♪ ♪ arthel: another setback for vladimir putin's war on ukraine, a massive explosion destroying part of a bridge connecting the crimean peninsula with russia, damaging a key supply route for the russian military. hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville, wet -- welcome to "fox news live." eric: i'm eric shawn. russian authorities say it was a truck bomb that collapse part of that bridge killing three people in the process. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but some of its officials are

posting on social media messages that gleefully note the blast came a day after putin's 70th birthday, and it is seen as a shocking rebuke of both putin and the russian military. meantime, the white house is defending president biden's strong wording on thursday that we face greatest risk of, quote, armageddon since the 1962 the cuban missile crisis. all as the september jobs report raise new concerns about the directions of the economy and a potential recession. we have fox news team live coverage, lucas tomlinson is with president biden in delaware. but first, let's go to trey yints on that major blow on that long bridge to cry crimea that that is basically -- that has basically been taken out of commission. how will it affect supply lines, treysome. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. a massive explosion if early this morning destroyed the only bridge between russia and

crimea, something that will certainly affect those supply lines. the blast decimating the car and train portions of this bridge, and a significant development as these large pieces of concrete plunged into the water below. the russians say three people died after a truck explode adding that an official investigation is underway into the owner of that vehicle. >> translator: investigative actions are being carried out on his place of residence. >> reporter: russia used this bridge as a main supply line to support their southern offensive, and the destruction is viewed as a significant intelligence achievement for ukraine. as the war rages on in the eastern part of ukraine, russian forces fired on ukraine's second largest city overnight. ukrainian officials say the missile strikes damaged one to have city's medical centers and a nonresidential building. we felt the blast, the windows

chicking as city tonight braces -- shaking as the city braces for the possibility of more strikes. eric: trey yingst who's live in kharkiv for us tonight, thank you. arthel: back here in washington the white house clarifying remarks by president biden after he apparently spooked some world leaders by warning russia's war on ukraine could cause nuclear, quote, armageddon. this as the market gave the administration more headaches a month ahead of the midterms. let's go to lucas tomlinson live in wilmington, delaware, as the president spends the weekend there. lucas, what more can you tell us? >> reporter: arthel, it's not clear what the utah response would be should -- u.s. response would be, but president biden sounded alarmed about the prospect speaking at a democratic fundraiser off camera that was leaked to the press. quote: we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. we've got a guy i know fairly

well, his name is vladimir putin, aye spent a fair amount of time with him. of he's not joking when he talks about the potential use of biological or chemical weapons. the white house press secretary said those comments were not based on u.s. intelligence reports, arthel, and then appeared to walk them back. >> we have not seen any reason reason to adjust our only nuclear posture, nor do we have indications they are preparing to use them. >> reporter: russia enjoys a large advantage in tactical nuclear warheads, arthel, it has 2,000 of them. the u.s. has 200, and about 100 are currently deployed in europe. it's not just putin news, the american economy too. gas prices are are rising despite 263,000 new jobs added to the economy. u.s. employers added -- announced nearly 30,000 job cuts when they should be increasing ahead of the holiday season. with opec announcing it will cut

oil production which many saw a slap in the face to president biden, many republican say they would propose a different itinerary for the president. >> the biden administration made a mistake by going to saudi arabia in the first place less than three months ago. where biden should have gone was to north dakota, to west texas to find a domestic supply of oil and natural gas and the energy that the united states needs. >> reporter: saudi arabia's top diplomat in an interview with bret baier last night appeared to blame the u.s. for the rising gas prices saying no new oil refinery has been built in the united states in over 20 the years. the last was built in the late '70s in your home state, arthel. arthel: louisiana? or. >> reporter: yes, louisiana. arthel: just want to make sure you know. [laughter] but seriously -- [laughter] it just goes to show you, lucas, just how complicated times are when a 3.5% unemployment rate can't settle the economy. >> reporter: correct.

