Or discrimination as crc to try to make it toxic. Neil: foul by the head of one of the nation s largest teachers union to defend the controversial curriculum in your kids classroom and in court if need be. Fox and friends first on wednesday starts right now. Jillian: you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Todd: we begin in florida tracking tropical storm elsa after hammering key west be storm barreling toward tampa bay with strong winds and heavy rain. Jillian: it will make landfall later this morning. In clearwater beach, florida what is looking like? reporter: we are experiencing relative calm, the other bands of heavy rain and strong windss earlier this morning but some wind but no rain. Make no mistake emergency personnel in pinellas county are not out of the woods yet. They are monitoring storm surge. We are approaching high tide so conditions are right for that. They are expecting at least a couple of feet of storm surge. Elsa has already dumped a ton of rai
three hours. afterwards the two presidents held separate news conferences but hit some of the same tones and themes, mutual respect and optimism tempered by realism. i did what i came to do. the bottom line is i told president putin we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. i made it clear to him that i believe. consequences of that would be devastating for russia. i don t think he s looking for a cold war with the united states. president putin seemed to be looking for the right category for mr. biden, among the four u.s. presidents he has met with during his 20 years leading russia. translator: he is very balanced, professional man, it s obviously clear that he is very experienced and it seems to me that we did speak the same lan language. certainly doesn t imply that we must look into each other s eyes and find a soul or swear eternal friendship. our chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live in geneva. good morning. you v
Washington to a number of stalled agenda items and big hurdles ahead and pushing them through congress. On the table for the president, infrastructure, voting rights and police reform. There may be glimmers of hope on some of these big ticket items but there s one major road block, it appears, for the president and other joe, senator joe manchin. Let s go to senator lauren fox on capitol hill. I don t know if it s fair to say it s just joe manchin. It may be other democrats, too, that won t fall in line unless joe manchin does. But where are we on these big three big ticket items that the president comes home to? well, i think you make a very strong point here which is that it is not just joe manchin standing in the way of some of these key agenda items. However, joe manchin is very central to one big fight that the president wants to push through. And that is this issue of voting rights. If you remember, democrats on capitol hill are looking to try to vote next week on a bill known as
Welcome to our viewers in united states and all around the world, it s tuesday, june 1st. So how far are you willing to go to protect the vote? that s the question some democrats are asking this morning. In texas, democrats in the legislature there blocked a new restrictive voting bill by essentially walking out. Depriving the republicans of a quorum needed to pass the bill. Now that victory could be temporary as the republican governor greg abbott will soon call a special session to make it law. But some democrats are around the country pointing to texas, this is what we need to do, pull out all the stops to keep these laws from passing. And president biden, they suggest, isn t doing enough to help. Now for his part the president did condemn the texas bill as an assault on democracy, calling it, wrong and unamerican. And he offered up this warning democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. President biden also called for a federal voter protections, which are cur
And russian president vladimir putin in geneva. We ll break down what you need to know. Why are american workers are worried and stressed out? brandnew poll reveals about how people really feel about their professional lives. The momentous bidenpollutants, but first, it s the economy. White house correspondent kevin corke focusing on higher prices you re paying and where they are expected to go from here. Consumers and investors began their morning with a flurry of government economic data for the month of may pointing to a bumpy u. S. Recovery including a 6. 6% spike in producer prices in the latest 12 months and a 1. 3% drop in retail sales. That s a big number. Between may 2020 and may 2021, prices up 6. 6%. The biggest jump recorded since the bureau of labor statistics started collecting data in november of 2010. The price index rising consistently since last september. All of this is happening is a new poll reviews motors pin most of the blame of the rising inflation on joe biden.