it and, rich, i just think we need to send phil keating out to try mermaiding. i feel like it's only fair because i'm not going to do it because i don't want anybody watching me on camera try to make -- >> rich: zero gravity mermaiding. alicia: i think he would be up for sure. absolutely. ♪ ♪ ♪ gillian: border officials are struggling with out of control migrant crisis this week 53 people died after being abandoned in a locked tractor trailer with no water, no air-conditioning, just outside of san antonio. the perpetrator suspected human smuggler, he's now in police custody. this fiscal year alone 518 migrant have died at the u.s.-southern border increasingly desperate people there are braving the blazing texas heat to cross into the u.s. that number by the way does not

include this week's san antonio tragedy. welcome to fox news live i'm gillian turner in washington. happy fourth of july weekend to you and your families. well, texas governor greg abbott is slamming the biden administration in a new exclusive interview on fox news live over their inaction at the border. hey, claudia. reporter: good morning to you, gillian. not only is the governor blasting president biden for, quote, not lifting a finger to address the chaos there at the border. he's bracing for the number of illegal crossings to grow even higher following last week's ruling by the supreme court that will essentially allow asylum seekers to stay in this country while they wait for the courts to hear their case. governor abbott saying, quote, the supreme court's decision upholding dhs's termination of remain in mexico policy will only embolden the biden administration's open-border policies. but the president's point people on national security are cheering the ruling saying it

will save lives. here is what they said on sunday morning talk shows. >> we believe that this remain in mexico policy was inhuman and forced people that were applying for asylum to go back to deplorable conditions, unsafe conditions and to face the potential for further violence. >> very pleased with the supreme court's decision supporting our commitment to end the remain in mexico program which has flaws and causes unjustifiable human tragedy. >> but in speaking exclusively to fox's griff jenkins at the border last week governor abbott blamed that human tragedy on the white house and its failure to send a clear miami to migrants not to come. >> biden has made clear to the world that the border is open, has led to record number of people coming here and just a cheer number of what we are

dealing with is extraordinary. none of this is going to be solved until we have the president with the commitment to secure the border like trump did. in the wake of last week's tragedy, a truck that had reportedly been waived through an inland checkpoint abbott is taking matters into his own hands. he's ordering state troopers to conduct more aggressive searches of commercial vehicle that is could potentially be used for human smuggling. gillian. gillian: claudia cowan, thank you so much. for more on this and from all the fallout to end of the supreme court's term let's bring in political panel, matthew, health and human services and david, former new york state senator, gentlemen, happy fourth to you both. thanks for joining me. matt, i will come to you first, remain in mexico we all know was a trump administration policy, it was handed down through executive action.

you rightly point out anything handed down that way, anything done by executive action can fairly easily be undone. >> that's true and presidents enjoy wide discretion on border policy. the decision wasn't so much of a surprise in that they have the right to undo it, it was descending that was by alito, joined by gorsuch and clarence thomas in what they are doing on the border with mass releases under parole is in and of itself unconstitutional, you have a variety of choices when people present themselves at the border but the idea that you're going to release millions of people into the interior of the united states knowing that less than one out of ten have a legal asylum claim is clearly against the united states constitution. gillian: quick follow-up, quick check, i want to make sure the viewers understand the nuance here, the reason that so few or

such percentage of those who make it into the u.s. are going to end up being legally allow today stay is why? >> because they don't have a credible claim. they have come here and are taught to say we are fleeing violence and that's not the case. the one and ten that have a legitimate were remaining in mexico and we were admitting them once they showed to have a valid claim but immigration judges are only allows one and ten with credible claim to remain. you're releasing a million people knowing that 900,000 should be deported and there's no effort at all by this administration to find these people and to deport them when that happens. >> david, take a listen to homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, i want to get your reaction. >> the migration that is occurring throughout the hemisphere is reflective of the economic downtown, increase in violence throughout the region, the -- the result of the

covid-19 pandemic, the results of climate change. gillian: david, why is he spill pinning the blame on the border crisis, increasing numbers of folks crossing illegally even now in the pandemic? >> the reality is that people are desperate, migrants are desperate to get into the united states because they are fleeing horrible situations in their homelands and that's why it was absolutely essential to repeal the remain in mexico policy because we have about 300 migrants that have been killed so far in the past six months of this year because they're taking more and more desperate actions. the reality is it's the humane thing to do, it's the right thing to do to allow people to apply for asylum status and be a safe refuge here in the united states. gillian: but is it still the safe and humane thing to do if the odds are they are going to get sent back in a matter of

