up. >> saturday night, at the chisholm trail expo center, in enid, oklahoma, taco pass, wear the tom brady jersey, it's going to be rowdy. you can get whatever you are, you are harris falkner. >> do not forget to dvr the show. here is "america reports," have a great day. >> sandra: north korea launching a ballistic missile over japan. triggering rare warnings from the japanese government for residents in northern areas to take cover. >> john: the fifth missile test by the rogue regime in the past ten days. what message is kim jong-un trying to send to the world. just ahead. >> sandra: and we look forward to that, begin with gas prices on the rise nationwide as americans once again are seeing more pain at the pump. hello, welcome everyone, i'm

sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. >> john: good to be with you, too. just when you thought it was safe to put your fingers back in your wallet, up go the prices again. this is "america reports." dwindling supply along the west coast, and apparent causes for the uptick, ahead of a critical opec meeting, considering the largest cut in oil production in nearly three years. >> sandra: that big decision will be coming tomorrow. now five weeks to go to the midterm elections here at home, the biden administration has become quiet on the subject after repeatedly boasting how its actions led to falling prices this summer. >> john: fox team coverage to kick things off, charles payne is standing by, but first white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. what is the treasury secretary now saying, jacqui, about what this could mean for inflation? >> nothing, john. even though administration officials have consistently

pointed to soaring energy costs, data showing that is a main driver of inflation, but today treasury secretary janet yellen did not even try to finesse a response about what an opec production cut could mean for your wallet. >> i would think would lead to some concerns about soaring gas prices and also the impact on inflation. how worried are you about that? >> no comment. >> strategic reserve sales coming to an end and the senate from opec plus, likely be cutting production, may be the beginning of an upward trend in gas prices. 3.81, up from 3.75 a week ago. still down from the highest average we hit in june, 5.02 a gallon, but arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, numbers are not working in the party's favor and it's giving fodder to republicans who say biden's trip to saudi arabia to encourage

opec plus to ramp up production wasted a lot more political capital than it was worth. >> so much for joe biden being able to transact with the saudis and trying to use the influence of his bully pulpit with the world marketplace. we should be bring the prices down by producing it in the united states of america. remember when we did that once, larry, worked well. >> strategic reserves are a 40-year low after the president started selling them to have to bring gas prices down and fema officials were left without answers over whether we have enough supply to last us through the rest of hurricane season and energy department officials said last week there are no plans to begin replenishing them until the end of fiscal year 2023, all that the president has no more tools to bring down gas prices, and you'll recall over the last week or so, suggesting maybe oil and gas companies are to blame for the prices but saying he's

going to go after price gouging but officials have not admitted there is evidence of that happening so far, john. >> john: on september 11th, janet yellen when asked if gas prices would go up, she said it's a risk, now she is saying nothing. >> sandra: bring in charles payne, we are fired up right now because you and i just got done talking about it. an administration that embraced, took credit for, touted that drop in gas prices that we did see for several weeks, it was welcome news for the american consumer. my question to you is, if they are going to own those gas prices on the way down, are they going to own them on the way up? because that was an acknowledgment then that the markets were functioning soundly, and efficiently. when prices seem to go up, they say hey, there's, you know, price gouging going on, or people are colluding to run up oil and gas prices, will this administration own it if gas prices do go back up to highs?

>> absolutely not, the answer is absolute not. they didn't own it, from the day of the election they have gone straight up. from the day of the inauguration and they blamed it on vladimir putin. and profiteering. >> ignored it. >> ignored it for a long time. and then of course a political issue, and then they had to find a fall guy or country. here is the thing that really bothers me, to your point. down 99 days in a row, but not an efficient market. it was not an efficient market. as jacqui mentioned, selling off our strategic petroleum reserve, and saying from day one, this is a despicable act. it belongs to all americans for emergencies. we have been very lucky we have had one major hurricane this year, if we had 2 or 3 of them, who knows where we would be with gas prices, so after six days, after going down 99 days in a

row, and now president biden is wagging his finger at ma and pa who own a gas station, they net on average $0.15, we pay on average $0.45 in taxes. so the federal, local and state governments make more money off gasoline than the ma and pas that he is talking about. >> sandra: and i say every time the biden administration comes out and says or alleges price gouging or collusion to run up prices, well, you can go back a year ago when president biden said there is growing evidence for a federal investigation. there have been many at the federal and state level. where are they now? and never turned up to be the case that this is going on. i want to put up on the screen gas prices surging on the west coast, five weeks out from the midterm election, a huge political issue, states along the west coast, 30, 40, $0.50

