t ke >> thanks for joining us. we had a lot of news to cover today. >> great being in between both of you. i will be over there reading the news tomorrow. >> i can't wait. reason to work. >> you need to be there. "america's newsroom" starts right now, see you on radio. >> bill: good morning. we're 29 days out from the mid-terms. crime looks large in this election. republican lee zeldin says the crisis landed on his doorstep. sunday there was gunfire outside of his home. two people shot. they have gone to the hospital. how the candidate for new york governor is reacting to the violence that literally forced his children to shelter in place. more on that coming up. first an all-out assault on ukraine. russia raining missiles on kiev and other centers. the strikes on kiev killed at

least eight and wounding dozens more. a new week, a monday. good morning, everybody. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. hello. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." this escalation is striking at a time when people overnight the destruction of the lone bridge connecting russia to crimea happened over the weekend. a key supply line for russia. vladimir putin targeted civilians. >> zelensky said russia is trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. >> they want to destroy our energy system and they are hopeless. the second target is people. they chose such a time, such goals in order to cause as much harm as possible. >> bill: check out the video here. one missile left a massive crater feet away from a children's playground. >> dana: the first major attack

on kiev since june. 1 of 10 major cities targeted in the assault. >> bill: the white house trying to clean up president biden's remarks from last week on the russia nuclear threat. he said the u.s. was facing the prospect of armageddon. >> dana: it shows the president is taking this seriously. republicans say that kind of rhetoric where he said it also makes matters worse. >> those comments were reckless. when you hear a president talking about armageddon as a random thought at a fundraiser is a risk to the american people. if he believes he needs to talk to us in a serious way. >> the president was reflecting the high stakes that are in play right now. when you have modern nuclear power and the leader of that power willing to use irresponsible rhetoric the way mr. putin has several times in just the last week or two, as well as the high tensions in ukraine. >> dana: peter doocy is live on

the north lawn. peter, an interesting thing. the president hasn't given a foreign policy address in quite awhile trying to reassure the american people. how much do we need to worry about president putin and his look ott nuclear war. >> maybe we should be reassured just after the president said there is a threat of nuclear armageddon he went to his house in delaware for the weekend and not to the white house situation room. so maybe that's a good sign. as for the events overseas this morning, the russians are claiming they are not the aggressors here and they say they are just responding to what they see as a terrorist attack. the bombing of that bridge that connects the contested crimea to main land russia. >> if the terms to carry out acts of terrorism on our territory continue russia's response will be harsh and scale will correspond to that of the

threat made against the russian federation. no one should be in any doubt about that. >> so it may get worse. ukraine's president zelensky said the russians are using iranian-made drones to attack. power outages in ukraine are spreading. the g7 will get together today agreed with chancellor schulz of holding p g-seven meeting of the group. my speech is scheduled and i will tell about the attacks and increasing pressure on the russian federation and aid in restoring damaged infrastructure. white house officials say there is no new intel behind president biden's claim that putin is not joking when he talks about nuclear weapons use. now some democrats are saying the president's tone there is entirely appropriate. >> i think the president is right to raise the risk of nuclear conflict because

vladimir putin is increasingly getting pushed into a corner. this war is going incredibly badly for him. the mobilization he has undertaken has backfired. >> since the start of the russian invasion a couple months back the u.s. has spent $17 billion with a b dollars on weapons and other security assistance to ukraine. as we can see in the new images, it has not deterred putin, it has not kept him back yet. >> dana: peter doocy, thank you so much. bill, tell us what's going on. >> i want to get our viewers perspective on the war and what area we talk about. everything in red is secured by russian forces. everything you see in blue is secured by the ukrainian forces based on their counter offensive. this is southeastern ukraine and specifically crimea down here and this is where the strait is where you find the bridge. we'll go into it a little bit here in advance and show you that it's a massive structure,

