great news, ashley webster is back. if you can hear me now, you definitely got the best assignment o. week -- [laughter] difficulties aside. >> reporter: there can be no technical difficult des when you're in this environment. you've covered these events before. but here i am. how about this infinity pool? it's on the front end of a luxurious yacht. okay, so it's small, but who cares? you've got a giant luxury yacht, for crying out loud, and in front of it you have the master bedroom. you can look out and see your pool. they're up to 800 boats this year, anywhere from $10,000 for a jet ski all the way up to a luxury yacht that would be $70 million. i want to give you some more stats about the booming sales industry in this mar, in the boating industry. take a looked at this, $47 billion in 2020, and it's not slowed down this year. that is a and-year high -- 13-year high, by the way. of that, 310,000 paddle -- power boats were bought. and i'm going to go downstairs, if we can make our signal work. i'm going to come downs

i'm ashley webster in this evening for elizabeth macdonald. guess what? "the evening edit" tarts right now. -- starts right now. jackie: ashley: president biden telling migrants not to come. arizona sheriffs says the border crisis was triggered by the biden's immigration policies. they want him to foot the bill. our very own hillary vaughn live from maricopa, arizona, with the latest developments. hillary? reporter: hi, ashley. what the sheriffs also tell me they are forced to do a lot more with a lot less because they say the federal government has diverted resources away from them at the same time that they are seeing an unprecedented surge in illegal border crossings in their counties in arizona but all of this has a price tag attached to it. ultimately the person that is paying for that price tag is the taxpayer. the latest analysis we have of the cost of illegal immigration is from 2017. it puts it at $116 billion total every single year. that is about $800 for every taxpayer in the united states. but that was in 2017. in just the past two months loca

a lot to talk about i am ashley webster and for elizabeth macdonald and guess what "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ >> president biden telling migrants don't come as new immigrants of the migrant overflow emerge. arizona shares telling fox business the current border crisis was triggered by biden's immigration policies and they want him to foot the bill. our very own hillary vaughn leifer maricopa euros on a with the very latest developments. >> the sheriffs also tell me they're forced to do a lot more with a lot less because they say the federal government has diverted resources away from them at the same time there seen unprecedented surge in illegal border crossings in their counties in arizona but all of this has a price tag attached to it and ultimately the person paying for the price tag is the taxpayer, the latest analysis of the illegal immigration is the 2017 puts it at $116 billion total every single year that's about $800 for every taxpayer in the united states but that was in 2017. in the past two months local sheriff's tell me they see massive spikes in illegal bord

hi, everybody, i'm ashley webster in for elizabeth macdonald. vening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ashley: okay. let's begin with the secretary of state, antony blinken, sitting down with chinese dip lo at mats in alaska today in their very first face to face meeting. it was two months in the making. are we going to get anything out of it? blake burman is at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: this meeting's been going on for about 45 minutes or so in alaska. let me take you inside the room briefly as both sides have been giving their opening remarks, i guess you could call it. front and center, left side of your screen, tony blinken, the u.s. secretary of state the. right side of the screen, jake sullivan, the national security adviser. those are the top two diplomats for the u.s. who are meeting with their counterparts from china. the white house, the biden administration had led us to believe going into this that the discussions would be very frank and very direct, and they have been. listen here to the secretary of state in his very f

ashley webster on a deck chair, some big crowds? a couple hours ago, what is it like now? e it was but you get a sense of it. earlier i said the occupancy is 70% to 80%. not quite what it was free pandemic but pretty good. the beach actually shutdown so certainly the economy is reopening. they are doing it safely, if you go inside a business wash your hands, today 6 feet apart when you condense those pictures but people are playing by the rules, they are handing out $25 gift cards to say well done, playing by the rules, take a gift from us. we did chat with the head of the st. peter chamber of commerce, saying it is a tough year, take a listen. >> we are not just contingent on spring breakers, and big government leadership and business leadership. ashley: you are talking about airlines, the local tampa airport on the peak days in march and april they expect 60,000 passengers to come through and double what it was in january and february. and they are enjoying spring break and as you can see know lockdown here, i was fascinated with the story of the california businessman wh

