♪♪ >> sandra: a man given a second chance after he killed his own grandmother only to then stab his sister has a message after

this latest attack you are seeing on the screen now. and he says he's always been a monster and it's never going to change. so will anybody believe him before he's released again? welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two on this monday afternoon. i'm sandra smith in new york, and gillian, it's great to have you today. >> gillian: great to be with you. i'm gillian turner in for john roberts. so chilling words from the lifelong violent criminal helping to make the case now, clearly against going soft on crime. fox news alert now. [screaming] >> that is the sound and sights of multiple missiles raining down on the capitol city of ukraine, kyiv, under aerial

attack from russia, intensity not seen since the early days of the water. vladimir putin targeting political infrastructure, and calling for retaliation of the bombing of the only bridge linking russia to crimea, a critical supply line for his army. >> gillian: and ukrainian officials say the airstrikes have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded dozens more. analysts say it could be escalating after months of stalemate to a new and dangerous phase. hi, trey. >> gillian, good afternoon. new reaction to the widespread russian attack on ukraine, the u.n. secretary general calling it another unacceptable escalation of the war. ukraine is bracing for additional strikes after more than 75 missiles targeted

population centers like kyiv, kharkiv, and black plumes of smoke after the attack began. russians say they were targeting military infrastructure, images are a different store. a pedestrian, a playground and a main street were damaged in the strikes. >> the war against this, putin need ukraine without ukrainians, and putin attack here a couple weeks ago, months ago, a couple months ago, and kyiv was targeted and still targeted. >> the u.s. state department also weighed in, our hearts are with people of ukraine, translates glory to ukraine. much of ukraine is without power as critical energy infrastructure was hit during the initial wave of strikes. russian president vladimir putin spoke today about the attacks saying they were in response to a bridge explosion over the

weekend that damaged the only connection between russia and crimea. now, as this country braces for the possibility of more strikes tonight, ukrainian president vladimir putin is calling for more support from the west in the form of air defense systems. gillian. >> gillian: trey yingst, thanks very much. >> sandra: the head of one of our nation's largest banks now issuing a stark warning on the economy. rising interest rates, war in ukraine are pushing the u.s. degree into a very bad direction. >> you can't talk about the economy without talking about the stuff in the future, and this is serious stuff. these are very, very serious things, i think are likely to push the u.s. and the world, i mean, europe is already in recession, and likely to put the u.s. into some kind of recession 6, 9 months from now. >> sandra: let's bring in grover

norquist americans for tax reform president. grover, i wanted to ask you about this, it's brand-new, jamie diamond said this morning, he's got a lot of power, one of the head of one of the largest banks in the country. he sees a recession coming, months away. but speaking to a roomful of analysts who have a great impact on the way our markets function, this is also to investors, he's calling for what is a very serious situation that could drive the country into recession. >> you don't have to have access to special knowledge. anyone who walks down the street of a major city or drives through a town sees these billboards that tell you what the cost of gasoline is every day. we have seen the inflation growing. we have seen gasoline continue to get more expensive. we know this every day when people go to the grocery store, we see the inflation.

over the last 12 months wages went up maybe 5.5%. cost, inflation up 8.5%. the american people are getting poorer every day. your wages are -- my wages, your wages, everyone's wages are worth less than they used to be worth and that inflation that biden created with the democrats, every single democrat, voted to have that massive set of spending programs, that gives you the inflation now, and that makes the value of every dollar in your pocket worth less, every dollar on your paycheck worth less and dropping taxes on energy, gasoline, coal, in addition to the inflation. >> sandra: he's saying it's a very, very serious situation. he's saying the economy right now is actually still doing well but his job is to look out in the future and plan for the future and he says there's a lot of head winds coming, a lot of

serious stuff as far as head winds we have to prepare for. this at a time where even the mainstream media seems to pile on the president for more and more spending, at a time of historic inflation. any economist will tell you will only exacerbate that situation and continue to raise prices. the washington post says biden's rescue man-made inflation worse but the economy better. experts disagree about the extent of the rescue plan contribution to inflation, seems clear the role is larger than the biden administration concedes, while falling short of the calamity that republicans claim. well, to jamie diamond's point, perhaps that's coming, right? it takes some time to play through the system. and another is raising the red flag on inflation, says this on, recession, said this over the weekend. listen. >> that is the cost of a federal reserve being late, not only does it have to overcome inflation, but it has to restore