jump in a week. latest job openings versus job seekers today, job openings did fall, remember, over 11 million job openings that did shrink, is this a good sign for the economy? >> it's an awful sign for the economy but good for the market, that's why the market is up. federal reserve may back off the notion they have to slow the economy down. we are going to see more and more evidence of this economy cratering. we are going to see big time jolts, not small misses on economic data, they are going to be big misses and happen one after another. two in a row, one yesterday with ism manufacturers, and today the jolts number. here is the thing that's really important, that's really critical. all of this is going to accumulate with the federal reserve tapping the brakes, or slamming the brakes, and all come to a head, and the american public is paying the ultimate price. dealing with inflation now and dealing with the recession for the rest of the year into next year. >> sandra: elon musk news,

twitter shares are halted because reportedly, bloomberg report right now, elon musk is offering to buy that company at the full asking price which is about $54 a share. >> 54.20, wink wink. almost a belief that the deal was going to get done. but when the market cratered and the stock fell apart, it was obviously that elon musk was trying to get a better deal. it's clear he's not going to get a better deal, he has written a letter to the board, the word is the deal will be done in the next 24 to 72 hours, elon musk will be the owner of twitter next week. >> sandra: halt the shares on the stock market of twitter because of the volatility. >> orderly market. >> sandra: dow up 666 points right now, and opec decision tomorrow, watching gas pricis. see you at 2:00 on fbn. john, busy day for the economy, the markets, and watching all of

it. >> john: i don't know if the dow being up 666 points is a good thing or bad thing, you know what i mean. >> sandra: now that is the question, but we'll enjoy the rally while we have it. >> 666. >> john: it's a beast out there, and we have its number. >> sandra: did i say that, jinx. >> john: hurricane ian has killed 101 so far, incredible time lapse video showing 15 feet of storm surge roaring across the island, making it look more like open ocean rather than sand. a council member says 90% of the town is simply gone. steve is in arcadia, florida. what's the biggest challenge that you are seeing there? >> john, you can get a quick idea of just how hard it is to get aid in. this road basically collapsed with the truck on it. we have seen several more instances of roads that have been hit by up to two feet of

rain simply collapsing. this part of florida has a lot of limestone, sinkholes, the roads sometimes give way. so you have the downed roads and you can see the water, anywhere from 4 to 8 feet in some places. so, just getting food to people, people who are isolated is a real challenge and a lot of the people have lost their homes, their neighbors lose their homes and many we have spoken who are traumatized. >> i was in shock. we have our home. >> somebody who has never gone through survival and cut off from the real world, it isn't easy to deal with. you have to use your common sense and start figuring out how to work around things. >> basic survival for some people but help certainly is on the way. you have the police force here as well as the national guard, they are setting up some meals ready to eat as well as water, chic-fil-a is giving away free

food, a line of about 500 cars here. people eager for a hot meal after several days now of cold food. back to you guys. >> thank you, steve, and whether you consider a lot of the roadways as we saw there inland florida are bordered on both sides by canals, it does not take much water before those roads become completely flooded. and we talked to a business owner yesterday who has to get workers in and out of the facilities to rebuild by airboat. >> sandra: some of the small business owners are so resilient, they hang in there because they have to, and keep the optimism, they embrace it because they have to. so many are just missing those basic needs right now, and that's when the red cross comes in to help, john. >> john: no question about that. fox corporation has donated $1 million to the american red cross to support their hurricane ian relief efforts. providing aid and resources, including shelter, meals,

medical supplies, and more, for people who have been so hard hit by the storm. fox is also double matching our employee donations to red cross hurricane relief, including ian and fiona. our thoughts are with our tampa and orlando station teams and other fox station employees in the area and everyone affected by the storm. thanks to our fox weather and teams across the country who are sparing no effort to cover this disaster. >> sandra: absolutely. praying for all those people. drug cartels have found a new way to track deadly rainbow fentanyl, inside lego boxes. a huge seizure in new york earlier this morning, showing some recent busts by an anti-drug task force. new york chief narcotics prosecutor dealing the cartel new strategy. >> it appears that the cartels are attempting to cultivate a market among young naive buyers

