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aspendental.com arthel: fox news alert, the latest terrifying shooting at our nation's capital putting a spotlight on the crime epidemic in major cities across the country. d.c. officials now placing blame with the police chief, accusing the district's court system of going too easy on violent criminals. hell lee, welcome to -- hello, welcome to fox news live. i'm. arthel: arthel: eric: hello. i'm eric shawn. two other stories we're following at this hour. in washington, a big week on capitol hill, democrats look to get a massive spending bill passed in the senate that is a critical step for president
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biden's agenda. and the new concerns about the cost of living and inflation drives up prices, putting a squeeze on your wallet and texas authorities are taking new steps to try to hold back the flood of migrants who continue to cross our southern border. we have team fox news coverage today. mark meredith reporting on the president, he's in wilmington, delaware. alex hogan is in new york city on inflation concerns. bill malusian is in texas on the border crisis. first, let's go to david spunt, live in washington, with how the feds are trying to tackle crime in our cities. >> reporter: crime is a serious problem, not here in washington, d.c. only but in other cities big and small across the united states. the justice department, the attorney general merrick garland announced on thursday a strike force to combat drug trafficking in the united states, to help curb the problems. still, authorities on a local
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and federal level feel a bit overwhelmed because of the rise in crime. case in point, washington, d.c. as you mentioned and the shooting that happened outside a district of columbia restaurant thursday night when patrons were just enjoying dinner. it happened about a mile from the white house for perspective and many innocent people were caught in the middle of gunfire. >> i'm mad as hell about this and i hope y'all are too. we want to help people. yes, we should. but you can not coddle violent criminals. you can not. >> reporter: d.c. police chief angry there, he said more boots on the ground are needed and the court system needs to work more in the favor of law enforcement. the mayor has been somewhat critical of the courts. the chief judge of the court wrote recently, there are close to 700 individuals he detained on felony charges in the district awaiting trial on cases where the court felt if released the individuals may pose a
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danger or risk to the community. eric, chicago is another large city with a crime problem. the courts are backed up by at least 35,000 felony cases, waiting to be heard right now. the state's attorney for cook county, kim fox, she handles the county and city of shy can cay grow. i -- chicago. i sat down with kim fox, she is the top prosecutor for the people in cook county, the second largest county in the country. >> the fact of the matter is, we have an unrelenting gun problem in chicago and i can not look to the people that i serve and tell them we're spending more resources going after petty offenses that can still be dealt with, than we are going after gun violence. that's where my priorities is. >> reporter: there's a proposal in chicago to move some of the nonviolent cases to the city court to create a different type
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of court system. they could handle those. kim fox and her team with the 5.4 million people can look specifically at violent crimes because they they have 35,000 felony cases in the backlog, eric. eric: chicago has been so sadly out of control. david, thank you. a fox news alert at a shooting on a county fair in eugene, oregon, leaving one person wounded. shots were fired yesterday after afternoon a fight broke out there. that is hours before a performance by rapper nellie. one witness says a woman was slot in the arm after a bullet ricocheted off the ground during a fight. two suspects are in custody as of this morning. the fair is not yet open to the public. arthel. arthel: we're going to go back to the border now. texas starting to arrest those who illegally cross into the country, putting into motion governor greg abbott's plan to he slow the surge of migrants. bill malujian is live at the
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border in del-rio with more. bill. >> reporter: good afternoon. we have an absolutely massive group of migrants who have shown up at the border, gate border fence here. take a look at this. this started off as a group of more than 350, vans and busses have taken some of the migrants away. these guys are from haiti, they're from all over the world. this is just part of the group that's left here. there are hundreds waiting to be picked up by border control, the feds completely overwhelmed down here. they don't have enough transport to he get these folks out. some of these my grants sit in -- migrants sit in the heat all day long waiting for pickup. kids are chasing each other, playing tag, waiting. we've seen this every day since we've been here the of last week in del-rio. we have video to show you of how this starts. take a look at this. this is exclusive video to fox news from the mexican side of the rio grande as migrants were
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crossing over early this morning, a steady stream of hundreds of them start walking across the rio grande. this is the mexican city what that is directly across from del-rio. this is where a lot of them show up to start making the crossing, coming in from all over the world, will fly into mexico and take a bus and as you see from the video they come to the river's edge, drop their passports and walk across the river. take a look at the second video. you can see from a drone they they end up at the del-rio border fence, part of the area where the border wall construction started but was not finished. there are gaps all of the place. border patrol told us this was group of well over 350 before the busses and vans started taking people away by a dozen at a time or so. take a look at the third piece of video, as we're getting video of all these people from all over the world here. we've been talking to these folks all morning, people from haiti, people from african, ghana, brazil, cuba, colombia.
