mac extreme weather alert. overnight a tornado was is the latest to touchdown amid a dozen outbreaks across the deep south. emergency crews morning residents to stay home. the pictures coming in our unreal. you are watching "fox and friends first". carley: at least we 5 people were killed in alabama, a dozen tornadoes reported in the state alone. the violent storms destroying homes, trees and power lines. a police officer was struck by lightning while setting up the

flashlight barricade. he is conscious and responsive. turning to the white house, president biden holding his first official press conference since taking office. >> he held chi-chi's as he addressed topics including his plans for 2024. jillian turner joins us live from washington with more. jillian: at the inaugural white house briefing president biden made some major political news. let's break it down for you. he fully expects to run again for reelection in 2024. kamala harris will be his running mate, did he anticipate running against donald trump, he was not sure they would be a republican party three years from now. >> my predecessor, i miss him. my plan is to run for reelection, that is my expectation. >> reporter: donald trump weighed in on fox is telling laura in graham the press saved

softball, and reporters sent them questions in advance. let's look at a rundown of the major issues of the day. reported left out yesterday. didn't ask the president about the coronavirus and vaccines and covid 19 origins or reopening schools, the mass shooting in boulder and gun control, russia, taxes, the keystone pipeline. he was asked about voting reform measures being proposed on both sides of the aisle and took the opportunity to slam republican lawmakers. >> it is sick. it is sick. deciding in some states there will be no absentee ballots. >> reporter: something else the president was asked multiple times about, his plans for the filibuster reform. an issue not many americans outside washington have top of mind amid the global pandemic

but he saw it is an outdated relic of the jim crow era. >> we should go back to a position of the filibuster that existed when i came to the united states senate 20 years ago. i have a card, you probably know them, it was abused in a gigantic way. >> reporters circled back and repressing him on the issue he refused to drop the hammer. >> let's figure out how to get this done, significantly changing the abuse of the filibuster rule. >> they came close to eliminating the filibuster. >> i answered the question. >> he doubled his goal for vaccinated americans, his goal is 200 million shots which is just 100 million more in just over a month, he is on day 65.

>> thank you so much. the president pressed on the crisis at the border, the migrant surge happening under his watch. >> jackie ibanez joins us as republicans plan to visit the texas mexico border. good morning. >> from the beginning of joe biden's presidency he promised transparency and double down. one problem, he's offering very little of it asking for months to go inside packed facilities. when pushed on the press conference, here's what president biden had to say. >> to have access to the facility. >> as soon as i'm in a position for what we are doing right now, my folks have gone down, i don't want to become the issue.

>> how soon will that be? >> i don't know. to be clear. >> dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas said they are going to encounter more in 20 years. nothing has changed except, quote, there is a nice guy in the white house. >> i should be flattered people are coming because i'm a nice guy. nothing has changed. the reason they are coming is the time they could travel with lease likelihood of dying on the way, the heat of the desert. >> donald trump weighed in on the press conference saying this about the border crisis. >> what you are doing and seeing now is inhumane, children and people, tremendous number of children living on top of each other in squalor. this is squalor. >> ted cruz and john cornyn will

take a group of colleagues on the texas mexico border. us representative joaquin castro and democratic congressman holding 700 teenage boys in texas. jillian: let's bring in district media group beverly hallberg. the big question is how did president biden to? many in the media responded -- >> if you look at his full comment did a good job pushing back on a couple things. >> he gave a humane answer and said he would not, turn and unaccompanied minor away. >> what is your take? >> he did laugh at himself occasionally and also lost his train of thought. these journalists and these pundits said about the

president, depends on your view of politics and your partisanship. looking at this as a whole we want our president to speak well at these press conferences, and signal strength to our friends and enemies, sadly i think he missed the mark. a binder of notes. a list of reporters to call on, written by his handlers. he contradicted himself calling it a racist tool, that was in the senate. there were a lot of contradictions in what he said photo to say he had this out of the park i would say there was a low bar to start with. i give them a d on this performance. it was lacking in many ways.

