>> eric: an airliner full of passengers catching fire shortly after landing at our nation's busiest airport. you see it there. welcome to fox news live. i'm eric shawn. arthel neville is off today. this happened this morning. it was a spirit arls flight from tampa to -- spirit airlines flight from tampa to atlanta, airbus 320 touched down at atl before 10:00 a.m. this morning when smoke and flames erupted. the airline says the fire started after one of the plane's brakes overheated upon landing. thankfully no one was hurt. we are in atlanta, the nation's busiest airport. what's the latest on this story?

ended well, charles? what happens? >> yeah, good thing for that eric. airport officials here in atlanta tell us fortunately all of the passengers on board that spirit airlines flight from tampa to atlanta are okay following a fire that broke out during the landing process this morning. eric, it was quite the sight to see. take a look at the video taken by a witness who was there as this all unfolded. you can see dark heavy smoke and bright orange flames shooting from the underbelly of spirit airlines flight 383, shortly after it landed at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport. according to spirit airlines, a brake got a little too hot as the flight from tampa to atlanta was landing around 9:30 this morning, and that's what's believed to have ignited the flames. as you can imagine, it was quite a scary situation for those folks on board, many of whom were confused and on edge as flight attendants tried to keep them calm.

>> [inaudible]. please remain seated right now and keep the aisles clear. if we have to evacuate, please -- [inaudible]. we will let you know. please remain seated. >> they told us to remain calm, just stay seated until they get everything under control, but it is on fire, like, how are you going to remain calm? i don't get that. >> yeah, and so we're told first responders were able to knock down those flames pretty quickly before things got any worse. spirit airlines telling fox news in a statement, quote, the aircraft was towed to the gate where guests safely deplaned without any injuries. thank you to the atlanta first responders for immediately meeting the aircraft. the plane will be temporarily removed from service for maintenance. again, eric, no injuries after a fire breaks out on that spirit airlines flight from tampa to atlanta this morning. but certainly a lot of passengers' worst nightmare to have an engine or somewhere underneath the plane catch on fire. and you're just sitting there

with nothing to do. >> eric: wow. that's true. i mean, spirit airlines says they are guests. that means you don't pay for it, or do they? they're passengers so maybe they will get a refund or get something. all's well that ends well. charles watson in atlanta, charles, thank you. you know, we've heard a lot of about teenage crime across the country. new york city, a 15-year-old person of interest we're told is in custody in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old boy. this horrible incident happened yesterday at a subway platform in manhattan in broad daylight. lauren green here in new york with the latest on this. hi, lauren. >> hi, eric. the stabbing adds more fear to an already cautious city. it happened in the middle of the day as you say when most new yorkers believe the subways are relatively safe. but instead, no one has been arrested for the crime as of yet. although there is a person of interest in custody. yellow police tape blocked the entrance to the subway station in harlem, where the 14-year-old boy was found stabbed in the

abdomen on the train's platform. after cops say they responded to a crime in progress. police reportedly say the boy and his attacker knew each other. >> a preliminary investigation indicates that a fight or dispute began on the street and continued into the train station where an altercation occurred. >> now, across the country, crime is posting double digit increases from a year ago. new york, 37% up. chicago, up 34%. philadelphia, more than 25%. philadelphia police are looking for a pack of teens who beat and killed 73-year-old james lambert with traffic cones. the disturbing video shows them laughing and smiling as they murder their prey. the senseless killing hits close to home as the fox news family mourns with our analyst as he laid to rest yesterday his younger brother christian. the 18-year-old was fatally shot in chicago. >> for those who may want

justice for their families as well, keep fighting. the fight never ends until you get it, so keep fighting. keep persevering. keep work towards that because there is hope, and i'm here knowing that there's hope and that there will be justice for my baby brother. >> we can all hope for that hope. one note on the crime stats, though, in new york, with this surge in crime, shooting incidents are actually down compared to last year. eric? >> eric: our hearts and thoughts are of course with all the victims of crime across the country. lauren, thank you. a frightening scene outside of atlanta. police investigating a recent road rage shooting that was caught on camera. a warning for you, the video we're about to show you of that gunfire is disturbing. this case was in a red truck,

