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mcconnell is a sour non-mileage partisannable hack. >> sprinkling ashes rather than apply directly to people's forehead. ♪ shake it up ♪ shake it up. ♪ oh, oh ♪ shake it up. ainsley: good morning to you. thank you so much for waking up with us. i am actually in philadelphia. the guys, pete and steve are in new york city. looking at a lye shot of our beautiful city there with the sun coming up. hey steve and pete. pete: bump shops of philadelphia as well. what does it look like at 6:00 in the morning no we will work on that. excited to hear with all those parent you are with. you have a live audience in front much you as you deliver the news this morning. ainsley: that's right. steve: you have a couple students. ainsley: we do. jason in the blue sweatshirt around best friend mason in the

button-down. they grew up together, went to school together. you had the luxury of moving 15 minutes away to live with your grandmother so you could be back in the classroom and play football again, right? how is that affecting you, jason, you are without your best friend. you are not playing football and not back in the classroom and it's your senior year. >> >> i don't know how to explain it but it will -- he was always my partner in practice. we like push each other. and then in school like we push each other to be better in the classroom and it's just like missing the friendships that you have and missing like the help that you need is like -- it's hard. ainsley: what are your leader saying? what's the plan to get you back in the classroom? , from what i know, they haven't said anything about like getting us back in, they just keep on saying march 1st is our start date, but they haven't gave us any plans or anything.

ainsley: i have heard here in philadelphia your start date is march 1st and then they change it and keep pushing it back. >> yes. ainsley: all right. i hope you get back in school. it's your senior year. love to have you a few months back with your friends to experience your last year. we will be talking to you talk about how it's affecting college and playing football in college. parents advocating for their children. learn more about bucks county, montgomery county, and what's the other one i am forgetting? it is chester county. thank you so much. pete, steve, we will talk with them coming up throughout the show. pete: you hear it as a high schooler would put it can't be with his friends and can't play sports. don't have a plan but says they are coming back. how confusing is that? steve: i read the fillry mayor said teachers should not get in trouble if they don't come back to school when their schools are supposed to reopen on monday. so it's perfect to have you down there today, ainsley. so, over the last week or two, we have been talking about when he was running for president,

joe biden made it very clear, you elect me, in the first 100 days i'm going to open a majority of the schools. but then he actually was elected and then we realized, wait a minute, it's not a reopen all the schools. it's a majority of the schools and it's not even every day as jen psaki said just a week ago. remember this? >> his goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, more than 50% open by day hundred of his presidency. and that means some teaching in classrooms. so at least one day a week, hopefully it's more. and obviously it is as much as is safe in each school and local district. steve: so it wasn't reopen all the schools in the first 100 days. it was reopen a majority, 5%, at least one day a week. that's not what joe biden had said before and that's not what joe biden said last night. he said jen psaki, that was a

communications problem. watch. >> your administration had set a follow to open the majority of schools in your first 100 days. you are now saying that means those schools may only be open for at least one day a week. >> no, that's not true. that's what was reported. that's not true. it was a mistake in the communication. but what i'm talking about is i said opening the majority of schools in k through 8th grade because they are the easiest to open, the most needed to be open, in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home. ainsley: well, when jen psaki made that comment about one day a week, that got everyone's attention. parents were exacerbated because they were hoping for five days. last night at that town hall he went on to say i'm hoping to open these as we know in the first 100 days. that puts us at the beginning of may. kid are out of school usually at the begin end of may beginning

of june expending on the district. what do you think about it? joe biden went on to say and maybe they will just take classes in the summer and we will look at it as another school semester. these student are says nothing, we are not okay with that first of all, these two guys grad waiting that are sitting in front of me that we will talk to in a little while. they want summers and normalcy. pete: shut me town and put me in front of a computer screen nor my summer? that will go over great. remember the vaccine goal from the biden administration 1 million doses a day. when they came into the white house there were already 1 million doses a day. he said that's not truex september it is. we are only talking about a majority of schools. joe biden ran headlong into teacher's unions are telling him not so fast we call the shots here. steve: do you know what pete and ainsley? if you are going to make a pronouncement and set a goal, why isn't the goal 100 percent of the schools. pete: exactly. steve: 100 days. yeah, you know, 50%, one day.

why isn't it 100 percent in 100 days? that seems okay. ainsley: steve, we have different counties represented here. bucks county is open that's right next to these other counties. they are doing it with zero percent of the people getting covid at the school. why can't the counties next do do it. one student move to live with grandma. steve: unions, it's the unions. ainsley: i know. another parent says it is a combination of the unions and making sure the schools are safe. she also made a good point. if they do say you have another semester in the summer, these schools are not air conditioned. it gets hot in the summer here. pete: ainsley, we look forward to hearing from those families and parents and student there all morning long. we also have another story we are covering. it's the weather. we start with this fox news alert. at least nine people are dead in texas the state battles a brutal winter storm. you are looking at a snowado spotted outside of dallas

dallas. over 3.2 million customers without power thousands seeking refuge in makeshift shelters. in san antonio residents waited hours to get in grocery store. steve: growing around the state's electric grid and electric reliability council. those are the people who run the grid, prompting governor greg abbott to launch an investigation. the governor says the blackouts prove that fossil fuels are essential. >> if the biden administration is going to try to eradicate fossil fuels in the united states, every state is going to constantly have challenges like what america seen take place in texas right now. steve: well, the governor says solar and wind energy make up more than 10% of the state's power grid. and the "wall street journal" this morning has a great op-ed they say. the problem for texas is their overreliance on wind, when has been less more vulnerable to the pad weather. they have got historically awful

weather down there right now. half the turbines froze causing the wind share of electricity to plunge from 42% to 8%. and then natural gas and collagen raiders ramped up to cover the supply could not meet the demand, then some gas wells and pipelines froze, and now they have to have these rolling blackouts where they just turn off the electricity to certain parts of the state because if they had a complete blackout they say it could take up to a month to get things back online. pete: wow. ainsley: instead of restore them they are having to shut down additional utilities just to prevent that blackout and some of the warming shelters in texas 35 of them. two of them had to close in one of the cities pause they lost electricity, too. so you are supposed to go there to get warm and then they weren't able to do it. texas ♪ used to this. i used to live down in san antonio. it's very hot. they are not used to getting snow. they weren't prepared for this. they put the wind turbines up.

some of the lawmakers are saying this is exactly why we still need a fossil fuel alternative. former missouri senator claire mccaskill democrat. making it political. blaming the governor. >> the governor of texas is telling texas to stay home because it is risky to go out. let that sink. in how dare he tell people what they can do even if it is to protect them and others. pete? pete: ah-ha, taking a swipe in the middle of a difficult time at the state of texas trying to make it a comparison to covid. well, representative dan crenshaw from texas had a nice little response. this is what he said. he said with blackouts across texas many are wondering what happened? leftists are cheering a red state having energy problems. here's the truth about what happened. this is what happens when you force the grid to rely in part on wind as a power source when weather conditions get bad, as they did this week, intermitt tent renewable energy like wind isn't there when you need it. we talked about it yesterday

there is no backup for that why don't we have extra gas power. because years of federal subsidies for wind has caused overreliance on wind and under investment in new gas and nuclear plants. bottom line, office sill fuels are the only thing that saved us. they are base load energy. if we were even more reliant on the wind turbines that froze, with the outages would have been much worse. so, clair mccaskill taking a swipe. dan crenshaw clarifying that this state which has done so much in oil and gas fell prey to the idea that wind can solve all our problems but if you can't save up wind, steve, it's not there when you need it. steve: you can save to for 1 second. pete: sorry about that. steve: we simply do not have the battery capacity. what else extraordinary is when you look at what is going on right now, back in 2011, they had exactly the same situation. terrible weather, blackouts all other the place. they said they had an investigation and they said we will never let this happen to

texas again. 10 years later, it's happening to texas again. so stand by for that. in the meantime, it is 6:11 here in the east coast and griff jenkins live in washington with more on former president donald trump. it turns out he doesn't like mitch mcconnell. [laughter] griff: that is an under statement steve, pete, ainsley good morning. it looks like the f.o.p. may have a war of the roses on their hands because former president trump slammed senate minority leader mitch mcconnell issuing a highly personal statement through trump's save america super pac and declaring open season on mcconnell and any candidate in his camp saying this, quote: mitch is a d. r. >> solen and it political hack. if republicans stay with him they will not win again. the statement was meant to be a direct response to mcconnell's op-ed in the "wall street journal" yesterday with that headline acquittal vindicated the constitution not trump.