who may have little or no tolerance for the opioid fentanyl. and a high likelihood of overdose if they use it. >> sandra: the dangers of rainbow fentanyl are not just a border issue as seizures have now taken place in at least 21 states. that number continues to sadly grow. >> john: something parents need to keep an eye on as we head toward halloween as well with the drugs looking like candy. kim jong-un raising the stakes with the country's ballistic missile tests. [siren wailing] >> john: emergency warning shelters in japan as people warn to seek shelter as north korea fired a missile over japanese territory the first time since 2017. how should president biden respond to the escalation? morgan ortagus weighs in just

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>> sandra: ukrainian troops taking back more territory in regions moscow illegally annexed last week. first let's head to trey yingst live in kyiv with the latest on ukrainian prisoners of war,

trey. >> sandra, good afternoon. there are still thousands of ukrainian prisoners of war in russian captivity. today we are learning more about those who have been released and those who remain in prison. >> at a solemn protest, the mothers of captured ukrainian soldiers call for their release. we are begging all organizations who can help us, and who support ukraine to support us, one mother says. as the war grinds on in the east, officials are working around the clock to secure the freedom of their troops. >> there is talk of a possible exchange for all prisoners, and in this case, of course, the comrades from the national guard will be taken into account. i can't say the number for security reasons and why they are located but we will make every effort so each of our fighters can return to their homeland and to their families. >> ukraine's interior minister

telling fox news in an exclusive interview that more talks are underway with the russians, to free other prisoners of war. also giving new details in the state of the soldiers, they were released last month from russian captivity as part of a massive prison swat. >> how are the soldiers treated by the russians? >> definitely torture. they gave the names and places of the torture camps where they were. not things that are comparable with the times in which we live. >> overnight there were more territorial gains for the ukrainians in the south. those ukrainian forces breaking through russian lines in the kherson region. sandra. >> trey, thank you. john. >> sandra, north korea firing a missile over japan the first time in five years. prompting warning sirens across the country. listen here. [siren wailing]

>> john: the missile flew far enough to put it in reach of u.s. territory in guam. the latest provocative exhibition by kim jong-un. morgan, great to see you. is this him saying don't forget about me? i'm still here, you might be focused on other things but i'm still here. >> it's exactly that, and i think his provocations are a result of the biden team really not paying attention to this problem set. they are going to have to start taking north korea and kim jong-un more seriously, they will because of this test that went over japan. this is really provocative, we have had 20 of these tests in just 2022 alone. now at the beginning of october. more than any other missile test on file. i'm hearing chatter that they could even potentially test

another nuclear weapon. so there has not been this level of missile tests since 2017 when the trump administration put together those really comprehensive sanctions at the united nations, and so essentially what you saw under the pompeo state department is a targeted campaign every day, 24/7, to put pressure on north korea and on kim jong-un. we did that by having a dedicated special envoy and dedicated diplomatic team that went around the world to make sure that companies and north korea could not evade sanctions. it's a really key and crucial point of what we did differently that the biden team is not doing, which i think leads to these provocations that we see today. >> john: to your point about that, what the national security council said in response to this launch. this action is destabilizing and shows the dpr case blatant disregard for security council resolution and international safety norms. united states will continue its efforts to limit the dpr

capability to advance the missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. but compared to the previous administration, what are they doing to that end? >> well, one of the reasons why we need to really invest in our own missile defense. i mean, listen, a couple key strategy documents and i'm getting, you know, in the weeds, but a few key strategy documents the biden team has not released. one is our missile defense review, our national security strategy, national defense strategy, there's been no unclassified versions of these documents to the public. and especially as we see the nuclear threat that you have reported on from putin, as we see them, as we see the iranian regime unwilling to go back to the iranian nuclear deal so far, and see the provocations by north korea, we have to invest, we have to put our money where our mouth is, and invest in strong missile defense here at home, and we need a dedicated, at the state department, we need a dedicated envoy as we had in

