arthel: one police officer dead, another fighting for his life after after a shooting in chicago last night during yet another bloody weekend in the windy city. this comes as chicago and other big cities across america are grappling with with a spike in murders, shootings and other violent crimes. hello and welcome to "fox news live," i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, everyone, thanks for joining us, i'm eric shawn. those two officers were shot during a traffic stop at 9 p.m. on the city's south side. all three suspects are now in

custody. chicago maori lightfoot earlier today held a press conference saying guns and gangs are the, quote, common enemy causing the rise in violent crime and so many of the shootings on the streets of her city. senior correspondent mike toe bun live -- mike tobin live from chicago with the latest on this tragedy. mike? >> reporter: and, eric, the police officer who gave her life in the name of mix safety was just 29 years old. she'd only been on the force since 2018. a police source tells me the other officer was shot three times, and and one of the bullets went through his eye. it was a very emotional scene outside the university of chicago hospital where he is fighting for his life at this hour. officers gathered, they hugged and shed a tear for the fallen and gravely wounded officers. mayor lori lightfoot declared a day of mourning as flags have been lowered to half staff. she urged the public particularly in black and brown neighborhoods to end the constant strive with police.

police superintendent david brown noted despite the loss, police officers put on the uniform again this morning and returned to the streets. >> they come to work willing to run toward danger. toward gunfire. and they're willing to sacrifice their lives to save the lives of perfect strangers. >> reporter: now, just before 9 p.m. local time, or i should say just after 9 p.m. local time, police pulled over a car in a troubled south side neighborhood called west inglewood. the officers pulled that car over, two men and one woman were inside. both officers were hit, the gunman was hit. both of the men were arrested right away, the woman in the car escaped but was picked up this morning. officers have been shot at 27 times so far this year in chicago. the two officers shot last night marked the 10th and 11th

officers to be hit so far this year. eric? eric: we were all thank -- we should all thank and. respect law enforcement who risk so much. mike, thank you. arthel: well, as migrants continue to pour across the u.s. southern border, some of them covid-positive, health care providers in neighboring towns are growing increasingly worried about the safety of their residents. bill melugin is live on the border in la joya, texas, with more. bill. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon to you. we're learning about a recent incident where a border patrol agent was reportedly shot at from across the border in mexico. take a look at some file video, we'll explain it to you. according to a border patrol press release, early friday morning about 3 a.m. in border-patrolled el paso sector, an agent was shot at approximately 20 times from across the border in mexico. this was, apparently, caught on border patrol cameras.

operators reportedly identified two people on the mexican side of the border armed with what appeared to be a rifle shooting north into the united states at that agent from a distance of about 150 meters. thankfully, that agent was able to dive for cover and, thankfully, was not injured. the fbi now investigating. take a look at this exclusive video provided to fox news earlier this week. we remember the border patrol donna facility? take a look, it's happening again. a border patrol source telling fox news as of thursday there are more than 5300 people inside of that facility with 40-60 migrants in each individual pod. that's on top of the fact that those pods are only supposed to have upwards of 10 people in them right now due to covid-19 restrictions, so why is it getting so overcrowded? well, images like this we shot last sunday. there were upwards of more than

4,000 people underneath this bridge. that is a popular processing area for border patrol. there's an area where migrants cross the rio grande nearby, and this was one of the more shocking images we've seen in all our trips to the border here. we initially thought it was just about 1,000 people under that bridge, border patrol agents later contacted and said, no, it was well over 4,000. take a listen to what the border patrol union has to say, more and more of their agents are testing positive for covid. take a listen. >> more than 80 of our agents have tested positive. we have at least 150 in quarantine, and it's -- the numbers are growing every day. it's getting out of control here x it's unfortunate that the administration is just turning a blind eye to what's going on down here and putting our communities at risk. >> reporter: and with those agents testing positive and well over 100 agents being quarantined, that's leaving less agents out here on the front