in it mcconnell writes there is no question former president trump bears responsibility. his responsibility because of the up hinged falsehoods he shouted into the world's largest mega phone. we don't know for sure the bad blood could have been drawn this past saturday minutes after voting to acquit trump mcconnell suggested that the former president could even be prosecuted. >> we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable. president trump is still libel liable for everything did he in office. >> now we approach the 2022 midterms no one is likely to find how much strurep willing to put his money where mouth is. senator lisa murkowski only senator up for re-election who voted to convict trump. steve, ainsley, steve? ains. steve: thank you so much, griff. ainsley: thank you so much, griff. no one is shocked about this. when president trump gets hit he

hits back. a lot of his supporters applauding him and many mad with mitch mcconnell for pushing forward with the impeachment. a fractured party is not good for either side. the democrats seem to be working well together. the aocs of the world and moderates and seemed to figure it out because a lot of biden's plans are progressive. they feel happy is he moving that direction. as far as republicans is concerned it's fractured. you have the mitch mcconnells. of the people who didn't want the president in office any longer. and then you have so many people who loved the former president. president trump and are supporting him. if they don't figure out a way to work it out of they will lose in two years. we have one more year to figure it out. in two years, i'm telling you, that's the midterm election. if these republicans want to win they have to work together. pete: yeah, ainsley it was tenuous relationship between the two. convenience of the power that mitch mcconnell had judges and others. and president trump had the white house. he ticked off all the democrats

with that approach and condemned approach and condemned president trump which ticked off republicans. question is where does the base of the republican party stand? and there is no question about that. there are no spontaneous or non-spontaneous rallies for mitch mcconnell. donald trump has a groundswell, still today today of support and mitch mcconnell doesn't. he has it in washington, d.c. how that plays out in primaries will be very interesting and where the movement goes from here. steve: we saw how it played out in the last primary in georgia and in the runoff election there and ultimately membership mcconnell is angry that he feels that president trump essentially was the reason that the -- they lost the senate. there were two races. they only had to win one. they lost both. so, anyway, mitch threw down the gauntlet over the weekend and then the president fired back. ainsley, to your point, just last night. so, anyway, we will keep you

posted on that. in the meantime it's a quarter after the top of the hour. and jillian joins us with a story from florida i will j jill mother in florida reunited with 1-year-old daughter after her suv is stolen right from her driveway. police say someone jumped into the car while the mom was helping her mother-in-law unload bags. the girl was sleeping in the backseat. luckily the car was found in an abandoned parking lot a few miles away. >> it was a really scary thing. they worked really fast and were super awesome and helpful. and just all around great. so, we're really thankful that she is home and she is okay. >> that's scary. deputies near tampa are still looking for the suspect. today marks the beginning of lent and the ash wednesday tradition will look a little different as part of covid-19 precautions the vat van recommends that clergy sprinkle ashes rather than apply them directly to people's foreheads. some hunches cha even offer take home packets as in person service is still limited in some

states. the national guard is expected to leaf the u.s. capitol next month as long as the threat assessment remains low. >> we plan for all kinds of con continue genesis that actually don't ever happen. that's what we are expected to do. we are expected to be ready to answer those kinds of questions. right now the plan is mid march. jillian: different agencies working together to uncover any trouble. still about 6,000 guard troops in and around d.c. a school principal is asking parents to reflect and gauge their, quote, whiteness on a scale. manhattan's east side community school telling parents to promote, quote, anti racism. they are giving parents this scale. it goes from white abolitionist all the way to white supremacist. parents were quick to call it hostile. the school says the documents are simply food for thought. that is a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. pete: it's unbelievably racist

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steve: third day without electricity. look at that the state's electrical agency that runs the grid says it still can't predict

when the outages will begin. now governor abbott is demanding an investigation into the power failures plaguing his state. let's bring in hairs county deputy emergency management coordinator francisco sanchez. mr. sanchez, good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> okay. so i know that so many people down there they don't have electricity. it's freezing cold. aye seen the signs that you have got in your county where it says just leave your faucet dripping a little bit because you don't want your pipes to freeze. and now people have got to boil the water. >> this is something we're not at all used to here really for long extended periods of time. we can handle 8 to 12 hours typical winter weather event in houston or texas area. we are now going as you mentioned into day three. so the resulting power outages and affected infrastructure at some point we had more than a million people in harris county alone without power. we have got at least 32 boil

water notices from different utilities in the area. so, unfortunately, having to deal with a lot of front when you are home and without power. steve: indeed. if you don't have power, you don't have heat. unfortunately, there have been a number of people -- i was watching the story down in houston where somebody has essentially moved into their car and they run it for a while because the worry is carbon monoxide you are in a car. apparently i was reading a story about somebody turned on the car in a garage, didn't open the door and there have been a number of people who have died from carbon monoxide poisoning now in your area. >> we have at least 70 runs of transport. so more calls but 70 transports for some people affected by carbon monoxide because they allowed even home by using a grill or car. we have been pushing that rather aggressively over the past day. so, that is a big concern to us. especially it will be colder

before it gets warmer and going into the weekend. any break we can get by getting some power back on and at least providing some kind of relief for people that have been without power for a while, we can at least warm them up to try to keep them safe and out of that kind of particular hazard. steve: sure. because the schools are closed. but, if you are cold, go to the school or the warming facility today to warm up because the other worry is hypothermia, right? >> it is. especially we're talking in some areas, again, even in south texas, which is, you know, where i'm originally from, some single digits. put the wind chill below zero. our infrastructure is not accustomed to it. certainly we have lived here for quite some time. we are not accustomed to it. those were very dangerous temperatures. you can't each have your skin expose dollars more than a couple of minutes in those kind of conditions. plus our bodies don't react to that well here. those are critical challenges. and we need buildings and structures that have power so people can stay warm and safe.

steve: all right. they just need the power on. i know that's not your department. but everybody is working on it. francisco sanchez harris county deputy emergency management. sir, thank you for joining us live and good luck to you. >> thank you, steve. steve: you bet. here 6:25 here in new york city. joe biden's first town hall as president full of softballs. the presser that went completely ignored. >> never been in the residence in the white house? is it different than you expected it to be?

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for the most part even though there are a lot of things people want answers to. people want to know what's going on with governor cuomo. i actually would have liked to hear president biden's thoughts on that. instead getting things like what mario character he picked that was a headline in some outlets this week. pete: robbie, do you think when he goes back to the newsroom he faces criticism for not asking those questions or affirmation for easy questions? is there an environment that actually incentivizes journalists to do their job? >> well, the cnn example is interesting because internally i have no idea how they would handle that given that cuomo's brother is part of the network. so they are hopelessly kind of compromised on that issue. but it is clear the awz yens ask tougher questions. maybe the audience wants to focus on the positive aspect of bide or more on trump and how

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pete: at least nine people dead in texas that state battles a brutal winter storm. steve: without electricity. 3 million people still without power because of these rolling blackouts. ainsley: i know. john from our affiliate down in austin. he's live with the rush to restore the power for all those folks down there. hey, john. >> hey, guys. good morning to you. yeah. this has really become the story the power outages have become the story out of this storm. we have got nearly 4 million people without power across the state of texas. 4 million at the highest point yesterday. and here in austin, hundreds of thousands of people still in the dark going into the third day,

it is frigid, it's freezing in people's homes. really not a good situation. in addition to obviously these horrible weather conditions. steve: all right. pete: john, thank you so much. amazing. for more on, this i'm sure she will focus on texas throughout the south, janice dean has an update for us on the weather. janice, what are you watching this morning. >> another storm system unfortunately moving through texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, here's the incredible thing. look at how much snow cover we have across the u.s. there is only a couple of states where we don't have snow on the ground. that will be florida, georgia, and south carolina. the rest of the u.s. we have some measurable snow on the ground. that he was really incredible. current temperatures it's still very cold across the south. the southern plains. the heartland here with single digits, wind chills making it feel even colder than that. here is our next round of storm including snow, rain, and ice.

measurable ice for texas, louisiana, and in towards mississippi and alabama. winter storm warnings are in effect yet again for some of these same areas. days of wintry weather across this region and, unfortunately, we will see the potential for more power outages because that ice is going to accumulate on the roads and the power lines. so take a look at that look at the ice in the pink here for texas and into louisiana and mississippi. and then up towards the mid-atlantic for parts of virginia and north carolina. that is very dangerous. people are urged to stay inside. and then, by the way. here in new york city, north and west of us. some good measurable snow on friday. so we will keep you up to date. pete, steve, ainsley, back to you. ainsley: all right. thank you so much, janice. let's talk to some of these parents and students. because president biden clarifying that he wants schools to be open five days a week after the white house criticized for scaling the target back last week saying only maybe one day a week. this morning, we are speaking with parents and students from pennsylvania about why it's so

important to get our children back in the classroom and sports back full time. joining us now we have clarice here in the front. mason in the middle. we have jason here. these are best friends. and ones living with grandma now. you probably heard that at the top of the show. then we have paul and bucks county. lisa ingle man her son is sitting right in front of her. mason and beth ann in the back in the beautiful pink outfit. thank you all for being with us. we appreciate it. clarice, you got the group together, right? >> i did. ainsley: because the schools are closed you didn't know each other before a few weeks ago. this has brought the community together because you all want the schools back open. >> keep kids in school pac was born about 4 weeks ago. we have all known each other at the most four weeks. and where we have really come together is because we all see the same vision. and beth ann will go into more. but we really want choice. we are not asking for people to

return that don't feel safe. but we are asking for those who thrive n person learning that they are given those tools to succeed. so, our relationships have grown into almost best friends. because we're on the phone a lot. and we're not going to give up on our children. and, in fact, we are not going to give up on every single child that needs this. we might just be the people here today, the six of us you see our face. but this is really truly about every single child that needs in person learning to be successful. ainsley: every american child. there are a lot of children not in school. who is in montgomery county? raise your hand. okay. what are you doing in montgomery county right now? >> so it's virtual or hybrid. in fact, we do have one school in our district that has said that they might not even return until 2023. ainsley: what? why? >> it's real. ainsley: they can't get it together? lisa, how is it affecting your family.

