arthel: a rare working weekend for the senate as democrats try to hammer out the final details on their climate, energy and tax bill. they hope for a possible vote this afternoon, but republicans have promised to unleash parliamentary hell to delay that. this as president biden, good news, justested negative for covid, but will keep isolating until a second negative test. hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville, welcome to "fox news live," and hello, mike. miami mike i'm mike emmanuel in for eric shawn.

china flexing its military muscle for a third straight day after house speaker nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan. defense officials there saying the communist regime's military appears to be simulating an attack on the island. a look at the big picture with fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. plus, actress anne heche injured in a car crash, video surfacing that shows her speeding and driving erratically before plowing into a home and sparking a fire. maryann rafferty live in los angeles. >> reporter: critical condition after crashing her car into a home pretty if morning, causing it to go up in flames. the 53-year-old actress was driving a blue mini if cooper when she first crashed into the garage of an apartment complex. she fled and moments later crashed into a nearby home causing a blaze that also a engulfed her car. a shocked maybe describing that

scene. >> there was three fire engines here and a lot of commotion. but the result was the fire that was going on, the billows were so -- like 200 feet high, so i know it had to be severe in size. >> reporter: and another residents says heche was conscious and breathing when she was placed on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital. no other injuries at the scene. it took the 59 firefighters over an hour to fully put the fire out at the home which was heavily damaged when the car plowed inside it. hec che has acknowledged past struggles and heartbreak over her highly publicized split with ellen degeneres in 2000. she appeared in movies such as donnie brasco and six days, seven nights. law enforcement officials told the l.a. times that she's the

registered owner of the vehicle and was deemed under the influence and driving erratically. we've not confirmed that though. mike: thanks a lot. arthel? arthel: also in los angeles, a nurse is in custody accused of causing a very tragic and fiery crash that killed six people. here are the images now, it's difficult to watch, but you'll see it happening momentarily. a a pregnant woman and her unborn child among those killed in this crash. california highway patrol says nicole lorraine linton was driving 100 miles an hour in a 35 mile-an-hour zone when she ran a red light, you just saw it, and slammed into five cars thursday afternoon. among those killed, the 23-year-old pregnant woman who was heading to a prenatal check-up one month before her due date. her infant son was also killed. ♪

mike: to the rising tensions with china now, beijing staging another day of large scale naval drills in the waters around taiwan after it suspended cooperation with the biden administration on key issues like climate and the military over speaker nancy pelosi's visit to the island china sees as its territory. alexandria hoff live in washington with the latest. >> reporter: hello, mike. officials in taiwan say today's drill simulated an attack including an additional 20 aircraft and 14 chinese warships, some of which crossed the median line. live fire military exercises have been taking place in the eye wan straits since thursday, retaliation for speaker pelosi's landmark visit to the island's democracy which china claim as its own. >> they may try to keep taiwan from visiting or participating, but they will not isolate taiwan by preventing us to travel there. >> reporter: the speaker

wrapped up her visit many tokyo where china's exercises were called a grave problem adding several ballistic missiles launched by china landed in japan's exclusive zone. the white house says china is using it as an excuse to escalate tensions. >> there's no reason for beijing to have escalated the way that they have. there is no reason. the policy has not changed. we are still in line with the one china policy. the speaker had every right to take that trip. >> reporter: following that trip, beijing also suspended communication with the u.s. on several major issues like climate change, military policy and drug trafficking. secretary of state antony blinken spoke to that from the philippines. >> they shut down eight different areas where our two countries have been able to work together. those include several military to military channels which are vital for avoiding miscommunication and avoiding crises. >> reporter: white house officials said yesterday that

senior level military conversations may still be possible, but live fire exercises by the chinese are expected to run through tomorrow. mike in. mike: alexandria hoff in washington, thanks a lot. arthel? arthel: all right, we're going to bring in retired four-star general jack keane right now, also fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, went on record two weeks ago sounding the alarm on the chinese military's increased aggression. i want to start with that as the foundation and ask, was speaker pelosi's trip to taiwan that controversial, or was china just looking for a reason? >> well, i think we gave china a little bit of an opening here because, first of all, the white house or someone mt. administration, we don't know for sure if it was the white house, leaked the fact that she was traveling to to taiwan. normally those visits are kind of done in secret like the president going to afghanistan or iraq, and then you don't know about it until they land.