fired 14 shots into a blue bmw, wounding the driver of that car who was reportedly hospitalized with serious injuries. they say the victim had tried to pass the truck several times on the highway in woodstock, georgia. a police officer happened to be on the scene, saw it all happen, and then arrested that suspect. he faces charges including aggravated assault. this comes as data shows that highway road rage incidents across the country involving guns happen to be on the rise. turning now to our southern border, the department of homeland security quietly preparing for a record number of unaccompanied migrant children trying to cross our border illegally this year. according to data obtained by the washington examiner, dhs estimates say as many as 161,000 children will try to cross the border this year, and that surpasses last year's number of 147,000. bill melugin is live at the border in eagle pass, texas,

with the latest on the situation there. hey, bill. >> hey, eric, good afternoon to you. those numbers certainly add up. just in the month of may, there were more than 14,000 unaccompanied children. here where we are in del rio sector, this is now the epicenter of the border crisis. it is no longer the rio grande valley. it is eagle pass where we are. take a look at this video we shot here yesterday in eagle pass. this was one of many massive groups we have seen crossing all at once. this group in particular was about 200 people in total crossing over during these blistering hot temperatures. in this exact same spot, this is a private ranch, every day since we got here last week, we've seen enormous groups like this crossing like this. the biggest one we saw was on wednesday, about 540 people in total. as you can imagine, this is a huge drain on border patrol resources. the del rio sector has limited infrastructure, smaller infrastructure, compared the other sectors. when these big groups cross, it is a huge drain on their

resources. take a look at this ground video we shot of this large group as well. remember, this border crisis is not seasonal, despite what the white house has claimed. here we are in july. the temperatures are pushing nearly 110 degrees every day. these migrants continue showing up in astronomical numbers here in eagle pass. many of them really struggling with these summer temperatures. they're coming from all over the world. just last week they had somebody here from bangladesh, and that is part of the reason why earlier today, on fox news, texas governor greg abbott said he considers what's happening here an invasion. take a listen. >> we do have an invasion driven by the cartels coming across our border that are pouring people into our country at unprecedented levels. >> and then take a look at these photos from border patrol's el paso sector showing multiple stash house bus full of illegal immigrants in these past few

days. 93 in these stash houses. they put them in the stash houses and keep them there and wait till they can get them deep enter the u.s. they have busted more than 150 of these stash houses totalling nearly 1700 migrants in total, since october. take a look at this photo here. an absolutely monumental amount of meth seized? san diego county. -- seized in san diego county. more than 5,000 pounds of meth in two separate strucks struck by law enforcement after those trucks came through from the port of entry. four men were arrested. this bus right here, law enforcement says one of the biggest in the history of san diego county. back out here live in arizona, two separate fentanyl busts totalling more than 50,000 fentanyl pills. just another reminder that cartels and drug syndicates are constantly trying to get deadly drugs into this country. back to you.

>> eric: the drug transactions just astounding, bill, thank you. in washington, d.c. the activist group shut down d.c. to use it quote strategic action to advance justice and held officials accountable. they are now offering bounties to people who provide real-time locations of conservative supreme court justices. the reason? protesters can then target those justices. this comes after justice brett kavanaugh was reportedly harassed as he was dining at a morton steakhouse in washington, d.c. that last week, and that forced the justice to leave out the back, we're told. alexandra hough has more. >> the left wing group shut down d.c. is looking to incentivize service industry workers specifically into reporting where conservative supreme court justices are in real-time. on friday, they put out the call writing, we'll venmo $50 for a

confirmed sighting and 200 if they are still there. quote, this includes but is not limited calls to target people with abuse or harassment online and behavior that urges off line action, such as physical harassment, twitter has not responded to fox news's inquiry into why that tweet is still up. the bounty offering came exactly a month after a man was charged for showing up to justice kavanaugh's home intending to kill him. two days after kavanaugh was reportedly forced to escape out of the back door of a d.c. morton steakhouse, after protesters had learned of his whereabouts. congresswoman ocasio cortez mocked that moment writing poor guy. he left before his souffle because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines. to be clear, no state has banned life-saving treatment in the case of ectopic pregnancies. but thousands who marched to the white house yesterday feel the supreme court's ruling threatens

