>> then the sirens scream. the school children are well-trained and do themselves proud. and strange was the silence as the city stood still. at the all clear, the city reverts to normalcy, but not smugingly. the thoughts of a real atom bombing has a sobering effect. >> sandra: new at 2:00, duck and cover. flashback to a time most americans cannot remember when the nuclear threat had kids crouched under desks in case the soviets struck.

>> trace: over the years the cold war thought and the shelters gathered dust. vladimir putin was quietly coming up with a plan, according to a former intel official who literally wrote the book on putin's destructive plots. >> sandra: she has been sounding the warning long before president biden said putin's nuclear threats were no joke, and she says there is something the president still does not understand about the russian strong man's mindset. brand-new at 2:00, she is here to tell us about it live. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> great to see you, trace gallagher in for john roberts. we'll get to president biden's nuclear warning ahead, but top the hour with the issue at the top of voter's minds, their money, and it is a fox news alert. >> sandra: we are watching the dow at this hour, entering its final hours of trading for the day and the week, and the dow is off about 600 points, falling to

its lows of the session while the president wastes no time taking a victory lap on the latest jobs report. critics say they are not focusing on the right numbers. >> trace: adding 263,000 jobs last month, unemployment rate falling slightly to 3.5%. >> sandra: both numbers were better than expectations, economyists say that does not tell the whole story. they are pointing to wages, real wages, not keeping up with inflation. >> trace: and then of course there are gas prices once again rising. the president's team says much better than a couple months ago but the numbers are well above when biden came into office and with opec set to cut oil production, americans now bracing for even higher prices. >> sandra: and on the way higher right now. all of this of course with just about a month ago to the midterm elections and the economy is at the top of voter's minds.

>> trace: debbie dingle is here to react, william, gas is nearing $7 a gallon. >> sandra: ouch. but first jacqui on the north lawn of the white house. the president finished talking about jobs. what did he have to say? >> quite a lot, and it was different than what we were told he was going to say. we got a preview of his remarks this morning around 5:00, he was supposed to hit republicans on inflation and say it would be worse if they took back control of congress, still trying to wrap my head around another line he did say, he brought down gasoline prices to below 1.60, trying to wrap my head around that one. the president did just finish his remarks in maryland for national manufacturing day. he opened with a line about made in america, but we have still had this issue about energy and evidently not using the same approach to energy here, made in america approach. the white house consistently has

pointed to energy costs, and the opec production cut is threatening to make things a whole lot worse. democrats in congress are saying the u.s. should respond by pulling back arms sales to saudi arabia, the u.s. provides the kingdom with arms to defend itself from enemies if saudi arabia keeps enough oil on the market to keep the global market stable. >> for them to do this to the american people is outrageous and if they don't reverse their decision we are going to stop sending them weapons, we should say. >> officials here say they are no such plans in the works. they are looking at options to rein in control, including legislation and other foreign sources of oil but the september job report complicates things. economy added 263,000 jobs last month. unemployment rate fell back to match the record low of 3.5%, a bit of a good news/bad news situation.

the fed is going to keep on hiking interest rates to tamp down stubborn inflation and the president saying so many words there is no end in sight right now. >> for me, until i see some evidence underlying inflation has solidly peaked and hopefully headed back down i'm not ready to declare a pause. i think we are a ways from a pause. >> right now economists think the fed will raise rates by 75 basis points. if they do that, put us in a historically high. >> trace: and a gas station in los angeles, william is there live. william, how much? >> well, trace, i'm going to show you. right now, statewide around 6.39, you can see here in l.a., 6.59, down $0.20 from this morning. remains about 65% above the

national average. so, why? well, governor newsom blames the oil companies for gouging. >> we are not going to stand by, stand by while greedy oil companies fleece californians. >> experts say it is not that simple. differential between california prices and the national average is steady over 30 years. regulations add 1.20 to every gallon, cap-and-trade, surcharges, storage fees and more, but critics say big oil charges more because it can. the state has never proved price gouging though it has tried. >> it's unlikely we are going to find illegal behavior. i think much more likely we are going to finds structural problems with the market that make it less competitive than it should be.

