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coming, by the way. guided missile submarine and speeding up the arrival of another aircraft carrier. >> aishah: the question at this hour, bill, our american troops now in direct danger? at least more danger? and how should the u.s. respond if iran does indeed attack? we are going to ask retired navy captain brett sadler in just a few moments here but first a look at louis tomlinson at the pentagon. lucas, what are you hearing at this hour? >> satellites are watching iran carefully. officials at the pentagon say iran could strike with little or no warning. now they are bills show, the deputy pentagon press secretary talked about the additional firepower in the theater. >> the message we are sending is one of deterrence and we will come to the defense of israel should we need to if iran were to attack. >> now warships have been on the move in the region. as bill set off the top, the

uss lagoon, guided missile destroyer, from the red to see and now on the station in the eastern mediterranean. now three destroyers capable of shooting down incoming ballistic missiles over israel, just like they did back in april when iran launched a massive drone and ballistic missile strike. remains in the gulf of oman today. deployed the last seven months and do to return home when her relief arise, the abraham lincoln strike group currently in the western pacific. now aishah, for the second time in ten days, lincoln was ordered to the middle east. the first orders arrived two days after the hamas leader was assassinated in iran. that didn't stop lincoln from doing an exercise with the italian navy and then orders were given to him put more turns and the water. the strike group is more than a week away from the middle east. the uss georgia loaded with tomahawk missiles with a max range of over, ordered to the

red sea but not clear when that transit will happen. could be days away. you mentioned off the top, it is not clear what the u.s. policy will be if iran launches this large-scale, major attack on israel. what u.s. assets engage iran? that's going to be a question we are going to ask in the briefing room just a few minutes to major general patrick ryder. aishah? >> aishah: okay, we will be watching. the first question, will the deterrence actually work? find out in a few moments, lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. >> bill: brent sadler, retired navy captain, heritage foundation senior fellow. good afternoon to you. here is the navy assets in the middle east. it is plentiful. eastern mediterranean. you've got there in the red sea. the persian gulf, as well. more on the way. submarine deployment public over the weekend kind of tells you something. what is your best read of it

right now? >> this movement of naval forces an additional carrier strike group of lincoln to the pacific, it provides the president and national security team more options and also hopefully deter iran from taking any direct attack against american forces so they will be able to ensure success in a punishing strike on iran if that is called. >> bill: do you think those moves are making iran reco reconsider? >> sadly, no. the performance over the last few years has been administration that is quick to use diplomacy, which is not backed by actual use of the military force, even a smaller measured amount of it. right now, for the folks in tehran, they are probably calculating, may be assuming the u.s. is not going to respond, if they make a slightly larger attack against u.s. forces in the middle east. i hope that's not true. i hope we don't see that.

but nothing that this administration has done the last few years would basically take that option off their mind. >> bill: listen, i covered the war in northern israel with hezbollah in 2006, the last time those two really went at it. the end result was a draw, essentially peer yeah, the israelis were a little more embarrassed than they possibly could have been based on hezbollah shooting off catoosa rockets and landing wherever they could at the time. what is the end game? we asked sabrina singh earlier on "america's newsroom," what is the end game? iran is not going to invade israel, hezbollah is not going to do it, hamas did what they did in october, the houthis in yemen won't do it. so what comes of it? >> yeah, the strategy that iran has been following really sends a tough 8-year war in iraq in the 80s, using proxies to do its dirty work.

i lot between iraq proper and israel. they are using the proxies, and the hope is hamas right there in the gaza will stress the idf and then hezbollah with thousands of missiles would overwhelm its missile defense systems and air defense systems. now you've got the houthis impacting global trade to try and may be prevent a wider escalation but it is actually having the exact opposite impact. >> bill: a couple observations. iran has a brand-new president. you don't know how that may be affecting things domestically. you made this point to some of our producers a bit earlier today. iran is under pressure on hezbollah in lebanon to go ahead and do something. they are also under pressure to hold their fire on behalf of vladimir putin in moscow. what gives on that tug-of-war? >> so a couple of days after the assassination, you had the former defense minister and a close confidant of putin arrive in tehran. putin has been waging a failed ward invasion of ukraine and he needs iranian ballistic

missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. doesn't need an iran that is distracted in its production to fight its own war. at the same time, a key proxy that iran relies on for exerting its influence in the middle east, in the lavonne specifically, hezbollah had several of its senior leaders killed and demanding iran have their back so to speak and follow-up their words with action. iran is stuck between two competing interests and quite frankly we will see in the next couple of days. >> bill: we shall. sir, thanks for coming on and hope for the best. appreciate it. back to aishah. >> aishah: also watching the west coast with protesters calling for a cease-fire in the israel-hamas water. shutdown rush-hour traffic on the 405 in west l.a. they walked onto the freeway about 9:00 a.m. local time in los angeles and california highway patrol had to respond to

the scene. they move the group out of traffic onto the shoulder but not before they created some major backups for miles p or organizers say the protesters were american jews and their allies and in a statement, toward the dnc, they said with one week to go before the democl convention, coalescing around amounts for elected officials, call for a lasting cease-fire, reject the american israel public affairs committee, and legislate an arms embargo. those are their demands, build. >> bill: we will see how much of that we see in chicago next week. san francisco trying to clean up a fentanyl crisis and residence there are fed up over the nonstop in that city. michael shellenberger will join us later in the hour to take us through it. >> aishah: plus this, kamala harris' policies or lack of policies in the spotlight again as we are now just under 90 days from this big election. richard fowler and lisa boothe

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positions on everything from health care to the border and on and on. mark meredith from the north lawn where the slate is clean at this hour. mark, good afternoon. >> bill, good afternoon to you. the harris-walz campaign insist it is engaging with voters, it has a record it wants to stand on. today we heard from the campaign, complains they are not holding press conferences or truly taking a lot of different reporters questions, but the campaign insist it's not a problem. >> just because she doesn't have an interview scheduled on her public schedule doesn't mean that she's not taking her to message directly to voters come how she is knowing to improve their lives and protect economic freedoms, how she is going to expand their rights as americans. speak on friday, harris returns to the campaign trail, down in raleigh, north carolina, a state former president trump won the last two cycles, to talk about efforts to lower costs, but whether or not she is going to embrace bidenomics, that is what we are going to look for appeared harris has already's change her stance on fracking in the twine 20 primaries and says

she is against the idea and eved to shut it down if she had been elected. >> there is no question i am in favor of banning fracking. >> harris also supported medicare for all in an effort she said to overhaul the u.s. medical system. while that is still no longer the case, prec some progressives state is okay. >> she has to run her campaign. i am sure she is talking to all kinds of people to come up with an agenda that will lead to victory in november. >> what's been fascinating is how much the trump team says the vice president is basically plagiarizing their game book by saying that she doesn't want to see anymore taxes on tips, so it's interesting because we now have is very issue that the candidates are agreeing on but now they are pointing fingers, blaming each other they shouldn't be giving that idea out. >> bill: the credit there is interesting. mark, thank you so much. nice to see you from the white house appeared aishah?

>> aishah: let's bring in fox news contributor and "the truth" lisa boothe, and fox news richard fowler. there are so much to dig income i don't even know where to start, richard -- >> how much time do we have? >> aishah: we need 10 minutes on this. vp harris has some good headlines right now, enjoying the campaign of joy and vibes. whatever that means. this is actually how the media felt about her, though, just a year ago, i just want to remind viewers, if we can pull up some headlines on the screen here. this is how people felt about her. it had from slate magazine in 2022, if biden runs again, he should pick a new vp. and the "new york" magazine in 2023 said the case for biden to drop kamala harris, that was their headline, and then "politico," with columnists calling for biden to drop harris and pick new running mate, that was in 2023. richard, has she mutated into a new person and i just missed it?

>> no, but she has created a new role. there is something donald trump said a couple days ago and i thing it matters here. he said a lot of folks don't vote for who the vice president is, and he is absolutely right. they vote for who the president is, which is why now that kamala harris is at the top of the ticket and she is the headliner -- >> aishah: but who is she? >> i'm getting there if you give me a second. all of these major events where you are seeing 10,000 people, 15,000 people, 20,000 people show up to see her, she is now showing you what she has made of. she is showing you a candidate that can both decrease the margin in the polls, flip some of these polls to show in her favor, and also, for many voters, they think she is better at handling the economy. does she have to roll out a policy proposal? of course she does. later this week she will do so. one thing i think her and trump agree and i think me and lisa will agree, lowest waged workers, taxes on tips, that is an asinine idea and is about time we change that, and it requires not only, here's are