months anyway? meaning if there was follow through on the law that's currently on the books, a lot of these people are not going to be here for very long, this creates a whole lot of chaos in their lives? >> we have to do the right thing and people are fleeing. look at the 53 people that were found dead in back of tractor trailer in san antonio, they are taking desperate issues, putting their lives in risk, taking more desperate channels to get into the united states because there is not this legal process. we have to allow that due process to unfold, to allow people that have fled out of fear of their lives and their families' lives to have that process and that tradition that we've had here for decades if not hundreds of years in the united states to allow people to flee terroristic situation, a ridiculous situation that they are trying to get away from and allow their case to be heard in the united states to just say no to not allow them that due process is wrong, inhumane and

it treats migrants as some form of sub-human and we can't allow that. gillian: matt, you get the last word. >> the reality is that 647 migrants lost their lives last year. this is because of open border, not in spite of it. we are the only country in the histi of the world that have used our own laws to eviscerate our own borders. it is not humane, it is not right and at 127 days the american voters are going to get to tell the president what they think of his policies. gillian: david, take a look at this new fox news poll. it breaks down pride in america, i have to point out that this comes on the eve of july 4th, patriatic holiday. right now 39% of people say they are proud of the people today,

56% say they are not, that's obviously up, you can see there from 28% in june 2011. you have to point out the obvious which is that this is president biden's america. >> well, i think we are looking at the ramifications of the trump-packed supreme court and the legislating that we see being done from the bench and i think americans are leery of that. we've seen the environment, we've seen choice, we've seen guns -- >> griff: i just haven't to point out here that that's a stretch. folks were not asked if how they are feeling about the supreme court decision. this is about how they are feeling about the state of the country. >> that's exactly right and what we have seen because of gridlock in congress the supreme court has really stepped up and started to legislate from the bench and that's caused major concern. people are at wits end on all

sides of the aisle because they are trying to figure out what to do and in absence of legislation from congress, whether that's right or wrong, we have seen the supreme court step up. i think in the coming weeks, we will see states, the state legislatures from around the country take on issues that we haven't seen before because of the fallout from the supreme court we are going to see massive action on whether it's the republicans, the democrats trying to get into grasp the ramifications of supreme court's decision, whether it's the environment, guns, women's right to choose and all of the issues will be legislated now on the state level and will even see citizen advanced referendums because of these issues. i think there's a lot of action that hasn't been done in congress but it'll be done at the state level. gillian: all right, matt, now you get the final word for real. >> it's taken 500 days for this president to become the most unpopular in human history.

americans are tired of our country, they are tired of seeing the third worldization and it's as a direct result of the president's policies. gillian: happy holiday weekend to both. hope you can put politics aside for the rest of today and tomorrow and enjoy some time celebrating america. >> happy fourth weekend. gillian: you got it. the governors of virginia and maryland are calling to ramp up protections at the justice's homes. alex hoff with late-breaking details, hey, alex. alex: governor youngkin and hogan received letter. the two governors have responded essentially saying, wait a minute, this is exactly what we have been calling on attorney general merrick garland to do because federal law is clear that it's illegal the protest outside of any judge or justice's homes who is involved in an active court case with

intent to influence them. here is virginia governor glen n youngkin back in may. >> it's on the federal book that punishable with up a year in prison and therefore governor hogan and i have asked the attorney general to do his job and enforce this law. >> according to maryland governor the two governors made the request as soon as the draft opinion was leaked an protests in their states started but, quote, a month later hours after assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh, the department of justice finally responded declining to enforce the laws. now a different federal official writing to us with conflicting information. the spokesperson for governor youngkin added this weekend, quote, the attorney general of the u.s. should do robust federal law. every resource of federal law including u.s. marshals should be involved while the justices continue to be denied to right to live peacefully in their homes. both governors say they will

continue to utilize state law enforcement and while the department of justice has provided security assistance it has so far refused to halt protests outside of the justices' homes. gillian. gillian: holiday travel chaos is continuing pretty much unabated today. airlines cancels hundreds more flights delays hundreds of others just in time for one of the busiest travel holidays of the entire year. we have fox team coverage with adam klotz in the fox weather center, we begin first, though, with charles watson, he's at atlanta's airport, hey, charles. charles: hey, good afternoon, gillian, the good news is that holiday travel this weekend is nearing pre-pandemic levels but it in turn is causing a lot of troubles for the big airlines, in fact, look at the atrium areas, a lot of folks say we are