>> i want you to take a look at this. so, in the last 30 days, that price spread is not 30% between california and the national average. again, it's about 65% higher. why? five years ago california had 15 gasoline refineries. it's now down to eight, but two are out for repairs. so we are down to six refineries. capacity is down 300,000 barrels a day, a lot less gas, same number of cars and unlike other states that share pipelines, california doesn't. state oil production is down dramatically and no other state refines the state's california's very expensive clean burning fuel. >> california is an energy island, we don't have pipelines from the gulf coast or other parts of the country supplying crude oil to our refineries. so without production in california we are now relying upon foreign sources.

>> bottom line is very few economists believe the governor's proposed windfall profits tax will make a difference, and the bottom line is, trace, no company wants to invest in refineries for a product that the governor is trying to phase out. back to you. >> trace: live in los angeles, william, thank you. >> sandra: michigan democrat congresswoman debbie dingle. thank you very much for joining us. we are obviously watching these prices, with the dow now down about 600 points, and we have the jobs report, better than expected, congresswoman, that's great. but jobs growth is slowing for a second straight month and i'm looking at the average price of a gallon of gasoline in your state. it is well above the national average. aaa says 4.36 a gallon in your state, the national average is 3.89. i can't imagine voters in michigan are happy about that. >> well, voters, nobody is happy

about what we see in terms of inflation. for the last year, and it's caused by a variety of very complicated factors. the michigan prices, i've dug into this, i look at what the prices are every week and why we had for several months been going down steadily and we have gone back up, out of chicago, but they are going back up. but you know, this whole issue is very complicated. you have seen russia, saudi arabia have done to us in the last week, trying to dry up the supply to increase the cost, another example why we have to go to alternative sources so we don't have foreign countries that are impacting us this way. and quite frankly, we are getting mixed economic reports. unemployment is the lowest in 50 years at 3.5%. the president has added 10 million jobs since he's been

president. i wish the economics were s simpler. >> the president has made a decision to restrict oil supply and oil production in this country and now he's looking to other foreign countries to increase oil supplies. you know, they want to go against the carbon emissions but are looking for oil supply. why not just look under your feet and get the oil where we know it is instead of looking abroad? >> well, i think it's simplistic to say he's restricted. i mean, he's tried to add domestically from several sources, but he's also looking to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. global climate is real -- >> trace: he has made it clear we need the oil, he's looking to opec, to saudi arabia, to venezuela. we need the oil, he knows we need the oil, and it's beneath his feet and you keep saying and

others keep saying well, we need to lessen our, you know, lessen our reliance on fossil fuels. >> well, we do. but i think that the white house is looking at other ways to increase our domestic supplies. so i'm not sitting in those inner meetings but i know they are looking at that issue as well. but when you look at -- when you look over the decades how foreign companies have -- foreign countries have used this as an economic and national security issue, and you look at hurricanes like the one we have just seen, we do need to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. >> sandra: keystone xl pipeline would have been a good way to produce that oil more here at home, and that was shut down by this president the moment he took office. i want to put this up on the screen. the dallas federal reserve looking at what is happening to wages in the country, and congresswoman, this is a huge deal for people in your state, all over the country.

they just did a study and found a majority of employed workers' real inflation adjusted wages have failed to keep up with inflation in the past year. the median decline in real wages is a little more than 8.5%. taken together, the dallas federal reserve says these outcomes appear to be the most severe faced by employed workers over the past 25 years. so to the president's critics, do they have a point when they are saying this president is not focusing on the real numbers that are impacting everyday americans right now, like real wages are negative, they are down. it's painful out there. >> look, any of us that are, know if you are going to the grocery store or filling your car with gas that wages are up. i'm also going to tell you i know this president looks at it every day and knows it's real and i want to ask you this question. do those that want to raise the cost of drugs for people every

single day, are republicans trying to make, republicans who want to reduce the taxes on billionaires and not have corporation pay any taxes? we have been working very hard and have gotten bills actually passed that have created these jobs, the inflation reduction act is affecting the cost of healthcare and medicine and republicans in the senate voted against private insurance plans to cap insulin at $35 a month. if it was easy -- i think you have a president that is working hard to try to address the many factors that have gone in to increasing inflation, which by the way, this started several years ago as we were coming out of the pandemic, the american recovery plan took care of people who were scared to death that didn't have a job, putting people back into the workplace. we are addressing the supply