donald trump doing it, but congress also getting in the game and passing a bill to make that the law and i think she is elected, she will likely do that, as well. >> but it wasn't a kamala harris -- >> but it's a good idea. but it's a nike good idea and it should get done. it's not about does a good ideas a good idea and about the folks impacted by the policy. that is most important part. >> a state like nevada, would have been a great thing for jacky rosen to talk about a couple months ago. lisa, i want to bring up this headline that the former president is getting, in contrast to all the good media coverage that kamala harris is getting. this is a headline from axios that says v8 is feeling the heat, and they right former president trump sis doing republican anxiety over vice president harasses sudden rise in the polls has led to the first break glass moment of trump's campaign. i never heard that in campaign writing before, trump posted on x for the first time in nearly a year, unveiled a barrage of online ads, quickly scheduled

trips to to swing state and beat up his team of top advisors. lisa come is that a glass breaking moment, getting on twitter again? i can't hear you right now. did we lose lisa? can you hear me? okay, we are going to go back to richard for a second and try to fix lisa's audio issue. is this really a glass breaking moment, if you have the former president, richard, get back on twitter and change a couple things around his campaign? that has been a lot of headlines out there saying there's panic inside his campaign, that he is frustrated -- but is he really? >> i'll be honest with you. i think the musical chairs in your campaign, that's natural. there is a new nominee on the democratic side so you will ship your campaign to do that. i do think it is interesting he is now back on the x platform after being deplatform, creating his own platform on truth social, making money off that platform, now going

back to x, a lot more to do with the elon musk endorsement and a conversation yesterday than anything else. we will have to wait to see on that but i do think it is interesting he is back on x after creating his own platform. >> aishah: let's get to the fox news power rankings. brand-new information came out today on where the state of the house races stand, and it looks to be that there are 19 toss-up seats right now in the house. the top issues, though come in battleground states, those have not changed. they still are economy, immigration, abortion and economy tops in major battleground states that we are looking at. i want to ask you, richard, despite all the drama, and there has been plenty of it, on capitol hill the last two years, republicans still have a pretty strong base that is willing to set aside the drama and look at the issues. obviously, with economy, people in this country cannot afford a burger and fries anymore. we are talking about something like that costing $25.

those of the issues voters want to talk about and what donald trump want to talk about when he goes to north carolina tomorrow, i will be there. that is what he is going to talk about to voters in those ral rallies. can kamala harris compete with about? >> look, there's no question the price of a value meal is way too much money for most americans. i will also acknowledge i think this election, especially on the senate and house level, as tight as two sneakers too small. the problem for the trump campaign in this moment is when trump is on the stump and gives his usual trump performance which is a little bit of ad-lib come a little bit of prompter come a little bit of this come a little bit of that, i think that is less to be desired by the american voter. and the only reason i say that is even in our own polling, what you are finding is more and more americans saying maybe i want to see what kamala harris has to offer. maybe i want to see what this ticket has to offer. two months ago, this was trump selection, literally measuring the drapes at the white house, and now this raises very, very close. one change, changing the nominee

at the top of the democratic ticket, has made this race close. which tells you i thing the trump campaign more than ever has to buckle up and really had a conversation about the issues and get away from the name-calling because if they don't -- >> aishah: lisa, quick response, if we can, just 30 seconds left, if you could quickly respond. >> well, i will say come i think trump campaign is doing what they need to be doing to win. they are adding campaign stops, the trump super pac is up with a 100 elion dollar ad blitz in seven key states, but if kamala harris is such a coward to tell americans what she believes on her own website, can't even sit down with her owe media, how she going to be the commander in chief and president of the united states? when you have a moment's notice to make decisions that could lead to world wars, that could shake and devastate markets, and she is too much of a coward to even put up a policy position when she has been in the game since 2004, kamala harris is not up to the task of being president of the united states. president trump is already done this job and the economy was good, the border was secure, the

world was not in chaos. we know what he is capable of. he will do it again. kamala harris is too afraid to even sit down with her own propagandists in the media. she is a coward. >> just one point here. it's kamala harris. >> aishah: and she is stealing trump's ideas. >> just announced her name right. >> aishah: richard, lisa -- people get my name wrong all the time peer. >> they should get your name right. your mom gave it to you, they should get it right. >> aishah: thank you both. >> won't be around much longer appeared. >> aishah: take it away, bill. >> bill: from the pentagon, we are awaiting comment and getting reports that secretary of state antony blinken will postpone his trip to the middle east. we don't know what that means but the pentagon briefing might tell us what comes next from iran's threat to israel. standby. we are monitoring that briefing for updates momentarily. plus this. check it out periods boucle who here would abolish their health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?