so that was leaked. and then the chinese, seeing a possibility of a huge propaganda victory here, spun this thing up rather dramatically. i mean, they knew about it back in april and didn't do much about it. i think some of this has to do with the national party congress which is due in several weeks to enshrining president xi for his third term and likely an indefinite term. so they seized upon this. and certainly, the rhetoric was literally off the charts. i mean, threatening war and everything else. and i actually think that there is a possibility that pelosi would stand down and didn't stand down, and now we have a very calculated overreaction on china's part to further isolate taiwan, obviously intimidate them but also to play to the audience with. at home. to demonstrate -- pelosi didn't stand down, we're taking some action here. arthel: yeah.

because as you said, president xi is trying to yet that unprecedented third term, or fifth -- third fifth year, five-year term, i should say, and he's got problems at home. you're right, he had to fluff up for his own people. meantime, you've got taipei accusing beijing of simulating an attack on taiwan's main island. i want to show you the map right now. china is exercising some of its largest ever military drills around eye wan, even crossing the demarcation line to fight in the taiwan straits. so if xi jinping is setting the stage for an imminent invasion of taiwan, how is his plan going? >> well, i don't think he is, to be frank about it. i mean, what he's unfolded here is more a quarantine or a blockade as to opposed to a d-day type invasion. he's going to do a d-day type invasion, that is the most dangerous option for taiwan and the united states because, obviously, they seize the island

by an amphibious assault, parachute assault, helicopter assault, air and missile attack the, etc. what -- but i think china would really like to gain control of taiwan given all their years of intimidation and coercion without having to fire a shot. so they could make a quarantine of the island or a blockade of the island, and i think this is what we're seeing in front of us now, more of a practice to do that. let certain trade go through so the population doesn't get starved, but actually take control of taiwan in doing that. and that would be quite significant in terms of its sovereignty and hen challenge -- and then challenge taiwan to fire the first shot in response to their actions or the united states, challenge the united states to come and defend taiwan as a result of firing the first shot. i think that is more likely the scenario in front of us. and i do believe this, that president xi -- i think the

likelihood of him taking aggressive action towards taiwan, he's much more incentivized in the near term than in the long term because of his economic problems at home and the fact that the united states is beginning to catch up in the military advantage that the chinese communists have in the region. arthel: it's an amazing strategy that you've outlined there on the part of china, very sinister. so if that's what they're doing, you know, they're putting themselves to make the taiwan and the u.s. make the first move if militarily if it comes to that -- hopefully, it doesn't, we don't want a world war here. but how now, if ors n. -- in fact, that's xi jinping's play, how should the u.s. plan for that? >> yeah, great question. and and what we should be doing, i think have we learned manager from afghanistan. where we had the russian

dictator provocating for years that ukraine is a part of russia. i'm sorry when i mentioned afghanistan, i'm abe ukraine and russia. and the fact is, you know, he flagged that and we dismissed it as not taking him serious. and now here we are. and we're trying to provide all the arms and ammunition to ukraine after the invasion as opposed to before it. as opposed to to taiwan, we have a huge opportunity to stiffen their resistance by getting them arms, ammunitions now and accelerate that. and also we self-defer and self-censor ourselves, arthel, and it's outray juice. we don't send our military leaders into taiwan to coordinate defensive plans that we have in taking care of taiwan in the event of an attack. we have war plans, obviously, the president has to make a decision to execute it, but we're not practicing any of that with taiwan.

