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that they are sacrificing public safety. >> john: "america reports" rolls into a second hour. good to spend more time with you today. >> gillian: problems in portland and the plea from the mayor. but first the west coast with the energy crisis playing out from california all the way to capitol hill. this is a fox news alert. >> john: begin with the golden state losing more of its shine. critics say the far left vision of a progressive paradise in california is turning into a democratic dystopic for everyone else. >> gillian: forget about california dreaming, but california steaming. many of those with power are told to crank up the thermostats to 78 degrees sweating it out to save energy. >> john: and turns out electric cars don't work very well without electricity. the state that just last week set a deadline to ban gas powered cars new teeters on the

brink of an energyist -- disaster. >> gillian: warning it could become the nation's problem one day. hillary vaughn. didn't california just ban the sale of new gas powered vehicles after 2034? >> gillian, they did. and that ban was applauded by many biden administration officials, including energy secretary jennifer granholm who said this is the future that they envision. but for now in california, that future seems to be stalled temporarily. californias driving electric vehicles today are having to pump the brakes to give the state's electric grid a break. california this afternoon is back under a flex alert, meaning

californians are asked to avoid plugging in electric cars to conserve energy and everybody else is being asked to make sacrifices like not cooking or doing laundry to conserve power and avoid power outages. >> precool your home, run your air-conditioning earlier in the day when more power is available. turn the thermostat up to 78 or higher and avoid using large appliances. >> a republican congressman is calling it a climate change lockdown but as states like california are pushing people to go green before the grid is ready, democrats in congress are not second guessing, passing billions in dollars in taxpayer cash to encourage people to make the switch to electric vehicles despite an overworked electric grid. >> you get why people might be second guessing this go green agenda when they are told if they have an electric car they can't plug it in, how do they

get to work, pick up the kids from school? >> this is an option. not a requirement. more you reduce carbon emissions the bigger the tax savings, and people like their choice, their freedom. >> gillian, going green is not completely green. electric grid uses things to get power from coal and natural gas and california specifically, 50% of the grid's energy comes from natural gas. only 10% from renewable energy sources, gillian. >> gillian: hillary vaughn, thank you. >> john: back to the power issues in just a moment, but staying in california, emails uncovered through a public records request appear to show a teacher's union making an effort to spy on parents. >> gillian: email shows the california teachers association hired a researcher to dig up information on a group of san diego county parents leading the push to reopen schools.

the latest headlines pinning unions against parents. >> john: we will go to that in a second, but first jump to the white house, where barack obama and michelle obama portraits were unveiled in the east room. listen in. [applause] >> thank you so much, thank you. [cheering] >> thank you so much. please, have a seat. thank you very much. it is great to be back.

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president. you've guided us -- [applause] >> john: you see former president barack obama paying tribute to the current president joe biden, might be a bit of a payback from the last time that former president obama was at the white house celebrating the passage of the affordable care act, seemed to suck all the oxygen out of the room and joe biden was looking for someone to talk to. but, there you have the official unveiling of the portraits which typically happens in the subsequent administration, but because of the rankor between president trump and president trump, it did not happen. >> you were at the one for

president bush. >> president bush wrote his own speech. i took offense at, put us out of business if the presidents start writing their own speeches. >> john: allegations that the california teachers association was spying on a parent group, we found out through emails sent from a woman named anne swinberg with the cta to various parents involved in schools. she writes i am a researcher with cta and doing research around the various reopen groups, to get school back in school. i was given your contact information and said you have lots of information regarding the parent association, one of the parents' groups. one of the parents writes back to other parents, at least, please see the below emails, she is researching parent association and would like to partner to share information. york mentioned they are looking to uncover some of the ideological leaning to reopen