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there are very few people from the northern triangle countries that kamala harris said she want to focus on. we haven't met anybody from those countries here. these are almost all hey than h, folks from cuba and africa. we spoke with a couple from ga ghana. basically they told us there left in january, they flew into brazil, crossed into bolivia. they eventually arrived in mexico, walked to the border fence here and the plan is to go to hartford, connecticut where they have friends. you see this happening every day. we've had groups of several hundred showing up to the border gate every day this week. the surge is not slowing down. there was a journalist who asked one of the migrants, what do you think about president biden. she responded in spanish, essentially said we thank president biden for the opportunity to come here right now and that's something we heard from the migrants as we talked to them all week long. we asked why do you come and
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they tell us they feel now is the right time. and it happens as i.c.e. is telling us that 30% of their detainees are refusing the covid-19 vaccine. it's just going to add another layer to the ongoing crisis as the delta variant starts to spread throughout the country. we'll send it back to you. arthel: bilker thank you very -- bill, thank you very much. eric. eric: american wallets getting hit coast to coast as inflation is rising at levels not seen in over a decade. it's making everything you buy from food to furniture to gas more pricey, as janet yellen says we will see more months of what she calls rapid inflation. alex hogan is live in new york. >> reporter: compared to last year, everyday items cost a lot more. the continued strain on wallets is weighing heavily on americans. in a fox news poll, finding the issue is at the forefront of consumers' minds, 83% say
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they're extremely concerned about inflation. gas is up 46%. getting back on a plane will cost you more, up 24%. furniture is up 10% and grocery items like bacon up 8% and milk up 7. the companies are passing on prices to consumers, acknowledging that the spikes will only continue to rise. it also means more of shrink flation where companies charge the same amount for things that are not the same, think of cereal boxes that are smaller or shorter rolls of aluminum foil. jerome powell explains that a healthy inflation rate falls below 2%, noting that june's 5.4% increase is drastically higher than expected and there's simply no precedent for these numbers. >> this particular inflation is
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just unique in history. we don't have another example of the last time we opened a 20 trillion-dollar economy with lots of fiscal and monetary support. >> reporter: we heard the federal reserve and many economists for the last several months saying that the pandemic's economic toll will correct itself in time but in the short term it means higher price tags for everything from energy bills to of course those beloved snacks you're buying at the grocery store and everything in between. eric. eric: not ring dings and everything else. man. all right, alex. thank you. arthel. arthel: a critical week coming up for president biden's agenda as a buy part a san group of -- bipartisan group of senators work to finalize the infrastructure proposal. can they actually make a deal and will it ultimately pass in the senate? mark meredith live in wilmington, delaware where president biden is spending the weekend. hi, mark. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. later on this week the president
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will go to pennsylvania to stump for his economic agenda. the real debate is going to happen in washington, d.c. where congress is still working both on infrastructure and other white house priorities. last week we saw the congress block everything efforts to move debate forward on an infrastructure bill. this week looks to be a different story with lawmakers from both parties saying a they're making progress on the moving the proposal forward, possibly within the next few hours. >> we're down to the last couple of items. i think you're going to see a bill monday afternoon. >> we're about 90% of the way there. i'm here this weekend, working on legislative language with colleagues and staff. i feel good about getting it done. >> reporter: well, the senate may be close on infrastructure. how quickly is a bill going to reach president biden's deck? that is the trillion dollar question at this point. house speaker nancy pelosi says she won't pass infrastructure in her chamber until after the senate also deals with so-called human infrastructure, the speaker doubling down on her