women's health and privacy. they called on the president to declare an abortion-related public health emergency. eric? >> eric: alex, thanks so much. fox news alert. in south africa, at least 19 people we're told are dead after mass shootings there. it happened at two separate bars last night. the first shooting took place in johannesburg. that's where a group of men opened fire at random with rifles and pistols. at that shooting, they killed 15 people and wounded several others. the second shooting happened at a bar in the country's eastern coast. two gunmen there shot and killed at least four patrons in that bar. none of the suspects have been arrested. police don't yet know why those taverns were targeted. there's a race against the clock in ukraine. rescue teams searching for survivors trapped in the rubble of an apartment building in the eastern region. the governor says russian rockets hit a five story residential building killing at

least 15 people. as putin's barbaric attack against ukraine continues. lucas tomlinson is live in ukraine with the latest. hi, lucas. >> eric, russian forces are slowly advancing across eastern ukraine and now control 20% of the country, an area about the size of mississippi. we spoke to some ukrainians who have fled the onslaught. >> translator: i don't know what's next, heavy shelling there, rockets, bombs, everything, all night long, no water, nothing. >> translator: i left my yard, my household, my garden and all the rest i live for. it is unbelievable. it is so stupid. i don't understand what they want, what they need, what they are fighting for. >> in recent days, russian forces have taken over a region in eastern ukraine under heavy artillery barrage. russia wants to take another

province next, completing the takeover of the rust belt of ukraine. the russians have lost tens of thousands of soldiers. yesterday a russian missile strike targeted ukraine's second largest city not far from russia's border. russia launched short range missiles from its own territory which remains off-limits and u.s. supplied weapons under strict rules of engagement set by the white house. while russia has been making gains in the east, ukraine is trying to stop the advance launching counterstrikes using gps guided rockets sent from the u.s. ukraine official ts say they destroyed 14 bases in eastern ukraine. the united states defeated the british in part because washington's army was never defeated. as long as you maintain that army, the united states can never lose. ukrainians hope to employ the same strategy against the russians officials say. eric? >> eric: thank you very much. tomorrow u.s. secretary of state blinken will travel to tokyo to pay his respects to former japanese prime minister

abe who was assassinated on friday. reacting to the news of abe's assassination, blinken called him a quote transformative leader, a statesman and someone of truly global stature. blinken is in thailand on a prescheduled visit. also met with the japanese prime minister at the g 20 in indonesia shortly after abe was pronounced dead from the killing. blinken will be the most senior u.s. official to visit japan since the assassination. abe's funeral will take place on tuesday. back here at home, president biden says he's running again in 2024. his vice president and cabinet members all supporting him. but some, even his own party are questioning whether the president should seek a second term, citing his approval ratings and age. up next, the "wall street journal"'s john bussey on the whispers and the predictions, and if not biden, who?

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journalist jamal khashoggi. the president also defends saudi arabia as a strategic partner to the united states. kevin corke is live at the white house with more on the up coming trip. hey, kevin. >> looking forward to that, good afternoon to you, my friend. listen, with gas prices, eric, near $5 a gallon and in some places around the country over 5 bucks a gallon, it is no wonder the white house wants to do all it can to massage the relationship which has been strained with saudi arabia. after all, if the kingdom does decide to dramatically increase oil production, that could eventually have an impact on the pain at the pump right here at home. however, critics abound ahead of this trip with many blaming the white house for asking the saudis to do essentially what we should be doing for ourselves, that is, producing far more oil domestically. while still others say they are appalled the white house appears to be in their opinion glossing over human rights abuses, including the murder of washington post writer jamal

khashoggi. >> i hope that he is going to be very clear in public about what the accountability is going to be for the nation that he said we should make a pariah during the campaign. nothing has changed on the khashoggi killing. in fact, we've only gotten more evidence that saudi arabia was part of that. i just don't see exactly how the president is going to walk all these lines >> biden's trip also comes amid obvious strain between leaders in washington and riyadh, and in an effort perhaps to explain both the visit to americans and maybe even preemptively soothe those bruised feelings, the president was credited with having penned a lengthy op-ed overnight in the washington post, writing in part, quote, from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that's been a strategic partner for 80 years. there it is. you mentioned that earlier, eric. meantime, this is all happening as the president continues to respond to criticism from pro abortion activists that he's

