♪ alicia: rescue efforts take on new urgency at the collapsed condo site in florida as tropical storm elsa becomes a major concern for crews digging through rubble for survivors. hello, everyone, and welcome to "fox news live." i'm alicia acuna. >> and i'm anita vogel. a police standoff with armed men shuts down an interstate near boston this morning and ends with 11 arrests. the 9-hour standoff began early this morning when state police say they stopped to help two vehicles in the i-95 breakdown

lane and found armed men in tactical gear who said they, quote, do not recognize our laws. lucas tomlinson is live in washington with more on this strange story. lucas. >> reporter: anita, it sure was. it was a tense situation outside boston that, thankfully, ended peacefully without shots fired. massachusetts state police say they arrested 11 armed men after an hours-hong standoff that closed is-95 in both -- i-95 in both directions. it's now reopened. this all started after a group of armed men dressed in hull tear-style uniform were spotted by police in two cars that had pulled over on the side of i-95 with their hazard lights on. tate police describe the scene. >> eleven armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an interstate highway at two in the morning certainly raises concerns. >> reporter: two men were

quickly arrested, but others fled into the woods along with rifles and body cameras. a shelter in place order has been lifted for the residents of wakefield, massachusetts, where the standoff took place. a special tactical options team was called in to help end the standoff which concluded after the men surrendered. the leader of the group wanted it to be known they are not anti-government. still not clear what motivated this group to make the trip north, they claimed to be heading to maine from rhode island for, quote, training. they'd been posting youtube videos from i-95 early this morning. police say they're still combing the area. >> we're conducting an article search in that area to see if there are additional firearms that have been dumped, dropped out there. so at the end of the day, we still have a significant amount of investigation to do. >> reporter: the men face firearms and other charges. the fbi is assisting the investigation. anita? anita: right on the eve of the

fourth of july, lucas tomlinson in washington, thank you so much. alicia: a grim update out of florida, two more bodies found in the rubble of the condo collapse bringing the total of confirmed dead to 24. 124 still missing, and there is new legal action. a judge now ordering the condo association into receivership putting its financial matters beyond its control. there's also the threat of severe weather. rescue teams nows racing the clock as tropical storm elsa threatens to hit florida. adam klotz is tracking the storm, but we begin with matt finn live in surfside. hi, matt. >> reporter: there's a pretty big development today. a short while ago governor desantis now saying that the remaining part of the tower could come down as early as tomorrow. initially they thought it might be a couple weeks, but we do have that storm off the coast of florida threatening search and

rescue crews here. you can see the 13-story in the distance, it's hovering directly are over the search and rescue crews, so if any effects of a tropical storm or hurricane were to hit, there could be another catastrophe. >> we have a building hear in surfside that is tottering, it is structurally unsound. and although the eye of the storm is not likely to pass over this direction, you could feel gusts in this area. >> reporter: and all the residents who already evacuated, they're not being allowed to go back in to collect their belongings. it's just too dangerous. officials tell us they are using a camera looking for any pets that might be trapped. so far no animals have been found. more than a week after the collapse, rescuers tell us on the ground here they are still intensely searching system mat clay. big machines remove large chunked -- chunks, then humans sift through all the debris 24

hours a day. the maximum number of rescuers that can be out on that pile are out there right now. the miami-dade mayor ordered an inspection of all buildings older than 40 years old, and it resulted in at least one large condominium tower also being evacuated. it's just too unsafe. and as far as the heavy winds or rain from the storm, i'll let adam klotz update you more, but officials feel like they're in the clear through sunday, beginning late sunday, early monday could be the potential threat. back to you. anita: all right, elsa now downgraded to a tropical storm but could still hinder rescue efforts in surfside. meteorologist adam klotz is tracking elsa live in the fox extreme weather center. hi, adam. adam: yeah, that tropical storm currently spinning just to the south of the island of haiti.