and that would be a very complicated military action on a scale we haven't seen since world war ii. but yet we're not coordinating, we're not training together. get the arms and munition to them, let's help train them, let's help prepare them, and let's create a realistic deterrence that would give president xi pause before conducting operation he's unfolding here today. because it's going to impose significant cost on him. arthel: and how would -- >> that's what we should be doing. arthel: and how would japan be folded into that scenario, those exercises, that planning? >> well, thankfully, you know, we've had two administrations many japan that see -- in japan that see taiwan, their security and sovereignty is related to taiwan. they know full well, arthel -- that's a great question. if the chinese communists take taiwan, they get a military base and a high-tech the platform, and they will absolutely intimidate and coerce our

allies, the principal one in the region will be japan, the second one will be australia. and they will have a heck of a platform to do that. that is why japan has made public statements that they intend to come to the defense of taiwan. and they are increasing their military capability to do that. this is second administration that feels strongly about it just like in the united states we had a right of center administration in trump, we have a heft of center administration many biden, but -- in biden. but both of them, both of them want to stand up and confront china and stop their aggression. arthel: general jack keane, thank you very much. i have to leave it there. i look forward to speaking to you more about this subject because, unfortunately,st not going to die down anytime soon, but hopefully it doesn't escalate to anything we don't want to see. thank you so much, sir. nice to talk to you. >> yeah, thank you, arthel. arthel: mike? mike: the -- no rest for the senate, democrats putting the finishing i touches on hair massive tax and spending bill.

they're planning a vote to start the measure this afternoon and expected to pass with zero republican support. chad pilgrim is live on capitol hill with the very latest. hello, chad. >> reporter: hello. republicans are resigned to their fate, we just don't know when democrats will pass the bill. we're expecting an overnight session. >> it's gonna pass the senate, they wouldn't bring it up if they didn't have the votes. there's enough sweetheart deals to make people feel comfortable their particular interest is taken care of. over august the american people have a chance to speak to their elected representative. >> reporter: but republicans will mange things -- things difficult, planning to make democrats vote on a series of comprehensive amendments on the border. the amendments are designed to put democrats in a difficult spot. some democrats will oppose all amendments, that makes it easier to pass the bill. >> this isn't our first time

going through the reconciliation process, and no one's going to be surprised when the other side comes up with wild, misleading and wholly partisan amendments that have nothing, nothing to do with our bill. these efforts will not deter us. no matter how long it takes. >> reporter: republicans claim the bill will boost inflation. the irs will become one of the biggest agencies in the government. the irs gets tens of thousands of new agents, they'll enforce new tax provisions. >> the american people don't want hundreds of millions of dollars in green new deal waste, they want less inflation. not more. pleasure american families don't want tens of thousands more irs agents. what they'd like are more border patrol and i.c.e. agents. >> reporter: democrats got a mixed ruling today from the senate parliamentarian, bill will allow medicare to negotiate the cost of pharmaceuticals.

that makes drugs cheaper. but the parliamentarian nixed a rebate to cope with inflation. democrats need all of their members to vote yes to pass the bill. mike? if. mike: chad pergram, our walking ensly crow media on capitol hill, thanks very much. arthel: he really is that, for sure. meantime, at the white house president biden testing negative for covid today, but he will continue to isolate until a second negative test. the president hopes to start traveling again on monday. he will be hoping to travel to kentucky. the blood-ravaged -- flood-ravaged area there. also to celebrate the good july jobs numbers. let's go now to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more on this. hey, lucas. >> reporter: that's right, the white house hopes the president receives that second negative covid test by monday so he can travel to eastern kentucky to meet those families devastated by those floods. the president's been here for over two weeks and insists this

massive spending bill that's being debated and voted on in congress, he hopes and insists that it won't be taking any more money from americans' wallets. >> this bill will not, let me repeat this, this bill will not, will not raise taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year. when it comes to the benefits of this bill, you don't have to take my word for it. >> reporter: shades of president george h.w. bush who once pledged, quote, no new taxes. the white house points to the strongest jobs report, over half a million few jobs last month, beating expectations. the white house predicts the $700 billion climate, health and tax spending bill will reduce inflation. senator lindsey graham has his doubts. >> these are the same people that told you the american rescue plan would rescue you. this is a horrible idea, it doesn't reduce inflation. it's a vampire tax, and they're the reimposing it on imported oil which will make gas go up,