12 miles in length. very significant for putin and russia to make that area that crosses over this bridge into crimea. basically two lanes one direction, two lanes the other. then this is a railroad line that goes in both directions also. that was the pre-image of this bridge prior to this weekend and here now are the after effects. it looks like the railroad line here. this would be the area that carries cars or trucks. if you are trying to refuel forces in crimea this is a major area where you do it. this entire span has fallen into the sea below. if i were to -- show on the video here. this is the after effect. this is -- i was just thinking about the folks in florida with the bridges wiped out by the hurricane. this was manmade, dana, and the effects are everlasting. completed in 2018. also known as the crimea bridge. come on back here and i'll show

you the area. why is this so important to putin? why? two weeks ago you had the fake referendum that took place in the four provinces and it leads you to crimea and here is the bridge. putin's strategy trying to secure and lock down this part of ukraine and make it russia for good. bring in general jack keane to talk about the developments from over the weekend and what your take on this and what do we make of putin's response, too? general, good morning. >> well, certainly is a massive retaliation, 75, 80 rockets, missiles and drones, ten or more cities and regions spread throughout ukraine. obviously it has to deal with ukrainian attack on the bridge. the bridge as you mentioned is a vital supply line into crimea from russia. the symbolism is more important. ukrainians have been talking and thinking about how to take this bridge down from the outset of the war because after all, the

russians constructed this bridge, finished it in 2018 and symbolizes the connection of russia to crimea which they annexed in 2014. as fox has shown, putin was there at the inauguration of the opening of the bridge himself. so yes, it's got great symbolic value to be sure. the russians will eventually repair this bridge and that supply line will be open whether the ukrainians attack it again remains to be seen. but what putin has shifted his strategy a little bit here, bill and worth noting. he knows full well he is losing the ground war in ukraine and that's why he has gone to mobilization and wants to double the amount of troops he has got in ukraine to stop the bleeding. that will take weeks and maybe months before he is able to get all of those troops there. but in the meantime, starting about 7 to 10 days ago, he has begun to attack civilian

infrastructure and focusing on energy and also civilian population. from the outset of the war, bill, the russian military has had two missions. one to defeat the ukrainian military. and absorb the territory and two, break the will of the ukrainian people. obviously russia is struggling with defeating the ukrainian military. they are losing. he is focusing back again on something within his resources and that is hit the energy sector, cause suffering to the ukrainian people during the winter months that are coming and also attempt to break the will of the ukrainian people. i don't believe that will happen at all because they are steadfast and significant resolve. i spoke to the ukrainian ambassador to the united states and the defense at tache aon friday and they're committed to the fight and war regardless of the actions putin takes. >> dana: do you agree, general,

about putin's state of mind at the moment so that he is backed into a corner, there is now restlessness within russia about all of this, and that he called the attack on the crimea bridge terrorism, and yet for the ukrainians they are looking around saying 250,000 of our people have been killed so far. and so it seems strange to me to say that the ukrainians are escalating. maybe at this point they figure out a way to tactically get some wins. >> well, the ukrainians clearly have an opportunity here. what they want to do next is go into other regions where the nuclear power plant is and retake the territory all the way to mariupol. they have to put together the infrastructure to support that. they can't do that right now but they are building on doing that. their objective is to retake ukrainian territory where

ukrainian citizens are living under the boot of russians. you can understand their motivation for doing this. and they need the continued help of the united states and the international community to do that. they want more artillery, they want the army tactical missile systems that gives them a range of 200 miles to reach into the military capabilities that are in crimea, which are feeding the russian military. north of crimea certainly. and they need more tanks and f- 16s which are on the table for discussion. yes, they have the operational mom men tim on the ground and want to take advantage of that in the near term as much as possible and they need continued support to be able to achieve that. >> bill: general, thank you. good to get your analysis on this monday morning. jack keane. >> dana: gas prices are up again across the country. mainly thanks to more demand on

a tight oil supply. the national average cost her gallon is $3.93 up $0.12 from a week ago, $0.20 from a month ago and likely to keep rising after opec plus said it will pull 2 million barrels a day off the market. when i read 3.91. last week it was something else. it will hit people in their spock et books. >> bill: a lot of people noticed this. 12 minutes past now. the democratic president of the l.a. city council under fire over leaked audio. what she says that has some people calling for her to resign immediately. >> dana: the border czar ignoring the border on a trip to texas of all places. the v.p. and administration have abandoned them. >> bill: scary moments for the republican who wants to be the next governor of new york. crime is a big story in the city and state. what happened outside of his home yesterday where his