simply not doing enough to protect abortion rights. >> keep protesting because -- keep making your point. it is critically important. my ultimate goal is to reinstate roe v. wade as a national law by passing it in the united states congress, and i will sign it the moment that happens. >> as you can well imagine, protests have become a subject of intense scrutiny here in the nation's capital with not just protests throughout the last year of the trump administration, but we've seen them now even expand to include protests in and around supreme court justices most notably brett kavanaugh yesterday was sort of chased out of a morton steakhouse by protesters. it's the kind of thing that's getting some negative attention here in the city, and it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out, but i can tell you this, from the white house's perspective, eric, it's a 1st amendment issue, so long as the protests are peaceful and not obtrusive, meaning inside of a business, they think it is pretty much okay.

eric? >> eric: maybe with this trip, the president can keep gas prices going south. they have been down 25 days in a row. we need them to go down. >> keep them going, absolutely. >> eric: thank you, kevin. whispers about president biden's reelection are growing a bit louder. recent reports from the "new york times," politico, and other media say some democrats are suggesting the president should not run again in 2024. they cite lagging poll numbers and his age. at 79, he's the oldest president in our history. the latest university poll shows the president's approval rating is at 36%. in 2017, though, then president trump hit even lower in that poll, a record low approval of 32% as opposed to 36%. but the president and those inside the west wing say he will run. >> listen to president biden. he intends to run, and if he does, i intend to run with him.

[laughter] so there you go. >> yes, i do expect him to run. i will support him, and let me tell you why he's going to have a lot to be proud of. >> eric: "wall street journal" associate editor and fox news contributor john bussey joins us now. i was waiting for pete buttigieg to tell us -- give us his list. is he too old? is he not too old? how serious are these concerns, john? are they just armchair speculation? he was out on his bike today. we saw the video of him with his helmet on. >> a lot of democrats are also waiting for that list from the president, if not from pete buttigieg. look, you know, there's some concern that the president's agenda hasn't been successfully robust enough going into the midterms. that's what democrats are worried about, losing the house and possibly the senate as well. they want decisions on things like china policy, tariff policy, student debt relief, if

there's going to be any on immigration. they need some wins in the president's kind of camp to go into these elections to bolster the democratic plate down south. that's what they are concerned about. the president is a deliberative individual. he's always been this way, as the vice president, in the senate as well, he would call on people, have debates, think things over, take some time. he's continued that in the presidency with what his aides say that look, you know, quick action on arming ukraine, quick action on getting a supreme court nominee, quick action signing the infrastructure bill, on getting out of afghanistan, though it was a calamitous departure from afghanistan. so the president's going to have to somehow resolve the age issue. he's got to do it in a way that ronald reagan did, remember during the debates with mondale in 1984 when he was asked, he said look, you're 73. john kennedy had to spend a lot

of late nights, you know, being president. are you up to it? he says look, i'm up to it, and i'm not going to exploit for my political benefit the youth and inexperience of my opponent. >> eric: that nailed the age issue for former president reagan. >> so remember, eric, he was 73 at the time he said that. biden is 79 now. he would be 83 at the time of -- or 82 going into his second term at inauguration, if he gets re-elected. >> eric: let me give you a lightning round, pretty quickly. if it's not president biden, and it likely will, we get these whispers, what about vice president harris? usually the number two would be the successor? >> i think you would see democrats not really wanting to oppose that at the outset. her approval numbers are about the same as biden's at this point. if biden decides not to run, i think the democrats would have a

hard time turning up -- turning away other possible contenders like klobuchar from minnesota, pete buttigieg, governor murphy of new jersey, governor newsom of california -- >> eric: let me bring up newsom, of course, governor newsom the running these ads in florida. what about newsom? it seems like he's going to go up to new hampshire. >> i think you are seeing some of these individuals begin to step out on the national stage a little bit more aggressively by mixing it up on national issues. pritzker was just up in new hampshire at a democratic event saying hey look, i'm just here to support democratic candidates in new hampshire, but hey -- >> eric: they all say that. let me finally, doug schoen, our old friend, democratic strategist, he talks about hillary. here's what he wrote in the hill, he's been saying hillary should run. here's his quote. quote, the absence of another strong democrat to lead the ticket has created a leadership vacuum in the party. they need clinton as an