not down. there's nothing in this bill to reduce inflation. it grows the government. >> reporter: some good news for the white house and motorists, the price of gasoline has fallen for seven straight weeks, the average now $4.08 a gallon, down from an all-time high of over $5 back in june. some think now is not the time to spend more and risk those gas prices going back up. >> we're talking about this idea of supposedly reducing inflation if with proposals that a got us into this problem in the first place such as raising taxing and and spending. this is a crisis of overspending and overtaxing. >> reporter: the price of gasoline today is still $1.69 higher than when the president was sworn in. arthel? arthel: going down, needs to continue. hopefully it will. lucas tomlinson -- the. [laughter] thank you. mike? mike: republicans are feeling good about the midterms at cpac in dallas, but new polling shows the democrats may be gaining ground. plus, will the spending be on

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arthel: well, the final full day of cpac is underway in dallas. headliners include are kari lake who just won the gubernatorial primary in arizona a, and former president donald trump who endorsed her. before they speak, organizers will announce the results of the c spac straw poll which could give us an idea of who the gop will nominate for president in 2024. and here he is, jeff paul -- no, no, not you. hey, jeff, he's in dallas with more. [laughter] >> reporter: yeah, arthel. we had speakers on thursday and friday, but you'd have to say saturday's probably most anticipate thed day, and that's because, as you mentioned, who is speaking tonight, former president donald trump. as we take a look, live look at the stage, organizers say they are preparing for the biggest crowd for cpac that they have seen so far over these last couple of days. and that really all goes back to the fact that many attending still believe that the party goes lu trump, and they say the evidence is in what just

happened in arizona, a clean sweep for are republicans backed by trump many where they all won their primary contests for state legislate legislature, governor, u.s. senate. now, beyond the trump factor, conservatives near that's say it goes back to also the issues. yes, abortion has changed the dynamic with overturning of roe v. wade, and then there's also the january 6th hearings. but at the end of the day, they say the biggest issue for them is the economy. >> every single thing, just to put my kids back in school, has gone up in price. so those things are important. i mean, i understand we've got these big social issue, but we still have to put food on the table for our kids and keep them in school. >> reporter: now, in addition to trump speaking later this evening, we are waiting on those results of the straw poll. they're going to be coming out a few hours before the form former takes the stage, is so we'll see if he reacts to people out here feel about him and other potential candidates. arthel? arthel: jeff paul, thank you

very much. mike? mike: arthel, we're about two-thirds of the way through primary season, and recent polling shows democrats pulling even with republicans with the midterms less than 100 days away. look how tight it is. joining us now to size up this week's key races is washington times national political correspondent susan ferrechio. susan, welcome. >> hey, mike. mike: so let's talk about those poll numbers. so you got possible recession, you've got a crime crisis, you've got a situation at the border, you've got inflation. at one point there was talking about the possibility of a red wave, and then we've got razor-tight polling. what do you make of it? >> i think a lot of it may have to do with the supreme court's decision in june overturning roe v. wade which was the 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. i think that everyone is paying attention to primaries suddenly right now to see if there is evidence that democrats are more enthuse yeasic in --

enthusiastic in coming out to the polls. that coupled with more positive economic indicators that you just referenced, more than half a million jobs created and people seeing gas prices come down -- they are coming down dramatically -- so all these things work in paver of democrats. and also it's still early. it's only august. we've got a lot of time between now and november when all kinds of things could change in favor of either apparently. so just that as a warning here when we see these polls. i think everyone's going to be paying attention this coming week to to this sort of sleeper race in minnesota to fill a vacant seat in the first u.s. congressional district. the congressman who held it died in february from kidney cancer. now, the republican in that is favored to one, but people are going to pay attention to see if the democrats are coming out in greater numbers than all normally see in an august special election. that may give further indication to how voters are looking at democrats versus republicans ahead of november. mike: all right.