3, 4, 5 hours before the flights. they've seen the issues that the airlines have, they've seen the long lines that have forced a lot of airlines to cancel or delay thousands of flights and, of course, that comes much to the disappoint of customers many of whom are hoping and praying at this point that they make it to their destinations. >> we are hopeful that we get out. >> and so far the day the numbers are creeping up, there have been more than 1600 delays in the u.s. and more than 230 u.s. flights canceled according to flight aware. the airline struggling to keep up with demand in part due to crippling staffing shortages mainly the number of available pilots and flight attendants. just the other day we saw more than 1200 delta pilots hold the picket line and including home of delta and demand after

clocking record overtime. tsa screening well over 2.1 million passengers at airports across the country. that's about 92% of the total number of people screened pre-pandemic on the same day in 2019 but this time around for a lot of folks it feels a lot more stressful, take a listen. >> i do get stressed sometimes especially when the airport looks like this. it's actually pretty packed right now. charles: adding more chaos into the mix, american airlines had a glitch with their system allowing pilots to back out of 12,000 -- thousands of flights rather from the end of july heading into august. we reached out to american airlines, they tell us that the issue is mostly fixed but certainly a headache to deal with on a very busy weekend, gillian. gillian: wild, wild story about

american airlines. charles watson in atlanta for us, thanks so much. so despite severe storms in the southeast a lot of the u.s. can actually expect some pretty awesome weather in the run-up to july 4th. let's bring in meteorologist adam klotz, he's got the fox weather forecast. hey, adam. adam: being brought on by the summer-like temperatures feeling really warm out there. great for the lake, great for the pool as you are seeing lots of spots, 90's currently in dallas, 86 in memphis. 92 in raleigh. one of the spots we are tracking at least potential for severe weather here is because of heat running up in the northern plains back across portions of montana probably big thunderstorms by the time we get into the afternoon the evening hours and we are beginning to see thunderstorm activity. otherwise there have been storms across the southeast, the big line of storms actually beginning to move off the shore just a little bit now and if i can take you the north carolina just yesterday this was trespass kallstrom colin, no longer tropical storm beginning to push its way out to clearing on the

backside of that and that's good news for conditions, here is your forecast for tomorrow, some in the midwest but mostly clear skies across the country. gillian: adam klotz there in the fox weather center, thanks so much. adam: yeah. gillian: kentucky officials are calling the man accused of shooting and killing 3 police officers and k9 in hours long standoff a, quote, terrorist on a mission. the county sheriff described the killings as an ambush. take a listen. >> this individual knew that we were coming and thought we were going to come back for him. he was in a position where he could watch each one of these officers drive down the lane he lived on and pulled into the front of his home and when he seen them coming toward his house he -- >> gillian: all shot while

trying to serve a warrant last thursday. at least 4 other officers and a civilian were injured in that incident as well. well, popular weekend for beach get aways, there could, however, not giving anything away with these images be danger lurking beneath the calm service of the ocean water. we will break it down with you with a shark expert coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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gillian: all across the country as we speak americans are flocking to the beach to enjoy holiday weekend. maybe you're about to head out yourself. experts warning vacationers out that they are not the only ones hanging out in beautiful crista blue water. alex mcadams, a swimmer we think was bitten by a shark. >> that's right, a lot of people coming out here and investigation remains ongoing to figure out what exactly what it was that bit the guy in the leg in long island. investigators tell me every single week there's shark sightings in long island. just a man swimming in jones beach a few miles away was bit so hard police say that he fractured his leg.