experienced and political savvy change a candidate can fill. regardless of the opinion of clinton, the country knows her as an experienced politician and champion of women's rights she offers the exact type of leadership that the democratic party desperately needs. would three times be a charm for hillary? >> who knows. her name is being mentioned by others as well. look, there are a lot of potential democrats out there. hilary clinton lost in 2016. another candidate who ran in 2016 might be an advantage for biden that is donald trump if he were to announce for 2024. joe biden beat him in 2020. that momentum might propel him in 2024 as well, or he may feel that way, that he could beat him again. you know, it's hard to say right now, i think the field would have to clear. you would have to get a definitive statement from biden that he is or -- that he's not

going to run for the fields to take a different shape at this point. right now it's biden. >> eric: it's like horse racing, you know, jockeying up before the race and seeing what to put your money on, you know, something like that. >> there's a lot of money out there waiting to be put on a candidate, that's for sure. it is going to be spent very early too. >> eric: john, good to see you as always, john bussey of the "wall street journal." elon musk and twitter getting ready for a rumble, an unprecedented legal battle, you know, after mr. musk pulled out of his deal to buy twitter, we have some new details, and when twitter will sue him and who they will get help from when they show up in court. i recommed nature made vitamins because i trust their quality. they were the first to be verified by usp... ...an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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>> eric: a look at some of the other stories we're following for you at this hour. former trump strategist steve bannon offering to testify before the house committee investigating the january 6th

insurrection at the capitol. currently facing two counts of contempt of congress for defying the committee's subpoena with his trial set to begin a week from tomorrow. two members of the committee said today they have not had a chance, though, to discuss bannon's offer and would be interested, they say, in a deposition from him with sworn testimony. the committee's next hearing is set for this coming tuesday. it is expected to show links between trump advisors and the extremist groups and a member of that committee says it will also delve into the former president's role. in chicago five people are hurt after a driver took a wild ride in a stolen car around the old town neighborhood. police say the driver tried to pass another car, but lost control, crashing into an outdoor restaurant patio. you can see there. that driver running off after that crash. and california's largest -- famous giant sequoia trees in yosemite national park are under threat from a fast-moving

wildfire there. the so-called washburn fire has doubled in size since just yesterday to over 1500 acres. people living near yosemite have been evacuated. twitter may be preparing for a pretty tough legal battle after musk's decision to cancel his amazing 44 billion dollars takeover attempt. twitter executives are reportedly assembled a legal team and plan to file a suit this week. on friday, musk blamed the social media site for not being transparent about the number of fake accounts on it. christina coleman is following all of this in los angeles with the very latest on what mr. musk may do. hey, christina. >> hey, eric. twitter could push musk to pay the 1 billion dollars breakup fee associated with ending the agreement, but instead they say we will see you in court. the two parties appear to be bracing for an intense legal battle. bloomberg is reporting that twitter has hired a prominent law firm to handle the case, a

heavy weight law firm. the chair of twitter's board is committed to closing the deal with musk and said friday they will take legal action to do so. also musk has reportedly brought on a firm that successfully defended him against a defamation claim in 2019. musk's attorneys announced friday that he is terminating his 44 billion dollars deal with twitter citing a lack of transparency of the company's data regarding how much of its user base is made up of fake accounts. twitter says it is less than 5%. musk believes it is about 20%. >> the lawyers are going to have a heyday with this thing and something ultimately will get negotiated. is the value of twitter less because he's uncovered something which is the number of fake accounts is greater than 5%, meaning that the advertising revenue will not be what they thought it would be because, you know, fake accounts don't buy stuff. >> now, musk didn't address his