lines to actually patrol border. i'm taking a look just down the road from us right now, with we had a group of migrants cross about 30-40 minutes ago, just sitting in the grass right now. there have been no border agents, they're just sitting waiting to be ap re4e7bed and, again, border patrolman power running incredibly low. back to you. arthel: oh, boy. well, i hope those agents are vaccinated to protect them. bill melugin live in la joya, texas. thank you. eric: one of the 11 women accusing new york governor andrew cuomo of sexual harassment, well, she is going public. britney cose mow, identified as executive assistant number one in the state attorney general's report that laid out the allegations against the governor, well, she says she filed the first known criminal complaint against mr. cuomo because she says she wants him held accountable. alex hogan has more on what she said. hey, alex. >> reporter: critics are continuing to sound off including one of the accusers

herself, a woman who's listed in the 165-page report add executive assistant number one. he spoke out exclusively to cbs and the albany times about why she's fire filing this criminal complaint this week against the governor. >> it was the right thing to do. the governor needs to be held accountable. what he did to me was a crime. he broke the law. >> reporter: the governor's lawyers held a zoom press conference on friday calling the attorney general's report unfair as they aimed to cast doubt on some of accusers' stories. attorney rita glavin doubling down on cnn last night9. >> there are inaccuracies in that report just upon reading it, and i'm being told from other lawyers in the case that there were things clients said that didn't make it into the report that should have made it in. i want to respond, and he is focused on that. >> reporter: the a.g.'s office is firing back saying there are no inconsistencies and

explaining that executive assistant number one simply did not know the exact date of the alleged harassment. another accuser, a female state trooper this week, bringing formal claims of groping and inappropriate touches. cuomo hand-picked her to join the detail even though shellacked experience. cuomo argues he was impressed by her, touting the move was meant to improve diversity. cuomo continues to deny all of these claims. he has stayed quiet this weekend in albany, but his lawyers say that he will make a public appearance and address this soon. now, how soon that could be, eric, no word on that just yet. eric: and the trooper even said that he kissed her. all right, alex. arthel? arthel: we're going to turn to california now where the devastating dixie fire continues to spread. drought conditions helping make it now the second largest wildfire in california's history after the 2018 mendocino complex which was actually multiple

wildfires coming together. we have fox team coverage, meteorologist add am cloths has more on how long -- adam klotz how long the hot, dry weather will stick around, but first to christina coleman with the latest on on that devastating wildfire. christine that. >> reporter: the dixie fire has destroyed at least 370 structures and threatened nearly 1400 more as it rages on in northern california. it's leveled an historic gold rush era town of greenville. the sheriff's office says at least five of the town's residents are still missing, search efforts are underway. this fire started on july 13th and since then it's scorched more than 700 square miles, that's larger than the size of new york city. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, and this fire is only 21% contained. >> i'm healthy, whatever. start over. so it'll be hard, but i'll manage. >> my prayers go out to

everybody. and it's throughout the whole county. greenville's just the beginning of it all. >> reporter: yesterday governor gavin newsom was in greenville assessing some of the damage. utility pacific gas and electric says a tree pell on one of its power lines, possibly starting the fire that merged with the much larger six city fire. the dixie fire started in the same place as that devastating camp fire back in 2018. that blaze was sparked by pg&e equipment, it leveled the town of paradise killing 85 people. on friday a federal judge ordered pg&e to provide more information regarding its possible role in both the dixie and fly fires by august 16th. the dixie fire has been fueled by strong winds and hot, dry conditions, and it's just one of the 107 large wildfires burning in 14 states right now. arthel? arthel: so sad to see. christina coleman in los angeles, thank you. eric? eric: well, let's send it over

to meteorologist adam klotz for our forecast, and adam, it seems the west coast, man, they just can't catch a break from these hot and dry conditions. adam: you're right, eric. maybe a little cooler in some cases, still a lot of heat across the country. but it's bone dry, and we really haven't seen the rain they need throughout the weekend. that's not going to changing the next couple of days. here are your current temperatures, moses of the heat piling up in the middle of the -- most of the heat piling. in the middle of the country. >> fairly widespread. the only rain we're currently seeing across the country is stretching down into the plains, but all of those western areas where you're battling those wildfires continues to be dry again on this sunday. this is our drought monitor and mostly extreme drought from the if inter mountains down to some of the southern rockies and all the way up9 to the west coast, all areas where they are way behind their seasonal rainfall totals.

