Four people in houston and leaving 1 Million People without power. Brian and today, President Biden and Kamala Harris making their appeal to minority voters saying they are set to meet with leaders from black sports and fraternities thats big of them as got a backup plan if the whole v. P. Plan doesnt work out. Steve there is the church, and there is the steeple open the doors and there is the Pickleball Court. Ainsley with all the people. Lawrence second hour of fox friends starts right now but, remember, mornings are better with friends Wake Me Up Before You Go, go. Dont let me hanging on like a yoyo Wake Me Up Before You Go go. [cheers and applause] steve hey, everybody. As you can see who needs coffee here at the st. Pauls cafe here in Downtown Dallas, which is First Baptist and the guy who runs it, Everybody Knows him. Everybody loves him reverend jeffers. Good morning to you. Good morning and welcome to First Baptist. Its great to have you. If we could take a shot of your church. One of the original mega churches, can we turn the camera around . Because you have got those fountains right there they refer to it as the baptist bellagio. Thats right. Steve and you got how many people that go to church here . 16,000 members. Steve 16,000 members. So many people, the reason why we are here, we saw on instagram you got that thing you dont have to be a baptist just come Play Pickleball and hear about. Jesus. Steve here you go. Down here in the heart of holy cow, wait a second, in the heart of dallas wait a minute, there is a guy in cowboy boots. Will cain, ladies and gentlemen. Will cain is here. Will welcome to dallas. Steve thank you very much. Man, the weather has been crazy. At least today it is kind of dry but then again we have reverend jeffers on our side. You Play Pickleball in boots in texas, steve. Steve you went to. The academy of Country Music awards. Steve north of us. Will post malone, chris stapleton, texas. Steve also one of the biggest entertainers in america are going to be on this Pickleball Court. Dont reveal their identity. Will all right. Steve in about an hour. All right . Will women im excited i will hangs around to see who that might be. Steve ainsley and brian and lawrence, normally, when it is will and its pete, that segment is called. Will off the wall. Steve off the wall or off the grid. Will thats our wednesdays edition. Steve instead of off the grid since we are diner lets call it off the griddle. Will Off The Griddle Playing Pickleball off the street. Steve very nice. Pickleball also known as deviled pingpong. Will steve has improved. I saw him a year ago at courtside kitchen. The competition has increased. Steve thats right. Maybe it is just because we are at a religious facility i have not heard the lords name used once today unlike when i play in jersey. Will i just got here. Steve back to you guys in new york. Brian steve, have you noticed has will gotten any better . Is will any good . Steve, do you know . Steve he has always been good. You went for the low shot. Will brian, first time in a year that i have played pickleball. So lower expectation. Steve heres the thing coming up this hour you and i are going to play with the family that owns the Kansas City Chiefs. So if you want to be a professional Football Player maybe . Will okay. Steve they will be watching. Then we have also got the former Miss Universe. Will i think i will stick around, steve. [laughter] brian. Lawrence thats why he is wearing the boots. Brian will cain and steve doocy long time rivalry come together for pickleball. Ainsley i have been worried about them. Lawrence i cant believe will is going to play in cowboy boots. That is bold. You have to believe in yourself. There is no grip in it. Im a little worried about him. I support the cowboy boots but on pickleball its going to be a sight to see. Ainsley all right. Lets talk about this. Trump is back in court on monday with the final stretch of his trial with cohen set to testify again. Brian what is that . What am i doing . Brooke singman is here with more. Hey, brooke. Brooke hey, guys yeah, the new york vs. Trump trial enter the final stretch on monday where the defense will resume crossexamination of Michael Cohen for a third day. 2016 phone call with trumps body guard. Cohen testified that he asked to speak to trump about payments to Stormy Daniels during that call but Text Messages from moments before the call took place show cohen wanting to talk to the body guard Keith Schiller about Harassing Calls which were allegedly made from 14yearold prank caller. He texted him saying who can i talk to about Harassing Calls to my cell and office . Keith said call me. History of lying under oath and events central to the case including testimony from former adviser bob costello saying cohen told him trump was not involved in any payments to Stormy Daniels. Trumps defense attorney todd blanche asking cohen do you remember telling him you had nothing on President Trump and could not cooperate with cohen responding, no, sir. Bob costello reacted to that last night. Listen. The bottom line is he didnt have truthful information. He said, guys, i want you to know i will do whatever the f i have to do. I will never spend one day in jail. Well, he spent more than one day in jail and he blames donald trump for that. Now, i wondered he, though, why he would go out of his way because he explained