which is a decrease over the month before of 3.7%. a lot of economists saw that, arthel, as a rise in labor force participation, and fewer people have participated in the economy. but certainly, 3.5% is good news from the white house. arthel: all right. lucas tomlinson, thank you. eric. eric: so how can the saudis behave? let's bring in john bussey, fox news contributor. you know, i don't know, it seems like if you remember back in the 1970s and all those gas lines, the saudis are back up to their old tricks, you know, turning the spigot off and on to help themselves. what can the administration do about this and why aren't they doing it? >> well, we're way past the times of the 1970s with the united states producing as much oil as it does, one of the biggest producers in the world. look, you know, this is a cut, it's not a good thing for gas prices and for the administration going into the midterms. gas prices have been inching up again. they're way below where they

were in the highs of june, but they're inching up. why is that? well, oil prices have risen as a result of this announced cut by saudi arabia and other opec +countries. when they say opec+, eric, they mean not just opec countries, but countries that are aligned, that produce a lot of oil that are aligned with opec policy. but another reason that prices have gone up in the united states is that there's a couple of refineries are down, california, ohio for maintenance, some of it standard maintenance, some of it because of damage, and those are expected to come eventually back online which means they'll be producing oil, and that might sown some of the -- soften some of the prices. eric: right now we saw about three months plus of the gas prices going down. the last three weeks they've been going up, average 3.89 at the moment around the country. those refineries are affecting really the west coast especially in terms of the gas prices. but when you talk about our

production, you know, the the administration has been criticized and attacked for not encouraging domestic production enough as we heard in the report in north dakota and elsewhere. if. >> yeah. well, production could go up in the united states. it's a political issue that statements and the federal government have to resolve on how much they want to be producing, how much of this is fracking, how much methane gas is being released as a result of fracking. that's a bigger, broader issue. in the near term though, the other factors that are going to weigh on gas prices and on oil prices in general is that the global economy is beginning to slow. in the united states, there are signals of that. not just, yes, the jobless rate is quite good in the u.s. and it's still a great time to go out and look for work, but the overall economy's beginning to slow. we're going into the winter season where there tends to be a little bit less driving. interest rates are still going up which means the economy may still slow further. the other thing to remember is that opec so opec. and i remember from a short

period of covering them in the late '90s that there's a lot of lying that goes on within to opec nations -- [laughter] over what they are producing and what they aren't. they're all trying to take advantage of global markets. and analysts say that this 2 million barrel a day cut that opec and the aligned countries have announced is really going to be closer to about 600,000 barrels a day, much smaller than 2 million, because they're already undershooting what they had announced previously that they were producing. eric: so what do you think they're going to do? there's a measure called nopec in washington, d.c. to try and punish them in some way. what can we do? if what can literally be done about opec, their back to get them to stop the games that only help themselves? >> yeah. remember, they're thinking about their own revenue, but they're also thinking of aligning themselves with russia. why is that? because russia's a big grain producer.

they buy grain from russia, they buy armaments from russia, so it's in their political interests to align themselves with helping russia by cutting prices. on the other hand, the administration, those in congress have been talking about whether or not to begin to take antitrust action against foreign-owned, state-owned oil companies that operate around the world and in the united states. europe is talking about capping the price of oil that it's willing to purchase from russia. it would do so by denying insurance and financing for ships that russia uses to move its oil if that oil is priced above a certain level. and 90% of the world's shipping is insured by consortium in london. there's a story on wsj.com about this. that puts some crimp on russia. whether or not it's going to bring prices down in the near term is kind of hard to say.

eric: good to know that there are methods that we can take to retaliate against them finally. john bussey of the "wall street journal." john, always good to see you. >> you bet. arthel: meantime, fallout continues over reports this week that actual charges against hunter biden may be, quote, imminent. doj prosecutors are said to be considering tax and false statements charges after a four-year investigation. we're told attorney general merrick garland is taking a hands-off approach, leaving the final decision to the trump-appointed u.s. attorney for delaware. alexandria hoff is live in washington with new developments. >> reporter: well, arthel, we have to remember this investigation into hunter biden's overseas business dealings began in 20 jr -- 2018, and the work of the grand jury wrapped up this summer. the wait has been a growing point of frustration according to a fox news source close to investigators. on thursday "the washington post" revealed in a report that agents believe prosecutors do

have enough evidence to charge the president's son with tax crimes and with making a false statement related to a gun purchase. hunter biden's attorney issued this in response writing, quote: it is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one. any agent you cite as a source in your article apparently has committed such a felony. with the attorney general, merrick garland, taking that hands-off approach, the decision to charge has been place solely in the hands of the u.s. attorney for delaware. it's a complicated call to make close to the midterms. >> normally you wouldn't bring a politically-charged case right before an election. however, his -- biden's son is not a candidate, so it's not clear that rule would apply here. >> reporter: it's also not clear what a penalty might look like for potential tax crimes charges. now, if convicted for a gun