>> a binder of questions, kristin walker did press the president on the crisis at the border and the president says i will come it to that you have access to not just then but other facilities as well and interestingly enough here is what jake tapper had to say. >> a generous paraphrase but once we fix it, news media and the american people until we fix the problem. >> it seems based on what you are saying, those who are frustrated by lack of transparency at the border, calling him out now and it seems rightfully so. >> it is rightfully so, going to

give transparency but not a timeline. that is not transparency, he is contradicting himself. kristin at nbc was the first to ask a tough question and a follow-up really pressed him. the question jake tapper talked about, it was about them and the media whether they have access, and other information the president got wrong. >> in fairness i don't think the media portrays this as being about themselves but we are the eyes and ears of the public. >> i completely agree, the press should be brought in but this was the only tough questions they asked. i wish they pushed more on other topics but they tended to come back with pushback, they accepted the questions and went on to a new topic.

jillian: maybe i am spoiled by the number of questions donald trump would usually take, the topics they got to there were not that many. it was a little over an hour, definitely a different scenario, they weren't able to cover a lot. i want to get to the topic if we have time. the heads of facebook, google, and immigration, legal immigrants were coordinating on facebook and what's apps across the border. listen to that exchange. >> using your platform to

coordinate operations into the united states. >> we are taking steps to stop it. the situation at the border is serious and we are taking it seriously. jillian: is that a good enough answer? >> are they going to take steps to mitigate this problem? what's apps has come up in the news before, talking about being a program china can hack into, there is concern about what's apps as a whole. a lot of questions being discussed, the problems with facebook and twitter is government the best way to deal with the problem, mrs. things up, doesn't help but there are major concerns i hope the free market can solve some of it. let's turn to a fox news alert, the shooting leaves a police officer heard and the security

guard seriously injured in chicago. police say the gunmen opened fire after stealing from a home depot. the officer was shot in the shoulder. the officer killed the suspect in the shooting. he is expected to make a full recovery. the new york attorney general and governor andrew cuomo impeachment probe, receiving special access to covid-19 tests. the governor, his brother and chris cuomo, a top pharmaceutical executive giving priority testing when the pandemic first started. cnn also facing backlash for defending the preferential treatment after releasing a statement saying chris acted as, quote, any human being would. carley: a firefighter reveals a hidden talent. ♪♪

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jillian: the crisis at the southern border increasing is an unprecedented amount of unaccompanied minors tenuous care. at california foster parents say they were asked to take in one

to 26 migrant children. joining me to discuss that shocking request, foster parent travis and charla call. good morning to you both. jillian: i should be thinking you for being foster parents. you have such big hearts. i will start with you. what is it like, this email asking you to take 26 children. >> i was concerned charlotte.the initial call. >> i will go ahead and answer. i got the answer. i checked the voicemail, there's an emergency call from the licensing department wanting to know how many beds you have available. at first i dismissed it thinking

we already have this, why do i need to respond but i decided to reach out to my worker and ask should this be something? one emergency we don't know about, a lot of families are calling, not sure what it is and heard back from our supervisor. i checked my email and that is where it gave what is available, to click on this link so i'm looking at these numbers, 10 larger numbers, just doesn't make sense because normally the maximum amount is six, they don't like to go above that.

jillian: you usually, the maximum number is 6 so you didn't know at the time they were talking about illegal immigrants coming into foster care and i will ask you there is a bit of a foster crisis because there are more kids in california that were born in america that need foster care so to add a whole group of kids from another country exacerbates the problem more. >> the stats are 30,000 in los angeles county alone in the foster system, 60,000 in california and 30,000 children at the border that add that to the number. 30,000 in los angeles alone, it is shocking. jillian: many people pointed out

these children are victims themselves, victims of human trafficking from cartels. >> absolutely. 100%. >> a human trafficking organization. >> funds that go to human trafficking and that is traffic. >> thank you for anything you do. >> it underlines the need with all these kids coming from other countries. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having us. one thing we discovered. the website, with child services, we came across a bill

that in 1990, federal immigration reform act of 1986 - the bill allows -- the foster system. jillian: we are about to hit black. we will get that information at some point.

>> a perfect storm, anti-police rhetoric causing law enforcement to plummet nationwide as crime rates soar. police warning this could affect your family's safety. patrick, thank you for joining me this morning. >> thank you for having me. jillian: as we pull up the

numbers the total officers, the numbers thinking and shrinking. how much concern is this? >> let me start by saying facing these challenging times, despite the rhetoric in communities across america making a difference in the lives of communities they serve. you see that in colorado. jillian: how much long-term effects could this have? how long would it take to rebound, to keep communities across the country. >> almost a perfect storm, lack of people, best and brightest wanting to go into law enforcement but law enforcement officers have a tremendous amount of experience hanging it up, retiring early and instability within our

profession is causing problems and there will be long-term impacts on our ability to develop and protect our communities. jillian: how long does it take to build up recruitment again. people are seeing what is happening on the streets in cities across the country. >> we need to recognize the officers a few years away from getting to the point based on training and field training. they start turning the tide at a higher rate it takes time to fill this, in the profession. jillian: the murder rate per 100,000. more homicides, the largest when you jump in history since 1998.