its credibility. so yes, i fear that we risk a very high probability of damaging recession that was totally avoidable. >> and those are key words, and he's formerly of a democratic administration. he and larry summers have been saying some time. the fed is tasked with bringing down inflation that is affordable. they ignored it was happening in the first place, grover. >> let's remember biden inherited. we had, with two years of strong economic growth because of the tax cuts that the republicans enacted that trump signed, in 2019, 2019, 2 years into the tax cut, we saw growth of 6.8% in people's real wages moving forward. that is a larger increase in wages, for the median income, dead center, family of four.

that's more growth than all eight years of obama. so we had a tax set-up that should have once the blue states stopped sitting on top of the economy with all the masks and the stay at home and not go to work stuff, as soon as that began, we should have taken off and would have without the spending, the regulations, the taxes, the closing down of our energy production. >> sandra: yeah. on that note, california is experiencing sky high gas prices. the rest of the country as well. but california are seeing their prices two and a half dollars, grover, above the national average. 62% above the national average, to be exact. national average is 3.91, and california, 6.33 a gallon, average. think about the economic pain that brings to businesses and consumers yet instead of announcing what he's doing about it or how he's contributing to

helping solve this, you know, inflationary crisis, the governor of that state is blaming oil companies, listen. >> we are currently as we speak today 2.50 more than the national average. nothing close to state taxes. the vast majority of states have gas taxes, average 29, $0.30, ours averages $0.50. they are price gouging, taking advantage of you every day. >> sandra: shouldn't the onous be on governors like newsom if they have it, investigations have turned up nothing. >> gavin newsom lied. i'm looking at the taxes that he, the governor of california puts on the people who buy gasoline. it's, oh, he says $0.54 for state exice tax, that's true.

do you have that? ok, $0.23 for cap-and-trade, $0.18 for low carbon fuel, and 3.7% on top of that, sales taxes, and then something for storage. they have piled taxes on taxes on taxes on the people of california and if the governor wants to know who is responsible for the high taxes, the high cost of gasoline in california, he should look in the mirror. he did this, he did this to his own people. the nerve of him to blame other people. >> sandra: or sit down with the oil companies and understand where they are coming from and what is driving these costs would help, too. grover, thanks for joining us on that. gillian, valero is responding to the accusations of price gouging, california is the most expensive operating environment, directly from the company, from the country and hostile

regulatory environment for refining. california policy makers have adopted policies with the expressed intent of eliminating the refinery sector. they require refineries to pay very high carbon cap-and-trade fees and burden gasoline with low carbon fuel standards. they are making the case california did it to themselves. >> gillian: yeah, and you know, i need not point out to our viewers that right here on the show we have asked countless government officials about the accusation of price gouging, from john kirby, and a president emergency advisor, to secretary buttigieg. if in the past an instant where the big energy companies gouged on the heels of a nationwide energy crisis such as the one we are seeing here in america today, and to a person, they all say essentially no without trying to say the actual word no, there is no evidence of

that. >> sandra: that would not just be bad, but illegal activity and companies and people and ceos would go to jail. so it's something they are watching but seems allegations surface only when -- for how long, 7, 8 weeks prices were gone down and the administration took credit and touted that, and seemed the markets were functioning perfectly then. fox news alert, and the urgent question this hour. where is chloe campbell? a desperate search is on for a teenager who vanished from a high school football game. her family is begging for help saying the last time anybody saw her witnesses noticed something lurking nearby that has terrified them. we are going to have this breaking news story, all new at 2:00, coming up. >> gillian: also the investigation that has gone on so long you may have forgotten all about it. special council john durham spent the last three years laser focused on the origins of the russia investigation.

now he's about to face his biggest test yet in court. jonathan turley is here to lay out the case next.