decision to terminate his deal with twitter when he was in front of tech ceos and media moguls at the alan and company conference on saturday, but former president donald trump didn't hold back his feelings on the matter while campaigning for republican midterm candidates in anchorage alaska on saturday he called musk's contract with twitter a rotten one. >> elon is not going to buy twitter. he's not going to be buying it. although he might later. who the hell knows what's going to happen. he has a pretty rotten contract. i looked at his contract, not a good contract. sign up for truth. we love the truth. [cheers] it's doing good. >> as for twitter, the social media giant has taken a big financial hit since all this drama over this deal. its stock has dropped about 30% since twitter accepted musk's offer in late april. eric? >> eric: yeah, and he's going to have to pay a billion dollars if he backs out of that deal. boy, if you had multiple

billions, you know -- >> i know, if we could all be the richest person in the world. >> eric: what's a billion dollars? all right, christina, thank you. >> thanks. >> eric: christopher wray has an ominous warning for the united states and our allies. he's meeting in london with his british counterpart focusing on perhaps the biggest international threat facing the u.s., and he says that it's china. david spunt interviewed the fbi director and the head of the british intelligence agency mi-5, and david filed this report. >> we're going to follow the facts and the law as we have consistently and we'll continue to. >> fbi director christopher wray with a warning to every day americans. be on high alert when it comes to the chinese government >> the chinese government's attempts to steal our innovation, our intellectual property, affects american jobs. >> wray is in london this week and sat down with fox news following multiple days of meetings with top british

intelligence officials, including the head of mi5, the agency in charge of protecting the british homeland. >> we have no problem with the chinese people. there's so much more to admire there. the u.k. chinese [inaudible] makes a positive contribution to u.k. life, but we need to send a clear signal about the activities of the chinese communist party >> in the u.s. the department of justice recently ended the china initiative a program aimed at combatting china's espionage following pressure from groups who called it racially insensitive. >> was that a mistake to get rid of that program? >> we're not going to engage of profiling by ethnicity or national origin. we haven't. we're going to work jointly with universities. in many cases that's one of the most effect ifr ways to prevent -- effective ways to prevent stealing of research >> the threats don't stop with the chinese government. wray says there are increasing political and financial influenced campaigns waged separately by iran and russia, but domestic problems await the director when he lands back in

washington, d.c., including a 30% up tick in homicides. the fbi is still on the ground in highland park, illinois, where a 21-year-old suspect opened fire on a crowd, killing seven at an independence day parade. >> everybody in this country needs to take a deep breath and remember what the 1st amendment protects and express themselves in that way, and if you engage in federal crimes, the fbi is going to investigate. >> wray also says one of his domestic priorities is investigation gaiting an up tick -- investigating an up tick of attacks and threats on pro-life businesses following the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade >> there's a right way under our 1st amendment to express yourself, and violence and destruction of property is not it. and that's what the rule of law is all about, and we have seen a number of attacks against faith-based organizations, pregnancy-resource centers. >> both men told me they want social media companies to step it up when it comes to

cooperation with law enforcement to get rid of bad actors. this year 2022 marks 80 years since the fbi first came to london. in london, david spunt, fox news. >> eric: fascinating report from david. a rock icon would have been 80 years old this year, but his legacy of activism and fight to end hunger in our country live on. the nonprofit founded in new york will immortalize chapin at a benefit this week. we will speak to a renowned sculptor about her hand made tribute to a former neighbor and long island legend. ♪♪ three times the electorlytes and half the sugar. ♪♪

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>> eric: that's harry chapin. next saturday will mark 41 years since the legendary singer was tragically killed in a car crash on new york's long island. he was on his way to play a free concert. chapin was also a devoted activist spending much of his time and fortune to help communities across long island. he started the nonprofit group long island cares to help the hungry and those facing food insecurity. this coming friday, the group will pay tribute to him with a benefit and unveil a new sculpture of chapin at its headquarters, the bronze bust you see there was sculpted by a woman who grew up on long island and was chapin's neighbor. the event also celebrates what would have been his 88th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the hit single taxi you just heard. the funds will go towards chapin's dream of a hunger-free long island. the sculptor is joining us now. harry chapin was dedicated to

the issue of relieving hunger on our nation and on long island. why was he significant for those who may be unfamiliar with his charity work beyond his music? >> he won the congressional gold medal posthumously for his work on world hunger. he also founded the amazing organization long island cares was founded by him just a year before his passing. you know, he was an amazing person. he would do half his concerts just to raise money for hunger. hoe worked tirelessly -- he worked tirelessly, with an absolutely heart of gold. everyone who knew him loved him and his music. >> eric: you grew up next door to him. what was he like? >> he was just the kindest, most energetic person. you feel like you've known him forever. he would treat anybody -- one person the same as another. he helped -- he really liked to inspire artists.