>> it's completely unacceptable situation. we have had students now who were on the honor roll who are now failing. we have students battling depression, anxiety. we have students in our school district we have no sports. we are the only school in the county that does not have an active sports program. ainsley: what's the snreefn unions. >> keep saying the numbers are too high. in our area high school there is a mass covid vaccination site. they basically have opened it up for vaccines but they can't open it up for the children who should be there. and that's just -- we are all for vaccines. it's a choice. it does not belong in our high school while school is in session there are hundreds of other buildings in our county that would fit this bill. our high school, there is no public transportation. so it doesn't serve the entire community. ainsley: right. >> we know that because of this

vac site our gym has been taken up. when our children do go back maybe 2023. where are they going to have if i said. where are the athletes going to compete basketball, volleyball cheer and wrestling. ainsley: most schools that are open, at least the ones in new york city where my friends are sending their kids. the parents are not allowed inside the school. they want to keep the school safe. allowing people in that could be bringing into the school that get vaccinated that don't go to that school many are older. >> the very reason the children can't go to school they're bringing it. in not only that who monitors who comes into our school? registered sex offenders crossing into our school where our it kids are trying to get to sports. ainsley: bucks county some of the schools reopened there. and it's just exacerbating to these parents who aren't in school because just next cure in one county they are doing it right. >> that's right. our kids in central bucks have

been back k through 6th sips the 30th of september. here the important thing third largest district in the state of pennsylvania. largest suburban one. zero cases of spread through the school. people have gotten covid. teachers in particular my son's teacher got covid but the protocols were in place to quarantine get it under control, et cetera. we have been open four months now without any spread. i meet someone like clair reiss who says beyond. you have the data now. you are the third largest district. can you help me do what you did with your pac to say hey, this works? why aren't we in school? it worked great in bucs county and we really want to thank the public health officials who really had our back in making it happen. ainsley: that's great. good for your kids, too. you have two children. you is have a fourth grader and sixth grader back in school. >> yes. they have been back since september. it's a huge difference. the difference in their behavior versus march through september when they were home through the

entire time. they are happier. yes, school is not exactly the same with masks, et cetera, it's much better than the alternative and oh by the way if you want to do stay at home, that's an option, again, as clarice said, we are just saying giving us a choice. our kids deserve that. ainsley: beth an, that's what have you been saying all morning to me during the commercial breaks. you just want the choice. >> yes, absolutely. we know there are families who are uncomfortable for whatever reasons to not send their children to school. we respect their choice. we just want the same choice for our children who want to be pack and need to be back in school five days. ainsley: and you are in chester county. what's happening in your area? >> yeah. so in chester county. we have a little bit of a unique situation in that we have our own county department of health and our county department of health has promulgated more stringent rules around bringing kids back into school. so initially the state had put out guidance that it was 6 feet when feasible. and so some areas have used less

than 6 feet, bucs county for instance has used three feet minimum social distancing, which has allowed them to bring kids back full time. our county is sticking right now with 6 feet. we are working very hard to try to get them to back off those numbers because our superintendent has said if the rules change to 3 feet then we can bring all of our kids back five days. steve. ainsley: that would be great. >> yes, it would. ainsley: how close to the 3 feet. >> hard to say. lobbying very, very hard. i was able to pull together parents from all over chester county. and also delaware county because where we live the chester county health department also provides guidance to delaware county. i was able to get 2 out of 28 school districts. i was able to get parents to sign a letter to the county commissioner in both chester and delaware county imploring them to change the guidance based on the evidence. this isn't based on, you know, just our desire to have our children back in school.

this is paced on science. it's paced on evidence. bucs county has done it. their health director has been committed from day one to getting kids back in school around that's just not what is happening in chester is the county. ainsley: jason you are not playing school. you are going to your best friend's game 5 minutes away to watch him. how are you feeling? >> upset about it all. it's like i wished that i the opportunity to live out my senior year as like seeing in tv shows or portrayed in movies or like just hearing the things it's a slap in the face that i can't do what they have done. ainsley: a lot of people don't have the option of living with their grandmother. it thankfully, your mom takes care of her mom and your grandmother's house 15 minutes

away. i know you have a car you drive to see your mom all the time and she loves you very much. but you are back in school. was it worth it? i know you are missing your friends but are you glad. >> i'm very glad that i made the transition to go into school. it was a very big difference in terms of learning and trying to balance everything going on in the world as well. trying to still be situation a lot of my friends going through it while i'm still in school. i can relate to an extent and then it's just kind -- it's just redick columbus to see what's going on. ainsley: yeah. we are so sorry for what you all are going through especially your senior year. we will be chaptering with this group all morning long. thank you. you did a great job. 6:49 here in the east. hero officer are in all-out sprint to save a man trapped in a burning car. he joins us to give us a play-by-play of his heart pumping rescue. that's coming up next. ♪

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steve: car's on fire. that ohio officer smashing the window to get to the driver. the flames forcing the officer to jump out of harm's way before he and the bystanders were able to help were able to pull the man to safety. that hero warren ohio police officer dan weber joins us now. officer, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so from that video, that dash cam video, when you got to the scene, there was some good samaritans who were trying to get the man out of the car. and apparently he had his foot on the gas because the engine was revving, right? >> that's correct. steve: okay. so we heard you pound. he did not open the window. so what did you do? >> i basically took out my baton and i broke out the back passenger window, the interior the vehicle was filled with smoke. one of the by standers tom cool unlocked the back door and i climbed in to the vehicle to attempt to unbuckle and get the

will person out. steve: the vehicle was on fire and smoking and you climbed into the vehicle to save the guy's life. >> that's right. that's what law enforcement officers in this country do. we get a call. we go, we do the best we can. >> so, he was unresponsive. how did you get him out of the seat belt? >> well, after i came out of the -- passenger door, i jumped out, rolled around a little bit, tom pool one of the gentlemen opened the driver's door. i got in about a life and cut the seat belt off with the assistance of mr. cool we were able to maneuver the guy out of the car onto the ground and drag him to safety. steve: that's fantastic and we are watching that right here. had you and those good samaritans not been there. this would have had a tragic end? >> that's correct. tell people in life seconds

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expensive that food would be. >> reflect and gauge their quote whiteness. >> the greatest threat to american society today is is inclusion industry. >> you are without your best friend. you are not playing football and back in the classroom and it's your senior year. >> it's hard. missing the help that you need. pete: good weapons morning february 17th, 2021 year of our lord. one hour down. two big ones to go. good to be with you. steve: good to be. pete: did i say brian? steve: did you are. steve: ainsley, she is in philly. i'm steve. looking at the intrepid on the west side of manhattan, docked there forever. ainsley traveled down to philadelphia to speak with parents on this ash wednesday

about whatever they are going to open the schools. you have been talking to some parents from the outlining counties around philly where, you know, they just want answers and they want their kids back as soon as possible. ainsley: that's right. these parents are amazing. they are advocates for their kids. you know, the teachers have the unions and these kids have their parents. we have a group right here in front of us. and lisa in the back in the middle has been on our show before. were you able to see them? yeah, here we go. will she was on the show last week. did a great job. clarice got this group together because she started a pac and right behind her paul started a pac in his community. and so and then we also have beth an in the back and she has been helping saying i want choice. i want to be able to choose. if you want to stay at home stay at home but at least get the kids who want to be in the classroom back in the classroom. these two handsome men in the front both seniors in high school. they were best friends or are best friends and nathan has moved in with his grandparents 15 minutes away so he can go to school so can he play football.

jason, on the other hand not in school, not playing football and going to mason's games, right? so how is this all making you feel for the folks who are just waking up and turn on their tv. >> making me feel upset it's like they don't care about our voices as a student group or as like our parents. it's like they take on what we like tell them and they just toss it away. ainsley: you don't feel like you are have a voice. >> yeah. ainsley: what do you miss the most. >> i miss being around my friends, having the help that i need. and, yeah, just that pretty much. ainsley: we will hear about how it is affecting your family. i'm sure your parents are upset because they want you to get an education. ainsley: yeah. >> we all want you to experience that your senior year provides fun things like the prom and going to the football games. thanks y'all, we will chat with you all throughout the.