chain, one of the biggest issues. >> sandra: and i think you are capturing a lot of the frustration out there from both sides. people are living through the moment. we thank you for coming on. the washington post wrote about democrats gas price problem saying here we go, it's rearing its ugly head again and the american consumer is dealing with this weeks out from election day, and washington g post quote, democrats are clearly quiet concerned. how concerned are you weeks ahead of election day? >> you want to know something? i don't care that election day is five weeks away. i'm concerned what's happening to gas price, i'm concerned what foreign countries are doing to us again. i have lived, you, i mean, i'm seasoned, not old but i knew what it was like to sit on an every other day in a gas line for three hours to fill up my vehicle. we have got to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, we have to do something about global climate change and i'm worried what people are paying

for gas prices. but i'll tell you what, i'm not into this for political gain. we have to work together to address this in the long-term. >> sandra: always appreciate you coming on. thank you so much. >> thank you, be safe. >> sandra: all right, you too. and just to point out, michigan is just one of the state that has the national average there well above the -- their state average well above the national average, 4.36, so this is a moment where all eyes are on the white house as they took a lot of credit for the price coming down, you know, are they going to turn the attention back to vladimir putin and russia, we have seen that with the president's words the last couple of days, we'll see what they do about it. it is a political liability as many headlines note this morning. >> trace: pain at the pump is bad news, pain at the polls for democrats or the party in power and right now gas prices appear to be, you know, easing on the way back up, and it's going to

be interesting. meantime, a crime so brutal it stands out as shocking even in a wave of violence across the nation. it happened in the president's hometown and the democratic mayor joins us live. how he feels about the movement to defund the police. >> sandra: and we will also dig deeper into what is driving violent crime after years of declines, as criminal justice reform focuses on fairness for criminals. who is looking out for the communities and the victims? we'll ask brian kilmeade, he's fired up about this. president biden says the world is at risk of a nuclear armageddon. and that vladimir putin's threats are no joke. rebecca is a former intel official who spent her career looking into vladimir putin's state of mind. she'll join us next.

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chief, it is irresponsible for president biden to scare the american people about nuclear armageddon. first, it's confusing. putin has no intention to strike the homeland with nuclear weapons or any kind of weaponsch the doctrine does envision, however, the detonation of a low yield nuclear warhead in the theater, such as specifically in ukraine or in the black sea without targeting any specific target, but putin seeks to intimidate us, and to demonstrate to us that he's prepared to escalate into the strategic domain when nukes will start flying around, and that's probably what president biden is talking about. but that's not the image he wants to portray to putin. >> sandra: trace, i believe trace is with us as well. i'll get the next question in

here, though. as far as these armageddon comments are concerned, does this do more harm than good drawing this attention to it as nikki haley was stating? >> it absolutely does. one of the reasons putin is doing this, sandra, he feels that this is his last and decisive battle. he has all but lost the conventional phase of this war with ukraine having mounted a blistering counter offensive. putin's psychological profile is such that when he is cornered he escalates and he fights back. and another thing that deep, is deeply in putin's mind is the images of saddam hussein hanging with his tongue out and hillary clinton's comments and laughs, we came, you know, and he, we did our thing and he died, and

the same with others, and simply feeds into the paranoia. so president biden needs to get quiet and that's what will worry putin. if everyone in washington gets quiet, then putin will worry. >> sandra: i want to get your reaction to this, and put biden's worse on the screen for the viewers, making the case he believes putin is not joking, saying he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military, you might say, is significantly under performing. do you agree with that? >> i absolutely agree putin's military has demonstrated a complete incompetence in

conventional warfare. but sandra, this is why a special doctrine and limited nuclear warfare strategy was developed because the russians always knew they are conventionally inferior to u.s. and nato weaponry, what ukraine is fighting with, and for this reason, the capability of a low yield, under one kiloton. comparison, the little boy and the fat man, two bombs in japan, 15 to 21 kiloton, and in one year they came back up into a functional state. that is not to say that this is a justified use of those weapons, but putin is using the same, the very same rational that we used, which is to end the war. this is why he said it in his frightening speech on friday.