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case to court this week. previous trial ended the acquittal of michael sussmann in charges of lying to the fbi. this time going after a russian researcher who provided info for the infamous steele dossier, he is accused of lying to the fbi. jonathan turley is a law professor at george washington university and fox news contributor. jonathan, what durham really set

out to examine in his investigation is whether the clinton campaign, hillary clinton's allies, provided false, misleading information to the fbi for the purposes of intentionally hurting the then trump campaign. is this trial likely to bring to light the answer to that question, the holy grail? >> well, filings have already brought a great deal to light. i mean, ever since he started digging into this question, we have learned that of course that the hillary clinton campaign funded the dossier, even though they denied that to the public, and the dossier was paid for through an attorney named mark elias, also accused of the campaign of misleading reporters who were asking who was funding and whether they campaign funded the dossier. and what really features prominently are these figures

like danchenko, feeding information to the clinton campaign through steele, and american intelligence was warning that they believed this was coming from russian intelligence, that they were being played. now whether danchenko was being played or whether he was a knowing participant in that, we will see played out in the trial. he's facing five charges of false statements made to the fbi. this is a different jury pool. the earlier trial of mr. sussmann, an attorney, was in d.c., perhaps the worst jury pool that special counsel could work with in terms of just the political dynamics. this is going to be in northern virginia, it's a slightly better jury pool from the perspective of the special counsel and it's a different case in terms of what false statements have been made. >> sandra: given the differences you just laid out, what are the odds this ends up in conviction

versus acquittal for durham? >> well, i think that the odds favor the prosecution, we'll have to see how it plays out in the courtroom. the statements that he is citing appear to be false, but we have not heard really the defense side fully. so we have to wait to see what they are going to present at trial. but danchenko is a very important figure here, many salacious details seem to be connected to him and steele and this campaign operation that was fed to the media, fed to the fbi, and ultimately consumed much of the trump presidency. >> gillian: jonathan, i want to switch topics here. the delaware supreme court overturned this democratic voting universal mail-in voting law pronouncing it unconstitutional. it's something the president has been very critical of, it's

something that stacey abrams has been critical of, similar phrasing in the law over in georgia. take a listen to abrams this sunday on fox news sunday. >> the last gubernatorial primary versus now, a net increase of 763,380 voters, sounds like the opposite of voter suppression. >> voter suppression is not about turnout, it's about the barriers and obstacles to access and that's one of the other conflations that we distinguish. and difficulty staying on the rolls, and casting the ballot and have it counted. >> is she right? >> well, the problem is that the court itself and turning down her challenge said that there was no evidence presented of systemic barriers faced by voters. the judge said that there was a

virtually empty record that was presented to show that voters really did face these types of, you know, barriers to voter suppression tactics and had an impact on their actual voting. in fact, the numbers show the opposite. what georgia argued is we have changed the law before 2020 and after and it's proven to be voter enhancement, not voter suppression. and then the recent decision in delaware that was rejecting efforts of delaware to allow universal mail-in voting. and in that case, the democrats were asking the court to ignore express language of the constitution. the democratic legislation in that state was flagrantly unconstitutional, and so we have to sort of deal with the realities of these laws. now, part of the problem with the criticism of president biden in calling this jim crow on steroids is that many of the

provisions in georgia has been to be in delaware and a number of other blue states. >> gillian: jonathan, we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time for us this afternoon. i think jim crow on steroids is a phrase from the president that will outlive his administration. >> sandra: it's a high stakes case, trial, heading to court, we'll see how it plays out in court. we'll be watching that. and meanwhile, we watch what is a spike in crime in this great city. the chilling words from a man accused of beating another woman in the subway station here. plus, parents pleading for help after their daughter disappeared from a high school football game. the horrifying details that we are just now learning after the break. hi, i'm william devane. did you know there's only been two times in american history - two - when the national debt was larger than gross domestic product?