it's being investigated a possible shark attack. the first one this summer. they are ramping up patrols as we mentioned here across the beach. you can see that they used drones and helicopters to comb through the waters from above as they keep on the lookout for sharks. life guards on foot. last month a ten foot shark washed up at point lookout over here on long island. officials stressing the attacks are rare as they continue to look into that possible shark attack at jones beach. >> it is safe to go in the ocean, however, just like crossing the street you have to take precautions. >> over that busy holiday weekend officials say a florida team was attacked by a shark just the other day 17-year-old addison is still in the hospital after she was bit 9-foot shark

in florida. the an clamped its jaws on her right thigh. >> she was fighting the shark, trying to pull it off with her bear hands, she has bite marks on her hands, poked it in the eye. i think he had to hit it 2 or 3 times and finally it took off. >> finally it took off after it left her badly hurt. her brother saving her life. sharks are showing up just in time for busy tourist season, the sharks coming in as waters warm up. peak time is august through october. overall according to the international shark attack out of florida, 73 unprovoked shark attacks in 2021 across the world and 9 fatal bites, just this morning a shark incident not too long from here authorities holding press conference after they say there was a shark incident involving life guards

wait to go learn more but right now they have stopped all swimming. gillian: alexis, stay out of the water so you can join us at 3:0. great to see you. >> i won't go anywhere. i don't have my swim suit. gillian: hey, mike, thanks for being was. let's start with this. we have some stats for our viewers. between 1980 and 198-9226 encounters with sharks and between 2010 and 2019, 800 encounters worldwide. that's the big picture for you, right, but here in america we are seeing the increase in activity and encounters off the coast of cape cod. break for us what's going on there. >> one of the things that's going on worldwide is we have

more and more people getting in the water and we are reporting more encounters between sharks and people and off the cape it's something maybe little bit different which is we have been protecting seals and protecting white sharks, seal populations are increasing and that means so are the white sharks that eat the seals. in the summer when more people are in the water and the sharks are moving north because the temperatures just right and there's lots of food, that's where you can have more encounters. unfortunately in most of the world shark populations are really way down from what they used to be, but as we start to bring populations back in some places, we have to find ways for sharks and people to coexist. gillian: yeah, i have to point out while the increase is proportionately dramatic, 200 some, up to 800, it's still statistically pretty insignificant, likely near to die in our own boat than

swimming with a shark, right? >> absolutely. the drive to the beach is more dangerous than getting in the water, the rift currents and those other things that can be dangerous, yeah, swimming problems, so you want to be careful when you go to the beach. at cape cod and some of the places where big sharks and white sharks are coming come back,that's where you neede careful and pay attention to local advice. you heard in the report there's a lot of effort and lots of technology we can use to make sure that we can know if shark are in the area and we need to pay attention to the local advice. gillian: if that fails, i want pro tips, if you're in the ocean swimming and you see a shark nearby further away, what are you supposed to do? >> well, most sharks are small and aren't a issue. they are predators. i would only say stay calm, keep an eye on the shark and get out of the water. it's just not worth it. especially with big sharks like white sharks, tiger sharks, bull

sharks, these are the dangerous species, you don't want to be in the water with them and you want to get out but there are some other things that you can do if you not want to have an encounter. stay out of mirky water, don't swim where people are fishing or you see lots of fish or seals that might be things that sharks are looking for to eat because one thing that sharks do is find their prey really well, so if you see shark's food, maybe stay out of those areas. gillian: mike, i apologize to you, i told you that we were going to talk about sharks and are awesome and people don't need to be terrified and important to the ecosystem so i'm going to bring you back to do that as soon as possible. until then, happy july 4th, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, happy july 4th. gillian: you bet, russia has seized control of strategic city in eastern ukraine after months of grueling fighting. now could this change the trajectory of the war? national security expert to break it down for you next.

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>> beyond outrage, beyond shocked and heartbroken. i went menace words. the video that you're about the watch is heartbreaking and tough to take in. many will wish to air grievances in public and i support peacefully assemble. this would be the constant surge, peace in our city. gillian: that was ohio mayor daniel just a moment ago calling for protests in his city to remain peaceful after announcing an independent investigation that's going to be conducted into that deadly police shooting of 25-year-old jalin walker and police released body footage. a lawyer representing walker's family says police shot at him over 90 times as he ran away from officers at a traffic stop.

