wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. and hundreds are still without power. katie, how do things look there now? a new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and they re trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the downtown high rise office buildings and hotels. and you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows they re going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. the cleanup and power restoration efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. more than 500,000 people in harris county here are still waking up in the dark. it s a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. we ve been speaking with a lot of people o
get away from the glass! [background sounds] neil: how would you like to be in the middle of all of that? fox on top of texas after a destructive and deadly storm touch down. thiess seven confirmed dead in the houston area after wind gusts reached more than 100 mile-per-hour. hundreds of thousands still without power, and we re tracking the legal storms as well from the fixation over donald trump s new york hush money trial to the folk on hunter bidens two upcoming trials. will any of it matter to voters in november? and then the storm over my, shall we say, chat with the white house economic adviser jared bernstein after president biden continues to say inflation was 9 percent when he took office. the facts see otherwise, it got nasty, and you ll get to see for yourself. neil: good morning, everybody. happy to have you, i m neil cavuto. let s get right to it with the latest in houston and the fallout from a storm that ended up being a lot worse than earlier thought. l
four people in houston and leaving 1 million people without power. brian: and today, president biden and kamala harris making their appeal to minority voters saying they are set to meet with leaders from black sports and fraternities that s big of them as got a backup plan if the whole v.p. plan doesn t work out. steve: there is the church, and there is the steeple open the doors and there is the pickleball court. ainsley: with all the people. lawrence: second hour of fox & friends starts right now but, remember, mornings are better with friends wake me up before you go, go. don t let me hanging on like a yo-yo wake me up before you go go. [cheers and applause] steve: hey, everybody. as you can see who needs coffee here at the st. paul s cafe here in downtown dallas, which is first baptist and the guy who runs it, everybody knows him. everybody loves him reverend jeffers. good morning to you. good morning and welcome to first baptist. it s great to have
it was intense. it was quick. 80-100 mile-per-hour winds in this area. the water in front of my house is still about knee-deep. i cannot leave with my garage, my car at all. moments after the storm they thought it would be 24, 48 hour recovery. now we are learning there s transmission lines down so it will be days if not weeks. [ ] fox on top of deadly storms bearing down on texas still. houston schools close. folks being told to stay home today is debris and power lines literal the streets. windows from skyscrapers were just blown out. more than 700,000 still knocked out. and we got to deal with the trail of destruction from the hurricane-force winds just setting them. welcome everybody. neil cavuto. fox weather katie byrne in houston on very latest. sometimes it would circa war seen there. reporter: absolutely wild seeing how the downtown has been impact. after serving the damage the national weather service confirms 100 mile-per-hour street line wind gusts a
coast. ainsley is finally ready so i will start the show. ainsley: it s friday. i m running a little behind today. brian: we are live. we did not tape this ahead of time. ugly start. dangerous storms moving through the east, through louisiana after battering texas, killing at least four people in houston and leaving 1 million without power. lawrence: unbelievable. the house oversight committee moving to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt. that s not the craziest thing to come out of that hearing. watch. are your feelings hurt. oh, girl, baby girl. oh, really? don t even play. baby girl? i don t think so. got a little heated between women. brian: i don t think so. carley: we are going to show you all of that. plus, there s the church. there s the steeple, open the doors and there s the pickleball court with steve. is he live this morning checking out the sport that s fueling a faith movement down in your home state of texas, lawrence. law