>> sandra: fox news alert, a live look at perry, iowa, where we are awaiting an update after multiple people were hurt in a shooting at the city's high school. it happened early this morning. it was the students' first day back of classes there after their winter break. officials announced moments ago we will be getting our next update from there at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. we will certainly be watching and listening for that. >> john: the sheriff says there is no longer a threat to the public but released little detail other than that. nothing on the number of victims or if the shooter is dead or alive. said officials would give those updates later this afternoon. we'll bring you developments as we get them on this story. first, another fox news alert. >> sandra: any moment now expecting to hear from the pentagon. the press secretary pat ryder is expected to step up to the podium for the first on camera briefing of the year as escalation in the middle east takes a brand-new turn.

>> john: official tells fox the united states is responsible for a drone strike in baghdad that killed a top iraqi militia leader earlier today, believed to be behind multiple attacks on u.s. bases in the middle east. >> sandra: just a few things going on as we kick off a brand-new hour. sandra smith in new york. john, good to be with you. >> john: good to be with you as well. another busy thursday. this is "america reports," hour two, as all of this trans spires, houthi rebels given the last warning, stop the attacks or else. the message coming from a u.s.-led coalition of more than a dozen countries as the iranian-backed group continues to attack commercial ships in the red sea. >> sandra: fox team coverage kicks off now, trey yingst has the latest on the ground for us. but right to jennifer griffin. live at the pentagon. what weapons carried out the strike on baghdad? >> sandra, u.s. officials say this was a precision drone strike on a vehicle carrying a

leader, an iraqi shi'ite military group. the first target killing of iranian proxy leader by u.s. forces since those forces began carrying out more than 120 instances of drone and attempted rocket strikes on u.s. bases in the region. meanwhile, there have been 25 attacks by iranian-backed houthi forces in yemen, targeting merchant vessels. the u.s. navy has shot down 61 drones and missiles since november 18th. alarming new development according to the head of the u.s. navy fifth fleet, vice admiral brad cooper, fired a vessel packed with explosives that blew up. >> usv is of concern. houthi reckless attacks continued as you know and there are no signs that their

irresponsible behavior is awaiting. >> a senior administration official says the houthis have been given their last warning to stop attacking international ships in the red sea. in a joint statement with 12 other countries, the u.s. warned the houthis to stop attacks or else. joint chiefs chairman brown spoke with his u.k. counterpart about the ongoing attacks on wednesday. on tuesday, the u.s. navy fifth fleet commander, vice admiral brad cooper visited u.s.s. carney and presented combat medals to five sailors for their exceptional performance when the warship shot down 14 houthi attack drones on december 16th in the red sea. the entire crew also received the combat action ribbon. they are holding the galaxy leader, took hostage with a crew from the philippines, bulgaria, mexico and romania. president biden called a meeting

of the national security team on new year's day to decide how to respond to the houthis. the strike on baghdad is designed to send a message to iran and proxies and so far they have not been listening. >> john: as that transpires, in gaza, the idf pummels the southern part of the strip. large explosions along the outskirts of khan younis, where top hamas officials are presumed to be hiding. trey yingst is in southern israel for us. >> trey: we have returned from the gaza border, watching as israeli fighter jets hit hamas positions on the outskirts of khan younis, shaking the ground as they tried to hit the tunnel system underneath the gaza second largest city. the israelis released new information about what they are finding amid this operation. they say they have destroyed new tunnel shafts and also targeted

a number of hamas anti-tank guided missile cells. it comes as former vice president mike pence was in the region, visiting the gaza border area, specifically the kibbutz to see the aftermath of the october 7th massacre. he had this to say about the situation on the ground in the middle east. >> i think it's absolutely essential for president biden, but also for the leaders of the republican party and those who would lead our party to send a clear and in ambiguous message that we recognize israel as our most cherished ally. >> trey: a real understanding on the ground that the southern front is not the main concern for the israelis but the northern front is incredibly active. this morning the israelis detected new rocket launches into the northern part of their country. they say they responded striking different hezbollah positions in southern lebanon.