there is that rotation currently, and there is still a little bit of indecision exactly where this storm will go and how long it's going to take to get there. that's because we're about to see a turn to the north that's going to to be running over the island of cuba. it's kind of a rocky island are, mountainous island. so this is our forecast tracker. you are looking around monday by the time you get up into south florida, staying a tropical storm. no longer going to restrengthen and become a hurricane, but a tropical storm nonetheless that could bring heavy rain and at times strong winds. winds currently at 70 miles an hour. these are a bunch of different forecast models. it hits cuba and then all of a sudden the models, very wide range there the, perhaps running up the east coast, perhaps out into the gulf of mexico. we're going to have a better idea once this finally moves over cuba and running into south florida by monday morning. otherwise you looking at a lot of heat in the central states. it has been incredible hot all

from that historic heat wave. rain wise, heavy rain down along the gulf coast, still some showers running up the east coast where that's really cooled off temperatures, and this is your independence day forecast. cooler in the northeast, still very hot in the center of the country. there's going to be some showers still along the gulf coast but otherwise mostly dry. anita: hopefully that storm doesn't hinter what's going on in surfside too much. thank you for that report. alicia: homeland securitying secretary alejandro mayorkas set to travel to guatemala next week as migrants continue to make the dangerous journey to our southern border. the trip will come nearly a month after vice president kamala harris create visited the region and as she continues to face criticism for her role in handling the migrant crisis. bill melugin is live on the border in la joya, texas. bill? >> reporter: good afternoon to you. as we head into the fourth of july, we're really starting to get to that time of year where

it's going to become increasingly dangerous for the migrants to cross the rio brand and make this journey. a live look above us right now, you can see some of the brush they have to clear once they get to this location. they've got to go through deep brush, extremely hot and humid out here. if they get lost, if they don't have any water, unfortunately, that's when you start finding those bodies out there. take a look at the video we shot here in la joya, texas. the hot weather not stopping the migrants from coming. they come every day here all times of day. this was a family that came through, about a dozen of them. they gave themselves up to border patrol, and while they were being processed, we heard on radio that there were runners coming across elsewhere. that just goes to show, it's a mix of family units and runners trying to get away. governor greg ab9 bot recently announced texas is going to start building its own border barrier system. he said this is the beginning of that. what you're looking at is drone video out of the del rio area

where he says private landowners have agreed to allow some barrier fencing to go up for the state of texas. it appears to be a chain-link fence. i'm told they're going to put no trespassing signs on those fences, if anybody crosses, they can be arrested by local authorities on those trespassing charges. former i.c.e. director tom homan spoke earlier today, he says any barrier whatsoever is better than what we've got right now. take a listen. >> if anybody would look at the data and if the cbp if web site, every place they build a wall, barrier, illegal immigrations drop. it makes sense. the data's clear. it's a great tool. for those that argue, well, some people can actually get over the wall. the wall finish it's a wall system, it's meant to slow people down. it slows them down, it's a smart wall. we will know when someone's climbing the wall. border patrol has time to respond and make an arrest.

>> reporter: and all of this, of course, in the context of the ongoing security crisis happening down here. this is not just families trying to cross the border. there are some bad folks mixed in there as well. to that point, border patrol reporting just on wednesday of this week alone just in the span of a few hours they arrested three sex offenders who tried to cross the border in this area. one was a honduran national who had a second-degree rape conviction out of the state of new york on a child under the age of 15. the other two were sex offenders out of the states of wisconsin and arkansas. all three had been previously deported, all three of them tried to come back this week with. thankfully, border patrol if able to catch them and will be sending them back. back to you. rush lynn bill melugin live on the border, thank you. and we'll have more on the border crisis with new mexico congressman -- congresswoman yvette harrell later this hour. she was participant of a group of republican lawmakers who toured the southern border with former president trump earlier

this week. anita: video that appears to show an assault on a homeless man in california's venice beach going viral. the man can be seen sitting on the sidewalk while his attacker punches him in the head and body. people living in the area have long been complaining the homeless crisis is stay spinning out of control there. christina coleman is following the story live in the los angeles. christina. >> reporter: good to see you. yes, the how manyless crisis has gotten worse -- homeless croi crisis has gotten worse at venice beach. more violence in the area. in yesterday's case, several homeless people are seen in this video punching another homeless man in the head repeatedly. now, this comes just days after l.a.'sty council voted to draft up new rules to keep people from sleeping and lying near schools, parks and libraries and storing up their possessions in these places. critics don't believe the rules will really be enforced or that it'll just lead to homeless

people picking up and moving to another location, to not really solving this complicated problem. the measure still needs a final vote. fed-up residents say it's about time. >> this should have been taken care of. it's taking way too long. and it's turning off, you know, it's hurting the economy down here, and people are afraid. >> reporter: also a startling statistics paint a grim picture of the surge in violence. as of the end of may, venice experienced a 132% increase in assaults involving a homeless person as a suspect. there's also a massive increase in the number of homeless people who were victims of robberies over the year. that's up 1100%. and as you can imagine, it's likely hard for them to protect themselves and their belongings in some of these homeless encampments. and just last week a homeless man was found dead inside a tent near the beach boardwalk. officers believe he suffered blunt force trauma to the head