the pompeo years that is focusing on this. we had a whole team of diplomats that would go country by country to stop things like illegal exports of north korea coal, illegal imports of petroleum, you can take efforts, take on more sanctions efforts, but the problem with the biden sanctions regime around the world is he has allowed it to lax and not be enforced in iran or venezuela. you don't enforce sanctions in one theater as they have not done with iran and venezuela, then you see in other theaters, again the biden team should stop talking really big and actually put some pressure on north korea. and start enforcing the sanctions that are already on the book, on the books, the trump team put them there. >> john: 30 seconds left and i want to get this point in we talked about earlier, and putin, ukraine, he seems to be for all of his bravado in a lot of

trouble in many places. >> it's hard to gauge internally what's going on, but do know a number of factors. one is a lot of his opposition forces he would use to clamp down suppression, a lot have been in ukraine and have faced very tough losses on the battlefield. and of course, as your report said, we have seen the losses in city by city around ukraine today. and so putin is in a tough place, he is facing losses and he is consistently looking at home and not able to find the answers that he needs more and more unrest in russia. >> john: and even china is looking at him warilly saying did we throw in with the right guy. >> they did not. >> sandra: planned parenthood hitting the road, abortion

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>> sandra: crime crisis again hitting new york city's subways, and bizarre new video just released by police who say it shows a group of women seen here in neon green body suits, no explanation why they are wearing those, attacking and robbing two teenagers around 2:00 in the morning sunday on a train in times square. at least six women, some with hoods and masks on, punching and

tossing around two 19-year-olds. they robbed them, and the mother of one of them is calling kathy hochul to put herself in that situation and start fixing the problem. john, perhaps you or our viewers saw that bill and i this morning on newsroom had a queen's subway attack victim, elizabeth, she could lose vision in one of her eyes, she's a mother of two after she was attacked on the subway and the victims are telling the city leaders, put yourselves in our shoes, put yourselves in the commuter shoes, put yourselves in the shoes of the people who have to ride these subway systems and see what is happening for yourself. >> and when you have a costumed gang going out there raising havoc on the subway, all that you are missing is batman and new york city looks a lot like

gotham city, my goodness. >> it needs batman. >> needs something. >> sandra: i have asked for an explanation for the crazy jumpsuits, police have not said what was going on with that but horrific and scary for anybody who has t get on the subway. >> john: no question about that. see what the mayor, eric adams, does. just crazy. moving on to the midterms, ticket splitting voters are back and they could determine critical midterm races in a range of battleground states. more on that with josh, but first bryan llenas in pennsylvania, mehmet oz is gaining ground on democrat john fetterman. is there is sense bryan, why the race has tightened in recent days? >> seems the attack ads from dr.

mehmet oz focused on john fetterman as being soft on crime are working. a new university poll today found fetterman's unfavorability rating is up 17 points since june. and his lead has shrunk from 11 points in july, and dr. oz raised $17.2 million in the third quarter, $7 million of his own money but significantly higher than the 5.5 million that oz raised in the second quarter, and fetterman said he would decriminalize all drugs in 2015, his camp said it's no longer true. on sunday, talked about the fentanyl crisis. here is dr. oz on the ingram angle last night. >> also pointed out something

that stunned me. i didn't realize this, but they can say you can go around the corner from our church and buy fentanyl, easy to get and affordable, you can't find baby formula anywhere. we have abandoned our cities. the people have real needs, we can address them, we have solutions, republicans are the party of ideas. >> according to fox news polls, fetterman pulls especially well with women in a majority of dr. oz's supporters have reservations about him or dislike their other options. the candidates are said to have their one and only debate on the actual issues three weeks from today on october 25th, john. >> john: looking forward to that, a lot of folks will have been cast by the time the two candidates go before the public. bryan, thank you. >> sandra: more on this, bring in josh, talking about the ticket splitting voters that are out there, and appear to be back and by the way, josh is senior political reporter for axios, today marks his first appearance as a fox news contributor. welcome to you, josh.