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trillions sounds pretty bad. >> good afternoon, aishah, good to see you. americans starting their adult lives and facing more than half a million dollars of debt to buy items previous generations may have taken for granted. the median price of a home at an all-time high at $423,000. even as the inventory for homes or means tight. meanwhile rising prices for cars and trucks causing consumers to lengthen their loan terms to 84 months, that's longer than the vehicle may last. education debt, another looming issue for many and putting a ring on it sets the average couple back $30,000. it is no wonder a bank rate survey found americans believe they need $186,000 annually to live comfortably. that's more than double the average income earned by americans of $79,000. now there is increasing evidence that this burgeoning debt is causing some americans to tighten their purse strings

already. real retail sales peaked three years ago, about the time americans were spending their government pandemic bonuses. now that money, though, is long gone, and now many of us are facing a debt hangover, as only quincy's rise, credit card balances and auto loans balances here. enough is enough, paid off personal debt over seven years. listen. >> it is about doing things one at a time, not bogging yourself down but thinking what is it that i can can control in this moment? i can get saving and start working on paying off my smallest debt. >> focus is the key to paying off debt and boosting your income, and that doesn't hurt, either. she is impressive. i shut, back to you. >> aishah: gerri willis with sound advice, thank you, gerri. >> bill: aishah, 2:30 in new york on it tuesday afte

afternoon. back in the spotlight and in a big way. there is a lot of videos folks. here's what she said back in 2019. >> the idea is everyone gets access to medical care and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company. let's he limited all of that. let's move on. >> who here would abolish their private health care in favor of a government-run plan? [applause] yeah. >> bill: now her campaign suggested she has backed off that idea but has not revealed her own proposal for 2024. we want to bring our guys come art laffer it, and robert wolf, former economic advisor for president obama. gentlemen, good day to both of you. i guess, art, i don't know, is it $44 trillion? was that the number that bernie sanders put out there? >> it was a very large number. it was a very, very large

number. but what you are seeing here with kamala harris is an inexperienced person who has never been in the private sector. she has been in government, a lawyer, all her life. like my undergraduate students, they all believe they have a very simple solution for the get into it. they think a simple solution is one payer pays all, get rid of all of the deadweight and get rid of medicare for all and that is what they think until they gt experience and then they find out it doesn't work and it really works very much to the detriment of the receivers of the health care services. frankly, that's what she is going forward. it's a very intuitive solution to her but it is wrong. >> bill: costs a lot of money. robert, i know you have sources. >> yes. >> bill: the problem is it is a blank slate right now. her entire website has no issues in the entire column. you know, is it a step at a time? obamacare on the wall, and you keep pushing against that wall

slowly over the time. >> and how lucky are you guys? now i'm going to teach art something. because i agree with him that it's always great to have experience and learn. so vice president harris has been the vice president for going onto near for years, so let me be clear, she will not be pushing single-payer nor medicare for all. let me be very clear. she will not be pushing that. actually, she is going to could tenure to promote the affordable care act. we have over 45 million americans using it. she will also continue to promote the 100 million plus americans that are getting health care with pre-existing conditions. such as cancer and diabetes. and also, what president trump was not able to do, she is going to fight to lower prescription drugs, like they have for seniors, okay? capping insulin $35 for seniors. >> bill: hey, robert -- >> it's a change, how great is that, that her experience has

moved her to this? >> bill: when is she going to tell us? speak i just told you -- >> bill: when? >> i just told you. >> bill: art, one second. when is she going to tell us? >> well, i spoke to the campaign today, and i'm free to tell you as i just told you, and i think she's going to be clear, i know she's giving a big economic speech coming up in north carolina. >> bill: okay, so we will wait to hear it from her. but in the meantime, you've got the video, art. her hand went up in the air appeared right when bernie sanders went up in the air. they were in it together. >> not only the video, you've got all sorts of personal experience here. we have been moving more and more in this direction. the u.s. cost as a share of gdp relative the -- grown the largest in the you know mike last 50 years. u.s. life expectancy relative to the oecd, all to more government