possibly during a fight. meantime, city and county leaders continue to try to come up with various ways to deal with this mounting crisis including the new government-funded tent encampment for the homeless in east hollywood. it costs more than $2600 per tent, per month. that's more than a one-bedroom condo near the beach. anita? iowa knee the that: it is a debacle not just for venice, but for cities all over the southern california area. thank you so much for that report. alicia: another ransom war attack on u.s. businesses yesterday, and a cybersecurity firm says this one hit hundreds of firms. the hackers targeted a software supplier known as cassia and spread the ransomware through cloud service providers. the fbi are investigating. the security firm believes the russian-speaking hacker group

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♪ alicia: a tragedy is unfolding in japan on this saturday. at least 19 people are missing after a powerful mudslide slammed into a town west of tokyo following heavy rain. that number could grow as rescue workers search for survivors. local authorities saying dozens of homes may have been buried under the mud. anita: well, president biden taking a victory lap friday after a better than expected june jobs report. the u.s. adding 850,000 jobs to the economy last month although unemployment ticked up slightly to 5.9%. the president pointing to the jobs report as evidence his $1 is.9 trillion stimulus plan is working as he pushes to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a much bigger democraticken spending package.

>> this is the historic progress. pulling our economy out of the worst crisis in a hundred years. driven in part by our dramatic progress in vaccinating our nation and beating back the pandemic as well as other elements in the more than rescue plan. american rescue plan. anita: joining me now is john bussey, associate editor for "the wall street journal" and a fox news contributor. hi, john, thanks for joining us on this holiday eve. >> you too. anita: so we heard president biden taking credit for the favorable jobs report, but does he deserve to take the credit, or is some of what's behind these numbers that covid is winding down, the vaccines that he inherited are working, businesses are opening, they need workers, and people are slowly going back to work? >> i think all of those factors that you just mentioned are at work here. and this was really a good jobs number, 850,000, way above what people had expected.

and there was other good news in the numbers, a broader measure of unemployment if you take into account people who are stuck in the part-time jobs that they don't want to be in or too discouraged to look for a job. those numbers are way down as well. they're feeling much better about a job market. so some of this is still la tuf. there's no question -- still la tuf. there's no question that federal spending helped prime the pump. some of it also has to do with what you described. the vaccine program is rolling out, we're still way from getting a sufficient number of people vaccinated. still less than half of america is fully vaccinated. but consumers are feeling a little bit better about that, and they feel that there's a beginning of getting under control of the pandemic, so the consumer sentiment is up as well so spending is up. anita: no doubt. but, you know, the job gains come as at least 25 or 26 states are ending or have announced plans to end the $300 or

for-week supplemental unemployment -- per-week supplemental unemployment benefit ifs. so maybe the question is how much better could the jobs report have been if the rest of the states and, you know, they happen to be mostly blue states, right? if they ended their supplemental unemployment benefits. are those states going to end up dragging the economy down? >> so that's an argument that could be made. look, there's other bad news to consider. if you want to see the glass as half empty, it's easy to do so. 6.8 million jobs still haven't returned from the pre-pandemic level. people have left the job market because they got so frustrated. so there's still a lot of ground to cover. and clearly, the enhanced jobless benefits may have kept some people from looking. but what's happened also is this that wage rates have gone up about 3.6%, hourly wage rates over a year ago, so so that's incentivizing and attracting people back to the job market. and you could say that those enhanced benefitses kept people,

essentially, spending through the pandemic and engaged in the economy because they could afford to be engaged through those benefit ifs. so it worked both ways. surely, some people were disincentivized to get back into full-time employment. in other regards it kept them economically viable through the, through the pandemic. i think the other thing to look at is those states where vaccination rates are low. if you're going to look for a drag on the economy over the next several months, that that's where you're going to find it. you're going -- because the delta variant, much higher infection rates, more hospitalizations, a drag on the economy because people are missing work, they can't get back into the job market. so those statements are going to be under increasing pressure just from a health and economic standpoint to really ramp up their vaccination rates. anita: and to your point, certainly those benefits were essential for so many people during the height of the pandemic, no question.