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demands earlier today. >> i'm enthusiastic about the fact that they will have a bipartisan bill. i hope that it will be soon. but, yes, i stand by because the fact is, is that the president has said that he wants to have a bipartisan bill and we all do. but that is not the limitation of the vision of the president. he wants to build back better. >> reporter: the house speaker and top democrats are certainly trying to keep their base on-board but the timing of all of this gets tricky where the longer the debate goes on it's certainly possible that you could see some democratic defection from the type of legislation, so arthel and eric, we'll be looking to see what happens this week but it looks like we'll see major progress within the next few hours. back to you. arthel: mark meredith, thank you. eric. eric: a fox news alert for you. speaker nancy pelosi has appointed ohio republican congressman adam kinsinger to the select panel investigating
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the january 6th attack on the capitol. kinsinker has been a critic of former president trump. he will also be joining critic liz cheney on that panel, this after house majority leader kevin mccarthy pulled five republicans that the gop wanted after ms. pelosi objected to two of them, representative jim banks and representative jim jordan. kinsinker an outspoken critic of the former president and illinois congressman, now joining the panel investigating the january 6th attack on our democracy. arthel. arthel: in health news now, the return of mask mandates as concerns grow over the spread of the delta variant. already one major city could face legal action over its indoor mask rules. next, the fight over what could become another wave of lockdowns. liberty mutual customizes car insurance
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angeles with the very latest on what's happening. hey, christina. >> reporter: hi, eric. yeah, dangerously hot and dry conditions continue to fuel fire danger here in california and throughout the west, forcing thousands of people to evacuate. it's just a tragic situation. the dixie fire is the largest fire in the state so far. it scorched more than 181,000 acres since it started on july 13th. a possible cause, a pacific gas and electric utility worker discovered a free fell into a conductor and a fire started at its base. it grew larger by that evening. as of now, it destroyed 16 structures and threatened nearly 11,000 more. steep terrain is making it tough to get the fire under control. it's only 20% contained. but there is a slight chance for rain next week. crews across the region hope it helps out. >> fuels are at record or near record levels of dryness. the lack of moisture means everything is ready.
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everything is explosive. >> reporter: the tamarak fire has destroyed 13 structures and forced more than 2400 people from their homes. that fire is only 13% contained. it started on july 4th after lightning struck rocky ridge top sparking flames in a tree and it spread from there. repeated heat waves is elevating fire danger in the region, this is california's hottest june on record and firefighters are watching a monsoonal system on the way to the area that could bring relief, dangerous downpours or dry lightning that could spark more wildfires. as of now there's 88 wildfires burning in 13 states. eric: arthel. arthel: thank you. starting tomorrow, st. louis county will require face masks indoors for everyone over the age of 5. that is regardless of your vaccination status.
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missouri's attorney general says he plans to fight the mandate in court but it follows a growing trend of local government bringing back mask mandates as delta variant spreads and cases rise. dr. amesh adalja is here, a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security and infectious disease specialist. thank you so much. are mask mandates really effective if the anti-vaxxers most likely won't wear masks and also what level of protection will masks provide those of us who are fully vaccinated? >> what we're seeing is really a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the data shows if you're fully vaccinated, the delta variant doesn't pose much of a risk to you and the breakthrough infectionses are rare and not likely to be contagious. what we're seeing is the unvaccinated driving this. i think when you have mask mandates put into place again, it's going to be hard to comply with, not many will wear it and it won't have a major impact
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because it's the unvaccinated individuals, people who haven't gotten vaccinated, unlikely to wear a mask that are spreading this and it's likely to be in areas where mask use isn't common to begin with. i understand businesses want to keep people safe, that's fine if private businesses want to institute a mask mandate for customers coming into their stores. we have the solution, getting vaccines into people's arms. that's how of you fix the problem. arthel: for those that are fully vaccinated do you recommend wearing a mask when indoors or in a tight space with a bunch of other people. >> if you're a healthy people it's unlikely you'll have a significant breakthrough infection. if you're immune compromised, maybe you had a bone marrow transplant, it may be advisable to wear a mask when in indoor places. for the general healthy person i don't think the science supports the need to wear a mask there.