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>> one of the bullets landed 30 feet from where the girls were doing homework. yeah, this hits extremely close to home. it showed up at our front door yesterday. we had to go through crime scene tape. getting advised where to walk so we weren't stepping on blood. >> dana: lee zeldin this morning on "fox & friends" after two people were shot outside his long island home yesterday in broad daylight. the candidate for governor has made rising crime a focus of his

campaign. david lee miller is live in new york city and has more on the story. hi, david lee. >> hi, dana. congressman lee zeldin and candidate for governor is back on the campaign trail. in the next few hours he is expected to take part in the new york city columbus day parade. he has made crime a central issue of his campaign. he says what happened yesterday outside of his long island home literally brought the problem to his doorstep. a little after 2:00 in the afternoon while he and his wife were campaigning his twin daughters were home alone when gunshots rang out. one of the bullets landed 30 feet from the kitchen. they hid in the bathroom and called 911. 217-year-olds were involved in a drive by shooting and the victims tried to hide in the congressman's yard. the shooter is still being shot. zeldin and his family had no

connection to the shooting other than the fact the random location was close to where they lived. congressman zeldin said his family could have become victims and repeating his call to stop new york's crime wave. >> unfortunately for new yorkers it wasn't the only story yesterday. somebody else got stabbed on a subway. somebody else got slashed in the east village. this is day after day after day and there are a lot of parents and families dealing with this reality of rising crime in new york. >> zeldin's opponent kathy hochul who critics accuse of being soft on crime said in a tweet last night quote i've been briefed on the shooting outside of zeldin's home. i'm relieved to feel the dell skin zeldin's family is safe. >> while campaigning this summer

someone tried to stab him not far from the city of rochester. that incident brought renewed attention to new york's controversial bail reform laws. dana. >> dana: david lee miller in new york city. >> bill: we know and you know that crime is a big issue for mid-terms. marc thiessen. good morning. when this came across the phone yesterday and you start reading it and it's a double or triple take. >> it's amazing. first of all the good news they weren't targeting congressman zeldin. it wasn't an assassination attempt like the stabbing attempt may have been. bad news shows how crime is migrating. this town of shirley, long island, a suburban neighborhood. average household income is $104,000, so this isn't fort

apache in the bronx. this is a suburban neighborhood. a drive-by shooting where the daughters are doing their homework you have two kids bleeding out on the front lawn and police had to escort him to not step on the blood in his front lawn. shows how crime is changing. it used to be that crime was contained to certain neighborhoods. now it's every where. new yorkers who could go about their business can't do that anymore. it is every where and affecting everyone. >> bill: let's move from new york to pennsylvania. a new ad out by dr. oz hitting back at john fetterman. roll the ad first and i'll ask you about it afterwards. >> not fetterman's plan raise taxes, everything costs more, ban fracking, release murderers into our community. >> it's a prescription for pain. this is an economic and health crisis. a doctor can help fix it.

i'll keep us safe, cut your taxes and protect our jobs. >> bill: that's economy, energy and crime. how does it play, marc? >> gallup poll found 80% of americans are concerned about crime. 53% majority very concerned. you have a 34% increase in the murder rate since the man dem i can. and you have democrats like john fetterman running on a platform of releasing criminals from jail. it's not just fetterman. in wisconsin mandela barnes says releasing criminals is sexy and wants to release half the prison population. fetterman wants to release a third. when asked if you could solve one problem what would it be? he didn't say reducing crime or gas prices or stopping the fentanyl epidemic which is ilog record numbers of people. he said releasing murderers who got life without parole.

