race is today. Good morning, janice, whats going on . Love the hat. Janice thank you, christine moore, of course, made these beautiful hats e
law enforcement. the house ethics committee announced it has launched an investigation into congressman gaetz for a laundry list of potential violations. i ll bet unless he s actually convicted and behind bars, this will be a badge of honor for him. they aren t really coming for me. they re coming for you. i m just in the way. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. beautiful morning here in atlanta, even with the low clouds it still looks pretty, doesn t it? welcome to saturday morning, we re grateful to have your company. gop congressman matt gaetz says, guess what, he s not going anywhere. the florida congressman is defiant in the face of two separate allegations. last night, he denied all allegations of sex trafficking and prostitution. he said this in his first public speech since the allegations came to light. the smears against me range from distortions of my personal life to wild, and i mean wild conspiracy theories. i won t be
as you ve been hearing, the uk, france and the united states have all registered new coronavirus records as the omicron variant continues to spread rapidly around the world. the uk recorded nearly 219,000 new infections in the latest 24 hour period, the highest daily figure so far. prime minister borisjohnson said that despite the huge increase in covid cases there is a substantial level of immunity in the population. but the weeks ahead are going to be challenging and some services will be disrupted due to staff absences. in order to combat this, around 100,000 critical workers in the uk are set to take daily covid tests from january 10 in order to reduce the spread of the virus to colleagues it will be for key industries including food processing, transport and the border force. but business leaders had been calling on the government to cut the self isolation period for people in england who contract covid 19 from seven days to five, in an effort to curb labour shorta
a warm welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where at midnight eastern time tomorrow the us government will run out of money to fund itself, unless congress can agree a last minute deal. if the story sounds familiar, well, it is. it would be the 22 time in the last 50 years, that us government services have had to be shut down because of a budget deadlock in congress. the last time in early 2019 saw a month of widespread disruption to the world s largest economy. erin delmore reports from new york. the clock is ticking. they will need to agree on a deal to fund the federal government passed september 13. the federal government passed september13. right the federal government passed september 13. right now the senate has bipartisan support for a bill but house republicans have rejected it. hardline conservatives calling for deeper cuts and tying any government funding bill to the ongoing issue of immigration and security at the us southern border. house speaker kev