Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
Earned more than a billion dollars. Thank you for hanging out. Im omar jimenez. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning, phil. Good morning. There was a big game this morning. So i thought it was going to be awesome to wake up at 3 00 a. M. And have an amazing game on. And then it turned out to be the most stressful two hours of my life. And i dont like it anymore. Arent you supposed to be reading for the show. Im totally prepped with womens soccer. Well see how that goes. A lot happened overnight. From politics to gio politics to the womens world cup, of course. Lets get started with five things to know for this tuesday, august 1st. Today could be charging decision day for former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That grand jury will meet just hours from now. And new this morning, Donald Trumps Political Action committee is almost out of cash. It began last year with m
Cenat. Griff there were 67 arrests many of them were minors. The power of social media cau causing havoc. And cb cotton is kicking things off for us. This is a crazy story. The promise of free video games and items led to the trashing of this beautiful New York City park behind me. Its impressive how quickly the city cleaned things up. Theres an event happening behind me and you cant tell that the chaos ensued yesterday, but it certainly did and the influencer whose post was behind it all. K kai cenat faces charges including inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, but he could face other charges according to police. Sen cenat on instagram. Some were on lamp posts and some jumped on cars. A Construction Site was damaged and officers said that people took items from the sites, paint cans, shovels, and started throwing them around. And some people were even lighting fireworks and throwing them towards each other and towards police. Officers used metal barricades to push the crowds back and
Riot. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. Jon more on those stories and a moment. First agents at the southern border of being overwhelmed by a searsurge of migrants seeking u. Asylum. An unsettling video is emerging showing undocumented people being held in cages in arizona. Christina colemans life in our Los Angeles Bureau with more on all of that, christina . Hi jon, yes, despite the sweltering heat there is a surge in illegal Border Crossings in arizona tucson sector. Take a look at this a photo for this photo has surfaced. You see migrants in a fenced in a holding area or as some describe it a cage free spokespersons of customs and Border Protection just told me this is a temporary outside Overflow Holding Site for migrants but i am told Border Agents try to transfer the migrants to other locations as rapidly as possible. However these people are steel dealing with Triple Digit Temps for hours at a time on some occasions. A tucson based immigrant Advocacy Group
hemmer. eric adams visited the border over the weekend and his city has received buses full of migrants in recent months. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf calling on the federal government to do more. it s clear they don t have a good handle what s going on but also clear the rest of the world knows what most americans know which is that border is wide open. dana: former chief is standing by. madison is standing by how it is affecting american cities and griff jenkins is in eagle pass, texas along the border. how do things look this morning? good morning. things are not slowing down in the slightest bit. if we can go to our drone right now high above eagle pass, the bridge connecting to mexico, you can see some national guardsmen repairing some fencing and barbed wire sections where they are trying to keep these numbers down. as we can show you, there is more migrants coming all day every day. we have had at least three groups coming so far. it comes as cbp sources