unfortunately, no rain on the way, so there are currently 94 fires that are 100 acres are greater, and then over towards the coast and stretching down into northern california where we were just talking about, some very large fires currently burning. with this you get poor air quality, currently we have air quality alerts across portions of california, up into colorado, wyoming, all of this poor air, this smoke gets up into the upper atmosphere, gets grabbed by those upper level winds and you see some of the smoke forecast. before you know it, hazy conditions are the case across portions of the midwest, it's across canada, working its way up into the northeast. so even if you are in the west here, eric, people may be seeing some of the results of that as that smoke is spread out across the country. eric? eric: that's astounding how it affects everybody basically right across the country. adam: yeah. eric: adam, thank you. arthel in. arthel: as we are working through the weekend, so is the senate as it nears a final vote

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second weekend in a row, but it could be still a few more days before there's a final vote on president biden's roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan. white house correspondent peter doocy live now in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend at his home. hi, peter. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. democrats in the senate just want to get this thing over with. okay about a trillion dollars worth of taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects and then head out to recess. but republican senator bill hagerty is objecting repeatedly to motions that would speed things up. so the majority leader, chuck schumer, is not getting what he wants yet. >> i repeat that democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. once again, that will require the cooperation of our republican colleagues. i hope they will cooperate so we can move more quickly, otherwise we'll proceed by the book and and finish the bill.

>> reporter: if there's no agreement to speed things up, final passage could happen in the wee hours of tuesday morning. from there it heads to the house of representatives, and for now speaker pelosi's plan is to attach it to $3.5 trillion worth of democratic priorities in a reconciliation budget bill and make members vote on that. >> the fact that pelosi says she has to link them tells you she doesn't have votes for the $3.5 trillion package. one of my colleagues said, hey -- a democratic colleague -- said infrastructure's the dessert. the $3.5 trillion spend a lot of money and tax a lot of money is finished. i've eaten my dessert and now i'm supposed to eat my spinach? i don't think so. >> reporter: even though there are enough democratic and republican votes to move the infrastructure bill out of the senate, rules are rules, and the senate rules stipulate that the final vote can happen sometime before dawn on tuesday unless there's some sort of a

breakthrough. president biden watching the whole thing this weekend, no public events today here in wilmington. eric? eric: well, there are rules. all right, peter, thanks so much. >> i can't guarantee you the court won't rule that we don't have that authority, but at least we'll have the ability to appeal -- [inaudible] i hope longer. arthel: that's president biden admitting the cdc's extends the eviction moratorium may not hold up in court. the cdc last week ordered a halt in evictions in high transmission areas until october 3rd meaning if people who live in those high risk areas and can't pay the rent, do not kick them out for the next almost two months. now, this amid spiking covid cases and concerns around the delta variant. let's bring in charles blaine now, he's the president of urban reform and the urban reform institute. mr. blaine, thank you, first of all, for being with us.

now, if the d.c. federal court decides not to ex. tend president biden's eviction moratorium, first, if you could talk about what's the real world consequences, the fallout? >> well, thanks for having me, arthel. and here's the thing, rental owners, especially small landlords, mom and pop landlords, they know that this is a business, so they're not going to immediately go and kick all of their tenants out because that would mean they're going to forgo the rent they would otherwise be getting. so really what we're going to start to see, i think, is states and localities step up with increased rental assistance and support that way rather than just a flat-out ban on evicting tenants. arthel: let's take a look at the amount of rental assistance allocated and sent out so far this year according to the u.s. treasury department. here it is, $46 billion has been allocated. $3 billion has been distributed. and, again, $46 billion allocated, $3 billion