it's no surprise dr. oz is hammering him on it and risings in the polls. >> bill: very close it appears in pennsylvania. fetterman was in bucks county, suburbs of philadelphia over the weekend. a clip from one of his rallies. he mentions he is running on to use his words, record on crime. roll this. >> lying about magic pills and now he is spending his entire campaign lying about my record on crime. i'm running on my record on crime. running on my record on crime. [cheers and applause] i ran to be mayor. >> bill: he was a small town mayor east of pittsburgh. >> the pills that most americans are working about is the fentanyl pills coming over the southern border. he is not making that a

priority. 34% increase in the murder rate since the pandemic began. since last year you have an 11% increase in carjacking. rapes are up 6%. crime is out of control. particularly in philadelphia, which is affecting a lot of african-americans, which is his base. so, you know, there is no wonder that if you look at the ad buys, if oz has spent #.8 million on ads since early august, 71% of that ad buy has been on crime and it is now a toss-up. down by single digits. >> bill: marc, thank you. we'll revisit this again in two days. thank you, marc. >> dana: as the mid-terms approach vulnerable democrats are asked if they support the president in 2024. here is michigan congresswoman slotkin yesterday. >> we need a new generation. we need new blood period across

the democratic party in the house, senate and white house. i think that the country has been saying that. but if the sitting president of the united states decides to run we'll support him. >> dana: she is a pretty straight shooter and been on here a few times and always welcome back. it is interesting all reporters are going to ask but seems to be now many are feeling the freedom to say what they think, new blood might be needed in 2024. >> bill: she referred to this about top leadership in the democratic party. i don't think she voted for nancy pelosi as speaker. she is in a tough re-election battle in michigan and critical on inflation as well. he she -- a deadly attack on a new york city subway. why the grieving mother of the stabbing victim blames the former cop who is now mayor. we know he is the goat. does that give tom brady

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>> bill: no end in sight to the relentless flight of migrants into the u.s. v.p. harris hasn't been to the border in more than a year even though she was in texas over the weekend. she was in austin for a democratic fundraiser. griff jenkins is 200 miles from where the v.p. was. griff joins us now from the border. griff. >> bill, good morning. it's monday and things are running just like clockwork. more groups just in the last 30 minutes. we had a group of 100. let me take you to our sky drone and give you a closer look, if i can, of this group. we'll move that in. this group you're seeing the remnants of what was about 100,

150, the family units have been taken out but what remains are the single adults. mostly from the typical places of columbia, cuba, venezuela. let me show you a large group that crossed yesterday afternoon. our drone was there to capture that. this group is about 178, among them were 21 children. they also from the typical countries we see. we learned over the weekend that nationwide there were some 13,000 migrant encounters from countries like somalia, syria, uzbekistan, and even here in the del rio sector four -- a family of four from iran. unbelievable. meanwhile as you mentioned vice president harris making that fundraiser speech in austin. not once mentioning the border and certainly not making a visit to the border. congressman tony gonzalez from eagle pass was here on the border and what he said about harris's missed opportunity.

>> she doesn't have to visit me. guess what? henry cuellar is a democrat, gonzalez is a democrat. escobar is a democrat. she could visit anywhere along the border. they put their head in the sand and abandoned us along the border. >> and, bill, the other part of this border crisis that is really surging here is smuggling. since i've been on the ground since october 1st there have been more than ten smuggling attempts. one over the weekend that ended in a car crash. it is all part of what's happening here every single day, bill. back to you. >> bill: thank you, griff jenkins monday morning as you say, here we go again. thank you. verges crime in new york city taking a sickening term. police are using dental records and fingerprints to i.d. the victim of a pick pocket after the thief stole his wallet after he was hit and killed by a truck in manhattan last week. onlookers egged the crook on and

others called for the cops. you talk a lot about crime. when you think about something like this, you've seen -- you've been around for a long time and seen it all. where does this fall in your mind? >> we're getting close to the bottom, aren't we? it is sad to see. look, the perp and the knuckle heads egging that person on. i think what might be going on here to speculate a little bit. they have trouble i.d. ng the person. nobody is reporting him missing. there is a chance this is another person from a shelter or maybe even a migrant. so this woman got a wallet. she hasn't used the credit card likely. that would have popped as well and we would have had an i.d. and why it appears according to reports they're down to dental records. a last ditch effort to try to figure out who this is. >> bill: it's a disgusting story. they pick pocketed a dead man on

