Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. It is monday, april 26th. Dust off those passports. A European Vacation this summer. Its a possibility after a year of travel being shut down. Theres one camp. You must be fully vaccinated. Andy slavitt tells us vaccines are the only way for americans to get back to normal life. I think were increasingly going to see a world where people who are vaccinated will enjoy a lot of freedoms. They can take a lot of activities with low risks, reunite with families, and cases are going to continue to be there for those who do v not gotten vaccinated again. Vaccinations the key. Were all ready for some normal. As of this morning, nearly 29 have been vaccinated. 42 have received at least one dose. But vaccinations are slowing after peak levels with the average of 3 Million shots per day. And cdc data shows that 8 of people who got the first dose failed to get their second dose on time. Melissa bell is joining us from pari
tried to sell his covid relief plan, he said a short time ago that americans, quote, want everything in the $1.9 trillion package. at the same time the white house is trying to clarify some of the shifting messages of recent days including the president s stance on reopening schools and vaccinations for teachers. let s get straight to the white house right now and kaitlan collins. the president is strongly defending his pandemic stimulus package. update our viewers. reporter: he is. and what president biden said in the oval office tonight is that he doesn t understand how republicans can oppose this plan though we should note they did for the majority since no congressional republicans have actually embraced or signed on or said that they would vote for this bill. but president biden is touting it as integral to his pandemic response and how the next few months will look and how the plan could shape this. but this comes as there are new questions about the white house s emb
washington. president biden is about to arrive at fema headquarters. the president approved a major disaster declaration for florida and spoke with governor ron desantis. you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. today is about identifying the people that need help, who may still be in harm s way, but also beginning the process of rebuilding some of the things that we need. the tropical storm continues to barrel towards the atlantic ocean where it s expected to regain strength and make a second landfall tomorrow along the south carolina coast. right now, tropical storm winds can be felt as far as 830 miles out from the storm. let s go to bring in meteorologist bill karins. this is not over yet. the focus is northeast florida and the second landfall we are expecting in 24 hours. what are you seeing in the latest update? unfortunately, it looks like it s a hurricane when it make landfall when it hits charleston.
the governor talked about how impressed he was. these are dangerous missions. i m grateful for the brave women and men in federal, state and local governments working as one team risking their lives to save others. and we re going to learn a lot more in the coming hours. but we know many families are hurting. many. many are hurting today. and our entire country hurts with them. because it s been all over the country we have seen so many crises. but in florida today, it s the epicenter. we re continuing to see deadly rainfall, catastrophic storm surges, roads and homes flooded. we re seeing millions of people without power and thousands hunkered down in schools and community centers. they are wondering what s going on left. what s going to be left when they get to go home. or even if they have a home to go to. some of the folks have been through this before. but that doesn t make it any easier. it makes their anxiety even higher, in my view. my message to people of florida, ti
will: welcome back. we begin this hour with a fox news alert. egyptian officials say they ve been given a list of the 14 hostages who have set to be released by hamas later today and have given that list to israel. this after 13 were freed just yesterday. joey: some of the hostages reuniting with their loved ones include an israelly boy that turned 9 while being held hostage. that s a beautiful sight. we re going live to alex hogan. good morning. we re expecting more hostages after a largest number of hostages were released yesterday than initially expected and ten foreign nationals working in israel and one filipeno foreign national and 13 expected israeli hostages and you mention, we re seeing some of the first videos come out of really incredibly heart warming reunions and families gathering. ohad, 9 years scold hugging his father running up to him in the hospital and his mother hugging his older brother. ohad turned 9 last month and thousands of people here in israel