distribute. have you investigated this? i mean, why is this money not being used? >> well, the government's doing a poor job of distributing the money, and that should be no surprise because the government often does a poor job in many things but particularly when it comes to providing relief to phobes. that's what we're -- to folks. what we're seeing is an attempt to skirt their inability to administer the relief in an effective way by blaming or at least giving the cdc the authority to roll out these moratoriums. so really we're seeing a blame game. arthel: so stacy johnson-cosby, she wants the moratorium lifted. she's with the national housing provider coalition. here's what she had to say about this. >> we didn't need the eviction eviction -- moratorium because we're business people. we want to keep our customers happy, and we we also want to collect the money. what happens is when they did

that, there was a gap in time with the assistance coming, and so right now we see the couple burrsome process -- couple burrsome process playing out, and the money is simply not making it fast enough to those that need it. arthel: charles, what about direct deposits to the landlords? it's efficient, it decreases the chance of misuse of funds. >> yeah, and direct assistance would be better off than a flat-out moratorium, what we're seeing out of the federal government. here in texas what we saw was a kind of eviction diversion program where landlords and renters were voluntarily able to enter a program, utility and rental assistance provided and in exchange landlords would forgo beginning the eviction process on tenants. so direct payments like that would have been a better way to have gone about this, but unfortunately we're seeing a moratorium out of the federal government, and they refuse to address the problem by dealing with the root cause of it. arthel: well, let me move on again.

so, listen, you told me how you're getting the word out there in houston, or in texas to those who are eligible. you know, are you assisting people with applying for rentallal assistance? because you know often times the government application process is confusing, it's daunting, it's discouraging. and what about the people without computer or internet access? >> yeah, and i understand that. our role as an organization, we don't assist in that way. we try to inform folks about what government is doing, what policies are coming ott, what changes -- out, what changes are happening and what opportunities are out there. we don't actually go and physically do applications or -- arthel: well, i'm not is suggesting, hang on, i'm not suggesting you physically do it, but maybe you set up a center, set up some time to say, hey, if if you're one of these people, if you're in need of this rental assistance, go down to such and such place wednesday at 6 p.m. and there be people there helping you with computers, i mean, you know? there's a way to get this done too on your level. >> oh, i agree, and i take every opportunity i can to let people

know about opportunities that i'm finding whether it's a job search program where we're providing people with jobs here in the houston area or otherwise. this is, ultimately, up to the federal government. let's make no mistake, they shut us down a year ago for the past year and put people out of jobs, and that is what led to the back rent. they then said to landlords that they were not allowed to evict people. arthel: right. >> they inserted themselves into the tenant/landlord relationship -- arthel: first of all, charles, i certainly wasn't putting the blame on you or all of the onus on you, you're a grassroots kind of an organization, so that's why i said that. as far as they shutting the economy down, it was due the a pandemic that is still very much in effect. you know, i want to circle back with -- you're shaking your head, no, there's not a pandemic in effect? >> i didn't shake my head no. yes, there is a pandemic in

effect, but there were other ways that they could have handled the situation, and i think shutting us down, particularly things that happened on the local level here in texas and more specifically in houston were not the right way of handling things. arthel: what do you think should have been done? >> here in texas, harris county specifically, we were left on alert level red for a year. we never reduced the alert that we had even when the cases started to decline, even when vaccines rolled out and vaccinations started going up. and it caused people to lose faith in our local government. so i'm talking about very specific issues here that, i think, were a little overboard. arthel: well, listen, you know, 46 billion allocated, 3 billion only distributed, people -- the landlords and the tenants, they both need help, so i hope they can get rid of, unwrap the, unravel the red tape and get something done. charles blaine, president of urban reform if, the urban reform institute, keep up the good work. thank you. eric. >> thank you. arc. eric: the highly contagious delta variant, as you know,