pete: absolutely. great interviews last hour and are coming up against this hour. amazing and insightful. great stuff. on another story peter doocy is live outside the white house as joe biden takes part in his first town hall since taking office. peter, good morning. >> goorpg. as we remember from a couple weeks ago. about a million people a day are getting vaccinated when president biden took office. but the president remembers things differently. >> when we came into office, there was no backlog -- i mean, there was nothing in the refrigerator figuratively and literally. >> he wants teachers -- it went so far to claim that many are going to want to work through the summer which will be consistent with the administration's late spring return plan. >> his goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50% open by day 100 of

his presidency. so at least one day a week. hopefully it's more. have. >> but that comment from the person who speaks for the president wasn't something the president agrees with. >> those schools may only be open for at least one day a week. >> no, that's not true. that was a mistake in the communication. k through 8th grade because they are the easiest to open. the goal will be five days a week. >> president biden is also now claiming that anybody who wants a covid-19 vaccine, regardless of age or pre-existing condition should be able to get one by the end of july. back to you. steve: that is important because a lot of people are looking for that shot. peter, thank you very much from the north lawn of the white house. so, actually, it was peter who had asked jen psaki to clarify what was going on with the administration because it was -- okay, so it's a majority of schools one day a week. that's the fine print. and now we have heard her boss,

president of the united states make it very clear his goal is obviously five days a week. but he didn't say 100 percent of the schools. and that's the part that is so troubling to the parents in the room with ainsley and all the parents and all the students watching right now. in the meantime what we have got going on is through that town hall, obviously what the president is trying to do is trying to get his message out. at the same time, really he is trying to rewrite what we think we have heard him say in the past. charlie kirk said just that last night. >> a white house official, the form other trump administration, they said they were doing about 1.1 million vaccinations a day leading into joe biden being sworn into office. it was president donald trump that was mocked, ridiculed and made fun of by every single person in mainstream media when he said that we would have a vaccine by october, november. he was right and, in fact, the announcement came right after the election, if you might remember. and then operation warp speed,

which was again considered to be a near impossibility delivered a vaccine ahead of schedule. president trump promised it by christmas. it was actually delivered before then. and so joe biden is trying to rewrite history. it's incredibly irresponsible. janice: you know what's interesting after talking to these parents and these students here. i asked him would they be okay going back to school in the summer because the 100 days is up at the end of may. so most of these students in these districts are getting out at the end of may. beginning of june anyway. and these student in front of me said no way. we don't want to go. another parent said it's too hot here in the summer and we don't have air conditioning in the majority of our schools. pete? pete: yeah. school in the summer is not going to go over well especially if you are staring at a computer screen. another story this morning go back to a fox news alert. at least nine people are dead in texas that state battles a brutal winter storm. you are looking at what is known as a snowado spotted owstles dallas.

steve: what else can happen to those people down there. millions of people are still waking up in the dark in texas going into their third day without power as you can see some right there are at warming shelters because there is no electricity in their house because they have got these rolling blackouts. , yeah. governor abbott down there said he is launching an investigation into the state's electric reliability council. he is saying it's just unacceptable that anything like this happened. he said our grid is anything but reliable. far too many texans are without power and heat for their homes. i have friends there from my time in texas and they were without power. they said we haven't seen anything like this. of it's so cold there. and they are worried about all the food in their refrigerator. they're worried about the people the elderly neighbors that don't have any way to heat their homes right now and the utilities are being told instead of restoring power you have to shut it down. more utility companies all over the state of texas are having to shut down their power because

they are trying to prevent a blackout. steve: you know the food in the refrigerator is the last thing they have to worry about. ainsley: the last worry, i know. steve: i have been reading so many people are taking the food out of the refrigerator and putting it essentially in their yard. pete: refrigerator is now outside. as we are trying to point out the outside is the refrigerator pointing out it's not just the fact that wind turbines have stopped moving which was a portion, a small fraction of the power in texas. also that a lot of the pipelines in texas they don't have cold insulation. even the gas is freezing in some places which is meant to be the base power which is why they have steve as you pointed out have to have these rolling blackouts. steve: that's right. we have had from harris county, texas, the deputy of emergency management, francisco sanchez with us describing the conditions people are waking up to on this ash wednesday morning in texas.

>> at some point we had more than a million people in harris county alone without power. we have got at least 32 bill water notices from different utilities in the area. even in south texas, which is, you know, where i'm originally from, some single digits put the wind chill below zero. this is something that our infrastructure is not accustomed to it. certainly we lived here for quite some time. we are not accustomed to it. those are very dangerous temperatures. you can't even have your skin exposed for more than a couple of minutes in those kind of conditions. plus, our bodies don't react to that well here. so those are critical challenges and we need buildings and structures that have power so people can stay warm and safe. steve: so there he is talking about so many people who have hypothermia, in texas, which was the last thing anybody ever thought they would have to deal with. but, also, have you got throughout his county, hundreds of cases of people with carbon monoxide poisoning because it's cold in the house so what do they do? they turn on the gas stove. they turn on the car,

unfortunately, in a garage and that has caused some problems. and at least two people, a woman and little girl died in the houston area because of a car in an attached garage. ainsley: oh my goodness, yeah. that is so tragic. and, yeah, you are right, steve, they don't expect anything like this down in the state of texas. everyone remember that family and your prayers this morning. that's just horrible. all right. let's talk about what's happening in the technology world. steve: this is the most important story of the day. pete: it is. ainsley: they interviewed bill gates microsoft co-founder. and he said in the interview that rich countries should go to 100 percent synthetic beef. he said quote i do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef can you get used to the taste difference and the claim is they are going to make it taste even better over time. eventually that green premium is

modest enough that you can sort of change the behavior of people offer use regulation to totally shift the demand. pete and steve, i know what you all are going to say about it. steve you wrote a cookbook and pete you love your meat. i have had the impossible burger i like it. the group i'm sitting here with, they don't like it. and the football players want their meat. but you know what? i just don't want someone telling me what i can and can't eat. give me like school choice as we were saying as a group if you can choose if you want to go back to school or keep your kids home, you can choose to eat the synthetic meat or you can choose to eat a regular cheeseburger from mcdonald's. pete: before we chime, in governor kristi noem was on fox news prime time last night with rachel campos-duffy and chimed in on this idea from bill gates. listen. >> well, i mean, i like mushrooms but i like my beef, too. >> like them on top of the burger. >> the cattle industry is

incredibly important to our state. but here is the situation is that he talks a lot about carbon emissions out of cattle. he doesn't take into account the carbon emissions and the inefficiencies in generating food like that and how expensive that food would be for the average every day family. that's the balance that i don't think bill gates understands is that for me, food policies always the national security policy. it's important that we grow our own food in this country so another country doesn't control us. it's also important that it's diversified so that we don't have a shortage in one area or we focus all in one area and it becomes too expensive for families to actually go to the store and buy it and put it on the table. pete: cattle industry huge in south dakota. she know what is she is talking about. bill gates is like the guy who lives in the ivory tower inside the ivory tower. steve: he lives in a ivory tower. pete: presidential sweet of the i've i didn't tower. completely detached from the way people live their lives.

he want to change our preferences. change demand a bit, behavior a little bit. though ho cares if it tastes different. i know it might be more expensive. you can afford it. this is an absurd idea based on someones who religion is climate change and as a result he want to tell you you can't have meat. when the democrats say that in green new deal they meant it because folks like bill gates are driving the thought process there. steve: as a former pet of the faa in clay county, kansas, i can tell you that beef producers are experimenting with different ways to cut down emissions and one of the ways they are feeding cattle sea wood and others lemon grass. pete: cruel to feed to cattle. steve: i don't know thousand winds up tasting. when you think of bill gates i get where he is coming from because is he all about climate change right now with you at the same time is he a hypocrite. ivory tower. 66,000 square foot mansion outside of seattle.

