[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] pete: will: welcome to fox and friends . middle of the summer. middle of july. cohosts are back on the couch with me. welcome to fox and friends weekend. rachel: we are rested, we ve got the biden tan to make us look good this morning. i went fishing with my son. my brother in law is a fishing get guide, caught a bunch of northerners, the most delicious fish to eat, just a good old wisconsin time, both of us are going to be in milwaukee. pete: i am not a big seafood guy but if you are dining on the coast, good lobster roll intake. good to be here. not a big seafood guy. will: i ve been with you to a seafood restaurant and you ordered a steak. that happens a lot. thanks for holding down the fort for us. we when good to have you back to gather including you as well. president biden took the stage in detr
settled over washington as the city braces for whatever may happen tomorrow. a homeland security memo warns of at least the potential for violence. we also have to say it s totally unclear how many will show up. there are various predictions of fewer than a thousand people, we ll see, but today capitol hill police said they re taking no chances. there have been threats of violence in association with the events for tomorrow, and we have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and that if violence does occur that we can stop it as quickly as possible. we are hearing some chatter. what we re concerned about, i think more than anything, is the possibility of counter-demonstrators an making to this demonstration and there be violence between those two groups. that man, the capitol hill police chief, originally had asked for 100 national guard men to be on stand-by, but he later revised that request after talks with the pentagon and the senate sergeant-in-arm
both houses of congress are in recess. members for the most part are out of town. another major development we are following tonight, a setback in white house plans to make vaccine boosters widely available as soon as monday. today, an fda advisory committee voted against recommending a third dose of pfizer s vaccine for most fully vaccinated adults among us. the panel did hold a second follow-up vote and agreed to recommend boosters for people over 65 and for those at high risk for contracting severe disease during the day long meeting. members said they needed to know more about the impact of these third shots. recommending a third goes to younger people is just not something that i would feel comfortable with at this. point i think we should be concerned with immunity clearly seems to decrease overtime. do we want to wait until more previously vaccinated people get sick? i want to support a recommendation for people over 65, i have a hard time supporting it for anyon
for the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. people who are said to have conquered the world have swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way that herod the great did. saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course for the palestinians, it s a great disaster. the history of jerusalem, a very complicated story. and if you don t know it in its complexity, it s very hard to understand what s going on there today. the past is
in tokyo, and vulnerable communities here at home. and back to the former guy, one of donald trump s close friends busted by the feds and it goes straight back to what was happening inside the trump administration. we ll get to that developing legal story in just a moment, and a lot more on this wednesday, july 21st, but first, willie, let s begin with the very latest on the virus. good morning, mika, the dangerous, highly contagious delta variant as of this morning was responsible for 83% of new covid infections, a full seven months after the first highly effective vaccine became available in this country. hospitals are inundated with a surge of patients who are very sick, and the number of cases is climbing across the country. this latest wave is impacting the most vulnerable states and communities that have low vaccination rates. in a moment, nbc s gabe gutierrez will report from louisiana on why people are deciding not to get the shot. first, miguel almaguer with the la