lawsuits. the allegation was there were a lot of right wing groups funding the parents, trying to overcome any effort the teachers had to keep schools closed. reminiscent of what merrick garland sent out. >> teachers' unions always put the interest of grown ups ahead of kids, and that's the opposite what we need. she said the parents want to burn down the public schools, they didn't want to burn them down, they wanted to open them. they might as well have been burned down they were not teaching anybody. and you've got this new poll just came out, 42% of americans as parent are satisfied with public education, that's lower than joe biden's approval rating. the school closures we have learned have wiped out two decades of progress in reading and math for kids and particularly hit are kids in poor schools, minority schools in poor school districts. one study showed they have a 25% reduction in lifetime earning

potential because of the reading and the math losses and the learning losses. that's outrageous. and now we have in seattle, teachers on strike. the last thing the kids need is to have any educational, the teachers' unions do not care about kids, but only grownups. >> gillian: and it's not going away, as much as california or virginia would not have much of a say, google unveiled education is the number one searched political issue of the last year. that's very hard to avoid. you can launch investigations, you can spy on the parents, the angst and the interest is not going away. >> parents are never going to stop worrying about their kids. and you have the minority kids in poor school districts, they are trapped. we have had 2 million kids leave the public school system. affluent parents can afford to

take their kids out and put them in other schools, they have alternatives. the poor kids are trapped. and governor doug ducey in arizona, every family can get $6,500 on a kid, whether it's sending tomorrow a private school or tutoring, that's a model for the country. take education dollars out of the hands of the teachers' unions ab the bureaucrats and the hands of parents. >> john: california, the lack of electricity, in the face of the electrical vehicle mandate. people say it does not happen in 2035, no, begins in 2026. 35% have to be electric. michael shellenberger last hour what he said california needs in terms of electrical generation to meet the mandate. >> you would need 20 more nuclear reactors the size of the reactors at our nuclear plants

called diablo canyon, or ten full size to generate electricity to power 30 million cars and trucks. it's not like the energy to power electric vehicles comes out of the sky. it does not come out of the outlet. it has to be produced by power plants. >> john: he is arguing california's electrical and projected electrical capacity is nowhere near enough to meet the electric vehicle mandate. >> and here is the problem. so john kerry went to the conference and said no coal plants in america in eight years. the problem are the wind and solar are not there, you cannot store wind and solar energy. there are no commercially available batteries to store it. if there's no wind and no sun there is no electricity. >> john: and i chuckle the picture of the coal miners pushing the electric car. >> exactly. pushing to get rid of a reliable cheap source of energy when they don't have a replacement yet. if you have a replacement that

is cheap, reliable, most people, and they would be perfectly willing to go with it. and the problem is, the hallmark of a free society is cheap and abundant with energy. gillian knows, if you look at a satellite picture of the korean peninsula at night, the south is awash in light and the north is darkness. same people, same natural resources, different political system. when top down government tells people how to run their lives you have darkness. when you have free society and with cheap abundant energy, then there is light, and we are getting to the point parts of california are going to look like north korea. >> gillian: all right, well marc, we could talk all afternoon. but we have to leave it there. >> john: teachers' unions are not just causing headaches for california parents. to the north in seattle, kids are not in class at all, and they won't be back in school

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strike, leaving families scrambling and interrupting the start of yet another year of learning. dan springer is reporting from seattle today. dan, what specific items are the teachers asking for? >> yeah, hi, gillian. the teachers want much higher pay and guaranteed staffing levels for special education. the bottom line is this. for 50,000 seattle school children who have had two years of disruptions due to covid, they are now forced to stay home because their teachers are on strike. this as you mentioned was supposed to be the first day of the new school year. instead of teaching, educators are picketing. they want to put more special ed students in mainstream classes without required support staff, and sticking point of salary. seattle is offering 6.5% this year, teacher pay would go up 28% over the last five years. teachers are saying it's not enough. >> to live in seattle, god, you have to make so much money. you have to -- we are going

