Welcome to the lead. Im Pamela Brown in for jake tapper. And we start this hour in the Health Lead and the beginning of a new round of covid shots in the u. S. This afternoon a cdc advisory panel voted to recommend a third round of vaccines for people with weakened Immune Systems. Meanwhile, some of those suffering from the worst of covid have a message for americans yet to receive even their first covid shot. Take a listen. I think everybody ought to try to get it, yeah. If Itll Help prevent you from getting really sick maybe it wouldve kept me from getting worse. This is something that could save your life. Each person there was unvaccinated and got sick with covid. And as Cnns Nick Watt reports, its these kinds of cases overwhelming hospitals nationwide. San antonio we had 26 minutes where the seventh largest city in the united states was without ems units to transport people. Reporter more than 10,000 texans are in the hospital now fighting covid19. In dallas we have zero Icu Beds
reported vip testing list, a live report. that is a lot of dough. this girl scouts set a record for the most cookies sold in one season. fox and friends starts right now. bring on carly. want to have fun girls want to have fun carley: your watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. the story of the day. carley: i love the confetti and the girl scout edition. taking up the girl scout cookies. we start here, president biden pleaded with governors to delay reopening after agreeing with the cdc director s warning of impending doom as covid-19 cases rise. steve: carley: the white house says most adult will be eligible for the vaccine in weeks. reporter: if you plan on getting the vaccine, roll up your sleeves. it is almost your turn. 90% of all adults in the country will be available by april 19th. ten states are opening vaccine eligibility to all adults including right here in new york. if you are 30 or older you
john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
hour. there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. if you are in tampa bay and counties north and south of that it could be something that happens. if you re under an evacuation order. evacuate to higher ground that will be safe from the type of surge and flooding. bill: our fox weather team coverage considers. adam klotz standing by to tell us the latest. dana: first we ll go to phil keating. he is in a beach community a half hour southwest of tampa. sounds like a good place. it is. it is old, classic florida. the time to get out of town is now. no joking around at this point. most of the people in this town have evacuated already leaving it a ghost town. there is hardly any humans within the eye can see. the brass monkey over here, a famous restaurant bar and grill boarded up yesterday and sandbags on the ground. across tampa bay mandatory evacuations began yesterday for all neighborhoods along the coast. the real issue is the bay itself and
sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som