encampments everywhere. you see the needles, cocaine, all of this is right in front of the pool. quickly. launches bulls eye i mean, think about a little bit what we just saw with the open, i mean, baseball is queued up ready to go. crowd, down to 8 now in the ncaa tournament. little by little as spring comes things are getting somewhat pack to normal, guys. steve: we are all back here at 6:00 a.m. eastern, good morning, ainsley. time away. ainsley: we got to go to disney world. i took hayden down there for the first time. it was a wonderful trip away. brian: was it crowded. ainsley: open 35%. so i actually enjoyed that because it wasn t so crowded and you didn t have to wait as long. brian: that s the biggest 35% i have ever seen in my life. it looks 100 percent. ainsley: they did make you wear the mask and if your daughter or any of the kid if they mask went right bloat nose, they were right on you. put that mask back on, please. it really is the happiest place in the
todd: such a poignant start to the 8 a.m. east coast hour on fox and friends, quantico marine corps band performing amazing grace with a shot of arlington national cemetery tomb of the unknown, makes you realize what today is all about. thanks to tunnel to towers for flags on fox square. welcoming you inside, joey jones, kayleigh mcenany, todd piro. thank you for allowing us to celebrate this important day each year with you. kayleigh: shots of the tomb of the unknown shoulder gives me chills. i went with former president tr trump. what a beautiful testament to those who served. joey: when you lay your life down on the battlefield you, sacrifice yourself so that the country may live, the sacrifice doesn t enter your mind and this built your country and quite a bit still left. kayleigh: amen. president biden and kevin mccarthy are on the clok to get a debt deal. todd: house rules noticed a 3 p.m. hearing for tomorrow on the debt limit bill. mark meridith joins us
them 72 hours to read it before a vote. the bill would cap spending and avoiding a default. the deal is drawing criticism from the left and right. the president and the speaker are framing it as a win/win. president biden: it takes a threat of cast as trophy to fall off the table and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. that s the responsibility of governing. you got work requirements that people out of poverty into jobs. you have reforms that we can build things, cut the red tape. we capped so the president can t just spend money wildly. we re spending less than we spent last year. that hasn t happened in congress. julie: grover norquist is here with reaction. first to mark meredith in washington. good morning. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy reached a deal to raise the nation s death limit. now is the hard part. the convince party members to put it forward. they call on the house and senate. it wo
is almost 10% of the population of florida. that means over 90% of people in florida to have electrical power. the number of people without electrical power is expected to rise as these slow-moving storm cuts across florida with hurricane-force winds. a major concern right now and overnight would be flash flooding caused by the heavy rains. more than two feet of rain is predicted in some areas, officials are warning residents to shelter in place if they have not evacuated. as many cities today are suspending rescue efforts until the storm passes. we begin with nbc news meteorologist bill for the latest. bill, what is the situation now? we are watching a storm that is weakening overland, but we still have areas that are losing power at this hour. we know we have people who need rescuing, need help from us. what happened during the day today, that is the situation as we go throughout these overnight hours. the center of the storm is over sebring, florida. it is about halfway
the storm. we re doing whatever we can to help. shepard: let s get to it. good friday afternoon from the fox news deck. we re tracking hurricane irma. florida s governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. with each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of south florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. this as the head of fema says i don t know anybody in florida has experienced what we re about to get. the florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coast-to-coast. he says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. over 500,000 people there from mandatory evacuation orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. he says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. he says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. some gas stations have long lines. oth