paycheck to paycheck. >> 95% of the teachers authorized the strike. seattle teachers earn between $63,000 and $124,000 a year, depending on experience and education, among the highest in the country. washington state is fourth in the u.s. for teacher pay. seattle was one of the last districts to return to classrooms after covid hit. the union resisted going back, that led to some 4,000 students leaving seattle public schools for private schools and home schooling. and for now, those who remained are facing even more disruption. >> to have that disrupted not for months, but for years, and then to see the teachers' union go on strike and shut them down even longer is just really hard to work with a child and try to get their education back on track. >> and teacher strikes are illegal in the state of washington but looked around the

country, the only other city we could find on strike was in nearby kent, but that district did just settle last night and the 25,000 school kids will be going back to the classroom. here in seattle, 50,000 kids, 6,000 teachers on strike right now, and we'll have to see how long it plays out. gillian. >> gillian: dan springer in seattle, thank you. john. >> i don't know if there is one final straw, there were infinite final straws. just infested with homeless people, drugs, needles, unbearable. >> we have people around us to make the decision to turn around and leave. they are selling their places at a loss to be able to get out of portland. >> john: people in portland, oregon say they are scared and fed up with homeless encampments plaguing the city, especially near schools. the mayor is banning homeless tents from school routes. many families are still packing

their bags and moving out. joining us is jason, seattle talk show house. this was predictable, take a look at new york, people are moving out, moving to florida. california, moving to texas and florida, people don't like what's going on in the hometown or neighborhood they are leaving. >> absolutely. same thing is happening here in seattle and greater washington state. at some point the folks just give up and you know, kudos i guess to the mayor in portland for stepping up right now and trying to do so. never going to get upset with some action at the local government level. the problem is you can tell people to wait, they have been waiting. they have been waiting for years, and the reason why the homelessness crisis is so bad in portland as in san francisco and seattle is because they don't really do anything until they have to. until they are effectively forced into some kind of movement. and the homeless people there know that. so all they do when they get swept from one location, they just go somewhere else and

sometimes return back to the same location, the rules don't have any teeth. so it's not like officers can go in there and say hey, take us up on our offers and resources or we are going to jail you for breaking the law. none of that happens. and so we just continue the cycle over and over and over again. they might not be right in front of the schools anymore, at least for the time being, but they are a few blocks away. >> john: to your point, the mayor of portland is pleading with residents not to pack up their bags and leave. he said in a recent interview, he said this isn't the time to pack up and quit. i want people to work with us, not get mad and leave. fine, get mad at me, scream at me, but work with me. he did sign an emergency declaration does not allow homeless people to set up camps near schools or school routes but sometimes the homeless leave and then they come back. but what i'm wondering, why did wheeler wait so long? why did this get so far out of

control before he took any action? >> i think it's a little bit complicated in the sense that all of this, this approach to homelessness up and down the west coast is viewed through an ideological lens. there was a position by a lot of folks who don't want the sweeps to occur, that they need housing, they need subsidized housing, and so you have different government agencies to get in on that and create some of of the housing themselves or connect with different developers to do that, and unless you are willing to give someone a studio apartment, they are arguing that it lacks compassion to put them into certain kinds of shelter. you've got lots of folks living on the street who don't want to go to shelter, they don't want to follow the rules. on top of that, you have drug addiction, so incredibly serious here and both in oregon and washington state and for the most part, san francisco and l.a. we have decriminalized drug use and so you've got this issue that's hitting all of these homeless people, many of the homeless people and it's not

better because we are enabling them with the policies. all of that is driven by ideology and a lot of the people are blind to the results. >> john: so real quick, what's the solution? >> the solution is treatment on demand, the solution is to go away from decriminalizing, give officers the ability to have some teeth and say we are giving you the resources, you either take them or you leave or you go to jail. it's up to you. nine out of ten times they are going to say ok, put me in jail. fine, out the next day. the cops will be there the next day doing the same thing until you are willing to take the help. >> john: we'll see what portland does. in the meantime, yet another american city being depopulated. jason, good to talk to you. enjoy the rest of your day. appreciate it. the solution is very difficult, there are so many people who are destitute, and they don't want to go to a she will they are, they think it's dangerous, they would rather be out in the