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arthel: fox news alert, as south korea says north korea has fired at least two more ballistic missiles. in fact, we just got word of the second one moments ago. this all going towards the east coast into the sea of japan which is towards japan. that would make at least over a half dozen launches in two weeks, and it comes just with hours after the u.s. and south korea wrappedded up a new round of naval drills off the korean peninsula's east coast. the drills involved a u.s. aircraft a carrier which north korea warned would cause a,

quote, considerably huge negative splash in regional security. the rogue nation regards such drills as rehearsals for an an invasion. everything. eric: that's one of the first time we've seen north korea use a missile from a train. we're looking live now, as you can see, in eagle pass, texas. those apparently are migrants who are walking, as you can see, in the river to the united states at very moment. that live right here on the fox news channel, shows the ongoing i humanitarian crisis that's occurring there right now. in fact, agents tell us trafficking and drug and weapons smuggling are basically running rampant. they say that the mexican cartels, they're getting bolder in their efforts to get people and narcotics into our country, even posting recruitment videos on social media. griff epogen kins is live for us in eagle pass, texas. we see the migrants crossing as we're talking right now, griff. what's the latest there?

>> reporter: that's right. good afternoon, eric. you can see right here this is a popular crossing in eagle pass, the trash, used clothing to knock down the barbed wire. i'm going to bring mike in here, and you can see as well, i believe, on our crew -- on our fox drone you can see a border patrol boat now approaching these three migrants. they look to be maybe teenagers or possibly men in their 20s. they took about 30 minutes to navigate the river. the current got a little strong today, and they were trying to brave it, then they were getting a little afraid. what you're watching right now, this live shot, eric, is simply part of the absolutely unprecedented numbers we've been getting. since i've been here, since october 1 there have been over 10,720 migrant encounters in just this sector alone. they've had more than 75 migrant smuggling efforts. as you can see, these migrants are going to make it safely, and the bodder patrol responded

because they didn't want them to become part of the migrant deaths. last fiscal year this sector led in the number of migrant deaths, there were 260 that dies last year, and many of them, unfortunately, drowned in this treacherous area. but, you know, as these migrants come ashore, they'll be processed, and they'll be added to the tens of thousands that they'll see this week and the coming weeks to come, and they'll butsed, some of them, to places like new york where you are as we've seen mayor eric adams complaining about the situation, declaring a state of emergency. now, we were able to speak exclusively just a little whiling ago to congressman tony gonzalez, republican, that represents area in eagle pass. here's a little bit, eric, of what he he had to say. take a listen. >> yeah. people along the border, we're tired of seeing these people throughout the country whine when they get 50 or 100 migrants. the mayor of new york city asking for a billion dollars?

meanwhile, texans are getting nothing? we've been forgotten, abandoned by the biden administration. >> reporter: and as you're looking live at our drone, we're just walking down here a little bit, eric, to get you a better view of the migrants who have just come across, find out where they've come from. many of them from venezuela, colombia, cuba as well as the northern triangle, got guatemala, honduras and el salvador. just sort of seeing the cooperation that you're seeing between the border patrol along with the national guard that are are set up. hoe la -- hola -- [speaking spanish] pardon, we've got a loud boat, a moment, the boat's very loud. [speaking spanish]

as you can see, the boat taking off, eric, and we can send it back to you right now, but that's just a little bit of what 's happening all day, every day. this sector, by the way, led in those large groups. we've had at least ten groups of more than 200 in just the past week. eric: that's really astounding. and, griff, if the control room can go back to the drone for a second and we can see the progress of hose three, obviously, the border patrol skiff boat came to make sure that they were and they were able to get up on the land and talked to you, griff. they told you they're from nicaragua, so that's exactly how it happens. they are able to make landfall. they're going to have to navigate that barb wire -- >> reporter: that's right, eric. [speaking spanish] you can see they're coming across this wire here.

[speaking spanish] i'm just going to try a little bit of spanish. i don't speak great spanish, but a little bit to get by. [speaking spanish] >> reporter: he's saying thank you very much, president biden, for the opportunity. [speaking spanish] >> reporter: you can see them navigating this very, very dangerous wire. [speaking spanish] eric: so the national guard are over there, and then this is just the standard procedure. >> reporter: that's right. eric: he's got to to get across that wire and welcome into the united states. he's praying.

[speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> reporter: and the same thing, thank you for the opportunity. you can see it's very emotional. these people are coming from -- [speaking spanish] venezuela? >> nicaragua. >> reporter: they're all from nicaragua. as we know, the strife happenin- [speaking spanish] eric: griff, that is very moving when you consider the journey that they've taken. no matter how you peel about the immigration situation -- feel about the immigration

situation -- >> reporter: it is. eric: it is just so moving. >> reporter: it is, it is, eric, and these are human beings. eric: he's on his knees, and he praised the lord god, thanking god that he has arrived in the united states of america after this long trip from nicaragua. certainly something moving no matter where you stand on this issue. see them having arrived. >> reporter: all right, erin, we'll send it back to to you, but this is just a part of what's happening all day long. eric: they're all very grateful. quite a live scene plague out here on the fox news channel, as you can see. arthel: all right. for more on crisis, we're going to bring in lieutenant chris oliveras from the department of safety. first of all, lieutenant, did you witness what just happened? and i would like to get your reaction. >> right. so good afternoon, arthel. yes, i was watching. of course, griff's reporting right there, that's a daily,

standard procedure especially in eagle pass where so many migrants are making this long, dangerous journey to get across that dangerous river. there's been numerous drownings in that specific river as well. obvious, it is very moving. and as you mentioned too, right, no matter how you feel as far as the whole immigration issue on either side, it is very moving to see these immigrants make this long, dangerous journey. but nonetheless, this is not the humane way to get across into the united states. there should be a more controlled way for these migrants to make a safe journey and gain asylum the proper way, the legal way by federal law. but again, this is going to continue to happen seeing immigrants crossing that dangerous river in eagle pass, texas. arthel: and all they had to do was cross over some barbed wire. so is that the reason for having more laws, if you will -- walls and more border security so, as you pointed out these migrants, these asylum seekers can come over through proper channels

that are available to them? >> right. i mean, barriers, fencing, walls, i mean, they work. it's a tool for law enforcement to divert some of that activity, to funnel that activity to other areas where you can't have, where you can't build a wall or have infrastructure, but you can place manpower, technology in those the areas as opposed to having a wide open border. so it's very crucial to law enforcement to have those tools in place. but to have a more humane process, i mean, these migrants should be going to the ports of entry where it's safe and also where they don't have to pay cartels to get across that river. every person that comes across that river whether they be an adult or child is paying a cartel member to to get across. and what that does, it enriches these car cartels. that's why now it's a multibillion dollar trade, human smuggling, because of this crisis. arthel: they're now using social media to recruit. can you tell us more about these social media posts and what are they saying? >> so we've been experiencing this ever since last year when this border crisis started.

now that the criminal organizations are starting to expand their criminal enterprise throughout the united states, what they're doing is they're using sophisticated recruitment methods. they're using social media, tiktok, what's an app -- whatsapp, using direct messaging in dallas, houston, usa, even out of state that are making their way to these border communities, even teenagers that are also taking part in human smuggling. just most recently we had a tragic event in you valley, texas, where a 17-year-old was smuggling immigrants, and she lost her life by crashing into an 18-wheeler. so we're seeing these tragic events play out, and it's all because of these transnational criminal organizations who are using recruitment methods to recruit on you drivers. it's very important as parents that we monitor and educate our children to not get involved with human smugglers, to get involved with any criminal

transactions whatsoever. and if they see something as far as social media, report that to law enforcement. arthel: and that's what i want to ask you, can texas dps and homeland security use these posts to track whoever's posting these smuggling solicitations and possibly thwart the criminal activity or catch the smugglers many action? >> right. so we have, and, of course, our men and women of dps, our criminal investigators, our intel specialists do exceptional work by tracking down, flagging some of these videos that we see online. just most recently there was a significant case in hidalgo county where 84 immigrants were rescued. they were requesting a driver, they were going to pay upwards of $70,000 to transport these migrants in a trailer from the rio grande valley to houston, texas. the sheriff's department, border patrol were able to stop that human smuggling event which could have turned tragic like we saw in san antonio with the 53