time's up for me but look who's in now today for neil, the one and only ashley webster. [laughter] ash, it's yours. ashley: only one for a reason. thank you very much, stu varney. by the way, let's take the show on the road to uc-berkeley. amall my coast is nice, but we get an interesting audience. welcome to "cavuto coast to coast," i'm ashley webster in today for neil cavuto. markets look to close out the week in the red. the cdc, meantime, about to address its new recommendations to downsize the distance between students in the classroom. does it go far enough to get all the children back to class. then, to the growing battle over the keystone pipeline. we will talk to arkansas attorney general leslie rutledge about why she is joining forces with other state a.g.s to get the pipeline memory permit reinstated. and as the federal government eyes potential locations for shelters at the border, we will talk with one border sheriff who is seeing firsthand the pressure the migrant surge is putting on our country. so much to discuss. but first, the back to school push goes on

ashley webster in florida with more on how they're handling this. ashley. ashley: yeah. hey, neil.that, so i'm going to say it for you. you're absolutely right. 20% capacity was one year ago when the championship was shut down, and that was the first tournament in golf to be affected by the pandemic, and golf shut down for 13 weeks. here we are one year later, second round of the players championship, and everything is going fine. capacity down to 20%. to so normally absolutely packed here, you'd have 50,000 fans, the capacity right now is 10,000. it's still pretty busy and crowded as you can see behind me as the players continue to practice before they begin their round. the tickets for all four days here sold out in 45 minutes, average general admission price around $80. so certainly the desire to be here in person is there. and, you know, the other impact golf has had, the sport has seen a boost. people stuck at home managed to get out and, you know, actually swing some clubs and play some golf which has given the sport itself a boostment take a listen to executive director of t

i want to go to ashley webster with more details. ashley?ter: not often the 10-year auction is widely watch but it was today, charles. $38 billion of 10-year treasurys it was met with adequate demand. some may say tepid. not at a level that would cause yields to spike in any way. that is good news. the markets as you say, charles, helped by a report that showed tame inflation, worried about prizes rising higher. demand for government debt will be continue to be a big story this year to your point at the top of the show. with president biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal package issuance could easily rise to $4 trillion. weak demand as you said of seven year treasurys late last month pushed 10-year yields higher. created plenty of volatility in the market. why today's auction has got enso much attention. so far so good. charles also, clearly the biggest concern markets had this month is inflation running hotter than we thought. today those worries have been calmed, for now. charles: at least for now. ashley, thank you very much. reporter: yeah. char

ashley webster is live to explain. ashley.good news a global economic recovery is in sight. you can call it the ripple effect. according to the oecd, joe biden's nearly $2 trillion stimulus package will boost the economic recovery not only in the united states but around the world. the economic group upgrading its growth outlook around the globe. the economists are expecting a stronger rebound forecast in november, calling for the global economy to expand by 5.6% this year. that is up more than 1% from the last estimate, helped not only by massive u.s. spending because of also the rapid rollout of covid-19 vaccinations programs in many countries. world output expected to reach prepandemic levels, get this, by the middle of this year but the pace and duration of the recovery will depend on the race between the vaccines and all of these emerging variants of the virus but the oecd predicts that the u.s. economy will lead the way on the back of that stimulus, expanding 3.8% this year followed by canada at 1.2% and then you have me

ashley webster, thank you. that does it for us on "fox business tonight." ♪ ♪ elizabeth: tonight, it looks like the democrats' blackout and the gag order on the border crisis extends all the way from the southern border into the hall toes of -- halls of congress as there have been zero hearings on it versus numerous by democrats under trump. this as house republicans sent president biden a letter demanding he stop the media blackout as footage emerges of then-senator kamala harris during the trump administration saying thank god for a free and independent press at the border. we've got reports coming in trump may go to the border. with us tonight senator ted cruz, there have mark lamb and congressman -- sheriff mark lamb and congressman greg steube, jim trusty, michael pillsbury and kt mcfarland. republican senators ted cruz, susan collins and mike lee, ted cruz is going to talk to us about how human and drug traffickers literally taunted and mocked the republican senators from across the rio grande river while