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police say a man pistol whipped a female worker, he hit her in the head with his gun and forced her to open a safe with $100,000 in it. the thief got away with the crash and unknown amount of money orders. now, i mention the issue of bail reform and releasing the new statistics today, the police commissioner is again pushing new york to roll back the bail laws that were pass in 2019 and i a implemented in 2020. she says they are well intentioned, but she is asking for change. >> john: nate foy, thanks so much. new video appears to show the man accused of killing memphis teacher liza fletcher cleaning out his suv hours after she was snatched for the murder. cleotha abston has a long history of crime, back to his

childhood, includes rape and two decades in prison for violent kidnapping. he was served two years ago after serving 20 years behind bars. darin, take a look at this, this is a summary of the suspect's rap sheet. arrested 16 times, starting when he was 11 years old. age 14, raped an unnamed suspect, 16, abducted a lawyer at gunpoint, served 20 years of a 24-year-long kidnapping sentence. what kind of a parole board looks at this and thinks this is a great candidate? clearly someone did. >> good afternoon, gillian. and good afternoon to our viewers. this is clearly problematic, and when we speak to the parole board, this is something that falls in the purview of the tennessee governor, governor lee. he has the ability to appoint a

different parole commissioner. but that being said, often times when someone commits a crime as a juvenile as this individual did in this particular case, the courts allowed him a sense of leniency. so he was afforded a sentence of 24 years. however, only did 20 years. i'm a firm proponent of criminal justice reform but the same token we need to open the hood, kick the tires and make some adjustments and get rid of the bad parts and put new ones in. we need to have a safe and tranquil society and individuals of this magnitude walking around, he should have under no circumstances been released. >> gillian: what are the bad parts you just referenced? >> the bad parts is we need a reorganization within the parole board and the criminal justice reform that is plaguing the country needs to be changed. in no way, shape or form am i looking to impeach criminal justice reform, but the same token, we need to make add justs

and need to address people that have violent crimes and ensure these people stay in jail for the max, opposed to letting them out early where the suspect was released four years earlier. >> gillian: a criminal profiling named john kelly told fox digital that essentially violent criminals like the suspect here become more violent over time. he says the thing about the sex actual predators, does not matter how much time they do, when they get out they are back on the hunt. does your experience in law enforcement bear that out? >> that's absolutely true. an individual being institutionalized, people in jail for the long strechtes in time, they are more aggressive when they come out into society. i believe people should be reformed when they are in jail but unfortunately it's not the case. we have an individual that's a prior sex offender that should

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tellus is a democrat who lost his re-election bid in june's primary following a series of reports by german in which current and former employees said tellus created a hostile working, and the married father of three had a relationship with a staffer. and police released two pieces of security camera video, one showing the unidentified suspect in a straw hat wearing gloves and orange shirt, the other a red or maroon yukon denali connected to the suspect. within hours reporters with the las vegas review journal, his employer, saw a similar vehicle in the driveway of the robert telles home, and police showed up at that home to serve search warrants. it's unclear at this point

whether telles was at his home when officers arrived there. now, telles had repeatedly tweeted about german's journalistic investigations calling the reporter a bully and saying "i think he's mad that i haven't crawled into a hole and died." now, telles as we mentioned lost his primary election to another democrat, but is in office until january. jeff german had been a reporter for 40 years in vegas. we all knew him well. he was described by the executive editor of the review journal as "the gold standard" of the news business. john. >> john: what a shame. been in the low hundreds in las vegas in recent days, somebody dressed like that, particularly wearing gloves would certainly stand out. jonathan hunt 4, thanks so much, appreciate it. gillian. >> gillian: byu officials say they have no evidence that slurs