control of health care. it doesn't work. people who are inexperienced think it is a very similar solution, just ask bernie come he will tell you. i was chairman of centennial hospital for three straight years, i know -- thank you, robert, for saying i don't know. i do know. the executive order from trump and executive order from joe biden were the right ways to go. she just doesn't have that experience, frankly, and we are probably going to make a big mistake with her on health care. >> bill: here we go, back to the tape. 2019. here you go, robert, watch. >> i want to give credit for bernie. take credit, bernie. you brought us this medicare for all. i support medicare for all. i always have. but i wanted to make the plan better, which i did. under my medicare for all plan, people have the choice of a private plan or a public plan, because that is what people want to. >> bill: so robert, that was five years ago, and you just told us that all those ideas and that plan and that program will

be airbrushed out of her campaign. right? >> no, i think what we are seeing is it is great the vice president has experience with affordable care act that is working. and why change when it is working? maybe she will iterate, continue to iterate like they have with drug prescription drug costs, and art knows, okay, there's a lot of people who change their minds. i heard president trump yesterday talking to elon musk how he loves electric vehicles now. he was calling electric vehicles a bunch of losers. i mean, come on. we know people change and we certainly know j.d. vance has made comments comparing trump, not even going to say who he compared him to, so listen, people change their minds from experience. we should like that. >> bill: it is shaping up to be a 180 on just a but everything. art, got to run, quick comment? >> changing your mind is fine changing from a wrong answer to a right answer.

>> we will see. >> bill: airbrush will lose a lot of ink. thanks for the new spirit art, nice to cup gentlemen, i shall? >> aishah: tracking this, a huge decision on justice kagan's desk, whether arizonans are required to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. where is not going to go? >> bill: also to crises ripping the city of san francisco. homelessness and drugs, especially deadly fentanyl. the author and journalist michael shellenberger has been up and down that town. he will join us on what is happening now and next after this. >> i have a home, but it's going to be a long-term kind of whole project, talking maybe five years, ten years down the road to recovery. san francisco will bounce back, it always has, but this one is going to be a little tougher to bounce back from. dd how in an it things can transform.

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>> aishah: america's fentanyl and homeless crises have hit kamala harris' home state, california, pretty hard, and now local reporting warns of a new version of fentanyl called soap. it is hitting the streets of san francisco and making things a whole lot worse. michael shellenberger is the founder of public and author of san francisco sicko, got to say that right, and he joins me for more on this. michael, the stuff is weaker and diluted, making people crazy, making people fight each other and commit robberies, what are you seeing on the ground? >> there has been some interesting reporting, a change in the drug making it less potent has resulted in people

less sedated. this is end of pipe problems. dealing with a large attic population, untreated mental illness, decades of allowing people to camp illegally on the streets and deal drugs on the streets p or the governor says he is fed up with it and is going to crackdown. the supreme court has ruled they are allowed to arrest people for illegal camping. we are still not seeing the leadership from either the governor or the mayor, the mental health care that they need. >> aishah: it's interesting you say that because the mayor london breed said it's a time for compassion is over. it is a much bigger problem of the homeless crisis happening across the state. it's been out-of-control for a while. here is a san francisco police chief union, with, with laura ingraham last year, talking about they help the need and the help they are not

getting. >> they all say we get all this money, billion-dollar organization, get all of this money but where do you see the boots on the ground from the community organizations out here trying to help that man, that man across the street, that lady in the doorway, that man wrapped in a blanket -- where are they? >> aishah: that's a great question. who is responsible? this is kamala harris' home state, what has she done? >> a lot of this is on her hands, as well. 1 out of 4 people in san francisco reported being a victim of crime last year, 42% more than once, just half of the people report crimes. california violent crime is 31% higher than violent crime in the rest of the united states and homelessness has increased 40% since gavin newsom became governor in 2019. yeah, you have a failure of leadership. we have basically created the problem.

people get confused about it. people say there is still a problem despite the money. no, no, all of that money went to create the problem because they have incentivized to being homeless the street. they reward being homeless on the street with housing, with cash, in some cases, with drug paraphernalia in some cases. i don't agree that we shouldn't be compassionate. i think you have to remember many people who are addicted to hard drugs are so out of control, they need an intervention, and when their family and friends can no longer impose it, then it falls on the police. i have interviewed hundreds, dozens, maybe hundreds of peopl, needed to get arrested in order to get in drug we ability and recovery. i do think you can't let people camp illegally on the sidewalks. that just seems obvious. it is not just bad for the residents, but it is also bad for the people suffering from drug addiction and untreated metal illness. >> aishah: the people i talk to california, especially