the street. >> she was cheered on while doing it. they'll get her. they will put her out of one of the local shelters. >> bill: this is something you hear about in the 80s and you hear the story about new york and say to yourself what are they doing there? that is the tone of an act like this, paul. >> that's a salient point. i have written something for fox.com coming out this week that goes to that. the tourism is down. they're seeing this kind of thing on the air. we have 50,000 hospitality jobs not filled because of what you just said. we're celebrating about the fact that hochul man managed to bring in jobs. but the jobs we really need, tourists bringing money to new york city, the lifeblood of this town. we aren't seeing that coming

back because of images like that. >> dana: part of it is stories like this. a mom who spoke out after a subway stabbing. listen to her here. >> the subway is a dangerous place. it is hard to get protection. people are throwing each other into the tracks and you get sliced in the middle of your ride. subways are one of the most dangerous places in new york city and we need lots of cameras in it. even inside the trains we need the cameras. >> dana: you have something like that and you also have the staff on the subway. 1700 crimes so far. >> the point i always make. it is not just -- the cops, i have a lot of contacts with the police department. they are really pressing. the hierarchy arcy of the police department is pressing for arrests, enforcement. the cops are doing it. arrests are up and they are out

there and doing it with less bodies. the problem is think about it. how would you feel if every day when you went to work, whatever you did all day every day was undone a couple hours later by some unrelated entity. they are trying to interdict this stuff but it is being undone once it gets to the court system. david patterson makes a good point. it feels worse than the 90s. i agree with him and i think what he means is, it feels so random. it doesn't feel this time around -- i'm old enough to remember the 90s. it doesn't feel like there is anybody moving to stop it. it feels like we're on a decline. >> dana: what was the straw that got them to fix it last time? >> a famous crime occurred in the train station in mid town. watkins went to protect his mother from a bunch of muggers and he was here as a tourist from utah and he got stabbed during it and killed in front of

his family. and that just -- the city erupted. the optic was so bad. the difference was it could be fixed. we didn't have the legislation we have now. now you have to undo legislation in albany that will be tough to get around. people in albany seem to be impervious to all this. >> dana: check it out with a new newsletter with the crime stuff and great person to learn from in terms of writing. thank you. >> dana: there was a questionable call in yesterday's buc's falcons game. brady was sacked but hit with a roughing the passer penalty. some say the refs gave brady kid glove treatment. i'm sorry about the bengals. they are now 2-3 on the ear.

when you are on the road, why don't you kick the field goal? that's the question. >> bill: that's the question. >> dana: i got that from bill this morning. >> bill: take the points. force them to score. >> dana: not good. >> bill: i think even brady was embarrassed by that call. >> dana: maybe so, maybe so. isn't roughing the passer the point? [laughter] >> bill: that's the idea, right? it's football. >> dana: exactly. i don't get the penalties. >> bill: house republicans pledging actions against hunter biden and the f.b.i. if they take control. the race for georgia governor. stacey abrams brushing off concerns she is struggling to mobilize african-american voters. >> why do you think there is a misperception between you and

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the story. what are they staying and what do we know? >> good morning to you, bill. it happened during a conversation among several high profile latino council members all democrats including l.a. council president martinez, who is now under intense pressure to resign after using racist language when discussing the black son of white council member. in the secretly recorded audio obtained by the "l. a. times" martinez using a spanish phrase refers to his son as being like a little monkey and goes on to say the boy misbehaved on a parade float during martin luther king day and raised like a white child and this kid needs a beatdown. councilman bonin released a statement saying we love our son, a beautiful, joyful child and our family is hurting today.

no child should ever be subjected to such racist, mean and dehumanizing comments from a public officials. martinez apologized saying in a moment of intense frustration and anger, i let the situation get the best of me and i hold myself accountable for these comments. for that i am sorry. in the audio recording martinez also criticized controversial l.a. county district attorney george gascon saying he is, quote, with the blacks. gascon responded saying quote, anti-blackness has no place in los angeles. and the comments by martinez seem so, bill, to become an issue in the fast-approaching mid-term elections here. >> bill: i bet. thank you. nice to see you in l.a. see where the story goes. thanks. >> dana: the mid-terms are just four weeks away and democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams is dismissing