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that will be difficult because it's hard to know who is vaccinated and who is not vacation nailed. -- vaccinated. if you're fully vaccinated, the pandemic is largely over for you. arthel: if you already had covid, do you have antibody protections against the delta variant. >> when people recover from covid, reinfections are relatively rare. they do occur, we see it with some variants. you have some immunity. you're probably protected from severe disease if you recovered. your antibodies and t cell immunity is strong but you would do well to get at least one dose of the vaccines that are out there to shore up that immunity that you've already gotten. this is something we want new guidance on. we want to say someone who had a positive antibody test from a prior infection probably needs one dose of the vaccine to be considered fully vaccinated. arthel: what is the greatest skepticism about the vaccine that you're hearing and what do
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you say to those people. >> it's not one thing. it's a lot of misinformation. some of it might be that it's experimental because it's emergency use authorization which isn't true. some people came up with the ideas about fertility which are arbitrary notions that somebody put on social media and they they took off. there may be talk about microchips and 5g networks activating them that is completely ludicrous. it's lot of different questions that you hear. it's not one thing. what you have to do is talk to people on a one on one basis, usually somebody that's trusted like a primary care physician. they do a really good job of trying to really address what concerns there are. there's so much data on the vaccines. you can see with your own eyes how effective they've been and how safe they they are. so i think this is something that we can do but it those be done on a one on one basis because we have people that have questions and we hit a wall with the kind of talking about the
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vaccine on television, now it's a grass roots ground game that's going to get more vaccines into people's arms. arthel: indeed. what percentage of the unvaccinated would need to get the shots in order to arrest this coronavirus and stop the spread of variants like delta and lamb da that's on deck. >> it's unclear. what we're going to come to is a situation where we're always going to have cases of covid-19. this isn't a disease that can be eliminated. what we're trying to do is tame it, reduce the ability to cause severe cases, hospitalizations and deaths at the rate that it could before so it can't threaten hospital capacity. what we're trying to do is get high risk individuals of whatever age fully vaccinated so cases decouple from hospitalization. what we need to toys get more vaccine into people that are at high risk for hospitalization, even if they don't think they are. maybe they're 45 and obese or have diabetes or asthma. those are the people we need to get vaccine into. arthel: i've got another minute
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with you if i can squeeze in two questions here. you've got parents that will be sending children off to college or taking the kids to elementary schools or high schools. what's your advice to those parents on masks and vaccines, vaccines for those who are over 12 years old? >> i would recommend that parents take advantage of the vaccines and get their children fully vaccinated. i think this is a safe and effective vaccine in children. the side effects are still outweighed by the benefit, especially when you have a more of contagious variant, when cases are up. this is one way to protect your children. they may not get serious disease but it's not something they want to get to begin with. it's disruptive. i advise parents to get children fully vaccinated. we have safe 57d effective vac -- and effective vaccines. we know they they work well in children. it's a way to keep school basically undisrupted or as little as possible. arthel: if you can give me 2 o0
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sends on this. if you're fully vaccinated should you feel safe to jump on planes and travel in the states or out of the country? if you're fully vaccinated, i think it's perfectly safe to travel. if you're immunosuppressed your vaccine may not be as protective as it could be. this is something people can do safely. we need to get away from testing people when they travel if they're fully vaccinated and don't have symptoms. it's causing a lot of concerns with breakthrough infections that aren't breakthrough disease. we have to get things in line to make travel easier. arthel: dr. adalja, thank you very much. take care. be safe. eric: it's a sad day in the world of comedy, comedian jackie mason passed away at the age of 93. he honed his skills first in the catskills to nightclubs to his smash one man shows on broadway and command performances for the queen. jackie mason's life reflected his humor and religion.
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arthel: time now for quick headlines of. police in florida officially taking over at the collapsed tower in surfside after fire rescue teams wrapped up their search for victims on friday. officials say they have identified 97 people killed in the june 24th collapse, and believe there is one more resident still missing. the suspect in a georgia spa shootings in march set to be arraigned in cherokee county this week. he's accused of killing eight people including six asian women at three atlanta area massage parlors. he's facing charges including domestic terrorism and multiple counts of murder. police in baltimore asking for federal officers to help fight rising violent crime after the mayor rules out a plan to expand the number of intervention programs to curb gun violence. the biden administration could send about 100 atf abilities d u.s. marshals but the baltimore
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police department has a severe shortage of personnel with 600 vacancies, mostly for officers and detectives. eric: house republicans urging congressional leaders to attach limits on spending, as the democrats are looking to pass two spending plans on capitol hill and as the country's debt limit is set to expire at the end of the month if no new deal is reached. so when is so much too much? missouri congressman jason smith joins us, ranking member of the house budget committee. congressman, good to see you. you know, you've said, and i'm going to give you a quote, back to you, that we are on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory, we're witnessing the effects of unchecked government spending on our economy with record inflation that's driving up the cost of food, clothing and energy for american workers and families. so what do we do about all this? >> you know, it's great to be
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with you, eric. if washington politicians they created this problem that we're in and washington politicians, they can also solve this problem. you don't solve a problem caused by overspending by spending even more. that dog simply doesn't help. we are living, eric, in a fiscal nightmare. if washington democrats don't get serious about reigning in spending and getting the debt under control, they are threatening the programs our nation's most vulnerable poll populations couldn't on, social security and medicare. washington democrats have been spending like drunken sailors. they they want to raise the debt ceiling which would give them a bigger runway to spend more on the socialist take over of people's lives. eric: first we had the $1