he inspired my brother who is a platinum artist, recording artist, and so many other artists. he just took every opportunity to help, and he gave you his full attention, and it's just amazing. it's amazing what he was able to accomplish in such a short period of time in this world, but i hope he really inspires and people will really know more about him and be such a great example. >> eric: we think of the artist activist, for example, in the hudson valley of new york. what would harry chapin -- what would he be doing today? certainly of course because of the economic issues and what we have had through covid and food insecurity and hunger and people -- some people having a very difficult time. that issue has not gone away at all since the time of his death. >> i think he would be working harder than ever. i think that thank god his legacy has been left behind here in a beautiful way on long

island helping so many. i think he would be thrilled. his family is wonderful, and i think they are really behind this -- has helped people get to know who he was. >> eric: how does long island cares? the group is long island cares.org if people want to help. hunger and food insecurity is certainly something that's with us for too many americans. >> they had the first food bank on long island, a huge warehouse, give food to all these different members of the community who need it and also help to get them on their feet. they do a lot. i recommend people look into that. they are quite impressive. >> eric: finally, if we can see the wide shot with you, you have some service dog memorabilia. is that sully behind you over your shoulder? >> yes, you recognized him. >> eric: yes, sully -- >> that's sully. >> eric: sully of course former president george h. w. bush's service dog who helped the

former president when he was in his wheelchair, beloved by all. tell us about your sculptures and especially your dedication to service dogs. >> well, thank you. it's just been incredible honor to try to capture the greatness of our heroes, both human and animal kind who have served us since the founding of our country. millions of animals have died for us and sacrificed, so actually i'm proud to be the visionary and the selected sculptor for the national service animals [inaudible] for the nation's capitol. we have a bill in congress right now, extremely exciting. >> eric: what's the bill? >> pardon me? >> eric: what's the bill? >> it's for creating a national monument called the national service animals monument that will educate, inspire, and honor all those animals and all their handlers who have served since the founding of our country. i mean, horses, dogs, pigeons, cats, you name it, in every

form, law enforcement, military, assistance animals, like sully was, yeah. it's exciting. >> eric: that is absolutely -- they deserve it. your work is wonderful. i know you work in arlington and elsewhere beyond sully in helping long island cares. susan, sculptor, someone who does care, thank you for joining us to tell us about harry chapin's legacy. >> thank you so much. it is my honor. >> eric: good to see you. we will be back with more news in a moment.

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>> eric: it is really hot around most of the country with nearly 33 million americans under heat alerts today. fox meteorologist adam klotz has the lowdown on the high temperatures. hey, adam. >> adam: hey there, eric. a lot of heat, particularly in the middle of the country. some of that heat and humidity spawning storms across the county. -- country. a lot of heat out there right now. 100 degrees in dallas. everything kind of pooling up in the middle of the country. little less warm right along the coast but some of that is because of big showers. heat alerts, advisadvisories, a texas houston, san antonio, austin, towards dallas. feels like temps in some of these spots maybe 110 degrees today. really warm and with that you are seeing showers popping up from along the gulf coast that

will be running up eventually along the east coast getting into the carolinas, but one spot i want to point out also is a line of storms sweeping across the great lakes. some of those have been severe. more afternoon thunderstorms. the ground already saturated. likely see another 5 to 6 inches in some of these places. wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of flooding in that area. that's something folks need to pay attention to. it is going ton't cobecause it is july -- it is going to continue because it is july, hot, sticky, humid, kind of typical weather out there. >> eric: i guess the rainstorms also help lower the temperatures, that could be a good thing but you need to watch out and hydrate. >> adam: yep. >> eric: thank you, good to see you. that's it for fox news live for now, for myself. arthel will be back next week, hope she is, it is lonely in here. the big sunday show next. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care

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