the akron police officers reported gun was fired. walker's family lawyers say they have not seen any evidence that walker fired a gun. russia's military is claiming fully control the luhansk region. let's bring in fox news correspondent nate foy. hi, nate. nate: hey, gillian, messages from ukraine's president zelenskyy, russia has taken full control of luhansk region of donbas. president zelenskyy is not true the city is still being fought for however within the past hour we can confirmed that ukraine armed forces released statement indicating that a tactical

withdrawal is underway. take a look at this video of russian forces out east. the video released today, final ukraine own holdout in the donbas, this is something that we will be closely monitoring in the next few days. about 50 miles west of there, look at this, another tragedy today. local officials say at least 6 civilians were killed after intense russian shelling in the eastern city of slovians, fox news is working to verify the number. the city's mayor posted on telegram saying it's the worst shelling the city has seen and many, many more are injured. where we are in lviv take a look at this, a lot of people are keeping an eye of belarusian troops at the border. ukrainian forces are now noticing more movement of troops in the south western corner of the country. take a listen to this

assessment. >> according to the verbal information from july 1st the republican of belarus armed forces began rotating units in the region. air defenses systems are reinforced in the russian federation armed forces. >> gillian, the region that you heard is directly north of where we are in lviv. we told you yesterday the mayor met with military leaders talking about what they would do in an event of belarusian intervention. gillian: nate foy in lviv, thank you so much. let's bring in fred, adviser to president trump. he served as vice chair of the america first policyic institute. fred, thanks for being with us. big news for the ukrainian military this week, they recaptured snake island, a significant symbolic victory if nothing else perhaps even a strategic victory. i want you to talk to us about

that and i want to get your reaction to john kirby who was on fox news listen, take a listen. >> president zelenskyy he gets to determine how victory is decided and when and on what terms and we are going to do is continue to make sure that he can succeed on the battlefield so that he can succeed at the table. gillian: succeed at the table, negotiating table. why is the biden administration still sort of holding out, i guess, the expectation, maybe the hope that there is potential for some kind of negotiated outcome in this war that is now months old? >> gillian, good to be here. i think it's difficult questions to confront here. if russia has decided to engage in long-term word with long-range artillery the prospects for ukraine succeeding are not good. russia is destroying ukraine and

its economy. ukraine's ability to fight on will eventually wind down and even though at the g7 nato summit that there was significant support for ukraine and standing with them, the leaders of these countries said there's ukraine fatigue and given gas prices and inflation, that's happening here too. so i think the western leaders are saying to themselves, if this is going to be an end game, what would it look like, it's going to be really, really hard. i think there are some options. it's going to take a determination by zelenskyy that he's prepared to deal. gillian: there's also finances. war is expensive not only in blood and treasure but actual dollars. u.s. and nato are financing a lot of what is happening in europe right now. samantha power interestingly said earlier this week that ukraine's government is spending 5 to $6 billion on this war a month and that all global aid combined is not enough to keep

pace with this. i think it's a fair question to ask, how long the u.s. bankrolling of this is going to be able to continue? >> i think that's a gad question. i don't think it will last forever but the problem is with the peace settlement -- >> gillian: president biden said this week, quote, as long as it takes, is that true? >> well, i -- biden says a lot of things that i -- that i have problems with. recently in yemen the houthi rebels agreed to a 3-month ceasefire, it was just renewed july 1st for 3 months. that may be the key of bringing some time of solution. anybody gives up anything and after 3 months they agree to stop fighting some more and on the way to negotiate settlement. i don't think either side is ready for that but i don't see another solution. gillian: president biden is

returning from his big week at nato, spearheading the annual engagement there, a lot of the focus probably, you know, 90% of it was on the war in ukraine. how do you evaluate the president's performance? >> well, i give him credit for really working with our allies to stand with ukraine. and maybe he spoke behind the scenes with german and french leaders which are too eager for negotiated settlement. i think we have to -- we are not overly pressuring them but the big problem with biden when he's abroad that he's when he criticizing america and our system of government and the supreme court and republicans. that kind of stuff should not be said by a president on foreign soil. we are proud of our country, we are proud of our system of government and joe biden has no business attacking the u.s. supreme court while he's in spain. gillian: what do you say to

folks who put it this way, a lot of foreign policy analysts on this network and others this week have been saying putin has sort of had this turnaround, he's now appearing very confident about how his military is doing, he feels that politically at home in russia he has regained, i guess, the trust of his constituents. what do you make of that? are you buying into that, first of all, and if so if he has this new fabulous attitude, what do we make of that? >> i'm hoping that's not true. we are seeing reports of that. it's hard to know what's going on in russia but what we do know if putin decides to engage in a long-term war even if the people aren't with him, i will stick it out, he will fight, and fight and fight and do enormous damage in his country to win this battle but if the people of russia are starting to turn with them and we know that russia's

oil revenues are going up it's that's bad omen. gillian: fred, heal july 4th weekend to you. thank you so much for taking time for us. >> thanks for having me on. gillian: cut bet -- you bet, those independsance celebrations are kicking into high gear, we will go live to one of the largest, it's boston harbor fest, it's a blast, stick with us because we will go there next. ♪ ♪ ♪ so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein.