his airplane drinks about 500 gallons of gas an hour. and he is telling you that you should start eating 3-d printed plastic meat essentially. i'm not talking about impossible burgers, which, ainsley, i'm with you. they are pretty good. but it's not the same as real beef. and that's ultimately what it comes down to. it comes down to choice. and choice beef is my favorite. just saying. pete: not prime? ainsley: a lady on the panel vegan not going to eat it. she wants all natural foods go in her body. it's processed food. synthetic. pete: he absolutely. ainsley: did i say that correctly? pete: we can talk about it all morning long. by definition processed. going backwards to go forward. speaking of going backwards to go forwards. new york city public school one school in new york city a parent that first circulated and a

parent at the school said every parent should be looking at this. page 10 of "the new york post." it's the scale of the 8 identities of whiteness. and, again, this was meant to trigger conversation amongst parents and students in this no, school. look at this. the scale depose from white supremacist on the red side to white voyeurism to white privilege to white benefit, white confessional, white critical, white traitor and white abolitionist. unbelievable. steve: this was sent out to all the teachers, a parent gave it to somebody, you are right. gave to somebody on staff and then they circulated it and the next thing you know principal at east side community a fell to loy by the name of mark feldman sent it do you live of the parents and said this is meant as food for thought. and so there has obviously been some backlash. and some people are not liking

that this is from "the new york post." the document in question was shared with the school by parents as a part of ongoing anti-racist work in the community and is one of many resources the school utilizes. our staff are now being targeted with vile racist anti-met particular and homophobic slurs and degrading language for from people outside of their school and nothing justifies the abuse directed at our educators. and but. pete: abuse directed at white kid in this particular case who are told to be guilty for the color of their skin. haven't we been trying to move past that idea, ainsley? ainsley: yeah. you know, it's a tough topic in our country right now. and black lives matter we all -- i don't know -- i'm not speaking for you guys. but i hear their complaints and it makes me sad and i have paid more attention to that teaching my daughter not to see color. but to see that everyone is god's child. we don't even -- she is 5 years old. so we haven't had those major

conversations yet. but if someone feels a certain way, then i think we need to talk about it as a country. it's the only bay we are going to unify. to put it in our schools and to force those conversations a lot of parent are saying in new york that it's too much. that they want to be able to talk to their kids about those things and not have the school manipulate or to force them to think a certain way. and they want them, some of what i'm hearing conversations in new york is focused on mathematics. focus on history. focus on why we are paying these tax dollars to send our kids to school. so, it's, you know, these conversations are being had in households but critics are going to say don't have these conversations at school. leave that up to the parents. this is what dr. -- did you want to say something, steve? steve: just imagine you were one of the parents who gout that from the school asking you where to -- where are you on that particular scale. how would you feel about that, ainsley? ainsley: yeah. so dr. carol swain, she is a former vanderbilt university i

guess professor. she says this is harming our children. listen to this. >> the greatest threat to american society today, i would argue, is coming from the diversity, equity, inclusion industry. it is steeped in critical race theory. when they talk about anti-racism, they are really talking about teaching white people to hate themselves, especially the young ones. children are being bullied. they are being shamed. teachers are being encouraged to teach nonsense. and they may justify it by saying it is fighting racism. it's helping racial and ethnic minorities. it's really harming everyone's child. pete: carol swain is so insightful and smart. when you put the chart up where is the condemn line? that's effectively what it is when and how and where do we condemn certain people for the color of their skin. you talk about what you want to teach your kids and what i want

to teach my kids is you don't see someone by the color of their skin. that's the whole idea that we are one blood. something like this takes us backwards and says no, your identity is the color of your skin. white or black. that's oftentimes what black lives matter says we are going to identify you by the color of your skin one way or the other. it all feels like we are going backwards when what martin luther king said we should be judging people on the content of their character not the color of their skin. we laugh at this stuff because it's so absurd it's serious because kids are learning it from schools. ainsley: target one group is not tackling racism. steve? steve: ainsley is live in philly this morning talking with parent and students who want the schools to open full time. that coming up. plus a health inspector caught dancing after apparently they shut down a los angeles brewery for covid restrictions on super bowl sunday. turns out didn't have to shut it down in the first place. why this should be a wake-up

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pete: check out this video a los angeles county health inspectorcaught on camera dancir shutting down a brewery on super bowl sunday. hoping this is a wake-up call for city and state leaders. >> stuff they have been doing isn't working. we need to allow people to be able to go back inside. we need to be able to allow people to have a beer without having to buy a meal. it's killing us. it's killing us small business people. i'm hoping that this maybe is the changing point where people see what happened on this and maybe things will change and get

better for us. i hope so. pete: radio host and iheart media correspondent steven gregory shared the security footage on twitter which i believe you got from the owner and he joins us now. steven, thank you so much for being here. what is it about the power of that image the shutdown shuffle or the nerdy bureaucrat dance that get under our skin when we know what it is all about? >> i think the reason it resonates, pete, is because just moments before you see that woman dancing, she had just ordered the brewery to shut down. and i think there is that lay is a fair kind of attitude that perhaps she enjoyed it or this is the dance on the grave of the businesses. that's the way some people characterized it. it's resonating with people. this is part of a bigger problem. it's the disconnect between government officials and those people on the frontlines that are trying to keep their businesses open. pete: that's exactly right. totally detached from the realities of what business owners have to do. of course, this city inspector

is getting paid no matter. what isn't getting laid off being paid by tax dollars. 11:00 a.m. super bowl sunday goes to a brewery and finds joy shutting that business down on a day it's going to need business. >> comes in and just so everyone knows the rules are up to that point that you have to have a food truck if you were going to have in person dining or in person drinking in this case they didn't have to have it that day they were doing retail sales they were selling beer to go. when the inspector came in and flashed her badge and said you have to shut down right now. so the employee called the owner. the owner secretary of defense no, that's not right. we are doing retail sales. so when the owner got on the phone with the inspector and said you need to call your supervisor. she stepped outside and are had a conversation with her supervisor she realized she was wrong. by then it was too late. they shut down the business ruining super bowl sales that inspector went in as you see. what you don't see she goes over to the cabinet and shelves and

put her hand on the barware and going through merchandise and see her wipe her hands and do her little dance. meanwhile the employees in the back 11 pages of documents that have to be posted at the entrance of the restaurant. pete: it's sick. it's sick. and inspector was wrong. i mean, it goes with the principle small thief dom the more actively you we would your power and election flexibility willing to show. she goes in there, doesn't know her own rules. then insist on finding a way to shut down as opposed to maybe giving the benefit of the doubt or waiting to find out because there is conflicting information and then dances when she is wrong even though she doesn't know at that point yet that she is wrong. is this indicative of l.a. county? it's california politicians and bureaucrats and how they view shutdowns versus small business us? >> oh, boy. we don't have enough time to get into all of that because i will tell you that people here in the county have had -- business owners have had enough of this clamp down. and it seems since this story

first came out and i have been reported on it since day one of the pandemic, i get a lot of restaurant owners and business owners come to me and tell me their stories of being hassled and harassed by county health supervisors and how they seem to be fixated on just a small few. i'm told there are 33,000 licensed restaurants and tasting rooms in the los angeles county area. so i know that the inspectors can't gte to every one of them. it seems like they always pick just a few of them and just go after them repeatedly. and since the story came out i have more and more people coming out of the woodwork wait a minute, i was told this and told that. it's not even clear how many other businesses. this particular inspector and others just like her have been giving misinformation. pete: to what end runs around the brewery putting her grubby hands over everything as if there is no pandemic she got to shut them down in the process. steven gregory thank you so much for bringing there to life. you exposed this on your twitter feed. we are grateful you did. we reached out to the los angeles county department of public health but we have not

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steve: you bet. do you know what? you lived in seattle for so long the town you grew up in is not the seattle you remember. >> no, not at all. you know, seattle today and i was just there. i just got back from seattle a couple days ago. right now, you know, when you elect a governor and mayor continue to run the city and turn it loose to blm and antifa and they continue to destroy property like they a business last sunday they destroyed of course nordstrom's windows downtown for no apparent reason and then there is no consequences and we have a city attorney in seattle that turns its back on business people, and let's these people just run wild in the city and destroy property, seattle, unfortunately, is circling the drain as we speak. steve: i know when we were talking to you when you were still in seattle, you said i can't believe what's going on

with antifa and all the demonstrations and the violence and things like that. ultimately, you had it up to here. you decided to move down to arizona. because you have got connections to arizona. much the same way, joey, that a lot of people from here in the northeast are looking south to florida, because not only is the weather much better, but the tax situation is better. and for you in arizona, governor doocy, who spells his last name different than i do. he knows that the importance of business arizona has welcomed you and other businesses with open arms governor ducey set up new economic authority run by a woman that's a visionary and the type of that is coming to arizona number one semiconductor producer in the country.

loose and mortars will come in and compete against tesla. you know sandra watson, the president of the economic wants to bring new industry into the state. she is dynamic this state has so much to offer. i will tell you have never been happier to be in a place that is receptive and encourages new businesses to come in and rolls out the red carpet quite frankly. it's a great feeling, especially having to put up for the last 10 months with under achievers like jenny durkan and governor ducey and then you have got members and congress people that have not never done anything for our city in seattle. steve: that is why you had it up to there and got the heck out. joey, good luck to you there in arizona and keep in touch. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. steve: all right. he is a lot happier since he moved to arizona.