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still investigating now whether a fan made racial slurs at a duke player during a volleyball match a couple weeks ago. duke has not produced evidence the slurs were issued but are standing by the athlete's claim that has happened. but it's not stopping a different coach from a different school, south carolina is refusing to play byu this season and next season. critics say she is rushing to judgment in order to push a narrative. >> let's bring in will, so the allegations came from duke's rachel richardson, said she was subjected to racial slurs every time she went to serve the ball. witnesses say they heard nothing. but dawn staley, the basketball coach at south carolina, said as head coach, the incident at byu

to reevaluate home and home, and don't feel it's the right time to engage in the series. >> i asked dawn staley. >> highest crime, showing yourself to be a racist or the worst word in the english, not one student heard it or told. an officer who was positioned at the initial claim, the claim is this went on for two volleyball sets, so not one person, no officer, no student, not only didn't record it but did not hear it happen. not to mention all of the microphones, all the video, inside of an ncaa division i sport recording the game. no evidence whatsoever that this incident took place, and yet dawn staley, the head coach of south carolina feels firm enough in this allegation she cancels here series with byu.

we have explored every potential in the story. a second racist on the grassy knoll, maybe by the way. maybe she misheard another word, it's happened in other sporting events, and in colorado dinger to the mascot at a baseball game. any potential has been explored, except for one, that it simply did not happen. >> gillian: critics say by and large the school, you know, whether the allegations remain unproven or something else comes to light, the school has a major problem. they say it's majority white, you know, less than 1% of the student body is black, those students have a track record of registering discomfort among the student body, and on and on. how do the schools move forward with the grievances? >> clearly they moved forward in pursuit of the truth. not a single detail that was

just highlighted impacts the falsity or truth of what happened at that volleyball game. there were several african american byu athletes in the stands, among the area, where supposedly a student uttered the n-word multiple times, and none of those black students heard it either. i guess i'm old fashioned. conspiracy theory, a claim without evidence. it's not the rejection of a claim without evidence. and it would seem to me the burden of proof is on that person making the allegation, and right now we would have to say this falls all the way short. not a little short, completely short of satisfying the one true goal of anybody seeking righteousness. a university, a court system, an individual. pursuit of the truth. >> john: byu has been conducting an investigation and reviewing game tapes. it did identify a person who

created a disturbance during the game. they said this person was interfering with guests rather than shouting slurs at any particular player. and they suspended that person from attending any future games. byu associate athletic director said the person identified was using racial slurs however we have been unable to find evidence of that person using evidence in the match. byu athletic official who went unnamed told the student newspaper of richardson, her story does not add up. byu banned an innocent man to make the pr mess go away. i don't know if she misheard or made up the story, it does not constitute the criticism byu has gotten. >> so john, that individual who was banned from byu games, they went back and looked at the tape. reportedly at least two incidents of this word being used. in one, he was staring at his phone scrolling through and the other i believe he was not even

in the stands, he had gone to the concession stand. at the end of the game apparently approached, according to the salt lake tribune, in further reporting by the news here, it's revealed he's a special needs student who thought she was one of his friends, both teams wear blue and white. that's the individual who has been absolved who has not done anything here, who was banned. mob justice. the player's godmother shoved this and she's running for office here in texas to be a judge. you just have to go through her or my twitter feed, i'll put it out. she is an open racist who has made claims about white people throughout the last several years. i don't think this is the best source of credibility. i don't think this is where we turn for veracity, and the story is ugly from start to finish, including the implication of a special needs student and the idea we are supposed to accept

the claim without any evidence whatsoever. >> john: will cain, clearly you have done a lot of reading. appreciate your thoughts today. >> thank you. just before we go, i want to say happy belated birthday as they say name day to you, it was yesterday. >> gillian: it's an important year, 29 can be very stressful. >> john: 29 for the first time. >> gillian: and we are not >> the story starts right now. >> thank you, john and jillian. another excuse not to go back to school but this time it is not covid-19 it is air-conditioning. you heard that right. $280 billion in taxpayer money was allocated so that the