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trillion infrastructure package set to be debated this week and you've got 3.5 trillion more. president biden tweet ted this morning it's a great deal for the american people, especially blue collar workers. what would you say to the president on that? >> i'll tell you, it's not a great day for working class americans. working class americans are feeling the pain of president biden, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer's reckless tax and spending procedures. they are paying more every day to put food on their table, clothes on their back and gas in their cars and it's the direct result of the escalating inflation that is a result of president biden's tax and spending policies and now they're wanting to spend 3.5 trillion more, 4.5 trillion 5.5 prill trillion. this is unacceptable. eric: do you think they're being pushed by progressives in the party. >> absolutely. president biden has lost control of his party. nancy pelosi is being led by the
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progressives in their party. this $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that they they are trying to offer right now, eric, would provide amnesty to tens of millions of illegal immigrants. it would cause tax breaks so some of the wealthiest but tax increase on job creators and it would create like so many different environmental policies that would destroy the livelihoods of farmers and small businesses throughout america. eric: the democrats point out that president trump added about 8 trillion or so to the debt. of course, you had the coronavirus pandemic. but here's the house speaker and jen psaki defending the president's plans. take a listen. >> full faith and credit in the united states is never to be placed in doubt. it is in the constitution and it will be respected. with republican obstinance in
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years gone by the credit rating was reduced. let there be no question, we will address the debt limit. eric: and we have jen psaki, play that, do we have jen psaki? i guess we -- >> support the passing of $2 trillion in tax cuts, that did not bear out the financial benefit he promised and also certainly added to the deficit. the president takes these issues seriously. he is focused on being a president who cares about the future of our -- the next generation. eric: you heard from both. they they have full faith and credit the united states won't be damaged and the president cares about future generations. your reaction? >> eric, that's hogwash. what we need now more than ever is fiscal restraint. the budget committee republicans, we've proposed a number of common sense options that will prevent our country from defaulting including reducing our current deficit and future debt and ending the
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inflationary crisis that's happening as a result of joe biden and nancy pelosi's socialist tax and spending policy. virtually every conversation in the past about raising the debt limit has been about changing the conditions that led to hitting the debt ceiling in the first place. namely, out-of-control spending. what's crazy is washington democrats want to do the opposite. they want to spend more to -- in negotiations for a higher debt limit. it's just nonsense. eric: finally, it's astounding we have the debt, $28 trillion or so. it gets down to 227,000, ready for this, $227,000 of debt for every taxpayer. i mean, is there any way out of this? i mean, do you realistically see any actual control in washington? >> let's look at it this way. you know, for the average american to understand where we
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clearly are, if you take the zeros away from the trillions and put it into numbers that we relate to, 1,000, think about this year. the president wants to spend $68,000 a year, yet they only -- the person would only make $38,000 a year. but they would have $290,000 on their credit card. guess what? that credit card is capped out and they're wanting an additional 30 to $50,000 of a credit increase. no bank in america would do that and that's exactly where our country's fiscal house is right now, with $6.8 trillion of spending this year by biden but we're only getting 3.8 trillion in. one of the largest deficits in the history of the united states, this year, $3 trillion. eric: that is a great way to look at a it. you max out your credit card, just get another one, you max that out, just get another one, you max that out, just get another one and no one is telling you no, you can't get
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another credit card. congressman jason smith of the house budget committee. thank you so much. >> great to be with you, eric. that's only washington math right there. eric: can't run a household like that. arthel: a breakthrough in a decades old murder mystery, some 30 years after the body of an 8-year-old boy was found in the woods of an atlanta suburb. investigators using dna evidence to arrest and charge the suspected killer. charles watson is live in atlanta with more. charles. >> reporter: hi, arthel, this is a 33-year-old investigation into the murder of an 8-year-old boy in roswell, georgia, north of atlanta. this case became cold for quite a while but even so, police said they continued to look at the evidence, as technology advancend and ultimately that led investigators to 5 a 6-year-old james michael colts, a convicted child molester according to criminal documents. police arrested and charged him with the murder and child
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molestation of 8-year-old joshua harmon after investigators developed dna testing connected him to the crime scene. the aunt said the family had a mix of emotions after three decades of waiting and wondering. >> our family has been through this for 33 years and to be relieved of this is bitter sweet for us. i thank these amazing people who have worked diligently and very hard and always took anything and everything we had to say to heart and ran with it. >> reporter: roswell police say the 8-year-old victim's parents reported him missing in may of 1988 after harmon didn't come home to dinner. after a do day search, investigators found his body in the woods near the apartment complex where he and his family
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lived at the time. investigators say the boy's accused killer was arrested in the same apartment complex. >> the late '80s, dna was not a very common thing and as dna evolved, then we must continually go and re-evaluate all the cases we have and the evidence that we have. >> reporter: arthel, the suspect in the case is apparently booked in the fulton county jail with no bond. back to you, arthel. arthel: thank you. eric. eric: the free britney movement is going to capitol hill. there's a new bill in congress that's aimed at helping the pop princess get her control of her financeses. the seriousness of this proposal also goes much further, beyond her, to all those americans under conservatorship. congresswoman nancy mace is here on that and how to help people in similar situations. we made usaa insurance for members like martin.