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arthel: bottom of the hour and time fork at some of our headlines. now new orleans canceling its jazz and heritage festival for the fall as covid cases surge in louisiana. the festival was planned for ten days in october after it was moved from its original date in the spring. that change was also pandemic-related. the plan now is for the festival to take place in april and may of 2021. yes, snail mail is not slow enough, expect more mail delays. the u.s. postal service reportedly finalizing plans to slow some first class mail delivery starting in october. 21 attorneys general have urged

the postal regulatory commission to block the move. canada is opening its border to fully-vaccinated americans starting tomorrow. travelers must submit proof of vaccination and a negative covid test. alwaysfying documents could -- falsifying documents could result in heavy fines. the white house has yet to announce when the u.s. plans to ease restrictions on canadian travelers. >> what you need to do is do a survey of the pediatric hospitals throughout the country, and you're seeing a considerable number of young people who are not only infected, but who are seriously ill. again, the numbers compared to the elderly are less, but that's a false comparison. these kids are getting sick. we've really got to make sure we protect them. eric: that's dr. anthony fauci, of course, sounding the alarm as the higher contagious delta coronavirus variant spreads across the nation affecting children under 12 years old because they are not eligible

for the vaccine. the new cases have more than tripled over the past month. take a look at this, from just over 23,000 to nearly 72,000, that in just three weeks. florida, texas, louisiana cases skyrocketing. an 11-month-old baby with covid in houston had to be airlifted to another city because there were no pediatric beds available. so what do parents need to know to get their kids back in school safely? noted new york city pediatrician dr. laura popper joins us with the late est on that. doctor -- latest on that. dr. popper, welcome. >> thank you. eric: school is starting, of course. kids play together, you're going to have them in class, you know, in lunchrooms, the teens, what concerns do you have about what we could face this fall in. >> if we do the right things, everybody can pretty safely go back to school. there are just two important

things. everybody who can be vaccinated should be vaccinated. we keep our children safe by surrounding them by people who are safe. and, number two and almost as important is that all children above the age of 2 should be masked. as well as all of the adults. all of us inside in a school setting should be masked. eric: the masking situation is very controversial. what do you say to those who, you know, who saw governor ron day season taste -- desantis saying he doesn't want his kids in a mask, he wants to see them smile. what is the danger especially with something as contagious as the delta variant? >> well, i think governor desantis is the danger. his executive order goes against everything that public health has ever tried to do. and this is not a political issue. this is not a republican or democrat, liberal, conservative, this is truly public health.

if someone said, gee, i really don't like chlorine in water so you can't put that in my water so the rest of you can get sick from contamination, no, that would be laughable. and what people like governor desantis are doing is laughable and, sadly, tragic. eric: dr. fauci seems to feel same at least in terms of mask wearing. here's what he said also about wearing masks in school for kids. >> for the kids who can't get vaccinated, that's the reason why we're having strong recommendation that in the schools everybody should wear a mask whether or not you're vaccinated. we've got to protect the children, chuck. eric: is the variant especially dangerous to kids? and, you know, because they can't get vaccinated especially when you're under 12. >> right. eric: do you think they will be some point? what are we to going to see to protect the kids better? >> no one really knows if the

variant is more dangerous in terms of how ill you become. what we do know about it is it is more transmissable. and kids together will get the illness. mostly -- kids will do okay, far better than the older population, but they're a vector. and until all of us that can be vaccinated are, we have to stay safe and that means, yes, back to school because kids have suffered greatly from not being in school. but we can't surround them -- we can surround them by, every person who works in a school should be required to be vaccinated, and everybody should wear a mask. those are the two things. there's really nothing else. it's not a complicated issue. it's not a we or they issue. it's science. eric: what do you look out for when you have, someone calls up