he thinks he's going to end the war. but president biden believes it's going to escalate, because president biden probably has something up his, you know, up his sleeve, but he needs to warn the american people what we are getting into with his unfortunately reckless policies. >> sandra: interesting and important perspective, thank you for joining us. >> absolutely. >> sandra: trace, wanted to draw i tension to the big board, bottom right corner of the screen, a significant selloff happening. we are at the lows of the session, dropping 643 points. this on a day where the white house just took a victory lap on the jobs report the president was speaking a short time ago, but the critics of this presidency, the economic policies are saying he's not focusing in on the real numbers, the important numbers right now that do show inflation is going to continue to be a huge problem for the american consumer as oil

and gas prices are yet again on the way up in a big way. >> trace: and consumers are beaten down every day with gas prices on the big signs and the dow, and they see the numbers all day long. dow is going down, gas prices are going up, it has kind of a mental effect on people because they don't feel like they are prospering in this economy. >> sandra: we are watching that for our viewers. >> trace: a brutal beating caught on camera. a business owner at the receiving end of a vicious attack. his family says he is no longer the same and they want justice. we will talk to the mayor of that town in moments. plus, brian kilmeade on what needs to be done about crime in america. it's all around us again. the inflation buzz word. as if inflation magically goes away and then suddenly returns. but inflation never really goes away. each year - by some measure - the dollar declines in value. well - here's something else that doesn't go away...

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college. a family of four bound with zip ties march to their own murders at gunpoint. the headlines keep on coming. each case the suspected killer is a violent ex-con. many americans are asking questions why weren't they behind bars. when will americans reach a breaking behind with violent criminals. brian kilmeade in a moment. >> trace: a jewelry store owner in delaware beaten to an inch of his life during a robbery. suspect posing as a customer with a piece of jewelry, the guy grabs the owner and attacks him. the victim falls to the ground, the brutal assault continues when the suspect jumps over the display case and repeatedly stomps the helpless store owner in the head. the suspect facing several charges, including felony robbery. but they say based on what the man was put through, that is not nearly enough. >> horrific assault that changed

his life and our family forever. the perpetrator stomped on my father's head during the course of 25 minutes. delivering his last blows with the hammer. through the grace of god my father was able to call 911 and come away from this near deadly encounter alive. >> joining us now is the democratic mayor of wilmington, thank you for coming on. when you see those sickening pictures of the store owner beaten and see some people in your party are continuing to call to defund the police, how do you rationalize that? >> i don't have to. it's an as sickening to me as it is to you, to be sure, and it may be, i feel it more because of the responsibility i have for the city. i don't think there's any serious effort in our city to defund the police. murmurings all the time, but i think most of our responsible

elected officials want to be supportive of the police. there were some questions earlier in the year about support of our city council for our chief and when we challenged council about it that's not what we meant, no we think it's great, and we support. >> sandra: mayor, you have led a big effort to say you are for the police and the last thing we should be doing is talking about defunding our police. i'll ask you more about that in a moment. to that horrific beating our viewers saw on the screen, it went on for 25, almost 30 minutes. that man whose son just spoke said he's no longer the same, he's having to relearn how to walk and talk again, and that family wants answers. it also wants harsher punishment saying this man should not be on the streets where he can terrorize elderly business owners ever again. he has been charged with

multiple crimes, including felony robbery but the family says he should be charged with attempted murder. are you involved in any further effort to seek a harsher, a harsher punishment for that perpetrator? >> yeah, its inconceivable to me he won't be charged with the highest conceiveable charge for the behaviors that we saw. it won't be -- it won't be just a felony theft. i think that probably the easiest way to get him off the street. that would be my guess. the but here is what happened in this case. 9:20 in the morning, there were police officers within blocks of this the entire time. it was such an different event, other than the emotional reaction to an individual who suffered as badly as this individual did, it's hard to say that what we did, that what our behaviors, our standards were incorrect because frankly that's