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wind chill. very cold across the south and the southern plains and, again, not only just one day event, it's a several day event. and that's why we have such dangerous weather conditions. our next winter storm moving through texas. we have got ice in south texas, moving through louisiana, mississippi, arkansas. here's the forecast track as it pushes across the gulf coast in the southern plains, up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast where we could also get measurable snow thursday into friday. we will continue to track it. ainsley back to you, my friend. ainsley: all right. good deal. thank you so much. janice. we are back. we are continuing our conversation about the push to get our children back in schools and in sports with these pennsylvania parents and teachers. thank you all for being here. we talked a little bit about how it's affecting each ever your families. but, in this hour, i would love to hear what your biggest concerns are. beth ann, have you had an excellent point about minority student and your concern there. >> thank you. my biggest concern right now with this whole situation is the

disproportionate impact on our low income and some of our minority children. in my district, we have done a right-to-know request to take a look at the data to see how kids are doing. and we're seeing across the board that kids are failing more classes, attendance is down from where it has been in previous years. but more concerning is the disproportionate impact on minority students. they are failing at a rate of about 26% higher than their white counterparts students. our district is trying. i mean, they are doing a lot of things to bring in the high needs kids, to bring in special ed kids; however, it's not enough. but the data is showing us that these kids are falling further and further behind. and in this time when social justice and equity are of paramount importance, the fact that our schools are not open five full days for our most vulnerable students is unconscionable. i mean, you look at -- you talk about new york city, here in philadelphia, they have not been open a single day for in person

instruction. these kids may not have the resources, their families may not have the resources to help get them caught up. and i stay up at night worrying about what's going to happen to this whole generation of children? ainsley: right. they are almost out of school for a year. >> exactly. ainsley: many of them the parent are working. if they have the option to go watch tv or sit in front of their computer and do zoom, many of them are going to choose to go watch tv. they are not learning. >> absolutely. they may not. ainsley: go ahead, clarice. >> on beth an's point, the social economic divide is deeper and wider now with the school closures and why i say that is the parents that have the means to put their children in private schools where they are functioning five days a week perfectly fine, really no traces of in school transmission, they have the means to put them in these private schools. the issue is the parents that don't have those means where these children that desperately

need in person instruction, their parents can't give it to them financially. they don't have the means. they are left struggling. ainsley: right. >> and falling behind. it's troubling because now we're looking at an even greater divide in our youth and even greater divide in our nation even down to the level of education one kid gets to go to school because they are in this county. or they are in that county. one kid gets to go because their parents have enough money to send them to private school. this cannot continue. if we are -- taxpayers, if we are paying the taxes, we should be given the service. ainsley: you are paying for it and not getting it. paul, i have seen you shake your head a lot. during this commercial break you started this pack bucks county for leadership. helping get bucks county back to school. a lot of the schools are in

including your two children. you are fielding a lot of phone calls from parents since you started this pac? what are they saying? you are saying the ones with the special needs those are the toughest conversations to have. why? >> absolutely. we as parents contact saying i have a severely autistic student my kid has reverted from 3rd grade reading throfl kindergarten over the last three months. this is a sixth grade student with severe autism. so, you know, i talk to that parent i said why tonight you run for school board? he is going to run for school board and he threw his hat in the ring. he said paul, what do i do? how do i do this? i said look we are going to show you how to do it train you and say here is what you want to do to throw your hat into the ring because us need to do this for your son. when you hear those kinds of calls, it's the not just the socioeconomic divide. when you hear about the kids with special needs and their inability to socialize and really regress, oh by the way some of these kids have been back now for a couple months in school? guess what? it hasn't come back.

that's each the worst part. that's the scariest part that there is permanent damage getting done to these kids. ainsley: jason, i want to talk to you from a student's perspective. how does this effect you emotionally? >> i feel like i have a lot more anxiety as like since we started this whole quarantine with the school. a lot more pressure. especially for like being a senior and trying like to get schools to give me a scholarship because they are holding back because like some kids are classified or got held back to do another year. it's just like very stressful and some days you could have like a nice day, other days you could feel like you are on the bottom and like nobody cares. ainsley: i have heard people say they were always able to sleep through the night until this. and they are waking up in the middle of the night. they are anxious. their grades are going down. you are finding that? >> yeah. my grades went down a lot. it's a lot harder.

and then sleeping part, i like to sleep. so i have been sleeping fine. so, yeah. ainsley: all right. we hope you get back. i know you are a football player. thank you, guys. chat with you all continuously throughout the morning. okay, millions of homes in texas looking more like freezers after three days without power. and now a furniture super store is opening up their doors once again to help texans stay warm. we will talk to the owner of mattress mac coming up next. ♪ ♪♪ for every trip you've been dreaming of, expedia has millions of flexible booking options. because the best trip is wherever we go together.

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steve: mattress mac has opened his door after hurves harvey and katrina. now he is back turning his showrooms into heated shelters for those without power in their freezing homes. and jim also known as mattress mac joins us from his showroom. welcome back. >> great to be on with you. tough time in texas. we will get through it. we have a lot of citizens that have been sleeping here all night. and so a lot of people without power and electricity and lights. we opened the showroom as a shelter for people to come and get warm and get a good night's sleep. steve: indeed you did. in fact, you know, across texas

you have got 3 or 4 million people. you didn't say you have to live in houston. you just said if you are cold, come here and i know you have been sleeping there the last night or two, right? >> yeah. i have been sleeping here on one of these tempur-pedic mattresses. i slept great even though i slept very little. a lot of customers are sleeping on tempur-pedic mattresses on couches. we have lots of food and a warm welcoming place. a lot of people are obviously traumatized. their homes are cold. they have no lights, no water, no electricity. it's been a tough last couple days and it will be a tough two days coming. we will get through. this and we are here to benefit the community. that's what we have always done. our job is to -- we have a spoonsability for the well being of the community and trying to live up to that. steve: sure, as we look at one of your showrooms. you have got all that furniture. that people are sitting n their houses. but their houses are cold. and have you got all those mattress he is so, you know, back in the day, back first with katrina, when you were inviting

people from louisiana over you did it. now you continue that. why did you do it? what in your heart said i'm going to open my showrooms to everybody who needs a place? >> you know, my parents always taught me that the essence of living is giving. i have tried to live that life and teach to my children and my grandchild who was out here yesterday. she is learning that the essence of living is giving. so, we have an obligation to help the community and not just responsibility but an obligation. and with things like this happen, our team members rally around us and we all get together and help people that are in need. steve: sure. what are the folks telling you? >> you know, they are telling us that they are glad to be here. they like the food. they like the mattresses. they like the fact that they are out of the cold. and then a lot of them are leaving early this morning to go to work. so, you know, it's kind of a community thing. and we're just glad to have these people here. and we're going to welcome in hundreds more over the next several days and anybody and everybody are welcome. come here and get a nice hot

meal. get a good place to sit down. we have lots of comfortable sofas and mattress he is that they can enjoy while they are here. we are indeed a furniture store that's here to make a profit. here to make a difference and make lives better in the community. steve: absolutely. when people need a mattress they remember that guy he opened the doors he gave us a meal? good man his name is jim mcinvale also known as mattress mac. sir, thank you very much. >> thanks, steve. we are keeping the faith. we will get through this together. y'all have a great day. steve: you as well. thank you, sir. he's great. all right. straight ahead. president biden hearing the message from students and parents across the nation. his new goal on schools coming up. ♪

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ainslie has been dispatched 90 minutes to the southwest of us in the city of brotherly love. ainsley: that is right to all of you at home, talking about opening up our schools, we had a panel in virginia a few months ago and this week in philadelphia with parents outraged and worried about their students. i know you haven't had a chance to talk but let me go -- we didn't talk in the last segment, lisa has been an ongoing voice, we were just chatting, your read about kids who play sports, cheerleaders are depressed, what else are you seeing? >> this is an unacceptable situation. before anything happens to our children we don't want to lose any of them. our party second letters to officials, we've not heard back

from one. where are they? get these kids back in school. we want the sport to be played the way the sport is supposed to be played and we went the covid-19 site out of the high school. ainsley: what are they doing with vaccinations? >> our high school is the covid-19 vaccination site, currently still all virtual land we have no sports program. we are the only school in the county not to have sports but they opened it for mass covid-19 vaccination site but couldn't open it for the kids. ainsley: they can't get the schools clean enough for kids to go back yet they are opening up the schools to people who are older, don't have anything to do with the school to get there vaccination. >> it is already open. it is functional. it is going on. ainsley: priorities need to be in a different facility and

bring kids back. we will hear from more of our panel, parents and students coming up. pete: you are given a voice to the voiceless and these are the conversations we need to hear with so many interests on the other side. on a related angle to the story, peter doocy is outside the white house as joe biden holds his first townhall. >> reporter: the biden team tallied of the inventory last month. 1 million people were getting the shot every day, but president biden remembers things differently. >> we came into office with no backlog, there was nothing in the refrigerator. >> reporter: teachers prioritized for vaccination, claiming many want to work through the summer which would

to be consistent with the administration's late spring return. >> his goal that he said is to have the majority of schools, 50% open by day 100 of his presidency. one day a week, hopefully more. >> reporter: when asked about it, president biden has been asked about it. >> those schools may only be open for one day a week. >> that is not true. that was a mistake in communication. k through eighth grade. the goal is 5 days a week. >> reporter: president biden as recollection that there was no vaccine when he took office, at a michigan pfizer plant where the vaccine doses were off the rolling talk.