from punch bowl news, quote: while the negative ads run by republican groups touch on steep gas prices and expensive grocery bills, the spots largely avoid criticizing democrats over crime and public safety. only 6% of the ads we tracked hit democratsen on rising crime compared to 60% which focused on inflation and 53% which centered on gas prices. susan, is it wise to focus on kitchen table or pocketbook issues? >> well, honestly, what they're doing is just following what we see in polls. so when you look at all kinds of polls time of year, what do voters care about the most right now? very, very top, inflation. it's all about going to the grocery store the, i say, you know, or going to fill up with gas. as you were saying in an earlier segment, while the prices are going down, it's nearly $1.70 higher hand before biden took office. so people are still feeling a lot of pain at gas pump. you heard the white house promoting the reduced prices and

that people are saving money at pump, but people still feel like they're shelling out a whole lot more than they were a year ago, and that is true. it's costing them a lot more money, and then hen they're heading to the grocery store after, those gas prices aren't going down. and that, in part, is why you see democrats voting on a bill they're calling the inflation reduction act even though there appears to be no evidence that this is actually going to reduce inflation. they need to be able to go to voters in the august recess and beyonds especially in those weeks prior to election and say we took steps to reduce inflation. you may be feeling pain right now, but we're voting on legislation to bring down your costs. question is, are voters going to buy that especially when you're hearing people talk about how this isn't going to reduce flakes, even nonpartisan analysts are saying so, and if they're questioning what will happen with these tax increases in the bill, how that may influence job creation and how it may trickle down to people earning far lower than the

$400,000-a-year threshold that president biden set for where he would hold the line on taxes. all these things are going to come into play. i'm not clear who's going to win this messaging war with. both parties are really pushing hard at it, and the deciders will be the voters in november. mike: all right. susan ferrechio, thank you so much for your time and analysis. it's been a pleasure, and we'll see where the voters take us heading into november. >> it'll be interesting. thanks, mike. mike: arthel? is. arthel: all right, mike. the u.s. declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, so what does that mean for all of us? fox news medical analyst dr. marc siegel is standing by. ♪ ♪ ♪ you ain't seen nothin' yet ♪

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arthel: a bottom of the hour look at some headlines for you. indiana is the first state to outlaw most abortions that the supreme court overturned roe v. wade in june. the new law, signed last night,

takes effect september 15th. it has exceptions for rape, incest, deadly fetal anomalies and threats to the life or health of the mother. at least four people were hurt and several arrested after the nypd exchanged fire with a group of men last night in queens. police say those men pulled out guns while plain-clothes officers were watching a packed party. and a huge fire many seattle ripping through several houseboats in union lake last night, looks like the fire broke out behind a restaurant near the dock. ♪♪ mike: texas governor greg abbott is making sure northern cities feel impact of the crisis at our southern border. mayors of new york city and washington, d.c. have both call for federal help to handle the migrants abbott has bussed there, and he and he says he'll be sending more.

nate foy is in new york city with the latest. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon. first migrant bus to arrive yesterday carried a group of about 50 mostly from south america, but texas governor greg abbott says he's only getting started. listen to this. >> people in washington, d.c. and new york are seeing what texas has to grapple with. and i've got news for them, they haven't yet seen fullness of what we're busing up will. we're going to be adding thousands upon thousands more to washington, d.c. and to new york so that they can see exactly what's going on. >> reporter: so again, mike, you see first group arriving here many new york city yesterday. they were given clothes, food and water. governor abbott says he hopes busing migrants like this to washington, d.c. as he has been for months and now new york city starting yesterday, he hopes it will force the biden administration to finally acknowledge the border crisis. migrants themselves feel very differently. listen to this. >> what is your message to joe biden? >> we are completely grateful for the opportunity that he has

given us. >> translator: thanks for the support for us to come here. we were happily welcomed. >> reporter: mayor eric adams and washington, d.c. the's mayor, muriel bowser, are calling for more from president biden. adams said yesterday he had a phone call with federal officials talking about potential solutions. so far nothing has come of that at least publicly. and mayor bowser's request for national guard support was rejected by the pentagon. >> they're boarding buses having been lied to about what's going to be on the other end. and and they're still not where they want to be. and so we, we really need federal court. now, if the federal government -- >> reporter: that last part is the one thing that all sides can agree on, the need for more action from the biden administration. as for that group in new york city yesterday, i can tell you about half of them are taking buses to other cities, and half will rely on the resources here