san francisco, you just hear defeat in their voice. it has been going on for so long and it doesn't feel like it is going to change anytime soon. >> sadly, it's been normalized. yeah. >> aishah: you nailed it. thank you very much for joining us. come back soon. >> thanks for having me p had. >> aishah: well, drugs killed more than 100,000 americans last year and fentanyl is poisoning, poisoning was the primary driver of that p or how did we get here? fox nation investigates that in a brand-new series called "the godfather of fentanyl" hosted by our very own john roberts, and it looks at the man who put the deadly drug on our streets. you'll want to watch it. here is a peak. >> this is the true story of the deadliest clandestine chemist in american history. and the birth of the street fentanyl epidemic. as told by the man who created it. >> this is a product that was made for killing people. >> so you feel like you were

able to successfully pull that off for how long? >> many years. many years. >> aishah: unbelievable. "the godfather of fentanyl" hosted by john roberts debuts tomorrow only on fox nation. bill? >> bill: stunning comment, that it has been normalized in san francisco, you can make an argument for a lot of cities like new york. thank you for that. republicans were pushing to reinstate an arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to vote. they filed an emergency action with the supreme court and justice elena kagan is expected to make a ruling on that the next couple of days. william la jeunesse live in los angeles has the latest on the story and what is it all about, william? >> well, bill, a big deal because arizona is a swing state but also because other states are considering similar measures because of the many illegal immigrants who have been admitted under president biden. under federal law, every state requires you confirm your identity when you register to vote.

you won't have to check a box saying you are a citizen and then sign it. arizona is the only one that requires proof of citizenship on your driver's license or when you register to vote in state and local races. two years ago, the state attempted to expand that proof to federal elections, as well. they got shot down by the ninth circuit, which is why now the g.o.p. is asking the supreme court to reinstate that proof of citizenship law for this year's presidential election. >> the law is pretty straightforward, that you provide proof of citizenship. you needed to get a driver's license. but you should provide that when you register to vote, and if you do not, the registration form should be rejected until that proof of citizenship is provided. >> democrats disagree. they say the law represses minority voters. four years ago biden beat trump by 10,000 votes in arizona yet there are 25,000 voters, many underaged when he five, who could be stricken from the rolls if the court sides with

republicans. >> i think it is a commonly held misconception that everyone has i.d., that is not the case, we conducted a nationwide survey and we found that almost 21 million americans do not have a government-issued i.d. >> bottom line, bill, justice kagan is expected to rule by next thursday. that's the deadline for printing ballots. >> bill: okay, we will keep an eye on it. thank you, william la jeunesse, watching that story for us in los angeles. i shall? >> aishah: okay, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are cracking down on chinese-made drones in our airspace. do first responders really need these drones? we are live in beverly hills with that next.

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that could make things even worse by subsidizing national and global media corporations while reducing the web traffic local papers rely on. so tell lawmakers, support local journalism, not well connected media companies. oppose ab 886. paid for by ccia. >> bill: atca drone in the sky, there is a good chance it was made in china. could that pose a risk to spying? lawmakers and washington say so but first responders say they are vital for public safety. pretty good debate. max gorden live in beverly hill on why not use american-made drones? max, good afternoon. >> bill, that's a really good question. beverly hills pd said they would like to purchase american-made drones but they are just not as good. they don't have as good of

range. the battery life isn't good, and also, the camera technology really crucial to their missiont match. so this all make more sense when you see what they are used for. the drone first responder here in beverly hills launches from the top of a building in the downtown area and patrols the streets about 12 hours a day, seven days a week come able to get to the scene of a shoplifting incident about 30 seconds, to an to have been faster than an officer on the ground p or the drone tracks the suspect until officers can get to them. used by beverley hills pd for nearly three years, taking off on thousands of flights and while it is used for other types of instances, as well, the department says it has been a really valuable tool to combat shoplifters. larceny arrest numbers have been mixed since the program started but in 2023, arrests rose sharply come up 71% compared to 2022. >> can't even get out of the store before we've got eyes on them so we can watch them come out of the store, we can watch them with stolen merchandise in

their hands, as they are walking away, and the other good thing is we are identifying the right people. >> now there is legislation that could force beverly hills pd to purchase american-made drones. they say they are prepared to do that but is going to cost a lot of money. they are going to have to retrain folks, and of course, they are just simply not as good appeared bill, back to you. >> bill: nice to see max, in beverly hills where the sun is shining. we will be right back. millions of people have lost weight with personalized plans from noom. like brittney who lost 20 pounds

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