a very highly patrolled part of the city. we get criticized more than anything else for having too many police officers in the downtown and not the neighborhoods. my guess was there was an officer within a block all through that 22 horrific minutes. so i don't want to -- i don't want to find myself reacting too much to this, emotionally i feel the same as you do. i have to look at the bigger picture, and what are we doing strategically to reduce crime in the city, and it's been widely reported especially on fox news that the, you know, in our city, our serious crime is down by 40 to 50% on every metric over the past seven years. >> sandra: what do you attribute that drop, why do you think that's happening in your city? >> well, i'll tell you exactly i think why. first of all, down here we have a greater awareness of the same issue you are talking about. this individual, for example, i think he's had -- i'm told he's

had three different violent offenses in the past, although the most recent was 2016. so arguably he, depending on these other gun offenses he was charged with, he might still be inside. but it has not been for some time that that individual is around here. let me tell you what we have. we have raised awareness how important it is to keep those arrested for violent crimes and other offenses to keep them in prison. we have increased our law -- we have toughened our laws so the judges are required to pay greater attention to any kind of a gun offense by persons prohibited. they are required to increase the bail so these individuals are not walking out on low bail or unsecured bail but rather very high cash bail. that's been very, very important. we do something called gun stat, simply all of the public safety agencies in a room twice a month and once a month with executives

like me to review every single gun arrest in the city. >> that involves a significant effort on part of the police, we'll eventually run out of time. you are doing this in a city, you are a democrat, you very well know you have heard from a lot of members of your own party who have called to defund the police in a moment of spiking crime. i just want to play this out for you, this is cori bush, yet again, doubling down on defunding the police, listen. >> if you could do it again, would you still double down or use that slogan defund the police? >> absolutely, absolutely. >> you would? >> sandra: since you are owning your moment you say you would never ever call to defund the police, what do you say to members of your own party like cori bush calling for just that? >> yeah, i think they are wrong headed in this respect. it makes sense in theory to bring social services into the public safety realm.

the trouble is, it ignores the reality that these officers face every day when they go into -- they go on the streets. example, we are taking 20% more guns off the street this year than we had this year and last year was a lesson. people don't give you the guns. officers have to chase guys down allies to get the gun so the idea to get social service people in there, it ignores the humanity of the conditions. they are very dangerous situations. >> they are indeed. >> sandra: mayor, appreciate you coming on, we saw your story you've been able to bring crime rates down in the city at a time they are spiking all over the country and you are a democrat who says no, quite the opposite. we need to fund our police. >> that's not all bad, you know. >> sandra: no, appreciate you coming on, sir. thank you for joining us. >> nice to see all of you. >> sandra: brian kilmeade is here, first your reaction to the conversation there. democratic mayor of wilmington,

the city was once the murder capital of the country, and they are dealing with serious crime there. this awful beating of the store owner a month ago, the family is demanding justice. murder charges at the very least after a nearly half hour beating in the jewelry store. >> you need a d.a., a mayor like him and a police chief and you have those three entities with experience and with determination and with support you'll get the same result. i had to think twice rudy giuliani was a republican or democrat. mike bloomberg, republican or democrat, he did flip parties, independent, democrat, republican. you don't really think about parties, but what is your objective. you want to be successful or keep people safe. you don't become a mayor to get rich, but because you want to make things better like this guy for the people you represent. and when i read the delaware story, a great booking on your show, and houston make great progress with the homeless situation and delaware they said

we can crack down on crime, this incident notwithstanding. but as you look at some of the horrific crime that's happening right in this city because i'm on 77wabc, and one of the stations that carries us. >> sandra: nice plug. >> every day you see a story of a vicious random attack of somebody that should be in jail. >> sandra: it's awful. >> this guy, alvin charles, held without bail on murder charges. september 30th he goes and stabs another guy in the neck because he was left without bail because the d.a. would not enforce it. and marist, roy johnson, jr. randomly shooting a parent in poughkeepsie just getting coffee in the marriott hotel. he should have been in jail. he skipped out on his hearing in july, he never should have been out, years past he hasn't. and allison russo eling, emt worker, decides she wants to have lunch in broad daylight, 2:30 in the afternoon and some