but right now, you know, as you said, employers are offering people incentives to come back to work. employers are, they're struggling though to bring people back to work. i mean, you hear stories in new york about one restaurant trying to poach workers from another. the tsa is offering new employees $1,000 bonuses. they're trying to hire 6,000 more workers, and they're struggling, they're having trouble. why are employers having trouble bringing people back to the work force if they're offering all of these incentives? >> well,ing some of the people didn't want to come back in because they were fearing the pandemic. and that number is also now down by about 900,000 people saying that i'm willing to reengage in the economy. i'm vaccinated, i can, i can get back in without fear. but some of it was perhaps the unemployment benefits. some of you have such a concussion to an economy as big

as ours, the biggest in the world, where it's flatlined for a period through 2020 during the shut down, and then it gears back up. and as a result, you're going to have shortages not just of labor, but of certain products, raw materials. factories are having trouble being at full tilt, and that evens out over time. when we look back at this historically, what we're going to find is that the economic managers in 2009 during the financial crisis, look back to the depression and found that not enough stimulus had happened. the economic managers in 2020 and '21 looked back at 2009 and saw that not enough stimulus happened. so much -- the steroid shot of government spending and benefits to get through what was a very difficult economic time, and it looks like we're coming out the other end of it pretty healthily. anita: no doubt they learned a lesson. john, always great to see you and have a great holiday. >> you ooh too.

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♪ anita: 29 minutes after the hour now, and the latest on the grim search for survivors in surfside, florida. two more bodies found in the result of that collapsed condo bringing the number of confirmed dead to 24. 124 are still missing. meantime, severe weather could hamper rescue efforts as tropical storm elsa moves closer to florida, and worries are growing that what's left of the damaged structure could come tumbling down at any moment. governor ron desantis earlier today. >> that building is too unsafe to let people go back in. i know there's a lot of people who were able to get out, fortunately, who have things there. we're very sensitive to that, but i don't think there's any way you could let somebody go up in that building given the shape that it's in now. so if the building is taken down, this will protect our search and rescue teams because we don't know when it could fall

over. anita: surgery efforts were suspended for 15 hours on thursday until engineers decided it was safe to reassume. alicia: as the crisis at the southern border continues to overwhelm customs and border protection officials, a new house appropriations committee bill aims to cut the agency's net discretionary funding by nearly a billion dollars. our next guest was part of a group of republican lawmakers that toured the southern border with former president trump earlier this week. new mexico congress bank yvette harrell joins us now. thank you so much for being with us on this holiday week with, we appreciate it. the committee's draft of the bill would still provide $14.11 billion in net discretionary funding. with that being down a billion dollars than fiscal 2021, can can you tell us how that will be reflected in what we are seeing happening at the border? >> well, absolutely. any cut in the budget for our border patrol, the men and women

putting their lives on the line every day, and you can see from the number of congress members that went down this week just to see the crisis, again, for themselves. and, of course, it was highlighted. but we are seeing florida and other states coming to the rescue now to the state of texas, arizona. the only ones not admitting to it are the administration. but any cut to the budget is going to hamper the ability to secure our border. alicia: i mentioned at the beginning here that you did go down to the border with former president trump. and a statement was issued by one of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle from texas, representative villa, a democrat of texas, saying, quote: let's make one thing clear, the narrative of a violent and insecure border region is blatantly false. the border is not a war, and the wall abbott and trump are trying to get texas to pay for is not only a waste of their hard-earned money, but also an

un-american symbol of hatred that separates and intimidates our community, harms our wildlife and encroaches on landowner rights. what's your response that? the. >> yeah, again, just avoiding the actual facts, if maybe he'd like to come to our district where a man was beheaded two weeks ago. this is real, the danger that we are putting american citizens in, is very real. that's why border sheriffs and i.c.e. are suing the biden administration for not allowing them to deport these people coming here illegally with criminal backgrounds. we don't know all of the people that are getting in. you can already see the getaways. the numbers are rising every single month. and this is not about the border crisis anymore in terms of just border states. it is about america. these people are coming into the the -- it's cartels, it's gang members, sex offenders. in fact, in the last six days down in texas they apprehended

four sex offenders, two gang members. i mean, this is a very real crisis. and if they said it's not, it's just, again, putting your head in the sand and not being in reality. -- [inaudible] people in my district about this horrific crime that was brought against an american citizen in my district. alicia: well, you know, you brought up the sheriffs in texas. the number of sheriffs, some counties and i.c.e. officers now suing the biden administration and dhs because there's this policy that prevents i.c.e. officers from arresting some illegal immigrants even those, as you mentioned, that have a criminal record. we have that. we also have arkansas the latest state the to announce that they are sending national guard troops to the border. you were with the former president. is this also just so much about politics and it's really hard to see who's in charge here? >> i really think right now we need to be very real list in, and it's about national security.