>> thanks, sandra, so much to talk about, only about a month away to the midterms. >> sandra: absolutely. five weeks to go. ticket splitting voters, cast a vote for more than one party. what do you mean they are back? >> look, a long history in the past where voters would look at the candidates, who is the better candidate, who is more to the middle of the electorate and voters would vote for republicans and democrats across the board but lately you see more people cast just republican tickets, just democratic tickets. what we are seeing this year is that republicans and democrats alike have nominated extreme candidates, unpopular candidates, pennsylvania, you have one who has alienated a lot of republicans in the campaign for governor. in wisconsin, mandela barnes on the issue of crime has run well to the left of where a lot of democrats are comfortable with, and they are allowing some independent voters to split

their tickets for governor and vote for one party and the senate candidate of another party. >> sandra: speaking of pennsylvania, fox news follows shows the pennsylvania senate race getting tighter. you've got now 45% fetterman, 41% to dr. oz. dr. oz picking up about five points since july in that poll. so, how could it make the difference in this race? >> well, look. the issue of crime is such an important one in the state of pennsylvania. philadelphia, city of philadelphia experiencing record levels of violent crime and if you look at the ads on tv, dr. oz is pretty much airing ads mostly focused on that issue. and a lot of voters, a lot of swing voters care about it, and john fetterman, the lieutenant governor of the state, has a record that's a little bit to the left of where a lot of moderate voters are comfortable with. so, that is an issue, where there are voters in the suburbs

that will vote for the democrat, josh shapiro for governor but dr. oz as their senate candidate. >> sandra: all right, and here is president biden, case in point, going after what he sees as far right maga republicans. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism, extreme set of maga republicans has chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. the maga republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and economic security. they are a threat to our very democracy. >> so there have been those moments, september 1st, september 8th, going back to august 25th. how will that impact the upcoming midterm elections, that rhetoric coming from the white house itself? >> so the white house likes to tag the entire republican party or most republican candidates with that maga label, but it really only has an impact where

you have candidates that are really well to the right who have embraced some of the more extreme positions that is outside the political mainstream, so arizona is a good example of a senate race where blake masters has alienated a lot of moderate voters, and a lot of republicans are not investing in that race as much as they could be. so, that's a race where republicans nominated a candidate perhaps a little too far to the right and are jeopardizing a chance to win a winnable senate seat. only matters when you have a candidate like that, the republicans who have been more to the mainstream have done better when it comes to the polling right now. >> sandra: very interesting insight, his first appearance as a contributor for the fox news channel, josh thanks for joining us. >> john: a big welcome to josh. a neighborhood in seattle, another massive homeless shelter built in their area. people there are saying enough

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>> john: oh, say it ain't so, goat. tampa bay buccaneers quarterback tom brady and his supermodel wife appear, at least according to one report, heading to divorce court. multiple sources saying page 6 exclusively, both have retained lawyers. the couple have reportedly been living separately for the past couple of months. they share a 12-year-old son and

9-year-old daughter. brady also has a 15-year-old son with his ex-girlfriend. we have been hearing the rumors, we don't yet know if it's for sure, for sure thing, but page 6 is rarely wrong, we'll see what happens. >> sandra: multiple sources telling page 6 exclusively, and one of the sources saying i never thought this argument would be the end of them, but looks like it is. john, because reportedly this has been all about him returning to football. the source saying i don't think there will be any coming back now. and their reps are not responding to requests for comments, but surely everybody is curious, and i say i wish them the very best, you know. they've got children between them, three of them, two between them and of course he's got the other son, and i wish them well. >> john: he better have a good season, otherwise he may wonder if it was the best decision he ever made. >> sandra: no pressure.

we'll see where that goes. meanwhile, residents in cities that are plagued by homelessness, many of them, and some of the residents are pushing back against plans for massive shelters to house them in some neighborhoods, dan is live in seattle. what is involved in this city's plans to deal with this? >> sandra, this is a huge expansion of an existing shelter which houses 270 people over my left shoulder. they are going to be more than doubling the footprint and adding shelter space on both sides of the street. it's going to, as i said, double the complex here. they are going to add housing for tiny houses, rv parking, they are going to have a sobering center and have housing for people in mental illness, and critics are calling it a mega plex homeless shelter in an area that already has 15 shelters within a mile and over 700 people living outside in tents. it sits on the edge of the chinatown international

district, a neighborhood of around 3,000 residents. this big expansion has them fighting back with protests just about every day. last week they stormed a king county council meeting trying to get a six-month moratorium on the project, crime has increased the last two years. residents say shelters are needed the concentration in their area is a magnet for problems and putting more here is a form of racism. >> these go through sweeps, at 10:00 p.m. you see drug dealers and people actively doing drugs. back when heroin was a big deal, we would see needles everywhere, collect needles, but now that fentanyl is on the rise, seeing overdoses all the time. >> king county officials gave us a tour of the existing shelter and say the homeless problem is so bad they cannot wait to bring more people inside. expansion and operation will cost more than $66 million over the next five years, and it's