immigrants who died in the back of a trillioner. -- trailer. they're trying to track down some of these organizations, but again, they're very sophisticated in how they recruit. they use multiple user names, so it makes it difficult to track them down through encryptedded messaging or videos. arthel: really quickly, lieutenant, what happens when you catch the u.s. citizens who are working with these cartel, you bust them and catch them smuggling people? >> right. arthel: what happens to them? >> right. so they go to jail. we arrest hem for human smuggling -- [audio difficulty] turned into a larger case where our criminal investigators have been able to track down some of these smaller -- [inaudible] but turned out to lead to other major organizations. that's why it's very important to track them down and -- [inaudible] [audio difficulty] yeah, we do focus, that is our intent, operation lone star is to focus on the criminal activity -- [inaudible] arthel: lieutenant chris oliveras from the texas

department of public safety, thank you very much. eric? eric: arthel, eric adams declares a state of emergency as more busloads of migrants arrive in the big apple. he accuses republicans of using them as political pawns, but a city run by one of his fellow democrats is also sending them north. we'll is more on that straight ahead. ♪ ♪ i just always thought, “dog food is dog food” i didn't really piece together that dogs eat food. as soon as we brought the farmer's dog in, her skin was better, she was more active. if i can invest in her health and be proactive, i think it's worth it. visit betterforthem.com if you're on medicare, remember, the annual enrollment period is here. the time to choose your coverage begins october 15th...and ends december 7th.

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buses a day. we were there this morning as more buses with migrants on them rolled into new york city's port authority, adding to the more than 17,000 migrants adams says have been sent to new york city since the spring. many of those on buses that have been chartered by republican governors in both texas and arizona seeking to pressure the biden administration to changing its border policy. adams says the influx in migrants is causing a crisis in new york city's shelter system with asylum seekers amounting to about 20% of the shelter population. right now city agencies are working together to build migrant housing quicker, but the mayor says new yorkers could end up paying a billion dollars for a problem he says they never asked to take on. listen. >> the time for aid to new york is now. we need help from the federal government, help from the state of new york. new york city is doing our part,

and now others must step up and join us. >> reporter: yeah, and so for the most part adams has largely focused his frustrations on republicans, accusing them of using migrants as political pawns. but busing migrants up north appears to be a bipartisan effort. the democratic mayor of el paso, which has been overwhelmed by border crossings, has bussed at least 7300 migrants to new york city since the end of august, more than the state. texas governor greg abbott doubled down on the effort writing on twitter, quote, sanctuary cities like new york city experience a fraction of what texas border communities face every day. we'll continue busing migrants to new york city, d.c. and chicago to relieve our overwhelmed border towns until biden does his job to secure the border. so right now, arthel, it looks like figures from both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats, are saying the ball is in the court 069 federal government, meaning the biden administration and congress.

arthel? arthel: charles watt watson -- watson, thanks. eric: in ukraine, the bridge is back in service after it was blown up -- it remains the only way out for retreating russian troops from there. that attack seen as a huge blow to vladimir putin and the russians. could it push him to go nuclear or push him out of power? ukrainianing president zelenskyy says putin's nuclear threats should be taken seriously. >> they begin to prepare their society. that is very dangerous. they are not ready to do it -- to use it, but they begin to communicate. they don't know if they will use or they will not use. i think that is dangerous even to speak about it. eric: rebecca coffman is here, author of the book "putin's playbook." so, rebecca, you know his mind

better than almost anyone. what do you think putin's reaction was when he saw that video of his prized bridge, you know, blown up that he so proudly built with as the link to crimea? >> so putin likely assesses that it is zelenskyy's strategic messaging to him that ukraine is prepared to go all the way, to take this fight, to up the ante in order to achieve zelenskyy's ultimate goal which is to recapture the territories that were seized by russia in this war. and this is the exactly why putin has -- is prepared and zelenskyy and our own president, president biden, are warning us to wage tactical nuclear warfare. it was specifically prepared if on putin's orders, and i just had a piece published in the new

york post called eight reasons why putin may not be bluffing about using nuclear weapons. eric: why do you think he really potentially could resort to that despite the condemnation and isolation that he most certainly would receive if, indeed, he did do that? >> absolutely. so putin use this as an existential battle. for him personally and for russia. so he has the doctrine that was specifically developed, he has motivation. he has the intention. he even justified such a thing in his anti-u.s., most aggressive speech last friday when he said that it is the united states that set the precedent for nuclear warfare referring to two atomic bombs, the little boy and the fat man, that the united states dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki.