and says they think their child may have covid as opposed to a rash or a fever? let me read you something from in tucson, two parents who have a 6-year-old boy who came down with covid. they said, quote: he would wake up really disoriented with nightmares, like he was sleep walking. i've neverren seen lime that, sleeping in the daytime and talking gibberish. their son was throwing up and was like a zombie. in addition to the stomach upset, he slept constantly, had high fevers and a sore throat. what should we look out for in terms of our kids? they've got any nose all the time and kids with ear issues. what should parents especially look out for when you're dealing with something as contagious as this? >> i think, eric, like everything else that i do in pediatrics and all of us do in pediatrics, our relationship with the parent has to be do you think your child is sick. then it becomes our job to say how sick is your child. right now we're testing a lot of kids for covid because it's back

more prevalent than it was a couple of months ago. but if a child has covid and has no symptoms, that individual child can be okay. i'm not worried about their having nightmares and being as sick as the child that you just presented. clearly, that child from tucson, you said? that child was sick and should be in a hospital. >> and finally, you talk about it not affecting children as badly as the vulnerable, as the older americans and older folks. is there anything reassuring you could say about children and covid that if they do get covid, is it true that they have a better outcome? >> absolutely, if you take as a group children, chair outcome is far greater. overall, hundreds of thousands of adults have died. the number of children that have died from covid is under a

thousand. but, that said, we're now going into a time in states with very low vaccine rates, louisiana being number one, florida being number two, their pediatric wards are overwhelmed. and you just talked about the child who had to be airlifted in texas because are there were no pediatric beds. so that's what's scary. from my point of view as a pediatrician, one child dead from covid is one child too many. and we need to do everything to stay on top of that. and we as practitioners are doing that. we're looking very carefully at all kids who get sick and making sure that they don't have what we call misc which is the more serious inflammatory reaction to covid. eric: dr. laura popper who, i guess likens a mask and a

vaccination to wearing a seat belt and having an air bag in the car. >> you got it. eric: you've got double protection, especially since -- in low vaccination rate states covid is such a threat to our -- >> that's a perfect analogy. eric: terrific. [laughter] dr. popper, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. eric: arthel? arthel: the faa asking airports to help with the skyrocketing number of unruly passengers who are getting violent with flight attendants usually over federal mask requirements. those passengers are often drunk like the 22-year-old who had to be duct taped to his seat after groping two attendants and attacking another. charles watton is live at hartsfield jackson international airport with more there in atlanta. charles? >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, the faa says alcohol is what's fueling these tense and sometimes dangerous situations, altercations on flights. the agency wants to put an end to it and is leaning heavily on

airport leaders around the country to make changes. for one, the faa wants airports to work with vendors to stop offering alcoholic drinks to go. the agency said that's led some passengers to think they can carry those drinks onto their flights, in some cases leading to drunken altercations from the sky. this intoxicated frontier airlines passenger the latest to go viral after he allegedly groped several flight attendants, took a swing at another and had to be duct taped to his seat. some flight attendants are taking self-defense classes to protect themselves. >> i'm training with a female mma fighter. i started training with her two years ago because i said i was there to protect myself. i wanted to really be truly able to protect myself. >> reporter: and these incidents involving unruly passengers are piling up on the faa.

so far this year the agency has received 3,715 reports of unruly passengers. and has initiated 628 investigations, a 400% increase since 2019. faa administrator steve dixon is urging law enforcement to take a more adepress i approach toward misbehaved passengers including criminal charges. passengers we've spoken toed today say that decision should be made on a case-by-case basis. >> like, it does kind of get -- [inaudible] it really kind of does, but it just depends. >> reporter: and, arthel, the faa has gone as far as releasing a psa using children to teach people how to behave correctly. they want to get rid of all the childish behavior. arthel? arthel: children know how to act. adults are obviously stupid, some of them.

i mean, it's embarrassing. it's ridiculous. i'm just saying, it's exhausting. enough already. i'm going to shut up now. [laughter] charles watson live at hartsfield-jackson international airport in atlanta, thank you. we'll be right back. [zippers fasten] [engine revs] woo-hoo! it's time for your extracurriculars. ¡vámanos, amigos! oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? it's time for your extracurriculars. so you only pay for what you need. sorry? limu, you're an animal! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ when you earn a degree with university of phoenix, we support you with career coaching for life, including personal branding, resume building and more. that's our promise to you. that's career services for life. learn more at phoenix.edu.