lunatic, not competent to stand trial, stabbed her to death. >> sandra: just some of the awful headlines. >> or -- >> trace: and fox news talks about the crime and you mentioned wilmington, and they say crime is rising on fox news and mocking the coverage of crime and it's interesting. i don't think the people in las vegas who got stabbed, the six people yesterday would find it amusing. the father in poughkeepsie shot and killed visiting his son would find it amusing. and so that's the whole concept is you have these people on the left who just think it's not really a big deal. >> voters will tell everybody, trace, it's a big deal november 8th. you look at the numbers, 36% increase in crime, 37 in chicago, 36 in new york. it's up in los angeles. maybe some shootings are down in

certain cities. then birmingham on a random shoot for "elvis," and the biggest story here, crime. travel to tulsa, crime. new york city, crime. so laugh all you want, laugh about fentanyl, laugh about it looking like candy, a big joke, obviously you have not been hurt by it yet. i have news for you, they are coming for you and might be you that's carjacked and then find out who is laughing. >> sandra: nobody is laughing. i go back to that democratic mayor and just wonder if there's a sea of political change in november if other democrats will take notice that safety and personal safety and crime is up there as top voter concerns in this country right now. some voters feel those concerns are being ignored. here in new york city, you can't get on the subway without feeling like you have to watch over your back constantly, forcing a lot of the lower income folks going to their jobs to get in an uber, and that's wildly expensive.

>> a reason why lee zeldin is roughly four points from governor hochul, and john fetterman is scrubbing his website with his defund the police rhetoric and saying i can let half of criminals out of prisons and we would not feel the difference. people realize to defund the police as a political mantra is something that is the death nail two years from when it was necessary because we saw the results of defaming and defunding police. now no one wants to be cops, trace. >> trace: four times this week i heard a democratic politician say the republicans were against the police, they did not vote for this bill, or that package. >> the rescue package, please. >> trace: it's deflecting, it's a bad issue for them. >> numbers are overwhelming who is better on crime, it's

republicans. better on climate change, the democrats, it was default. but the issues that matter most, it's crime. and referring to the rescue package, bulk grants to states and said fill in how you must coming out of the pandemic and printed the money to do it and if somebody in the city, the mayor and the city did not put it to law enforcement, that means republicans are responsible, makes absolutely no sense. >> sandra: one nation this weekend, we will be watching. we have the bug on the screen telling our viewers to tune in. love the show, brian. >> trace, congratulations to you. >> trace: appreciate that very much. i'm surprised they did not give it to you, you already have 11 shows. skip kilmeade this time, we'll give it to gallagher, he has 11. and 64 books out. >> sandra: defend yourself,

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>> federal agents reportedly believe they have enough evidence to charge hunter biden with text crimes and full statement to a gun purchase. of course, there could be fallout on two fronts both legally and politically and with a shannon bream, the anchor of "fox news sunday." so great to see you. i see this headline that says they might have enough to judge urged hunter biden and mine don't make my question is why haven't they charged him already? they have been working on this for years and if you are going to charge him, charge him. >> that is the cover of "the new york post" and they say let's get this show on the road appear they are so many different levels this has to go through and if they charge him with tax crimes that has to go through a different division, this has to be signed up and the

peasant intent of the united states sun, you know they will want to go above and beyond. but these kinds of investigations do take time here or there has been plenty of time on this one. >> trace: >> trace: , i do think there has got to be someog to the doj and the fbi sang this income if you are going to do this, you have to thread the needle because they were so many political ramifications that you don't want james comey, too, so that is a tough thing to navigate for anybody. that might be holding this up a bit. is that a fair assessment? >> it could be so two years ago we were heading into the election and all of these allegations with his blacktop and people coming forward, and there were these big gymnastics to keep the story away from voters who potentially may be could be influenced by this information when they went to the ballot box. so you couldn't read tweet it. and "the new york post" saying

