mandating vaccines including building upon existing requirements for federal workers as well as pressing private businesses to mandate shots for their employees. also in the plan, more testing to get a better handle on just how how far it has spread. his speech to highlight vaccinations for children while making an emotional plea to america that getting the shot helps protect children and keeps them in school. all this as the los angeles unified school district, the nation s second largest, is poised to become the first school district in the country to mandate covid vaccinations for students 12 and older. we have a lot going on this morning. lot of stories to cover. let s begin at the white house, cnn white house court jeremy diamond. he s following all this. jeremy, break down what is expected to be in biden s plan. reporter: listen, we re going to hear from the president, unveiling the revamped strategy for combatting the coronavirus. the president is expected today ac
on it. what are they going to propose today. i think the way to think of this speech, in response to changing dire conditions that you mentioned, they re sliding along that continuum that starts with encouragement and ends with requirement a little bit closer to requirement. it was easy in the beginning, when people were flocking to pharmacies to get those vaccines. now you ve got a hard core of reluctant, resistance, some political some superstitious, some based on disinformation and they re trying to get over that. so for example, requirements, hard requirements for federal employees and contractors of the federal government to get vaccinated as opposed to opting out by getting testing. vaccination is by far, i think sanjay will affirm this when you talk to him in a moment, is far and away the most important thing that could be done. there is le additional steps is it the plan, encouraging masking and encouraging testing, health care steps for people to deal with covid wh
. pete: welcome to fox & friends on this labor weekend. lawrence jones is hanging out with us. thank you, pete. we ll let him off the hook with cornhole. we ll do a little later. will: if you were not watching yesterday, lawrence had incredibly embarrassing moment on fox & friends. that was it. lawrence: can we show the footage. will: a responsibility has been laid down. lawrence: it was a no-look pass. we had to go to commercial. this is the real competition. watch this, this is how i really do it. it went in, second try. you missed it i was celebrating right there. rachel: what will insisted with the producers get the one you missed in slow motion. he wanted the moment to celebrate you and. will: i don t think i had to humiliate him. he was doing that himself. lawrence: i was on the ground doing my job, a fellow texan embarrassed me. rachel: you know your friend on the show. will: speaking of embarrassing, president joe biden is taking the weekend off. he is headed t
are in new jersey and at least 4.5 million people are still under flood warnings at this hour as swollen rivers continue to present a danger to so many residents. we ve already seen thousands of people in multiple states being rescued from the high waters. millions of others are now beginning to clean up the debris, clearing out their flooded basements, trying to move downed trees, many of them off of their cars. let s get the very latest, what it looks like today with cnn s polo sandoval. he s live in one hard-hit community in new jersey. hey there, polo. reporter: hey, kate. some of the hardest work is just getting started for so many residents here in new jersey. we ve driven and walked these streets and you see those scenes we ve seen in the past with other similar incidents where you have people putting out their belongings that were destroyed out on the curb and then there were some that lost their homes altogether. you see the house behind me or what was left of the
nearly 5 million are still under flood warnings. still dangerous conditions in a lot of places. at the same time, we re moving into a recovery mode and a cleanup mode. the recovery process for this is going to take months. we now know that at least eight tornados hit multiple states. new jersey was hit with its strongest tornado in 30 years. in louisiana and mississippi where 13 people were killed, hundreds of thousands of others still face fuel shortages, power outages, and sweltering temperatures. the heat index in parts of louisiana will top 105 degrees today. let s start there. cnn s adrian broads is in new orleans, adrian, you re up first. you ve been talking to people and bringing us their stories, desperate for gas and food and some comfort, electricity. describe what you re hearing that they want to hear, what they want to see from president biden. reporter: when president biden comes, they want answers. these are people who are starving for hope. you got to k