going in chinatown, so the homeless don't have to move very far. >> downtown seattle for this particular shelter has more people experiencing unsheltered homelessness than any other part of the county, and people don't tend to go far from where they became homeless, they want to stay in the community. >> mega shelters have been fought off in san francisco and new york city, but this going in, despite the opposition. county says it has budgeted for it. sandra. >> sandra: dan springer, reporting live from seattle, thank you. >> john: midterms just five weeks from today and republican candidates in colorado are pushing hard on one major issue to drive voters out to the polls. eric is running for a seat in the suburbs outside of denver, as well as a lot of rural area. we will ask him about his plan to solve the crisis at the southern border. >> sandra: plus, john, students at one elite university say their chemistry class was too

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>> john: crisis ste border is -- at the border is have g an impact on elections far from the rio grande river. republicans are making immigration a central issue, linking it to crime and fentanyl smuggling. next guest is calling for effective processes to deal with migrants. erik odland, the republican candidate in the race for the newly redrawn 7th congressional district, latest power ranking still has as leaning democrat. it's good to speak with you, you and your fellow republicans, are making immigration a big issue in the state of colorado. colorado is not a border state, though it abutts one. why is it such a big issue there? >> well, john, good to be with you. and colorado has become a border state, i mean, we are closing in on 1,000 fentanyl overdose deaths for the year. it's a major problem in colorado. crime is out of control, number one in the nation for auto

theft. number within in the nation for bank robberies, cocaine capital of the country, a lot is influenced by the disaster on the southern border, unmitigated disaster, humanitarian crisis and congress has to intervene to take steps to secure the border. these open border policies are unacceptable and harming everyday coloradans. >> john: 2020 election, president biden beat donald trump 55-42, yet you have embraced the policies of the trump administration in a campaign ad. >> i think donald trump did a lot of great things. policies we need to focus on. how successful the policies were in creating a booming economy, creating security at our southern border. >> john: some people might wonder if trump lost 55-42, why you would embrace him, but put up a map of the newly redrawn 7th congressional district, a slice of the old jefferson county district up there but a lot of rangeland and mountains

out there. and we should point out trump won four of the seven counties that comprise the seventh congressional district in 2020. is that why you are holding him so close? >> i don't hold him so close, john. i don't embrace president trump. what i do embrace is policies that make colorado border. securing the border is one of them, out of control inflation, making sure we have a booming economy and we are doing the right things. i don't embrace any specific individual, i stand on my own merit. you can check out my website and see where i stand on a whole host of issues and i've put a lot of thought where i stand, but get away from embracing personalities and focus on the policies and principles that work and that's what i'm doing for the constituents in district 7, it's a winning solution. this is a two-point race and we have the momentum. >> john: when you look at back again at immigration and what the washington post, abc news

poll found who folks trust more to handle it, put it on the screen here, democrats win by a point, 44 to 43%. you have called for effective process to deal with illegal immigration. what to you is an effective process? >> balance between securing the border. no country in the world has open border policies like on the southern border, it's causing a crisis. we need t finish the wall, effective resourcing of the border patrol agents and implement compassionate immigration reform. we are a nation of immigrants and i don't want to stop legal immigration but i want to make sure it's controlled in processes in a way that serves this country and protects our national security and right now this is a national security risk because bad actors and terrorist elements are exploiting the southern border as we speak, and it's unacceptable. >> john: erik odland, we will continue to watch the race in the colorado 7th congressional

district. >> sandra: new at 2:00, a family in shock after a father of three is killed by a stray bullet right in the hotel lobby where he was staying to visit his son at college. deroy murdoch is here to weigh in. former nato secretary general on the war in ukraine. james freeman on the politics of rising gas prices and mollie hemingway on a strange petition passed around by students at nyu. all that and more as "america reports" rolls on. no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.

>> john: fox news alert to begin new at 2:00, brand-new documents coming into fox on a deadly shooting during a family visit to college. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. i'm john roberts. such a tragedy, sandra. >> sandra: horrific stuff.