john. >> john: trey, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: get ready for this. a wild video we have just obtained out of compton, california, where a street takeover quickly turns into a chaotic scene. this is security footage. it captured a kia vehicle purposely crashing through the front doors of a small bakery there before a crowd flooded the store. and that crowd was a crowd of looters, 100 of them, stuffing their pockets with as much as they possibly could before they stole all the goods and ran. brian kilmeade is here, "fox & friends" and co-host of "one nation." the video did not just happen, but sometimes it takes time to get it, happening in too many places in america right now. we have phone calls into the bakery, the owner of the bakery, obviously he's tied up with a lot that just happened.

this is horrifying for so many reasons, brian. but these are street takeovers, not just in compton, happening all over the place. this crowd of looters, we are told, was not just in the tens and dozens, it was over 100 looters that ran in and ransacked the store. no one was hurt. >> they are spending so much money in compton, california, most of the money is going to illegals for healthcare, also the state is buried in debt, unable to pay their bills, so if they could recruit cops, maybe anti-mob unit, if they were able to do that, and that's -- that's a stretch, who is going to fund it, back it, change the rules to enforce it. some of these guys -- >> sandra: how do you protect yourself against somebody willing to drive their kia through the store front. >> you don't, a lot of them are

not covering their face anymore, and they sell it or give it to somebody who hired them and they might be on an hourly wage, they come back and that stuff ends up on the internet so you can buy it. how many times have we talked about this, you know, smash and grab happening since san francisco coined it about 5, 10 years ago, and in that time, it's spread across the country and there has not been a big push for enforcement. a lot of cops are saying i'm not going to waste my time, it's not worth it, plus they are outnumbered. >> sandra: the leadership is challenged by the residents, a city council meeting happened in hours of this looting and this car driving through this bakery store front. one resident showed up pressed city council members every time a street is taken over we relive our nightmare, nightmare almost going on a year now and hate for anything to happen to another family. i want to know what is the plan. and there are more and more americans living in small towns, big towns, big cities.

>> that's not affluent. >> sandra: showing up at city council and saying what are we doing about this. sit back and just let this happen? and the leaders are not offering solutions in many places. >> if i'm steve garvey, i do what lee zeldin did. he would show up and say i would be the difference. steve garvey wants to be the next senator for corner. he can set a tone and message for the rest of the party and even in the democratic party that maybe the status quo is not ok with the number of people in that state that are leaving more -- leaving the state more than anyone else. so if i'm steve garvey, i'm number two in the polls, i would be up there, right up there today. >> sandra: the democrat mayor of the city said ensuring the safety of businesses and residents in the city is a top priority, ok. she said at the city council meeting hours after this bakery break-in. during this meeting she urged city council members to sign an

ordinance that would increase citations for those involved in street takeovers. citations. >> this is another city in america, you threw up your hands. fires burning on the street, children out here. there are no toilets, go look at other cities. and look at what we inherited when i put in place our homeless encampment task force. you don't see this in new york. >> sandra: love to get your response. >> it's so unbelievable that he would hold another major city, another major city and say look how much better it is here. when i go to penn station, maybe 3 to 5 times a week, and you see everyone just hanging out on the street spilling out of the roosevelt hotel, you can't get a hotel during a busy time right now, and the other thing is, three meals a day, their wash, over between 80 and 90,000 illegal immigrants here, no jobs, nothing to do and he

admitted the day before the reason why crime happens, they are bored. we are bringing this in and this city to me, you don't have a press conference holding up pictures of los angeles and saying look how glad we are -- >> sandra: that we are not l.a. wow. great to see you. were you about to say something else? sorry. >> i think eric adams is indeed fighting with the new jersey governor. among my guests, fred smith, ceo of fedex, he's worried about one thing for this country, and everyone should pay attention, saturday night. >> sandra: always a fascinating interview. we'll be watching. thank you, brian. >> john: see brian on saturday night. the migrant crisis growing too big to ignore, both at the border and cities across the united states. now it's spilling over into some of the suburbs and town leaders

there are having none of it. >> sandra: after the republican delegation got an up close look as some migrants tried to cross the rio grande right in front of them. but other than that, watch the scene at eagle pass. noticeably quieter than usual. congressman pete sessions has some thoughts. he was there. he'll join us with his experience. >> it's happening at a time we are not prepared, they are not working and a bus pulls up and hundreds of people disembark from busses, they have nowhere to go. here's a great way to get your monthly payments under control. call newday! while credit card rates can be 22% or more mortgage rates at newday are a fraction of those rates. with one easy lower monthly payment the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you pay off your high-rate debt. and you can save $500 a month. nobody takes care of veterans like newday usa.

