Todd it is day two of the dnc in chicago. Democrats are rallying around Kamala Harris as Joe Biden officially passes the torch in a foeft postPrime Time State Of The Union like speech. President biden for 50 years, like many of you, ive given my Heart And Soul to our nation. Ive been blessed A Million times return, i can say im more optimistic about the future than i was when elected as 29yearold united states senator. God bless you all and may god protect our troops. [cheering] carley Hillary Clinton and aoc taking the stage and sidestep Kamalas Issue Instance on the issues. You are watch ing Fox And Friends First on tuesday morning, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Get to Brooke Singman with biggest moments of the night and big names taking the stage today. Brooke day two of the dnc will soon be underway. Vice President Harris and Tim Walz will be in milwaukee at pfizer forum, where the rnc took place last month. President biden took the stage past Prime Time, after a delay and
Across louisiana. And that number grows by the minute. Heres President Biden a short time ago at fema headquarters. This is going to be a devastating, devastating hurricane. A lifethreatening storm. So please, all you folks in mississippi and louisiana, Mississippi And God knows, maybe even further east, take precautions. Listen. Take it seriously. While New Orleans dodged a direct hit, The Big Easy is not out of the woods. Right now, fears of Storm Surge, especially in communities where residents did not have a chance to get out. Now hunkered down, waiting this storm out. As officials keep an eye on the new levee system, reenforced after katrina, which as of this moment, are holding. We have a team of correspondents stationed across the storm zone. Lets start with our own Sam Brock before us in Baton Rouge. Sam, what are you seeing there . Reporter so heres whats interesting now. As you were referring to a second ago, the fact that you would expect at this point the storm is over land
Pfizer makes clear to them that kids 12 to 15 prime to take the pfizer vaccine. What it means, bottom line, is that american kids aged 12, 13, 14, 15, could end up being eligible to be vaccinated by The End of this week which is fantastic news. In terms of the country being able to just love more normally, vaccinated kids in schools, in sports, in summertime activities. Families being able to be together in multi generational ways without worrying that unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an unsymptomatic case of covid might infect Grandma Or Grandpa to devastating effect or relatives who cant be vaccinated for some reason. This should fix those worries for families with kids ages 12 and up. But again, the Cdc Advisory Meeting is going to happen in the next couple of days but the fda saying today, from their perspective, they are ready to go. That means as soon as that Cdc Decision is in, vaccinations of 12, 13, 14, 15 year olds could begin immediately when that happens within just
Hopes eakin, he was Chief Economist of economic advisers under president george w. Bush. Peter, i have to turn to you first, how is the White House spinning this . We will be hearing from President Biden at 11 30 today. So you will get the first formal reaction when he speaks then. But based on my conversations there, i think its likely the president will use this as a window to try to reinforce the argument he feels the american jobs plan needs to be passed going forward, insisting neareds needs to be done. Officials insist that all along they knew this recovery would happen with b. I. P. S and starts and would make the case that the american Rescue Plan, Coronavirus Relief Plan with nearly 2 Trillion was so crucial here. I suspect they will say things like a lot of work is now beginning to happen. Just this week they were accepting applications for the restaurant revitalization fund. Thats close to 29 billion. That money begins going out over the course of the next couple of weeks. H
Pandemic, and dealing with variants. I want to lay out our strategy to tackle these variants. When we arrived in january, we put together a 200page Plan on how to tackle every element of the pandemic, from vaccinations to inequities to school reopenings to testing. Part of any plan is tackling the things you cant fully prepare for. But which emerge as critical threats. All roads to defeating the pandemic go through the path of successfully and quickly vaccinating the country. To date, 125 million americans have been vaccinated, and millions more each day. But even as we accelerate our efforts to get shots in arms, more dangerous variants are growing, causing increases in cases with people without immunity. This increases the urgency for you to get vaccinated, but it also requires us to intensify our efforts to quickly test for and find genetic sequence of the virus as it spreads. Now, we started despite having worldclass researchers and dedicated state and local public health leaders,