after the biggest protest in decades. good to have you with us. voting rights in the u.s. are front and center today with a major address from president biden and an old fashioned texas standoff over new election restrictions. white house press secretary jen s psaki offered this preview. to lay out the moral case why it is a form of suppression and silencing and he will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of americans to vote against the onslaught of voter suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory that culminated in an assault on our capitol. and meanwhile democrats flew to washington late monday, and that are absence would deny republicans a quorum and keep them from voting on new restrictions. dianne gallagher has more. reporter: there are two separate bills that were introduced in the special session, and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to the voti
works be a solution to guarding against influence peddling? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with the health lead today and a statistic that health professionals cannot stress enough at this stage of the pandemic. take a listen. the data that s hitting you right between the eyes is that 99.5% of all the deaths to covid-19 are in unvaccinated people. again, almost all of the covid deaths in the u.s. are among those not vaccinated. this as covid cases are starting to explode in the united states. right now in the u.s. on average daily cases are up 47% in just one week. notably in the regions with low vaccination rates. and health experts say it is the aggressive delta variant driving that spike. so what to do about it? well, health experts insist stepping up vaccinations will surely help. what s not helping? those in politics and the media still trying to score points off a pandemic as cnn s athena jones reports. reporter: america s progress figh
floor, the spaceship has moved upstairs. will is waiving it in we have carley shimkus. carley: hello. so good to be with you. i think i have been on with both of you guys in boxes. now we are on the couch together. a little far. a rope i want to be pulling. pete: a lot of pillows in between us. a. will: a lot of pillows and safe distance. here we are in studio and on the couch back together with you. you got the pillow straightened out. carley: this the first time on fox & friends weekend is up here on the mezzanine level. pete: correct. pete: little known fact i spent six months up here by myself on the couch at the beginning of all of this. and then will joined me and we were downstairs for six months and now we are here with you. carley: guess where janice is? pete: where? carley: she is at the preakness. we will check in with her because the big horse race is today. good morning, janice, what s going on? love the hat. janice: thank you, christine moore, of course, made
welcome to the lead, aim jake tapper. and we start with breaking news, violent and explosive wildfires in hawaii. fueled by strong winds from a hurricane, 800 miles away. it is a situation so sudden and so catastrophic on maui, local officials say a dozen people ran into the ocean to try to escape the flames. and they went out so far they then had to be rescued. hawaii s governor said hundreds of families have been displaced and some loss of life is expected, unquote. cell towers and 911 are out of service on the the hard-hit west side compounding the difficulty for many. we re expecting a press conference and we ll bring you that when it starts but derek van damme looked at where this erratic disaster may be headed next. reporter: hellish scenes of wildfires engulfing normally picturesque maui. powerful winds, associated with hurricane dora helping fuel the flames. fact that we have wildfire in multiple areas as a result of indirectly from a hurricane is unprecedented.
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the us says a huge bomb dropped on so called islamic state militants in afghanistan was the right weapon against the right target . president trump authorised the use of the weapon known as the mother of all bombs for the attack in which 36 militants were killed. the commander of us forces in afghanistan generaljohn nicholson said it had been carried out in coordination with the government in kabul. the former afghan president hamid karzai has condemned the attack. here s our security correspondent frank gardner. a remote valley in a remote country. 11 tonnes of high explosive. on an isis tunnel complex in afghanistan. the blast was felt 30 miles away. the weapon used is called a massive ordnance airburst, also known as the mother of all bombs. this was its first time used in combat. this was the right weapon against the right target. we will continue to work shoulder to shoulder with our afghan comrades. to eliminate this threat