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arthel: a rare moment of unity on capitol hill with two lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle introducing a bill to protect roughly 1.3 million americans under conservatorship. this came about from popeye consistent britney spears who was locked in a very public family feud over control of her life and her fortune. south carolina congresswoman nancy mace is one of the sponsors of that measure. she joins us now. congresswoman, tell us about the free act. >> thank you, arthel, for having me on this afternoon. the free act, first of all, i want to thank britney spears. it took a lot of courage for her to come forward in a very public way as a celebrity and public figure, detailing the abuses of her conservatorship, just last month in june and her situation is a total nightmare. if it can happen to her of all people, then it can happen to anyone. and what this piece of legislation would do would allow someone like britney who is in a conservatorship to petition a
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judge, petition the court, for an independent or public guardian, someone that could oversee the conservatorship who of doesn't have a conflict of interest, financial or otherwise. that's really at the crux of this. there are 1.3 million people in conservatorships across the country today. arthel: if britney spears had an attorney or attorneys who she claims either intentionally or inadvertently did not explain her rights within the conservatorship to her, how could a new law alert unknown americans, noncelebrities, if you will, if their rights under conservatorships are being violated. most people aren't aware of all their legal protections how do you make them aware. >> another disturbing detail that she has spoken out about and i believe looking at some of her comments she's going to detail more of the abuses crews she's had. it's not a perfect bill. it doesn't include the kitchen sink. congressman chris and i want to make sure we can get a good
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start to reforming the conservatorship process. we heard from people all across the country that have been abused within the system and we want to allow more transparency and accountability and this bill will do that. there's also a funding mechanism of money, of grant money that is out there that we can utilize to help provide oversight from case workers. to allow case workers to ensure abuses are not happening and it's really important that individuals who are in these conservatorships know they have the right if the bill passes, is signed into law, that they will have the right to petition the court to have someone oversee their life and finances from someone that doesn't have financial advantage. a lot of people are making a lot of money out of britney spears. this is an individual, these been working every year since she was in the conservatorship. as a mom, one of the things i was disturbed by, they're forcing her on birth control, an iud to not allow her to have kids. it's just really crazy what's
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going oven these are things that that happen in -- communist china, not the united states of america. i think this is a bipartisan step to seeing reform. arthel: the britney spears case and what she said happened to her is really just gross. there's no other way to describe it. i understand what you're saying, congresswoman, that no bill is perfect but i do applaud your efforts. i want to know, would the free act make it easier for, again, noncelebrity americans to get out of conservatorships? >> absolutely. well, i mean, it would allow them to have someone who is independent, a public guardian oversee their conservatorship. i think that's a first step to allow someone who has no conflict of interest, will not keep them from a conservatorship who believe they should be add d adjudicated to get out of it. >> thank you, south carolina congresswoman nancy mace for
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biden reiterated a pledge to provide black hawk helicopters and funding to the afghan air force. support will be needed as the taliban appears unwilling right now to re-enter serious cease fire talks. civilians are paying the heaviest price in this renewed fighting. the united nations warning of a major humanitarian crisis in the country. eric. eric: lots of concern that the afghans will not be successful against the taliban. trey, thank you so much. that's it for us for now. we are back, though, at 4:00 p.m. eastern with the latest news, right, arthel. arthel: absolutely. we'll be here. don't go anywhere. we have more news in a moment from washington with mike emanuel. thanks for joining us this hour. so with your home & auto bundle, you'll save money and get round-the-clock protection. -sounds great. -sure does. shouldn't something, you know, wacky be happening right now?
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