time's up for me but look who's in now today for neil, the one and only ashley webster. er in today for neil cavuto. markets look to close out the week in the red. the cdc, meantime, about to address its new recommendations to downsize the distance between students in the classroom. does it go far enough to get all the children back to class. then, to the growing b

ashley webster joining us now. ause you have the british accent, but as i told you, ashley is from brooklyn -- the. [laughter] and he joins us -- i kid, i kid. you know, ashley, you know, obviously, the royal family far more than i do. this is an unusual departure, to respond to this. what do you make of their statement? ashley: yeah. well, they were under tremendous pressure are, as you alluded to, neil, to say something in response to all of this. i think it was a very measured response. i think there are many behind the scenes at buckingham palace who would really like to let rip but, of course, you can't do that, at least not in public even though harry and meghan did so. the fact that all the family's dirty laundry has been put out there in a two hour oprah winfrey special, i think, goes beyond the pale, i really do. what's interesting is there is perhaps more support for harry and meghan in this country but not in the u.k. to feel like this is not appropriate. and perhaps most galling of all, neil, the fact th

meanwhile, ashley webster following other developments in the news today including that backup in interestw. hey, ashley. ashley: yes. always lots going on. hey, good afternoon, neil. treasury yields, let's begin there. they are up for the fourth straight day. the u.s. 10-year treasury hitting a 14-month high at 1.77% earlier in the session. as you can see, backing off a little, below 1.74, 1.73%. why? well, vaccine rollouts and plans for infrastructure spending as we know, also boosting expectations of an economic recovery. and, oh, yes, the rising threat of inflation. the rising treasury yields also hitting demand for tech shares. they're getting particularly hit hard, and they are also weighing on stocks as you can see. nothing more, not very drastic, down about half a percent across the major indices. the vote counting, meantime, has begun in bessamer, alabama. that's where a very closely-watched union election is taking place at an amazon warehouse. labor organizers are pushing for some 6,000 amazon workers there to join the retail, wholesale and department store union on the promise

our own ashley webster is live from clearwater. assignment? [laughter] ashley: i can't reveal my sources, david, but eat your heart out. listen, march and april are the critical months for places like clearwater beach, and this time last year they were completely shut down. i'm going to get out of the way and show you how crowded this beach is. it is packed. now, because the video is condensed, i will say that most people are staying 6 feet apart. i have to say, though, the youngsters here -- especially those high schoolers on spring break, well, they're doing what high schoolers do, they're playing on the beach. but business is open in clearwater. let's not make any mistake about that. the restaurants and bars fully open, even the nightclubs. they, too, are open til 3 a.m., i'm told. there is no curfew. we've seen the problem in miami beach with that midnight curfew just almost impossible to enforce. no curfew here. and as you mentioned, david, gift cards. there are teams, roving teams giving out $25 gift cards to those people they

ii want to thank, david asman, ashley webster, jackie deangelis filling on this fine show and charles payne filling in on my 4:00 p.m. show. i had to rush back pause of job security. speaking of job security, 9 bilge money guys get attention of the big money guys, likely get the treasury secretary and federal reserve chairman with edward lawrence on capitol hill what we can expect. reporter: likely will hear treasury secretary janet yellen give a more optimistic view when we get back to full employment. she will say next year. one point when she says full employment, the federal reserve long believed full employment was 4.1%, not the 3 1/2% former president donald trump reached under his presidency. still she sees all the spending under the american rescue plan as the key to boosting the economy. federal reserve chairman jerome powell outlined a long road back where everyone who lost a job has a job again. republicans on the house financial services are worried about raising taxes and slowing down the economic growth. republican senators worry about the amount of debt that taxpayers w