that has got to be a punch to the gut for you and all the officers on the read. >> all the discussions about destabilizing the law-enforcement profession is having an impact, and having an impact in our communities as well. they are the ones with the highest increase. this is an experiment that makes communities less safe. jillian: thank you for joining us, keep us updated. we will see the numbers increase, the situation we are dealing with. appreciate your time. carley: still ahead la county of liberal da refusing to try juvenile tank member charged with murder as an adult.

jillian: extreme weather alert. the reported tornado overnight leaves a trail of destruction in georgia, significant damage southwest of atlanta. carley: the latest twist related to the outbreak slamming 5 states across the south, 5 people were killed in alabama. a dozen tornadoes were reported in the state alone. janice dean joins us live for the latest. >> the distraction and now deaths being reported across the areas we predicted yesterday would be hard hit. national weather service the great job warning folks, 2 dozen were reported from this time, the storm reports, the concentration of the worst

weather was across central alabama, some of these heavily populated neighborhoods and into georgia southwest of atlanta. you can see the radar, those are the storms, supers also the produce those tornadoes, they categorize the tornadoes, ef want to year 5. we will give you the latest. death and destruction this line of storms. in the atlanta georgia area, and the storms are starting to weaken. and most of this world of offshore. we are not expecting severe weather but the damage is done. as we go into the weekend, another potential risk for severe weather and a tornado

outbreak. we are seeing such terrible damage, devastating and our hearts are breaking, to the south. >> that is what we are waking up to. thanks. new overnight, against the united kingdom, and human rights across the country. >> benjamin hall has the latest. >> every day we see tensions with china continue to rise. in relation to the uk, the treatment of the muslims was genocide. president biden calling out china yesterday for this behavior.

>> stiff competition with china. a leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world and most powerful country in the world. it will not happen on my watch. >> reporter: china pushing back and say our goal is to meet this for a better life. tensions came to a head at the infamous summit where each side traded barbs and call them out for human rights violations. china feels emboldened now the president biden is in office. >> an absolute embarrassment to the country. i took in billions of dollars from china. we were bringing businesses back and china respected us. nobody ever talked to my group that way. >> reporter: secretary blinken in europe this week, in asia last weekend china. china meeting with its allies in

venezuela, and earlier in the week. these two sides, thank you. carley: the un security council officials will discuss sanctions on north korea. the meeting was requested by the us in response to the rogue nation's missile tests under the biden administration. north korea sharing pictures from a missile launch yesterday. president biden warns responsive if they continue their aggressive weapons test. the boulder mass shooting suspect will be held without bail pending a mental health assessment, he appeared in court for the first time yesterday facing 10 counts of first-degree murder. the prosecutor says he plans to file more charges within weeks. as we learn police arrested a

suspect with the handcuffs used by officer eric talley who was killed in a shooting. the 15-year-old is scheduled for tuesday. the boulder police department is asking people to watch online because of covid 19 restrictions. george gascon stops an effort to prosecutor juvenile murder suspect as an adult. a couple of gangs members allegedly shot and killed 36 times in 2017. and 17 years old at the time of the shooting. >> families suffering another below, andrew cuomo pulled strings to test his family had of others in the early days of the pandemic. new york state senator who lost both sisters to covid 19 in state care facilities.

what is your reaction to this report the governor cuomo put his family in a top political allies ahead of other people? >> it seems unfair. my main focus is more on my sisters and their deaths, goes without saying really. and perfect this bill exposed to the driver, still exposed, the edict still in that they take people back to these group homes. >> residents in disabled care

homes, 553 residents died which is 553 too many. your sisters were part of that number. >> they were sent warning in february, in early march they weren't prepared for the pandemic. that year, that equipment, no one called me and said can't protect -- to hang them out to dry, throw them under the bus and this is still going on. 0 ¢ via code, a federal us code, people with disabilities, not subjected to greater risk than others in the population. go ahead.

jillian: please respond, the covid 19 testing situation, reporting it wasn't just that he reportedly put his family ahead of other people giving them preferential treatment, top health officials went to their homes with questionable use of resources. it is a trifecta. >> a perfect example of abuses of power, not always did he put them ahead of the line, state troopers that transported examples during a pandemic, when the first responders including state troopers were strained he felt this is a priority for gross abuse of power.