you can share it as other stories. so clearly, let's tamp this down and it is not this information. this time around, and is almost like a payback two years later stating, well, we don't know. the doj is leaking a lot whether mar-a-lago, hunter biden or anybody else. i know his attorneys are not happy. >> trace: the tony bobulinski thing, why not call him back and bring him in? he said he spent hours with the fbi and he gave them all these documents. no call back. if you get a robust investigation going? >> is one of the guys you want to talk to even if you could potentially clear the suspect. that is what you want to do for a better force. what is interesting to me the statement from the fbi guy tim, the fbi guy, history says interesting things we left it with tony bobulinski's attorney and they did not call us back so a he said/she said situation. >> trace: stacey abrams will be on and that will be

fascinating. >> i think so, she's had so much to say arise with the democratic party and, she will come and make her case this week with plenty to talk about with former secretary of state mike pompeo and we want to get outside with a lot more stories. so dreamy, trace gallagher, i hope you will join us. >> trace: listen, he called you ego and you are the sweetest person on the planet so it means clearly it is the opposite. >> nightmary. you are doing a fantastic job. >> trace: shannon gave us the baton and it is our job to pick it up and ran across the finish line. she and uncle matt great to see you. >> so fun to see the two of you to get there. we will watch you, shannon. >> sandra: a dire warning for electric, electric cars like this tesla have been sitting in water more than a week but now the rights or catching fire and in some cases, exploding. medicine is live on the ground

in naples. madison, what exactly is happening here? >> sandra, it is a huge problem for fire departments in collier county where we sell that tesla umpire in this county alone. we've had ten evs in an issue with the battery. once interacting with saltwater commit degrades and creates this problem. i spoke to cfo petronas visiting with this county when they got the call for that tesla on fire and he has this morning. >> thousands and thousands of hybrid cars and lithium ion batteries that have been essentially compromised through saltwater intrusion that are now ticking time bombs with, by the way one of these evs expire, they don't go out. >> sandra: i'm here with james hammond and ticking time bomb, what about these fires are so difficult to put out and what is

the challenge they are? >> it is the amount of resources toward the fire and amount of water to distinguish and slow the runaway and the battery. in some cases, you know we have been running the challenges with the water supply. and sometimes we have to isolate and protect the area and let them burn. >> and let them burn to the ground. thank you so much. this is the beginning of the story when it comes to hurricane and in so much that needs to be done. an important message to get out as if someone is living in this area and has an ev or hybrid and that is in the garage, huge risk to the family and the structure. they are wanting to get the cars out of there to keep the structure and your family safe, sandra. >> sandra: 15 kristof of the story you are telling in naples. madison alworth and your guest as well, thanks. >> trace: a colorado man will never forget. he was having a decent time with this woman but before he knew it she was duct taping his arms and his legs and a move he found odd

but went along with it. when she pulled out the big knife, the police report says, he withdrew that consent. the police say the woman began stabbing the victim but then she got furious about all the blood making a mess in her home and somehow she was able to call the police to put his bad date behind bars. >> sandra: wow, what a story. okay, now it is time to focus again on trace gallagher because you take over as anchor on "fox news at night" shannon handing the baton off to you at midnight and it happens right here fox news channel. you can set your dvr. we are all pumped to watch you, trace, heading into the midterm elections, you will have a lot of breaking news and a lot to talk about. >> trace: i have to tell you, the team has been fantastic. we have inherited a great team from shannon bream. she's done a wonderful job building the show. she created this thing five years ago and the first week has been really remarkable in d.c.

bring it back to l.a., sandra, next week a little west coast action, and we will pay a visit occasionally. but yeah, i appreciate the help, support. it's been fantastic. >> sandra: on pump for you and pumped for the viewers i get to ten and every night and see you. have a fantastic weekend, trace. we will be back on monday. thank you so much for joining us and i'm sandra smith. >> trace: great to see you and "the story" with martha maccallum. >> martha: now a big evening star, very excited for trace's new show, thank you so much and good afternoon, martha maccallum and great to have you with us. so 32 days to go in the midterm deep dive as we did again today, the story goes to arizona. very interesting place to watch right now. this is a crucial toss-up senate race there. you have democrat senator mark kelly leading blake masters by six and the latest poll.