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president biden and vice president kamala harris. breaking just this hour, 10 seconds ago, the white house announcing another 7.7 billion student loan bribe i mean handout, just ahead of the presidential election. this is not only new move the campaign is making to get poll numbers up. you are watching fox and friends first on a busy wednesday morning. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the white house is looking to move the dial, trying to with key voting groups is off to a rocky start. lucas tomlinson has details. lucas: good wednesday morning. biden administration announcing another round of student loan relief, releasing this statement which says these 160,000 are people enrolled in the save plan, teachers, nurses or law enforcement or borrowers approved of relief for income driven repayment. this brings total to $167 billion, size of u.s. army budget this year. new fox news poll shows president biden losing support from black and hispanic voters, ....
himself from his critics most important time. this is election inte interference, where is the crime? todd: his legal team will question michael cohen. congressman cory mills joined former president in court and will be here live. keep on rocking. carley: secretary of state blinken playing role of guitar hero rocking out in kyiv, ukraine. his performance is getting mixed review from critics who would like to see end to the war. todd: thousands gather for police week to honor families of fallen officers. i was there and will tell you all about it. you are watching fox and friends first on monday morning, split edition, i m todd piro live in washington, d.c. this morning. carley: good morning, todd and everybody watching now, more on those stories shortly. race for the white house. president biden going on a media blitz today. todd: numbers show former president trump leading in several major swing states. lucas tomlinson joins us live from here in d.c ....
under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterd ....
74 million people are under heat alerts. we re talking temperatures up to 25 degrees above average in some places. and right now, texas is bracing for what was just named the first tropical storm of the season, tropical storm alberto, heading toward the gulf coast. and fast. meantime, out west, those deadly wildfires rage on with firefighters battling that relentless heat, and we have team coverage this morning with nbc s sam brock in galveston, texas, nbc s maya egoland in coney island and we have your meteorologist standing by with your forecast. storm prep is already under way there. this is now tropical storm alberto. what is the latest, sam? reporter: sam, we re having a hard time with your mic. let s work on getting that. let s turn to maya who is here in new york, one of the places experiencing these extreme temperatures. how are people coping, maya? reporter: hey, ana, as you can see behind me, some people are coping by taking a dip in the water, but it ....
until night came. seattle they used pep every spray against crowds and arrested people for destruction. they deface the windows at this starbucks. in los angeles demonstrators were seen smashing windows after police cruiser. the car accelerated and reportedly ran over the protesters. in louie police declared unarmed assembly after protesters blocked a road and forced drivers to turn around. taylor s family receive $12 million settlement. kentucky attorney general refused to let them charge two officers accused of shooting the 26-year-old emt one officer was charged with wanton endangerment for shooting rounds into the apartment next to day losser. back to you. jedediah: thank you very much, marianne. the biden administration addressing influx of illegal i am my grants invading our country but shopped calling it a crisis. griff jenkins in mcallen, texas. reporter: good morning. secretary alejandro mayorkas, say he will address quote the record numbers of migrants arrivin ....