pete: thank you very much. why isn't the goal 100% of schools open in 100 days? there are changes. let's talk a little bit about what is going on. a big story for the last 3 days is bitter cold weather across portions of texas and the plane states. the coldest day in dallas-fort worth since 1949 and the problem is when you look at the electrical infrastructure, because of the supercold, how wind turbines, half of them were locked out because of the ice storm. they are not generating

anything, causing electricity to plunge to 8% from 42% and natural gas and coal generators ramped up to cover the supply but could not meet the demand and some gas wells and pipelines froze. so many things have gone wrong, a cascading effect, trying to figure out what went wrong a similar situation ten years ago in texas, this will never happen and yet it is happening again. the governor wants to get to the bottom of it. >> texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy like natural gas and oil and nuclear as well as wind but you saw wind and solar got shut down and collectively more than 10% of our power grid, that thrust texas into a situation on a statewide basis, spread out by the organization you were talking about. it shows fossil fuel is necessary for the state of texas and other states.

to heat our homes in the winter time and cool our homes in the summer time. ainsley: chuck is on our show quite a good bit, he was an assemblyman in california who decided to move to texas because he wanted to save on taxes and he lived in california but for the first time he is seeing a little bit of california now with what happened in the winter in texas. listen to this. >> what is happening is wind and solar producers in texas and across the country are not responsible to produce power when it is needed. that is not valued in america. we take it for granted. the more wind and solar on the grid, unless it is backed up with natural gas plants, surround waiting to be used with these huge battery farms, what is going to happen is

california style blackouts will become increasingly common throughout the entire country, texas experienced a little bit of california and it is not good. people are dying. pete: my turn. absolutely. it is easy to talk green energy and renewables when everything is working fine, when you enter a mini ice age for 3 days you need that base. pete: green energy is great when it works. pete: there was a big political haymaker thrown in the middle of the day, donald trump to game at mitch mcconnell. >> a line from spinal tap, lashing out at your opponents of declarations of war.

the save america directed at senate minority leader saying mentions unsmiling political hack and they will not win again. sources tell fox news the statement was a response to mcconnell's wall street journal op-ed where mcconnell wrote there is no question donald trump bears more responsibility, his supporters storm the possible -- the world's largest megaphone. mcconnell may have drawn first blood. minutes after writing to a quick trump he suggested the former president could be criminally prosecuted. a far cry from when they worked together putting conservatives on the bench and now senator lindsey graham says it will hurt the gop. >> mitch mcconnell working with donald trump did a helluva job. they are at each other's roads.

if mitch mcconnell doesn't understand that he is missing a lot. >> who is one of first candidates to fill the test? it will be next november for lisa murkowski, she is the only senator up for reelection who voted to convict trump. >> thank you for quoting spinal tap and so you have this family feud inside the republican party at the highest levels with the former president versus the former majority leader and mitch mcconnell clearly no longer majority leader and because he did not help to the satisfaction of a lot of republicans in georgia, you can't trust what they are doing and ultimately polls showed a lot of people didn't show up. we are a few days after the

impeachment and his acquittal and interesting to see how this progress is as the family feud continues for months or will it be weeks. as lindsey graham said, republicans cannot win going forward until they are united. >> as far as aoc is concerned, joe biden reporting a lot of policies, the republican party is fractured, they have to come together and be united for the midterms, the presidency and four years perhaps but they are divided and donald trump doesn't surprise me that he came back and hit hard, we have seen that happen in the past but people are wondering what the direction of the republican party is going to be now.

70% of dependents want to third party, 68% of republicans are interested, 63 are interested and another party as well. fascinating to watch how republicans try to unite if they want to win. pete: 63 is a large portion who would leave the republican party if the republican party left trump and that is the reality mitch mcconnell, liz cheney and others are making, they want to break from the trump era, and the base of the republican party to donald trump and lindsey graham, maga plus for the party, keep the best parts of trumpism, what he did and building upon that. think what the economy looks like before covid-19. it was historic and you get people to remember the policies

that got us there, mitch mcconnell is making a bet he can't win, he has lobbyists and delete but if you go to middle america and talk to republicans, he knows that. >> when you remove the personality and talk simply about the ideology of the republican party going forward, people who answered the poll said they would like the party to be more conservative. used to be more conservative, they would like to see it going forward becoming more conservative. go ahead. ainsley: if there is a third party and some republicans go with a more conservative and some go with the moderate that is still divided and democrats will win. pete: the independents would be the giant second party moving forward.

a parent living on the east side of new york. the eastside community high school, mark feldman, a survey to parents, asking them to identify their level of whiteness and it had this graph of eight white identities, extreme white supremacists to white abolitionists, in between, i will tell you what it says. on the far left, white supremacist followed by white voyeurism, white privilege, white benefit, white confessional, white critical, white trader, and far right, white abolitionists. they say it was simply food for thought meant for reflection, a lot of people are angry. ainsley: you are targeting one group and that is your way of tackling racism.

of former vanderbilt university professor says this is hurting our children. >> the greatest threat to american society is coming from diverse city, equity, inclusion, industry, based in critical race theory. they are talking about teaching white people to hate themselves, especially the younger ones, they have been ashamed. teachers are being encouraged to teach nonsense and justify by saying it is fighting racism and ethnic minorities, it is harming everyone's child. >> critics say it is nice to learn mathematics, let's learn shakespeare, english, history, we don't want to get bogged

down with all this stuff. we are all god's children, i love everyone, we will teach my daughter, and we love everybody, we are all in this together. pete: math can be racist because the right answer is a form of white supremacy, people are saying no more shakespeare blue shakespeare himself being canceled is the latest one on the list. surprised it took this long to get to him but if the department of education in new york was asked about the eight white identities curriculum, the document in question was shared with the school by parents as part of ongoing antiracist community is one of many resources the school utilizes, targeting with vile, racist, degrading language from

people outside their school, that is deflection if i have ever seen it turning to the critics. think how damaging it is in this case to white kids who are told they are evil because of the color of their skin and that was done to black children for far too long, you don't undo a sin, and that is true in this case. you're making skin color the focus whether it is black or white, that is critical race theory as opposed to the content of your character and how to help everyone achieve. don't get why educators can't figure that out. steve: that is one of the surveys they sent out from the school but you would like to hear what is going on. time for this. >> reporter: us marshals increase the reward as the search intensifies for the person of interest and the yellow graduate student's murder. kevin j i a in g was found dead, they are looking for a to

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i feel like this is the thing everyone is talking about. ainsley: i watched the special. it is doocy one 23. you watch it and realize she's got tens of millions of dollars, why isn't she in charge of her own affairs and she has said because she is standing against her father. until he stopped being the conservator i am not going to perform. gravy train stops. pete: it is 2007 when it went sideways with the umbrella and all that. at this point. >> the paparazzi all over her.

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>> joe biden's controversial immigration plan doesn't just apply to deportation, we heard the administration is taking on words too. according to an internal memo ice officials were told to stop using terms like illegal alien, replace them with more inclusive language. on her and journalist douglas

murray. break this down. this is more than just words. what are they doing when they change those words? >> they are taking the words, the current words used are hostile to migrants. you soften the language or change the language, make it a different outcome. i'm not sure about that. the set of changes they have done, to undocumented individual, to see how that is going to have the effect they might wish. it is an interesting situation they are in. the problem is america is such a desirable immigration point, concerning many people around the world. so many with the look american

citizens half. to write about how you deal with that, it is a strange thing when the left returns the language game because they can't face up to the reality that millions of people still can't come, undocumented, alien or anything else was the big problem is the opportunity. pete: the situation is the rosen of citizenship, that ideas problematic. i would pay money to watch you go through unconscious bias training. i tried unconscious bias training. shockingly it proved a woke fraud. corporate hr department doing the same thing across america. in the uk what do you find? >> the biden administration refers to the trump

administration -- i decided to do the test that was being rolled out. we might be used to the idea that's people in government services, it is very interesting. i decided to submit myself for a couple hours and i learned quite a lot not least about fraud in general. it cost me $100 but it is interesting that people focus on the way in which bias training sessions, they tried to focus on everything. i was told that i should question the notion that older people know more than younger people. in giving people jobs and

interview process is there might be a tendency to view women as more maternal figures than men, i wonder why society might have impressed that notion. detector is once you focus on the way these unconscious bias training to make it worth -- they tried to rewire your brain, everything that you know. pete: congratulations on your new advanced degree. >> i've got it framed. pete: douglas murray, appreciate it. business owners, to block his party's progressive agenda, a live report from the mountain state coming up next. and honest great conversation with parents and students in philadelphia this morning on getting back in class.