jillian: people in nursing homes at the time weren't allowed to be tested before they came back into those facilities. governor cuomo's office responded to these allegations saying we should avoid efforts to rewrite the past in the early days of the pandemic when there was an emphasis on contact tracing going above and beyond. earlier this week the governor responded to a fan who said thank you, i am not going anywhere. how did that make you feel, i'm not going anywhere, darling? >> i'm not aware of that. basically let things take its course. all the investigating going on, will have to displace and as far as my sisters he is responsible for that.

just sums up how i feel, and what happened. give me a couple seconds, i wrote something down. it says new york is called a progressive state. she survived the horrors of new york state underfunding all of them. she lived in that hellhole that geraldo rivera exposed in 1970. she lived there from 1956-1966 age 6 to 16. 's group homes develop, we were proud of the progress new york state made as family members were treated as human beings, failure to protect my sisters and brother and so many others during the crisis has plunged new york into a regression of

indifference to the weakest among us and caused pain and told too many families to the death of their loved ones which in many cases if warnings were heated could have been avoided. where is the justice. that is what i want. jillian: those were powerful words and i'm glad you shared your thoughts with us this morning. thank you for joining us. the time is 42 minutes after the hour. donald trump feeling liberated after being banned from twitter. >> it actually works better. with that being said we may open our own platform. carley: his plan to start a new social media venture. the take on big tech. jillian: nascar getting down and dirty. ashley strohmeyer live outside bristol motor speedway.

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>> reporter: jack dorsey admits it was a mistake blocking the new york post story about hunter biden's email. >> this is not against them in any particular way. >> censoring department for that mistake. >> we don't have a censoring department. >> big tech ceos dodged various questions when asked if they felt responsibility for the attack on capitol hill mark zuckerberg said yes.

jillian: donald trump reveals he may start his own social media platform, telling laura ingraham in an exclusive interview. >> what i'm doing now i almost like it better, i put out statements, picked up by everybody. it works better. we may open up our own platform. >> reporter: the former president adding he's no longer restricted to a character count when he releases statements through his office. start your engines, bristol motor speedway transforms into an old-school track for the nascar cup series. ashley strohmeyer made her way there ahead of the big race.

>> reporter: whatever you want to call it, good morning and good morning from bristol motor speedway. this is located in the middle of the blue ridge and smoky mountains. a couple cool names for this place. in my opinion the coolest thing, let's talk about the dirt, the wind blowing that direction. the last time bristol converted this was in 2001 but the last time was in 1970. let's talk about that dirt. 3 layers from the 2001 dirt races. this tennessee red play. if you put that on screen that staple of it for you, this is very sick.

janice was talking about the rain and all of that. not such a bad thing. what you can expect before you get on a track, you can speculate all you want. you got to do it and see how wet the track is. you can catch the coverage, starts at 3:30 sunday on fox. jillian: a lot of wins, thank you. we will be right back.

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jillian: a major reversal in west virginia, a statement beholden by teachers unions. lawmakers pass the nation's brought a school choice law. joining us is west virginia state senator. this includes applicants will receive 100% of state education dollars in lieu of public schooling, money can be used on private school, tuition, homeschool curriculum and other expenses and support to oversee participants with agreed terms. and school choice in the first place, they were afraid to say so. >> we were the first state to have a teachers strike that closed schools for our kids for

almost two weeks. i feel really terrible because our kids went through two strikes two years in a row and the pandemic has been quite an interruption. most parents and teachers spoke directly to them, they were supported and wanted and teachers unions drowned them out. those who were loudest at the capital, we care about the kids so we oppose all choices for parents. jillian: a statement from policy response, quote, part of the statement anyway, much less virginia can do to improve

educational outcomes for all rather than passing hb 2015. and the resources available to public schools lawmakers can improve opportunity for all. what is your response to that? >> one of the highest in the nation in terms of funding for public education. if you take into account the income of west virginia most of our state does not have high income. 45% of public education, we have increased that money in the last couple years. this isn't about taking anything from public education but focusing on the kids and what is best for the parents, for them that they can choose, for those kids to thrive and it is empowering parents and students to make those decisions.

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>> a fox news alert. a tornado in georgia at the latest to touchdown across the deep south. >> a dozen tornadoes reported in the state alone. >> the violent storms, and the power line struck by lightning when setting up a flash flood barricade. this is a destructive situation. and all the ingredients come together for potential tornadoes and that is what happened. and our prayers to