it's about keeping american citizens safe. and, in fact, i sent a letter to the above of mexico asking her to put guard troops back on our southern border just to help with the crisis that we have going on. and i think some members of congress, democrats want to make it a more political issue. this is about people. this is certainly about the safety of the american people above all politics, and we have a flawed system now, and it could have been avoided if we would have left the trump administration mandates in place, the remain in -- alicia: congresswoman yvette heller, hope you and your family have a happy fourth of july. >> you too. thank you so much. anita: fox news has learned that in the coming days officials are set to remove fencing put up around the u.s. capitol after january 6th. congressional correspondent chad pergram has the details from capitol hill. >> reporter: tourists usually flock to the capitol for the fourth, but the capitol remains closed partly for the pandemic,

partly for security. a security fence erected after the january 6th riot still rings the capitol. congressional observers believe it creates a bad optic around independence day. >> it's very difficult to say we want to build trust in government when there's a fence between the governmental building that is our symbol of democracy and the american people. >> reporter: fox has learned that officials will remove the fence, still the capitol is mostly closed even as president biden hosts a bash at the white house. >> we don't like want this to be, like, the green zone. based on what i know, the fences should come down. this is the people's house, and this belongs to the american people. >> there's no need for it to be up. again, it's all part of this facade they have to continue to have proxy voting. >> reporter: the house instituted remote voting last year allowing members to

essentially phone in their ballots. republicans view proxy voting as another example of a closed capitol. >> members need to be present if, come to the capitol and do their jobs. >> reporter: one democrat has an ailing mother in los angeles as concerns swell about the delta varian quaint. >> i can say personally i still have caregiver issues. well, there still may be days where i need to stay home and use the proxy. >> reporter: there are few sign zoom hearings are going away. security is still a concern even as the fence comes down. congress still owes the national guard $521 million for protecting the capitol earlier this year. on capitol hill, chad pergram, fox news. alicia: as americans celebrate the nation's birthday from sea to shining sea this weekend, safety comes first particularly with many first-time boaters getting out on the water.

alex hogan is live with the u.s. coast guard along the hudson river. hi, alex. >> reporter: hi. as people head out for the fourth of july hitting the water, the coast guard wants to make sure that people have have fun but make sure this summer is a less deadly one with. during the pandemic many people bought bloats to social distance. -- boats to social distance. as a result of most of the classes being online, or accidents increased by 26%, and boating deaths increased by 25% around the country. in the increased fatalities, 50% of those took place on motor boats, 15% on kayaks and 9% on pontoon boats. >> i think it's going to get a lot of boats on the water, a lot of first-time boaters or new boaters who, you know, i feel like they don't do enough of, like, a checklist before they go out. they need to really just learn more, like, get their safety down first, learn the area.

>> reporter: boating accidents cost more than $62 million in property damage last year alone. in the event of a rescue, a lot of calculations come into play for the coast guard. things like looking at the water current, rip tides, looking at the temperature of the water and, of course, if people are even wearing life jackets to begin with especially in searching for someone in open water like this. they say that looking for someone without a life jacket is essentially as difficult as searching for a floating coconut because all you can see, of course, is the top of their head. alicia: quite the visual. alex hogan, thank you so much. anita: well, china delivering a defiant message as its communist party celebrates 100 years. what beijing is saying and how the u.s. should respond to the tough talk, that's next. ♪ ♪

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♪♪ alicia: welcome back. china's communist party marking 100 year of rule with some tough talk. president xi addressing tens of thousands of people in tiananmen if square and striking a defiant tone saying, quote: the chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully are, coerce and enslave us. whoever attempts to do that will surely break their heads on the

steel great wall built with the blood and flesh of 1.4 billion of chinese people. the chinese leader backing up his words with action. this satellite image reportedly showing beijing is bidding more than -- building more than 100 nuclear silos in the desert. anita: retired four-star general jack keane is fox news senior strategic analyst. hello, general, thanks for joining us today. >> great to be here. anita: you know, for lack of a better way to put this, this message is creepy, and it's scare arely. so how should the u -- scary. so how should the u.s. and the biden administration in particular interpret this? >> yeah. well, these messages that they deliver on these holidays -- this one is very significant for them, you know, the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. they've been in party for 72