let's bring in ashley webster. suntanned ashley -- ashley: good morning. stuart: off the beach.'s that number today? ashley: the mortgage rates this week for freddie mac, 3.09% up from last week at 3.05%. so the headline here is mortgage rates continuing to inch higher. construction has also declined for two months in a row which means that the extremely low inventory numbers have been made worse. so competition for homes right now is off the charts. we know the story, stu. people outbidding each other just to get that home. but the the mortgage rates getting a little bit more expensive on that monthly payment. stuart: you're right, ash, and the home builder stocks all went down, again, in percentage terms. right now the overall market, but i'm still noticing nasdaq down 200 points. ashley, thank you very much, indeed. all right, everybody, now this. ah, talk about a protection racket. this administration is actively circling the wagons so we can't see what's really going on. case in point, the border. all those children streaming in, you are not allowed to see the conditions un

look who is here now, ashley webster no less. morning to you, ash. ashley: good morning to you.ey put out a statement today, saying first half of april, if the fda will approve it for emergency use in the u.s., they say they can immediately deliver 30 million doses. then an additional 50 million in the weeks to come. so, this is the same drug, by the way, that a number of european countries had temporarily suspended after reports of blood clots in some people. germany, italy, france, spain, to name a few resumed the shot after the vaccine is proven safe and effective. 79% after the second shot. that compares to 94% for moderna, 95% for pfizer and close to 80% for johnson & johnson. astrazeneca plans to provide 15 to 20 million doses a month. yet another outlet for people to get vaccinated. good news. stuart: yeah. all good news. got it. sa i like to call them at $50 a share. thank you, ash. and now this. ashley: sure. stuart: fox news reports that asylum-seekers are being let into america without a court date for they're hearing. border patrol officers have to spend three hours

that is an interesting facial expression there, ashley webster. ashley: for some reason hilarious and i'm not sure how much protection it gives you. i'm not a fan. stuart: don't ever wear it on the air. got a number, more than 1.1 million people pass through tsa checkpoint on wednesday making a two full straight weeks is that 1 million people per day have been flying. when will they go cruising again? we will try to tell you coming up. democrats targeting gun owners in illinois pushing for a new tax on ammunition. a report from outside chicago. [announcer] durán catches leonard with a big left. ♪♪ you can spend your life in boxing or any other business, but one day, you're gonna take a hit you didn't see coming. and it won't matter what hit you. what matters is you're down. and there's nothing down there with you but the choice that will define you. do you stay down? or. do you find, somewhere deep inside of you, the resilience to get up. ♪♪ [announcer] and this fight is a long way from over, leonard is coming back. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ it's not "pretty

boat sales are booming in america and there is ashley webster himself.by the way. this particular boat is the x 95 princess, it goes for mere $13.9 million and comes with the proviso. whoever buys it, i am not moving from this spot. as you just said sales are booming. if you want to know how much despite the pandemic, $47 billion. how about that? that was a 13 year high, 310,000 powerboats were sold last year, any boat powered by an engine. here we are at the palm beach international boat show. two crews, chris and heather on another boat, the why 85 princess, they will show you the gadgets on that and the rest of the show. i want to bring in the sales director for palm beach international boat show. come on in, sales are booming. >> it has been proven to be one of the safest things to do during the pandemic for families. >> is that the reason we were in the golf tournament on another assignment recently? golf sales equip it has gone up. we know that rv sales have gone through the roof and boat sales are up. >> -- an entire week. ashley: is there anythin

ashley webster joins us in clearwater with how they are keeping the crowds safe. >> the sun comes up, rules in place. if you're going indoors you have to wear a mask. social distance 6 feet, you have to wash your hands as often as possible and no out the hall, no booze on the beach, that is the rule but go back a year from now, we can tell you people are coming back, the economy is reopening especially in florida, and in the st. petersburg area, restaurants and bars here are fully open, even nightclubs are open. you can go to a nightclub and just hang out until 3 am, there is no curfew which is interesting because that is cost so many problems in miami beach, no problem here and finally there are groups of teens handing out $25 gift cards to people who are playing by the rules, social distancing, wearing masks, that's a great incentive for a lovely day at the beach. jillian: we are all officially jealous. lawrence: 160 lawmakers calling on governor cuomo to just resign, but the scandals are not sitting well. the all-female hosts of the view. >> what worries me is if he resigns, and a