the 130,000 transaction was all his idea. He said donald trump had nothing to do with it. The judge canceled proceedings today so that trump can attend his son barrons high school graduation. Guys . Brian graduation is today. Brooke yep, in florida. Lawrence big moment. Ainsley thank you so much, brook. Brian so interesting real quick on barron it seems like he likes politics. He is trying to get involved. He looks like politician now. Ainsley going to be electorate and melania said nope. I dont blame her. Lawrence is he tall, too. Brian is he youngkin tall. Lawrence the former president you notice i never get to do an interview with him. Brian why . Because you are taller than him. Lawrence we are always sitting down. He doesnt like people touring. You cant tell your son to sit down. You got take the photo with your son. Ainsley lets talk about the election. We are about six months out. And all the candidates are going different places. You even have donald trump who is going to go to his sons graduation. Tonight is he stumping in minnesota because he is not in court today because of barrons graduation. But then you have kamala and biden. They are really appealing to the black. Lawrence election year. Ainsley where have they been for the last three and a half years at these colleges . Lawrence meeting with the divine nine today. Nine of the historically black fraternities and sports. Sororities. They are only decidio this right now. I asked our team to pull this photo. If you remember, back in 2017, this is after donald trump was elected, he met with all of the Hbcu Colleges and signed the bill to give them 250 million there was no real politics involved. He made a commitment. He wanted to restore the colleges and he moved the bill through. This wasnt during an election year. But the Biden Administration is doing Something Different because they are struggling with the black vote right now. Brian number one, they are worried about turnout. Ainsley that was trump. Lawrence that was trump back in 2017. Brian going done automatic deposit. They are worried because they got 77 of the black turnout last time not the total vote. A lot of them ambivalent, 62 . Looks like the president has caught up about 10 in the polls. President biden famously dismissing all the polls. But he is not really by his actions. If those polls are inaccurate he wouldnt be at the africanamerican museum today. He wouldnt be doing what they are doing with sororities today. Ainsley and black radio show hosts. Brian nonstop. He wouldnt be sending out jim clyburn there is a degree of panic. What is interesting about trump. Trump is like i have policies for the country that benefit communities. I dont have a targeting community. So the Hispanic Vote is leaning towards trump and so is the black vote. So that means its time to take action. And thats what the president is doing with those two debate demands, got them and now he is doing. This. Ainsley apparently the Vice President , Kamala Harris is joking with her friends that if they dont win the white house, that she might return to california and run for governor. Lawrence i think this is the contingency plan. The democrats finally figured out a way where they dont damage the Identity Politics spectrum with her not running for president next. And i think that is the one thing they have to. If gavin newsom runs for president and whether its this time or the next time around, and then she just moves over to governor, okay, they can get away with that but you cant just have gavin newsom skip her. You got to give her some type of title and then give her a shot at the presidency later. Brian right. She would replace gavin newsom term limited out. The president could be embarrassment. Is he speaking at morehouse colleges commencement address. They are not happy. Some of these quotes. Attack in gaza. And coming here to pander for our votes. It is political black face according to a sophomore on campus. Look, we see these demonstrations wherever he goes anyway. Let alone going to morehouse uninvited. Lawrence brian, the situation is on two fronts. You got the activists that are on the College Campuses there that support the gaza. We got that part. Morehouse all mens college. Is he already struggling with black men to begin with so just imagine him going to the campus and getting booed by other black men. I mean, its not going to be maybe the parents women and the parents. Demographic that he is already struggling with, thats the reason he is doing the speech. Brian you believe its a risk. Lawrence total big risk. Not going to gain anything from going. I think the one thing that the campaign could do if they really some economic message thats gonna get the burden off. Because when you talk with black men, the number one issue is the economy. Thats just it. Brian go ahead. Ainsley Kamala Harris spokesperson said its not friends. She was joking with her friends she was going to run for governor of california. That did not happen. This november the Vice President will be preparing to be inaugurated for the second term of the bidenharris administration. Brian we will see. I would add just one other thing, they are also looking to legalize pot to get the young vote out. And im. Ainsley they said they werent going to legalize it they were going to change it and put in a different category not as bad as heroin but not legalizing it. Lawrence