in new york city. send it back to you. mike: nate foy live in new york city, thanks a lot. arthel? arthel: an illinois daycare worker has test thed positive for monkeypox, and now other mothers and children are being screened atta that daycare near champagne after the biden administration declared the growing outbreak a public health emergency. according to the cdc, there are more than 7,000 confirmed cases in 48 states. the only exceptions, montana and wyoming. let's bring in fox news contributor dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. dr. marc, this is how the spread of coronavirus started. a slow drip, hen it was everywhere. why are we here again and so soon? is the federal response to monkeypox aggressive enough? >> no, not up until now, arthel, good to be with you, it has not been aggressive enough.

by calling it a public health emergency, they're going to free up more funding from hhs, cdc has a rapid response reserve fund that they can call up so millions of dollars, even billions will be thrown at this. but the real issue is, is that les a big shortage of the vaccine that we need, you know? we have to target groups at highest risk, we're not doing that. i'm not one who believes that the genie is totally out of the bottle here because, first of all, we have a vaccine, and it's very effective, we believe. second, this spreads mostly by close contact, by she cession cans or -- secretions. you can get it by touching someone who actually touched the rash, but most of it is sexual transmission. cdc just released a that 94% of everyone that has this has either spread it male to male sex, gay men or bisexual men are the predominant spreaders of this still, ask we need to target that and deal with it directly and not, you know, soft

pedal it. one of the downsides of causing a public health emergency is we might be spreading the message that it's already too late, that it's all over the place. but the predominant place it is is new york city and l.a., and we do not have resources on the ground that we need. arthel: i remember, again, i don't want to be an alarmist, but i remember coronavirus, new york was ground zero for that, you know? so that's -- >> correct. arthel: -- i'm just a regular person like the rest of us, and it makes me wonderer, like, what next? because what are the implications of monkey monkeypox being declare ared a public health emergency? i know you said it means more funding that will be available for the vaccines s and i know you said that there are vaccines available. however, i recall even the mayor of san francisco saying we don't have enough of these vaccines. so, you know, what gives? >> well, first of all, your point is excellent. we are repeating the mistakes of the covid pandemic. and we're repeating the mistakes of the hiv epidemic as well.

we didn't have the ability to diagnose most the people who really had hiv at beginning, and we kind of soft ped aaled -- pedaled it and then we went from will saying everybody had it when it wasn't everybody. the testing issue we had at the beginning of the covid pandemic when we didn't have enough testing. we're now seeing 80,000ests a week, even that is not enough. the difference to try to calm people is, first of all, donald trump called the opioid end epidemic a public health emergency in 2017, so there's a lot of precedence for things being called public health emergencies that are not covid. this is not going to be covid because it doesn't spread as easily and because we've got the vaccine if we would just get it out will. another thing that we're soft pedaling is the treatments. we've got 1.7 million doses of the treatment, and we're not getting that into people, and w- arthel: of the what treatmentsome monkeypox

treatment did you say? >> it's called c pox. arthel: okay. i wanted to confirm, someone was talking in my ear at the time. but i wanted to, going, the concern you know, the lgbtq community, they're concerned because numbers show it disproportionately affects black and hispanic men in the gay community. i do want to know why they're more vulnerable and also, how do you, how -- is the cdc equipped to target this sector of our population? >> that is hugely important, and i'm glad you brought that up. over 50% of cases are in black or hispanic men, and that's, for sure, always been the case where we overlook underserved communities like that. we don't target them. and i've been asking for this vaccine myself for my patients. we don't have it in the hospitals that i serve. we don't have it in new york city. we need to vaccinate everybody that's at risk, people that have frequent sex partners, people

that don't have frequent is sex partners. we shouldn't be stigmatizing. we have to get around it. it's due to that exact issue, it's spreading mostly through sex. and as you said, more of cases are in the black and hispanic community. they have to get the resources. arthel: and as you said, this is not about ostracizing or stigmatizing anybody, this is about getting the help that everybody needs to make sure that this is taken care of for whoever needs the treatment. so, dr. marc, we -- i don't know that we have a lot of answers in this segment, it was more discussion, so we'll have to have you back on, you know, as we -- as you research more and more answers are provided. but lots of definitely good questions out there that we just hit, i think. i have to go but go ahead. >> final point. arthel, we have the tests, we have the treatment, t-pox, we have the vaccines. it's a disgrace that we don't have it to the places that we need it, that's for sure, and we've got to get it there. arthel: distribution. all right. dr. marc siegel, we'll talking to you again. we'll have to take a break.