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a close-up look at the crisis as migrants tried to cross the border in front of them. texas congressman pete sessions was part of the delegation and joins us to talk about his experience. good to be with you. what did you see yesterday and how were you struck by it? >> john, thank you very much. and thank you for talking about this issue. as the delegation went forth to eagle pass, we came down knowing that there were literally thousands of migrants coming across at this location every single day. as soon as we arrived, it was shut down to less than 50. that's because the drug cartels control the action and the activity, the flow of migrants in and out and they control the action. so, they did not want that as part of the pictures that we saw nor the national media saw. so what you were looking at where we were at eagle pass,

texas, there is the famous bridge right there that also includes a train trestle and car traffic virtually empty yesterday because the cartels know that they're under increased scrutiny by the american people but when we showed up, nothing. >> john: pictures from the week before christmas when our bill melugin was down there and there were, as you pointed out, literally thousands of people who were there on the levy and in the surrounding area waiting to be admitted into the united states. take a look as the camera, the drone pulls back here, all of those people who had crossed the border illegally. as you say, it was quiet yesterday, too quiet for your liking. it's also quiet today, so i'm wondering, what we saw here back on december 21st, could that have potentially been a prechristmas surge, maybe a lull and pick back up in the new year? >> it's all controlled by the cartels, and they are the ones

that make incredible amounts of money by not only controlling the action, but who will be coming across. it's widely known by federal law enforcement that $130 million every two weeks is made by people coming in and out of eagle pass, texas. $130 million and what this suggests to you, it is so bad that of all the border patrol agents in the del rio sector, they have had to take all of their agents to only be in some four miles out of some 200 along the border, which opens up the other 200 -- the rest of the border, over 200 miles to people to come and go as they would choose. simply because they are trying to take care of the migrants. so, here is the take-away, john. the take-away is we were literally begged by federal law

enforcement but mostly the sheriffs, please do not allow this to be refunded. it is a magnet and every time you set up these huge centers, we come down and we staff this, we help people, we bring them in, and all we are doing is encouraging the next 10,000, 100,000, million, to come here, and so that was the message that over 65 republicans, members of congress heard about as you move to february to funding the government, you need to effectively negotiate with this administration and stop the border policy that this administration has or not fund the government. >> john: so on the point of negotiating with the president, i want to roll some video coming home from the virgin islands, and he was asked about the record numbers of migrants that crossed the border in december,

302000, and then he blamed republicans, saying they are not funding the border policies and the white house saying they want to reduce the border patrol agents. and jacqui heinrich asked kirby, name one republican that wants to cut the number of border patrol agents. are you looking to do that or are you just looking to better use the funds that the taxpayers put into the american coffers in order to deal with border security? >> well, it's all a matter of negotiation, john, and the negotiation needs to take place is we need to change the policy. we need to change the policy about remaining in mexico, we need to change the policy about, of the status that you can have and where you come to negotiate to come to this country. but we also have an app that is available and anyone can use

that app and any country they want, and bypass the immigration service necessarily at the border and walk straight on in. but here is the bottom line. the bottom line is that if we continue to fund the effort that is going on we will get another 10 million people this next year. and that is unacceptable for not only this country but for national security. >> john: the numbers so far for fiscal year 24 do not bode well for the months ahead. congressman pete sessions, texas 17th congressional district, good to have you on. thanks, appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: fox news alert, some news just in from mayor adams of new york city who has been dealing with this migrant crisis as it spills across state lines. as we have been reporting, busses have been dumping hundreds of migrants in new jersey to circumvent the big apple limit on bus arrivals. local mayors are struggling to

cope with that. madison alworth is live, how many busses have arrived there as we get this brand-new press release, you have just sent this out to us, the mayor here is announcing a lawsuit against texas charter bus companies seeking over $700 million to cover the costs of caring for migrants transported to new york city. that's the news, what are you hearing, madison. >> yes, sandra, so the news in new york, we are in new jersey across the river, mayor adams making the announcement seeking a lawsuit against around 32 charter bus companies seeking damages for the costs of migrant care, totaling up to $708 million what they are looking for, and essentially making the argument that the charter busses are coming in, dropping off migrants and then the cost is placed on new york. and it's not fair. he specifically cites the number of migrants sent by governor

