monitoring the vote on hr1. if it s signed in to law it would destroy the integrity of our elections in this country forever. it will institutionalize and pretty much guarantee fraud in the future elections. first, no matter how the biden administration tries to spin it, there is a real and a growing crisis on our southern board. lured by the amnesty promise, loosening of border restrictions there is a surge of new illegal immigrants pouring across the border. many of them are decked out in the full biden campaign gear. i never saw it on the campaign trail but you are seeing it here. some are wearing t-shirts and carrying signs that are saying, biden, please let us in. my of the migrants are unaccompanied minor. last week, 2,000 of the kids were intercepted by the border patrol. according to the d.h.s., a record get this 117,000 unaccompanied children are expected at the border this year. 117,000. of course, the biden administration totally, completely unprepared. now t
power for a very long time. president biden is still insisting his massive stacks and spending plan will lower costs. it is insane state can spend trillions of dollars we don t. have inflation is real. it s alarming, it s going up, not down. running ahead of everyone is jefferson, touchdown. 52 yards to score. steve: 6:01 in the east. we start this hour with a fox news weather alert. president biden is left to survey the tornado damage left in the wake of devastating twisters that have left at least 88 souls dead. so we continue to pray for everyone in kentucky and the other states that are affected and particularly my heart goes out to the governor of kentucky who lost family himself. it s pretty rough stuff. the kentucky governor becoming very emotional on the loss of life at a preference. watch this. they are now up to 74 kentuckyens that we have lost. the age age range 5 months to 86 years. ainsley: more than 100 people remain missing. brian: osha investigat
tomorrow i ll be 18 seconds later. we begin with the breaking news on the pandemic. this omicron variant of covid first hit the united states officially. we can tell you now it is spreading. it has now been formally confirmed and found in three states, california, colorado and minnesota. what do doctors make of this new variant? well, we will ask the doctor who treated the very first omicron case in the united states. he joins us in a moment. as for those three states with the variant, experts view this as a floor. they expect more spread on the way. indeed, the person who has it in minnesota had traveled recently to new york city to a very large anime convention in late november. as it happens, we have a photo. about 50,000 people were there celebrating, discussing, learning, doing all the anime things. and given that crowd and what is known about variants, the mayor of new york says they are operating as if there is already community spread of the variant in new york city
matter he calls private. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in our national lead. just minutes ago we finally learned gabby petito, the 22-year-old woman found dead in a wyoming national park three weeks ago, was killed by strangulation. her death, according to the wyoming coroner, was ruled a homicide. petito was first reported missing more than a month ago after spending the summer travel with her 23-year-old fiance brian laundrie. the couple extensively documented their adventures on social media and stoked nationwide conversation about the tens of thousands of missing persons stories that do not garner such an intense interest. they also brought attention to the issues of domestic abuse and apparently inadequate police training on the matter of domestic abuse. cnn s leyla santiago starts us off from florida where they continue to search from laundrie, the fiance who disappeared after he became a person of interest. cause of death by strangulation an
domestic catastrophes threatening to overw em the president s team. there is a crisis everywhere. critics calling their performance as a national face plant. bill: 30 minutes ago prices are rising at the fastest rate we ve seen in four decades. that after a gdp report that shocked analysts. showed the economy actually shrinking for the first time since before the pandemic. dana: the border crisis looming large. federal judge ruling against the president on his plan to repeal 42. that set back comes as republicans threaten to dhs secretary mayorkas. bill: the president is bracing for a long way in ukraine asking congress for $33 billion additional, $20 billion of that in military aid. moments later russia bombarded kyiv with missiles. the first major attack oon the capital in weeks. live to the white house we begin with alexandria hoff, big job there today. good morning. plenty of issues at home, too. if americans are traig to gauge how concerned they should be about a