and putin believes in his mind that he's doing it to end the conflict. he also believes, probably miscalculating, that we wouldn't respond. and president biden likely has assessed that he's also prepared to fight this fight all the way to the end, and that is why he said those words. putin, unlike somebody like brezhnev, who was trembling in exercises when he was asked to push the nuclear button, putin is very different in terms of his psychological profile. he'll fight back to get out of his corner. and the rest of the reasons i outlined in the piece. eric: yeah, you've talked about he fought off a rat when he was a kid, and that's his whole way of thinking, is to be aggressive and fight, fight, fight? >> absolutely. so there are several things that

happened when he was -- and one of them he was cornered by a rat, and the rat started attacking him. and that's kind of what he bases his entire strategy. now that he has all but lost the conventional pause of this war -- phase of this war with ukrainians having unleashed a blitzkrieg type of counteroffensive, he is switching his strategy to what the russians call the new generation warfare. this is an operation, strategic operation to defeat critically, critical infrastructure of the adversary that was developed by the russian general staff specifically in anticipation of them using -- losing conventional warfare. because the united states is conventionally superior. we have superior weaponry that we are providing to ukraine. and this is why we saw nord stream that in my intelligence assessment is work of the

russians -- eric: yeah. yeah, let me have you repeat that again. the nord stream attack was the work of the russians. >> 99%, shaun. this is, again, part of the strategy. and, in fact, on page 14 of my book, "putin's playbook," i describe an incident that took place in the new york/baltimore transportation corridor in 2001. the russian planes have taken note of -- planners have taken note of one of the the trains tipped over that was carrying hazardous materials and created the situation was that there was a flood which derailed the entire traffic between baltimore and new york. and the russian planners said their conclusion was it doesn't take much for the entire system to collapse because it affects not only transportation, it affected communications lines

and a whole bunch of things. and this is why they did the proof of concept of, you know, cyber warfare, space warfare. i have another piece on the fox news web site on putin's space warfare tactics. chinese have the same. so all this was planned for many, many years. it's not just putin, it's the entire ap a rat discuss of his henchmen who are behind this. eric: a lot of people are applauding however this was done, the crimea bridge, the ukrainian government not taking credit for it, but certainly, a blow to putin. >> absolutely. eric: rebecca, good to have your insight especially on putin's mind and especially on your' -- review about who actually attacked the nord stream pipeline. good to see you, thank you. >> good to see you. arthel: yep. the nord stream explosion is not the work of the u.s. meanwhile, a critical stage in the recovery of hurricane ian. today in florida search and

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eric: police say the suspect in the ted cannily stabbing spree on the las vegas strip turns out to be a 32-year-old illegal immigrant. christina coleman has more on this from los angeles. >> reporter: eric, according to the arrest report, the suspect, a 32-year-old, told police he hoped officers would kill him. they say he went on a deadly stabbing spree with a 12-inch kitchen knife near wynn hotel. he is in the country illegally, and a source tells fox's bill

melugin that he is a guatemalan national with a criminal record here in california. clark county's d.a. says regardless of his citizenship status, his office is considering whether to seek the death penalty based on the evidence in this case. >> i'm not thinking about deportation right now, i'm thinking about filing serious charges based upon the ed. the evidence. >> reporter: he was outside a city hall just days prior to the attack asking for help. he went to las vegas to stay with a friend, but the friend told him that he couldn't stay at his house, so barr gross caught a bus to the strip. he says people were making fun of him on this bus ride. the arrest report also states that he asked show girl impersonators to take a picture with him as he held this large knife. he started running around to, quote, let the anger out. police say he ended up stabbing eight people along the strip in an unprovoked attack killing a

30-year-old and 47-year-old. >> it's frightening, and i feel very bad for the people involved. and their families. i mean, this is a nice part of the strip. and you wouldn't ever think about being afraid to walk along here. >> reporter: the arraignment is scheduled for tuesday. everything? eric: so tragic. one of the show girls said she was scared of him, and he started to back away, and then he stabbed her in the back. christina, thank you. arthel: all right, eric, thank you. we're done for now, but we'll be back again at 4 p.m. eastern. please do join us then in one hour. the journal editorial report is up next. thank you for watching. ♪ ♪

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