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senate, joe manchin is needed to get through a progressive agenda but voters hope manchin will stand against it. live from morgantown, west virginia, here is more. >> some passionate people, beautiful scenery. i talked with a number of voters. a hotel and a beer and wine disturbing company. about 20 miles from here in the mountains. he does not think a new targeted relief package needs to have a $15 minimum wage in it, he does not want senator manchin to do that or a plane check mail out to other states. >> a lot of forces falling different ways, to stand up for what is american. what they are looking to do on

every front is in west virginia. >> reporter: in morgantown you have the same feeling. for the last 45 years he has made custom leather products. he worries the administration will target the energy industry killing vital jobs in the state. >> everybody is pushing alternative energy and that is great. i am all for that but it will be a long road to the get to the point that we have enough of that to completely offset what we have now. >> reporter: mcewan worries canceling the permit for the keystone pipeline will mean there will be no federal permits for the proposed mountain valley natural gas pipeline which comes to west virginia. that would kill vital jobs, voters want their senator to stand up for economic growth

for newfound political power. ainsley: it will cost more for electricity and power. extreme weather in chicago, winter storm warning in effect across much of the country, the storm the last couple days killed 20 people across the united states since sunday. workers in wisconsin to clear 18 inches of new snow. pete: icy roads, semitruck sliding off and oklahoma highway. janice dean tracking this storm and more to come. >> janice: i am concerned across the southern states with another winter storm and cold temperatures. people who don't have power have to find somewhere to get warm, we have temperatures in the teens and 20s and the further north you go below 0. this is a dangerous arctic dome

of high-pressure bringing cold temperatures and snow on the ground will not melt anytime soon. 73% of the country is covered in snow. only a couple states don't have snow cover and more on the way. this is the next storm system bringing snow and ice to texas, louisiana, arkansas, there are yours winter storm warnings. another big winter system will impact these areas that cannot take this winter weather and the ice as well very dangerous. next to impossible to travel. we will keep you up to date. ainsley: we are back with pennsylvania parents and students discussing the importance of getting children back in the classrooms, two best friends on the front row, football players, he living with his grandmother 15 minutes a to be back in school and playing sports.

the new coach, great football player, you had to make all new friends. >> it has been fun. ainsley: you are back on the football field. and you are not able to play, he only lives 15 minutes away. the young age and invested my life in the game. i am happy for him, nice to see him prosper, but nice seeing him. i will take the happiness feeling of him. jillian: you are a good friend to say that. you are worried about the community community, you feel your voices are not being heard for that reason. >> a lot of minorities go

through norristown and it is like they don't care about us. they care about if you are going to school i wouldn't think they would call anymore. ainsley: you started a pack to get the county back in the classroom. what percentage of parents want to be back in school? >> 80-20. in any county you go into, even the district themselves it is 80-20. this is not a partisan issue. republicans and democrats alike, this is one of those rare issue there is real common ground. it is not a 50/50 issue. kids health and mental health is important. doesn't matter where you go, you see the same number over and over. local officials need to understand, i am surprised they

are so silent with such a massive majority on the side of pro-open. ainsley: what do you find? >> i agree with what paul said. school closures of two private issue, unions strong-arming districts but also 65 counties in pennsylvania and every single elected official is publicly silent, governor, state rep, senator, school board, publicly silent, we've not heard one single thing after letters, phone calls over and over. we have this 2-pronged issue but what i can't understand is we know there is a greater pandemic going on. why are we allowing the union to strong arm, having silent public officials and where i

see keeping kids in school is a statewide thing, i'd be leave families and even children should have a seat at the table just as strong as the union. we don't plan on going anywhere, - >> with what she was saying. it is interesting with what is going on with the teachers union. in pennsylvania, most in the commonwealth belong to that union. i talk to teachers and they tell me they want to be back in school 5 days a week. they don't like the hybrid. difficult to teach kids in the classroom and on zoom and most teachers i talked to don't seem afraid. i am wondering what is the union's agenda, who are they representing? when i talk to their members that's not what i am hearing.

seems to be a disconnect. i will share that earlier, to county officials, i sent that letter at 7:30 in the morning before the game was out. the letter back to the county commissioners imploring them not to change the guidance to three feet. i left a voicemail message for the head of the pennsylvania teachers union and failed to return my call. i can only guess at what their motivation is. >> my biggest concerns are the children in norristown school district. we are so diverse, we feel this district is taking advantage of the disadvantage, they need to do everything they need to to support these children, get them back in school and get them to the next level and

these children feel pushed to the side. ainsley: teachers, unions, what about the teachers? >> they want to go back. they are reaching out to us by the hundreds, can we please get back in the classroom? we can't give our names, it is incredible. >> hard for them to teach? they love their jobs, their students? >> two things, so hard for them to do hybrid and virtual learning, they are working overtime, night, weekends, it is crazy what some of them are going through. >> doctor siegel will join us after this break with medical questions so we are looking forward to talking to him and having him to answer questions. let's check at the top of the hour. >> thank you for doing that. it opened up a lot of eyes. and major questions about the texas power grid, millions

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ainsley: we are back in pennsylvania with our parents and students. doctor mark siegel is our medical contributor, they have questions about covid-19 and getting back in the classroom.

i have a question from the gentleman in the back. >> a pleasure to speak to you, a voice of reason the whole time. our kids are in bucks county, our local official doctor danziger said 6 feet distance might not be appropriate in schools implemented 3 feet instead. the key to get a lot of kids back here, this question, i would love your opinion on it and how best to proceed. >> i don't like the idea of something cast in stone. i like the idea that bucks county has the lowest rates over the last 7 days they had since november. everything is based on community spread, so here is what i would,6 feet with prolonged contact we don't want

a bunch of robots saying he is 5 feet away from me, i will get him in trouble. we need mental health back especially among our kids. i am okay with 3 feet as long as it is not prolonged contact. we should do 6 feet as the set up for prolonged contact. >> clarice has a question has well. >> an honor to ask you a question was i want you almost every day. they are demanding new ventilation be in place. they have a couple other demands, vaccination, how do you feel about the union demands. what is a realistic demand to go back to school? i feel this moving goalpost that we can't catch up with, changes in 3 day.

i'm curious about that. >> i agree with what you said. i think the unions are playing a negative role putting up too many barriers. there already a lot of things to protect your kids, ventilation, distancing, masking, isolating people who are sick, if you start reinventing the wheel you will never get to back to school. the most important thing is the mental health of our children who are learning remotely and don't have any socialization. now is the time with numbers plummeting and the real statistics are spread within schools is extremely low and spread in the community is higher so we need to overcome this and the teachers union should not be leading the way. ainsley: lisa has a question. >> the children in norristown high school do not have sports program.

how does that work physically or mentally? >> that is a great question. the mental part of this is being overlooked, school sports are about buddy up, making friends, learning a team approach. i'm a fan of getting back there. whether his contact or not contact, wearing a mask, all of these precautions, things like overall sports have to take place since very rarely do we see transmission among school athletes especially where there is very little spread. i say start the school sports. kids learn from their coaches, they learn from each other. ainsley: mason, you have a question for doctor siegel as

well. >> students sitting down all day virtually. what does it do to their muscles as they are sitting down, to their blood, and something they could do to improve whatever is going on with their body? >> spoken like a true athlete. when kids are sitting down their immune system is down. we need exercise, kids walking around more, we need physical education back. if you are on a sports team, we need physical activity throughout the day, that helps you fight off all kinds of infections including covid-19. i'm a huge fan of that. >> we are a fan of yours for coming on and all of them are right. you have been wonderful throughout all of this. you are a dear person to be with us. thank you to our panel.

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>> i would like to thank bill gates for giving pete and i something to talk about during the commercials. he said everybody should eat synthetic beef. pete and i for the last three hours during the commercials have talked about how to make the perfect steak. >> we've been listening to an amazing group of parents and kids talking about the choices they want in schools. great job. >> bill: indeed. >> the funny thing is we're hearing more about the burger and impossible burger during the commercial breaks. i'm being told do not eat those. they are made out of all kinds of stuff you shouldn't put in

your body. i used to like them. now i won't eat them anymore. >> nothing beats a good steak and the best way to make it is with a cast iron frying pan on the grill. come on back home and see you back here tomorrow. have a great wednesday. >> thanks. >> bill: fox news alert. second winter storm sweeping across the country with dozens of states under winter weather advisories. comes after the first storm knocked out electricity to millions raising questions about the failing grid and frozen wind turbines in texas as we say good morning from a warm studio in new york. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino, this is "america's newsroom." we were going to talk all about the texas issue. last night when joe biden gave his first town hall as president the issue of energy and climate did not come up. >> bill: never came