years, and you see the audience every they have is somewhat robotic in terms of how they react to these speeches. they're very nationalistic speeches, very bombastic, they're full of bluster particularly when it concerns their adversaries as you noted in the introduction, but they're really designed for domestic consumption. what they're touting here is the prowess of the communist party and what they have achieved, their technological superiority and their modern military. but they certainly don't deal with the reality of what has taken place here which is the chinese communist party killed 20 million people in the cultural revolution, all chinese, thousands killed in tiananmen square, as we know, in 1989 when they cleared the streets. they crushed the hong kong democracy, they've got genocide to going with the uyghurs, tragically so, and they're just

overall bullying and coercion that takes place around the region. and most recently, as we've all seen and witnessed, is the incredible deception over covid-19. and as a result of that. they've had a fair amount of international pushback. anita: that's right. that's certainly on the radar screen, of course. you know, it's interesting, on the campaign trail we all heard then-candidate biden famously refer to china, they're not bad folks, folks. they're not competition for us. as president, he did call them a bigger threat. and his own secretary of state, tony blinken, said president trump was right to take a tougher approach on china. he didn't like the way the former president went about it, but he basically said the basic principle was right. so what do we expect the policy to be? >> well, first of all, i think they rightly looked at what trump had done in terms of his overall policy towards china, and the trump administration identified china as a long-term

strategic threat to the united states. and that is very accurate. and as such, they have kept the trump sanctions, they've increased some of their own. they've kept the trump tariffs and the trump trade deal, and they have supports taiwan just as president trump has done. they had the quad meeting which is like-minded democracs, it's the united states with, japan, australia and india. trump revised that, and they have brought that group together the also to attempt to strengthen it. so they have, essentially, taken most of trump's policy ands tried to strengthen them. and believe me, that's a good thing. i give the biden administration some pretty good marks on china. not on russia, not on iran and some orr things. but here's the question though, the unanswered question. you keep referring to china, we have to compete with them, we have to establish the united states as technologically superior and certainly our

democracy in the long run, we want that to one out over their autocratic capitalism. but we don't know yet if the biden administration is willing to confront china, and that is the concern oural highs in the region have. -- our allies in the region. they hear the rhetoric, they like the rhetoric, and we'll see. there's a study that the biden administration is completing, and what we'll want to see is a whole of government approach, comprehensive program to deal with the threat of china and work that synergistically with our allies. that should be out within a month or so. but right now the rhetoric is good, and they're continuing many of the trump policies, and that makes a lot of sense. here's the other problem, we are outgunned and outmanned by the chinese military the in the region. and there's not enough money in the defense budget to deal with the reality that i just mentioned. we need more ships, we need more missiles, and we need to move more airplanes into the region to deal with this growing

military menace that the chinese are representing. anita: and this all comes as "the washington post" is reporting that china is actually building up its nuclear military arsenal. satellite imagery showing that they are building new missiles in the desert. we'll have to leave it there for now, we're out of time, but we'll definitely talk about that next time. thank you so much. it's always great to get your insight and have a wonderful holiday. >> yeah, same to you, anita. happy fourth to everybody. anita: thank you. alicia: in person again for the first time since the start of the pandemic. fox nation host abby hornacek is there, and she will be live -- she will have a live report up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪♪ ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ welcome back, america.

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america gets ready to celebrate independent, first in person since the pandemic began that would await in missouri. approximation post about america correspondent is there live at the national world war i exam tomorrow. >> that's right, the band is

setting up behind me their performance at the picnic here at the national world war i museum and memorial navy has been all week talking to the community mythology at food banks, showing everyone why the navy is so important for the american way of life. sailors from across the country to conduct outreach to give the opportunity to learn about the navy's crucial role in national security and prosperity. the program has been the flagship outreach to areas in the country that don't have a navy presence that i can showcase how they can put off aggression and protect our freedom. i asked officer christopher about what this week means to him. >> anytime you get the opportunity to celebrate the amendment and being proud of being american awesome. they're going to be with the world for one more tonight and remember people who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. >> the navy jumped out of a

plane to land on the lawn at the library to celebrate its grand reopening. the official parachute demonstration but maybe made up of active duty navy seals and personal they will perform the kansas city air show this weekend alongside the navy blue celebrating 75 years being in existence and debuting their is 18. a lot to look forward to. >> thank you. anita, so nice to see people doing nice things again. >> what a great backdrop for. >> so nice to be with you today and we will see everybody again at 4:00 p.m. have a good one. ♪♪

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