change the schedule. Brian they are moving that direction. They want everyone to know where they stand. Other thing to keep in mind, too. These Illegal Immigrants coming into urban environments taking over hotels, using up services, taking over gyms and boys homes and things to that nature. That is a direct hit at the Working Class in cities. And that is that is a joe biden policy that you cant reverse in two weeks. Lawrence well, brian, think about it, when i toured all of these cities, whether it is pennsylvania, cities in pennsylvania, i have been to boston. Im going to chicago. Andi go and interview the peopln the community that are upset about it. Its not like there is all these white individuals that im speaking to. These are minorities in these communities. Some of them are mostly the one i spoke to impoverished areas already. Its a slap in their face when you take their resources away and give them to illegals. Ainsley i will never forget that image of you standing outs of that facility, Recreation Facility for teenagers. Lawrence mom in boston. Ainsley i drop my kids off here because im a single mom and this is where they play basketball and have fun with their friends. Now Illegal Immigrants are in and my kids dont have a place. Lawrence what she also said, ainsley this the community ernesto dr. I put them in to keep them off the streets because they were doing all the shootings. How are they going to complain about my boys get into trouble when i have this place for them to be at and the Biden Administration because of the Sanctuary City Policy totally okay with it apparently. Brian also keeps wages down, too. When illegals working. Lawrence correct. Brian 13 minutes after the hour. Dangerous storms sweeping through louisiana after battering texas, killing at least four people in houston. More than 900,000 residents in louisiana and texas are waking up with no power this morning. Louisiana officials are surveying the damage as many trees are toppled over on to houses, cars and roadways. Ainsley there is widespread damage and outages all across houston and Harris County as intense rain flooded the stores or in the stores. The powerful storm badly damaging buildings in Downtown Houston and even blowing out some windows. Lawrence even leaning through the retractible roof Minute Maid Park where the Houston Astros are playing. Lets check in with our senior Meteorologist Fox weather forecast. Any word on the electricity, j. D. . Janice no, still over 700,000 people without power in the Harris County area. And we have close to 200,000 people without power in louisiana. Here are the severe storm reports. So, very strong winds moving through the houston area. We had a couple of Tornado Warnings last night around 5 or 6 00 p. M. It looks like Straight Line wind damage. New orleans, we had a reported tornado offer you and here are some of the top wind gusts. Hurricane force winds here in the texas area and even higher amounts in louisiana. So heres the power outage tracker. 760,000 in the houston metro area. Top wind reports for new orleans 84 Miles Per Hour in the new orleans area. And then on top of that we had the heavy rainfall that caused flooding. Here are the Power Outages for the louisiana area. 157,000. So hopefully that will begin to improve. The storm system is moving eastward. The rivers, however, have still not crested. Concern about that as we go through the weekend. We do have the potential for stronger storms. We earlier had a Severe Thunderstorm Warning that had some rotation around the big bend here of florida. That has since expired. Thats the good news. But we still have the severe storm risk for south texas along the gulf coast, including new orleans again, mobile alabama, towards tallahassee. Not over yet. The flood alerts. The flooding will be ongoing throughout the weekend. So we will continue to keep you up to date. The fact that they had flood alerts reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 is really something and, you know, the damage is extensive in and around the houston area. Back to you. Brian at a time when Housing Insurance is going through the roof. Everywhere in this country, this adds to it, too. Ainsley is this normal, janice . I feel like we have had so much bad weather in this area for the last month or maybe longer. Brian right. Now, 15 minutes after the hour. Carley shimkus has the other news. Carley i certainly do. Thats right, guys. Starting In California. Police in los angeles arresting a gunman who shot and killed the passenger on a Met Throw Bus in the city of commerce last night. This is the fourth attack on a Transit System just this week Authorities Say the victim was shot from behind after argument with the shooter. Earlier in the week there were two separate stabbings and an attempted robbery. The strict of metro crimes started on monday with two separate stabbings and a violent robbery. A massachusetts teen is dead after participating in a socalled one chip challenge. A friend gave a friend a spicy Tortilla Chip at a school and hours later he was dead from cardiac arrest. The chip company pulled the product from Store Shelves after the teens death. My goodness. The president of Sonoma State UniversityIn California has been placed on leave after approving several concessions to antiisrael protesters. Mike lee agreeing to the creation of a students for justice in Pal