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>> one of the largest fourth of july celebrations in the country is happening right now in boston celebrating america's 246th byrd and we have abby joining us from downtown boston. she's enjoying all the festivities. we are jealous, what can you tell us, abby? >> you should be jealous, gillian. no. we are in boston because all of

the things that happened here that eventually led to our nation's independence like the boston tea party that happened back in december of 1773. we actually took a trip over to the boston tea party ships and museum to learn more about the significance of that moment, like the fact that there are over 100 members of the sons of liberty that snuck onto the beaver and the eleanor to destroy the shipment of tea aboard as a way to protest the tea tax and some of them were even teenagers and something to note as many of those crates weigh up to 400 pounds. so it took the colonists almost 3 hours to destroy all of that tea. it really was a spark plug for the american revolution. i asked the creative manager of the museum what role the boston tea party played in the course of history and the road to freedom. here is what he had to say? >> you look at the boston tea party as the single most important event leading up to the american revolution. it was the catalyst and it's

what propelled america down the road to revolution and the punishment of boston and england's response to the tea's destruction that really propelled america down to road to revolution. reporter: and i think something that isn't talked about enough is the fact that it wasn't just tea on those ships, there was other cargo. the colonists when they went to ships they weren't setting out to destroy everything just tea as act of defiance and here we are all of these years later, gillian, celebrating our independence. gillian: pretty awesome, abby, thank you for breaking it down. i'm very excited for your special tomorrow on fox news channel. we will check back with you later. >> thanks, gillian. gillian: you bet, on the patriotic weekend we will find out how one organization is helping our nation's heros right after the break.

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provide support to active duty service members and veterans for stars to heros fundraising campaign. chief executive officer, ned, you guys are partners in this amazing stars for heros program. i believe you're in your 11th year and i believe you guys have raised over 11 million bucks for service members and veterans, is that right? >> yes, correct. you know, the amazing generosity of guests and partners throughout the united states have done that. you know, this year has been amazing year. we have seen 25% increase in contribution which is really speaks volumes to the generosity and hearts of our guests particularly during inflationary times. gillian: it certainly does. trace, tell me about the amazing work that you guys do supporting veterans particularly post 9/11 veterans? >> well, thank you for having us

on, gillian. usa cares is in its 20th year in existence and we are helping our post-911 veterans, active duty military guard and reserve with those emergency financial assistance needs, those things that if not met, foreclosures, providing them with food, if we do not have help them in the time of need, these are the times that it's very possible that suicide will come to thought. gillian: tell me about the number 1 need, trace, that you guys organization wide are seeing right now? do you need people's time and energy, do you need financial contributions, how can, you know, me and all the viewers at home help? >> well, the greatest need that we are seeing from the veterans is dealing with evictions, stopping eviction and helping them stay in their homes and that does require the finances, so if we don't have the funding, then we can be the stop the

eviction, foreclosure and, again, the services that we provide they help reduce factors that help with prevent suicide and ned, for example, is a leader of an organization that is absolutely determined to help us to provide that mission. gillian: tell us your website real quick? >> usacares.org. gillian: okay, great. ned, talk to me about your end here, what made you decide to get involved? >> you know, our mission is really to feed happiness to the communities we serve just through a passion to satisfy our guests and while all communities are important, there's no more important community than our military families and veterans, so it's really the passion that we have to support the community. it's really the passion that trace and other military organization and charities bring, you know, to this effort. so that's where our heart is and that's where we are coming from. gillian: you're not done, you still have 24 hours or a bit more left. if viewers at home want to contribute, what can they do?

>> they can visit carlos jr. and hardee's restaurant and contribute to provide relief to this organization and also supports local charities as well. so really exciting for this opportunity. i love the partnership with trace and what all military organizations are doing for their communities. gillian: well, usacares.org is the website and we hope that folks will feel inspired and motivating after watching. thank you for the amazing work that you are doing for the military families. you bet and happy july 4th. that does it for us in this hour of fox news, i'm gillian turner, fox news live with mike emanuel is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ golo saved my life. i was way overweight, and that's what sent me down the path,

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