abbott of texas, and says the number is over 30,000. so, i think it's -- this is a new wrinkle in this ongoing tug and war between the southern border and states as far as new york and new jersey. the reality for new york, currently there are 68,000 migrants in the care of new york city. and since last spring, it's closer to 200,000. so, even if 30,000 have been sent by the governor of texas, there are many more, and i've seen it myself being on the southern border, many that also come on their own or are coming by non-profit sources to get to new york because it is a sanctuary city. but we have seen a lot of movement in recent days. the lawsuit the latest, but more happening since saturday, why i'm here in secaucus, new jersey. since saturday, 12 busses have come to this junction, dropped off migrants and then those migrants make their way to new york city. video from this morning, the most recent bus arriving at

9:00 a.m. this morning from the southern border. migrants on board, 36 in total, they were immediately met by n.y. transit police, bordered the bus and talked to the bus driver and the migrants on board. communicated they would be getting train tickets and immediately be on a train bound for new york city. i was able to chat with some of the migrants on their way. >> i asked him where is he from, ecuador, he's going to new york city, which is what we have been seeing. >> so this is all happening, sandra, because of the executive order in new york city which now limits when charter busses can come and drop off migrants. you see how it's being circumvented. >> sandra: people are going to think it does not make sense. the charter companies, if they are paid by a state to transport

migrants, how are they breaking the law, reading through the lengthy press release from the new york city mayor adams, in it in the middle he says governor abbott continues to use human beings as political pawns. it's time the companies facilitating his actions take responsibility for their role in the ongoing crisis. i don't know how you hold the charter companies accountable. that's going to be an interesting legal question to ask if this is the route that these cities are going to take going after a legal basis the bus companies that are legally accepting money from the state of texas. madison, thank you for that breaking news. we will continue to dig into it. madison, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, waiting for a pentagon press briefing, the first of the new year, chinese spycrafts have now been spotted. >> sandra: americans drowning in

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prices are down from they went under this administration, the white house points out the big picture numbers claiming bidenomics are working, but the president's rating shows otherwise. larry kudlow has a theory why. he argues in an opinion piece biden's real burden is america's affordability crisis. larry is here to explain. >> larry: i don't disagree the last few months the inflation rate has come down, nobody can disagree with that. >> sandra: come down from the high prices run up under this president's policies. >> larry: that's the thing. and affordability, you can't buy and sell gdp, you don't buy and sell cpi, but after -- and take a look where biden was, average

weekly earnings, real weekly earnings, this is from the bureau of labor statistics, at the beginning of the biden term, the average family, $399 a week. $399 a week. the most recent reading for that in november of last year, a new number soon for december, the most recent number was $380. that's the chart. >> sandra: dramatic decline. >> larry: in three years, people have lost 19 bucks in the weekly earnings, it's a 5% drop, 4.7% drop and that's what's killing bidenomics. it's the legacy of high inflation, it's also, by the way, the legacy of very slow growth. i know third quarter last year was a good quarter, 4.9%, i don't deny that at all. but if you take a look at the last two years, for example, after the pandemic passed, covid passed, only running 1.7% at

annual rate. even gdp is subpar growth. but the killer for the bidens, and figure out what to do with this, or change the policies, the fact that people are earning less and buying less. and that is not going to change. >> sandra: what they are buying, paying more for it. just because the rate of inflation growth has gone -- come down, does not mean the prices have come down. >> larry: that's correct. wages are down and prices are up, a lethal combination. >> sandra: and that's why polling on this on the economy, excellent or good, just one in five americans today, only fair or poor nearly 80% responded. so real wages, you pointed that out. >> larry: most active and objective polls, a poll came out this morning with a new poll, 34% of americans say they are

better off than they were four years ago. that's the famous ronald reagan, jimmy carter thing in 1980. 58% they are not, and half the democrats think they are worse off than four years ago. but again, that reflects the crisis of affordability. now, there's other issues you mentioned housing, mortgage rates are down a percentage point, this is good. but they are way up from where they were three years ago. that's a problem. and manufacturing, we have not had any increase in manufacturing jobs in a couple years. we have not had any increase in manufacturing output. people who make things with their hands basically, no increases whatsoever. this stuff is gonna haunt biden. >> sandra: the piece struck me because you called it a crisis of affordability, and how republicans, if they are making the case to fix things, spell it out, real wages down, prices up

