Fredricka whitfield. We start this Easter Sunday with the race to vaccinate and efforts by Health Officials to ward off a new covid surge this at a time when americans are gathering to celebrate the holiday. Churches like st. Patricks cathedral in new york seeing long lines of people waiting to get in to attend mass at 50 capacity. Theres reason for optimism, more than 4 million vaccinations were administered in the u. S. On friday, setting a new record, and bringing the sevenday average past 3 million a day. However, the average of new cases is rising above 60,000 once again. And as the u. S. Closes in on 555,000 deaths from the Disease Health experts warn we are not in the clear just yet. At this time we really are in a Category 5 Hurricane Status with regard to the rest of the world. At this point we will see in the next two weeks the highest number of cases reported globally since the beginning of the pandemic. In terms of the United States were just at the beginning of this surge.
Everything, he was eating and dining out at the most expensive restaurant. A professional golfer breaks down in tears while telling his dad he qualified for his first pga tournament. I made it. [sobbing] live from New York City and kansas city, missouri where right now they have 66 degrees and some drizzle. They are going for a high of 70. Ladies and gentlemen, you are looking at the best city in america for barbecue. Ainsley how far away from that city did you grow up . Steve 180 miles. Ainsley very specific. Steve i say barbecue. They have great barbecue there. My wife and i kathy had our Rehearsal Dinner at Gaetz Barbecue in kansas city. Ainsley vinegar based or mustard based. Steve neither. Red based. Its great. Brian its fantastic. The rehearsal went well because it worked out. If things go well we might have that Cookout On July 4th that we were hoping for. We could use some of that barbecue. Ainsley maybe, maybe. Dont have to wear a mask now. Brian outdoors alone vaccinated. Fan
When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
Are taking over today with the beautiful Carley Shimkus in the center. Carley thats right. I had forgotten both of your names not that i forgot your last name but i forgot that today is a jones sandwich. Love that lawrence, i was off yesterday. I watched fox friends from home. You did a great job. Yesterday weirdly felt like saturday. Today feels like monday. Its neither of those days. I believe its thursday. I feel like the week between christmas and new years everybody is confused what day it is. Joey, im not alone on that front. Joey not at all. Its a gray day, i dont know what its like for you guys up there but it was raining so glad on the way in today. Im glad i got here safe and ready to have a couple of great hours with you guys. Carley three hours to go. Big breaking news last night. We begin with a Fox News Alert. Guilty of five of six counts. A jury convicting Jillane Maxwell of Sex Trafficking, recruiting and grooming underaged girls for Jeffrey Epstein. Todd piro is live w
But a small and significant mandate that could still throw things off track. They said they dont want to see republicans shut down. We hope cooler heads will prevail. If there is a shut down, it will be a republican antivaccine shut down. And the House Rules Committee is holding off on The Con Tempt Referral that passed unanimously on wednesday night. I will speak to Committee Member zoe lofgren. We start a jake ward and the coronavirus. Antonia hilton, and dr. Michael osterholm. Jake, i will start with you. You spoke with the professor that helped lead the response in the bay area. What are they learning there. As you know San Francisco add a very robust response to the pandemic and is blessed with facilities like the university of San Francisco. Once this travel started to feel symptoms, the travel reached out to the San Francisco Department Of Health and said i have been in south africa, i know the omicron variant is there, and that persons sample wound up here and within about five