concern that she lacks support from black voters. >> why do you think there is a conception about -- >> the manufactured crisis is designed to suppress turnout. if you look at my polling numbers and the polling numbers of my ticket mate, senator warnock, we're polling similarly well with black voters. we know, however, that black voters, like every voting population, deserves the respect of having someone come and speak to them. >> dana: richard fowler and brian robinson are here on our panel. i don't know if i want to eat politics for breakfast but i love politics and podcasts. richard fowler, polling where the black vote abrams is at 80%. when she ran four years ago she was at 94% and why shannon bream asked the question. what did you think of her answer? >> it was a valid question and a

question i've asked her and her campaign when i interviewed both of them. i think this. when you talk to black voters both in georgia and other parts of the country they are saying not a big huge run to the republican party. the majority of voters sit out. what they look for from democrats is tangible solutions to their problems. after the 2020 election and the special election in georgia specifically where black voters gave democrats control of the senate, control of the house and control of the white house, they are looking for how democratic policies have manifested in their life. have there been some policies? yes. time for democrats to talk about them. stacey abrams has a platform dedicated to win over black voters and what she will do in the closing days of this election is go to the black voters and talk about her policy in a world in which brian kemp doesn't have an agenda for black

voters in georgia. >> dana: kemp is at 50% and abrams 43%. there is a possible runoff if you don't get to 50%. if he gets to 50% it means the idea around stacey abrams' candidacy early on that republicans thought she could go the distance would have fallen flat. >> well, if i was stacey abrams today what i would be doing is trying to unify georgiaance from turning them against nfl refs. nfl stands for not for long when you make calls like that. if abrams is out at this juncture in the campaign trying to turn out black voters she is in a lot of trouble. did you see how casually she talked about voter suppression? polling numbers from different partisan sources showing her behind are a mechanism of sup

suppression. it goes to show you she is throwing it around for five years now essentially in a way that has been proven untrue. she is having a bad week. last week her case against the 2018 election which she said was stolen. she said it over and over again. language that democrats today say is bad for democracy. she said it for four years and treated like a hero. she lost on every count in front of an obama-appointed judge who happens to be a black judge. so a lot of her persona and brand has been destroyed in the last week and people in georgia knew it wasn't true. now the rest of the country knows it wasn't true. a lot of the star is beginning to fade. >> dana: we'll follow this closely and bet that bill will be at the board talking about georgia and all those races there. look, i'm sorry about that call. >> it is an outrage.

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project dynamo as it looks for search and rescue missions and help people reclaim their homes. nate foye is in tampa bay to let us know how it's going. >> 45 minutes we'll head out on the water with project dynamo going to sanibel island, only accessible by boat right now. at this point there are no more rescue missions to do. it will be a humanitarian delivery with supplies like gas, generators and medicine. project dynamo has rescued over 40 people. i want to show you a picture here. the man who you see here had to be carted off the island to safety. project dynamo says 40 is their best guess. they think the number is higher. unfortunately some people are taking advantage of the chaos after the storm. take a look at this next video. the lee county sheriff's office says these six people were arrested for looting accused of

breaking into a fort myers store and stealing high-end speakers. it brings me to any max video. we were in a barrier island between cape corral and pine island. looters will be shot. why did she feel the need to write that message? >> there are certain things we want -- not to lose. and it made it through the storm so my thought was for some bad guy to come in and take it is just a punch in the gut after a punch in the gut. >> the resilience that we're seeing here, bill, is overwhelming. those homeowners, like so many we have spoken to, their homes are destroyed, they tell us they have no plans of leaving their homes. they plan on rebuilding. we'll send it back to you.

>> bill: what a story they have to live with for a long time. thank you, nate. >> dana: clock is ticking on a campaign trail with 29 days to go until voters determine the balance of power on capitol hill. the outcome is still anyone's guess. welcome to another hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. is it still a guess for you? >> bill: for now for the sake of the story. good morning, dana. i'm bill hemmer. voters have a lot to think about including the economy and inflation, immigration, rampant crime. yesterday's shooting outside the home of lee zeldin. how dire the crime crisis has become. two teens shot while his daughters were doing homework at the kitchen table. zeldin is running as a republican for governor. >> unfortunately for new yorkers, this wasn't the only story yesterday. you read about somebody else who got stabbed on a new york city