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arthel: singer r. kelly is due back in t this week for the first in a series of trials related to racketeering and sex trafficking. jury selection begins tomorrow in brooklyn. the indictment there spans decades and involves six alleged victims. let's bring in former assistant u.s. attorney alex little. so, alex, don't they usually charge mob bosses with racketeering? why racketeering in. >> good afternoon, arthel.

yes, they do. it's been used to get the mob for decades, in this case it's being used to really reach back and capture crimes r. kelly was alleged to have committed more than a decade or two ago, so it gives them a lot broader scope both geographically and in terms of time to prosecute crimes especially in federal court. arthel: can his lawyers defend him out of these charges? >> they certainly raise a lot of issues with the fact that he's being charged with the racketeering crime. the difficulty here is there are so many victims, and there's, i guess, such a quantity of allegations it's going to be very, very difficult to defend him the way they did last time which was, hey, that's not me in the video. they certainly have their work cut out for them. arthel: r. kelly will be present tomorrow at that federal courthouse in brooklyn. how critical, alex, is the makeup of the jury that's ultimately impaneled? and might there be any potential technicalities looming that could force a mistrialsome. >> yeah, anytime you look at a

jury, you're trying to find a injury that is more amenable to your side than perhaps the other side. it's often though, perhaps, you don't really know what any particular juror's going to do. you can guess, but they're certainly going to spend a lot of time when you have a celebrity on trial, does anybody have any preconceived notions in they're going to have to get rid of jurors because of that. in terms of technicalities, as the trial goes on, we'll see where the particular issues tend to lie, but the biggest issue is going to be he shouldn't be standing trial for these crimes in federal court, they took -- they were too old, they shouldn't be prosecutedded now. i doubt that's going to prevail and, ultimately,ing come down to how the jury feels about these have victims, do they believe them, do they think they're credible and do they think r. kelly did the things in this indictment. >> two members of his inti range in 2016 expressed concern that

he was physically and psychologically abusing an 18-year-old high school senior traveling we them. will they be called by the prosecution, and if so, what's the potential impact on this case against r. kelly? >> absolutely. you're going to hear, you know, you're going to hear managers, you're going to hear booking agents, you're going to hear from the people surrounding r. kelly, maybe even members of his internal sort of entourage, they're all going to be called to testify because many of those people could have been charged themselves. the government chose not to. the government's previewed some of this, you're going to get an inner look at how r. kelly operated, trying to groom women and bring them into what what was, ultimately, a criminal enterprise where they were assaulted or potentially kidnapped in some cases. we'll hear from them, we'll read their text messages as the trial goes on, and i think that's where evidence from the inside is going to be critical in the government's case. arthel: so if he's convicted, what's the possible sentencing and who else might go down with

him? >> you know, the convictions for some of these crimes carry 20 years maximum, some car carry10. there's also a case in chicago federal court, you're looking at well over 10, 15 years in this case. in terms of other people, we'll see who the government calls as cooperating witnesses, whether any of them have already received some sort of plea deal, but it's not impossible to believe after this tile the government's going to turn their sights on other people within the organization who helped enable this activity. arthel: former assistant attorney alex little, thank you very much. we'll be right back. >> thank you, arthel. ted us #1 y in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon.

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simone biles, what she went through and getting the bronze, and those two high jumpers who shared the gold, amazing every four years. arthel: much respect to simone biles and all of those athletes. and guess what, usa? congratulations. that's what we do. that does it for us for now. enjoy the rest of your day. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone, i'm trace gallagher along with lisa boothe, gianno caldwell. here's what's ooh -- what's on tap tonight. abby. >> obama hits the dance floor at his birthday party while covid cases surge. >> gianno. >> new developments and accusations against new york governor andrew cuomo. one of his accusers known as executiveta