and that is killing the middle class right now. >> larry: killing the lower income folks, they are the ones who suffer the most. the well to do, not a problem. i'm not knocking the well to do, but just saying it's not a problem. the politics of this election may be fundamentally different. biden coalition of hispanics, and working folks, and african americans, and young people, that coalition is falling apart because of the affordability crisis. >> sandra: regardless of the polling and the numbers, the administration still says the policies are working, they tout bidenomics. see you at 4:00. >> larry: go for it, bidenomics, go for it. >> john: the pentagon briefing just began moments ago, plenty of questions are expected on the middle east. but we may also hear pat ryder pressed on troubling new details out of taiwan. ministry of defense says chinese spycraft were spotted over the

island, similar to the one that traveled across the u.s. nearly a year ago, were the big balloon? rich edson has the latest on this. how many spy flights are we talking about? >> rich: three yesterday, four on monday and another on christmas day, on top of daily reports from taiwan's ministry of national defense alerting of chinese jets and ships entering taiwanese air space waters. taiwan says our defense ministry closely monitors the balloon's movements. taiwan's armed forces will respond appropriately to unidentified balloons entering our air space based on the level of the threat they posed, taiwan's security. and members of the u.s. congress say they are also watching these balloons. >> seems to be the first time it flew directly over taiwan. we have seen balloons go around, but just goes to show, we have normalized unprecedented tempo of pressure against taiwan designed to influence the upcoming election on

january 13th. >> and xi jinping is very interested in the election, voters in taiwan will choose a president and legislature. they have different views on what the island's relationship with beijing should be. the chinese government party says it should rule taiwan, and president xi promised to annex the island. nearly a year after china sent a spy balloon over the united states, incident the administration reportedly tried to conceal. >> completely unacceptable. we did not blow it out of proportion. the reason the administration takes that tact because they are slow to respond. >> rich: after a week over air space, the u.s. shot it down off the coast of south carolina. >> john: at least the taiwanese are spotting the balloons. >> sandra: harvard's president not going quietly, claiming she

was a victim of a smear campaign. we will ask the man who was key about exposing claudine gay's plagiarism about her latest claims.

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>> sandra: a new development on all the names revealed in the jeffrey epstein files. miami herald is asking the judge in the case to unseal the identities of several people whose identities were still protected in the 948-page document release. paper argues that releasing the complete list of names and pseudonyms will avoid the spread of misinformation. john. >> john: sandra, ousted harvard president claudine gay firing back at her critics in a "new york times" opinion piece, she claims she was targeted due to her race and dismisses the

nearly 50 cases of plagiarism she was discovered to have committed. philip magnus helped uncover some of the examples of plagiarism committed by gay. you collaborated with chris ruffo to look into the writings and alleged plagiarism. what did you find? >> basically we found a pattern, a pattern that crossed 20 years of her work, affected almost half of her academic output in her career, and eventually came together as 50 different instances of plagiarism and a list that seems to be growing today. >> john: in this "new york times" opinion piece she acknowledges she did not give proper citation and attribution to the works of other scholars, but says never did i try to claim the work as my own, never did i misrepresent it. but is there a difference between stealing somebody else's idea and quoting somebody else without giving proper attribution, when you were operating particularly at this level? >> well, according to harvard's own policies, what they apply in

the classroom to their students, what she did constitutes plagiarism, and she can go through all the orwellian things and say it's borrowing other language, but it's the p word, plagiarism. >> john: academic alleges 40 separate incidents in plagiarism in 11 public works and dissertation, and that was reported by just one fellow. why wouldn't that have been discovered by harvard? >> well, usually it's the case when you start to find something that's off, something that is slightly out of sync in rating the academic work, but usually where there is smoke there is fire. it's a pattern that happens over the course of her career, and discovering that first instance of plagiarism, in her doctoral dissertation over 20 years ago, you look at her other academic works and case after case and case and each successive article