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mortars were fired at israel. a map given exclusively to fox news shows some of the failed launches by islamic jihad, 12 people were injured and damage to 7 buildings. a senior israeli official details conditions for a new ceasefire, and egyptian negotiators attempt to pull both sides back from the brink of a larger escalation. those conditions include removing threats from the border. tension has been high polling the arrest of a leader in the west bank last week. this was one of the driving factors to the current escalation. now, hamas, the group in control of gaza, has called this in an interview with fox news a, quote, unprovoked aggression, and and they are calling on the international community to step in and stop the escalation. arthelsome. arthel: let's hope the escalation can be stopped, indeed. trey yingst, thank you. mike? mike: arthel, the massive clean-up effort underway in kentucky is underway, but communities devastated by

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arthel: a deadly house fire in

pennsylvania killed 10 people early friday, 7 adults, 3 children. one volunteer firefighter was horrified when he responded to the scene in a small central pennsylvania town to learn victims were members of his own family. the children who died were 5, 6 and 7 years old, and the adults included a 79-year-old man. a preliminary investigation showed the fire broke out on the back porch of the house around 2:30 in the morning yesterday. mike: thunderstorms yesterday put most of kentucky back under flood watch. folks there still trying to pick up the pieces after flash floods killed 37 people. president biden plans to visit area on monday. fox weather multimedia journalist robert ray is live in eastern kentucky near the virginia border. hello, robert. >> reporter: hey, mike. look at this, pile of debris here in neon, and this is what people have been grappling with

since well over a week ago when the historic flash flooding came in here and, unfortunately, killed people. it is piles of mud in these structures and buildings here in neon, kentucky. this town is decimated. if the structure wasn't up on the hill, it is destroyed, complete gut job. you can see right here aid groups have moved in, they've got water and supplies and foods, the fire department here, local churches have all of these scenes. meanwhile, you had this morning heavy rains, about an hour and a half of just downpours came down and, unfortunately, caused some of the mud to just get nasty and messy again during this clean-up, and there is mud all over on the insides of buildings, everywhere. if we take a look at this, this is river or creek, this is the north fork of the kentucky river here, guys, and this is literally a creek that goes through town. this is what caused this entire

town to be decimated by blood are water. it doesn't look like much right now, but the waters came up to almost 15 feet in some spots, destroying storefronts and homes. and, mike, you see all this mud, this is thick stuff. there are vehicles submerged in this water, and you can't even move it. they've had tow truck drivers come in to try to figure out how to get the wheel bases out, because this stuff just sucks it in, it's like a pressure, bring withs everything in and almost impossible to get out of the structures. as we move forward here, most people in this region do not have flood insurance. it's a major problem. so some of these towns, there are discussions happening right now about whether or not rebuilding is even worthwhile at this point. it just depends on who you talk to. the major issue is funds are needed by state and the federal government. these people love their region, this is their home, they've lost so much, and and they think it's worth with fighting for.

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mike: please join me tomorrow for "fox news sunday," i will talk with former u.n. ambassador

nikki haley, maryland democratic senator ben cardin weighing in on the senate vote. "fox news sunday," 2 the p.m. eastern right here on fox news or check your local listings for when it airs on your fox station. arthel? arthel: i will check it out and hope you check us out in one hour. mike: thank you. ♪ ♪ paul: welcome to the editorial -- journal editorial report, i'm gerry baker. china has halted talks with the united states and is conducting live-fire drills as house speaker nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan sparks a fierce back a lash and pushes tensions to a new high. the latest clash comes as president xi jinping prepares to seek a third term in power this fall. so why is china reacting so forcefully, and what is