she had written, basically engaging in the same type of behavior. >> john: so in the "new york times" opinion piece she wrote she is a victim and much of the left wing media would seem to agree with her. >> harvard's first black president, a woman named claudine gay resigned her position. everything from a bad faith hearing on campus antisemitism to unfounded plagiarism charges were thrown at her. >> i don't think it's fair to say all of her critics were racist, but certainly a few of them were. >> it looks as though she was targeted. >> john: as you pointed out, philip, plagiarism is a big deal, a big deal for an incoming freshman. certainly would be a big deal for a president of a prestigious university like harvard. so is this in any way related to racism? >> no, not at all. and in fact, harvard university regularly brings up charges against students that violate its honor code, plagiarism in the last year they released

data, second most common honor code, and expell them or suspend them for lesser offenses than what she did in her career. >> john: you co-wrote a book about institutions of higher learning "cracks in the ivory tower, the moral mess of higher education" and the harvard clock tower on the cover. description says students, professors and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. college bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, punishing good behavior. you suggest what we saw at harvard is institutional. >> absolutely. and it's something that we are seeing at elite institutions across higher education today especially from faculty and administrators. they have an academic privilege to get away with violations of long standing rules and norms of

academic conduct, and that includes plagiarism, cheating, the fabrication of data. unfortunately if you come from the political left they are willing to give you a pass on the university's own stated rules and procedures. >> john: you know in this digital world you have high school teachers who are running assignments through softwares to discover or detect plagiarism, you would think that harvard university would have done something similar. good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: state capitals across the country evacuated and locked down after a series of bomb hoaxes. is congress about to step in? hed patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. it can help you get clearer skin. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people taking otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts, or weight loss.

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>> sandra: a second round of threats made today against state offices in maine and mississippi. all of this coming one day after bomb hoaxes prompted the evacuations of nine state capitols. mark meredith is live in washington. what do we know about today's threats? >> good afternoon to you. they are waiting t find out where they will uncover where the threats came from. generally they are made from overseas and the fbi says it has no reason to believe the threats made against multiple capitol buildings were credible. more threats made in maine and

mississippi, impacting courthouses. the threats yesterday targeted state capitol buildings coast to coast from hawaii to connecticut. the fbi says it's investigating but also "they want the public to remain vigilant and report any and all suspicious activities and/or individuals to law enforcement immediately." also want to mention in the last few weeks, several lawmakers from across the political spectrum have begun targets of swatting, essentially fake 911 calls. chief operating officers for the georgia secretary of state office says he was swatted. some lawmakers in d.c. want new federal legislation to impose tougher penalties on swatters. >> i think people need to understand there are real consequences to actions, even such as calling in a fake, you know, bomb threat or a swatting incident. they need to be held accountable, and i think they need to be deterred with real stiff penalties.

>> for years lawmakers have talked about trying to increase the penalties for swatting. it's unclear whether the latest cases will prompt lawmakers to try harder and we have seen a few states impose tougher punishments for swatting but not yet on the federal level. >> sandra: mark meredith, thank you. john. >> john: it has never been done until now. why this teenager will go down in history for playing tetras. e. but now, you're really going to have to get those new dentures. after all, you need a smile that matches the moment. so this might be a good time to mention that aspen dental can create natural looking dentures in no time. just for you! and that comes with $0 down plus 0% interest if paid in full in 18 months. helping mothers of grooms look their best. it's one more way aspen dental is in your corner. biovanta is the only number one

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♪ ♪ >> john: welcome it is 8 feet decades in the making but the classic video game tetris met its match in the form of a 13-year-old boy. ♪ ♪ >> oh, oh, my god!

>> john: that is in oklahoma sharing the exciting moment on his youtube channel. he reached a level 157 on the game, which made his score so high that the kill screen because the game to crash. he is believed to be the first human to ever get that far. >> sandra: that is an amazing faction and accomplishment. >> john: did you ever played tetris? >> sandra: some amazing at tetris them actually, not that good. >> john: i suck at all video games. >> sandra: well, congratulations to him. that must have been satisfying. >> john: i mean as accomplishments go. >> sandra: it is up there. >> john: nowhere near and a rubik's cube or video game. >> sandra: those are fun, also was a but i'm not good at those at all. john, great to be with you. never miss us, "america reports," thank you for joining us i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts and we are with martha who is a real tetris player.