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boulder high are frustrated. and they received messages saying she's safe and in arizona with family. but chloe's family and police have not confirmed if the messages are in fact from her. furthermore, chloe's parents say they don't have family in arizona. they do admit, chloe and like other teens have issues from time to time, she would never leave and be gone for this long with 0 communication. >> we just want you home safe and sound, and you know, if you can't come home we won't stop looking for you, we are going to use every resource in this planet to find you and bring you home safe and sound. we love you so much, honey. >> chloe was last seen wearing blue jeans, a purple top and black hoodie. blonde, blue eyes, 120 pounds and 5'6". >> gillian: jeff paul, thanks very much.

sandra. >> they were at the kitchen table, they were doing homework, all of a sudden they are hearing multiple gunshots. they then hear screaming. we had to go through crime scene tape. we are getting advised where to walk so we were not stepping on blood. >> sandra: new york gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin, police are investigating whether a drive-by shooting outside of his home was gang-related. he steps up his messaging on crime ahead of the midterm elections. bring in joe, retired nypd lieutenant. an awful story. his daughters were inside doing homework, one bullet landed feet from where she's sitting, another example, nowhere safe new york city, new york state, popping up everywhere. >> the streets are filled with criminals who should be in jail

and the cops are stretched so thin some investigations are on the back burner, and here in new york city, this should not be a surprise to new yorkers at all, but when it comes to a congressman like that, people say wow, the congressman is not safe, what about us. >> sandra: it's terrifying to think this is the scene outside of your home after something like this happens, suffolk county, new york, on long island on sunday, lee zeldin has reacted live from the klums -- columbus day parade earlier. >> we live about a mile from where i grew up. there were strict rules but i was able to spend a whole lot of time during the day just going around the community, and all across this entire state. upbringing has changed. >> sandra: and it does, it changes the way you raise your kids, changes how short the leash is on them when you let

them go outside the home. this is the reality so many new yorkers are living in right now, and less than 30 days out from a very important election. do you believe voters will see what's happening, feel what's happening and vote for change? >> you would so. when you have a governor that's, a sitting governor right now that took over for another governor that really was an empty suit as well, these are the things that happen. and it's scary because they don't have, they don't know how to address crime. she talks about bail reform and about what she's doing, she says we are tweaking it. it doesn't not need a tweak, it needs a complete overhaul. you have lee zeldin living it firsthand who has taken a stance on crime and said this is what i'm going to do and he will remove sitting adas, he will do what he has to do. but this governor right now is doing nothing and the fact that she's so silent on these issues is very telling.

>> sandra: case in point, the dad visiting his dad at college in poughkeepsie, new york, the president was there a short time after it happened did not mention it in a speech or empathy to the people there. alarming headlines. new york post, four dead on the new york subway system the last week alone. it's becoming an unlivable city. harder and harder to get to work. if you fear for your life getting on public transit, it's extremely expensive to get to work. >> absolutely. the fact the other stations are not covering it the way they should to make it the issue it has to be. people need to know what's going on in the subway and should not learn about it when somebody dies or attacked violently, it should be a priority and everybody's agenda. every candidate should be out there proposing what they are going to do. but this governor is so silent.

i don't get it. she's just sitting back doing nothing about it. just hoping that she could win on her laurels, which is not much. >> sandra: that can't last, that can't last, this is affecting everybody now and no longer the safe neighborhoods where you can avoid the bad ones because it's happening everywhere. and by the way, this is the fbi report on the murder rate increase, 22,900, up 4.3% from 2020 to 2021. that is according to the fbi, and there is a lot more statistics out there just like that. joe, great to see you. wish it was under better terms. we hope, we hope that there's a plan to get this under control, but gillian, you are experiencing it there in washington as well, just crime everywhere. >> gillian: the trial continues for the man accused of plowing his car into a christmas parade in wisconsin killing six last year. jury has seen dramatic dash cam video and from his girlfriend

who had a fight. and now his mother says he did not know what he was doing. >> the video shows him going and not stopping. how could -- how some people will ask, how is that not deliberate? >> i asked him that question. and he said mama, i don't know. he said i don't know what i was doing. i don't know. he doesn't know. he can't answer that. >> the suspect, darryl brooks, is representing himself in court but so far his behavior is derailing the trial. last week he took off his shirt and stuck a sign down his pants before opening statements began. >> united nations general assembly convening this afternoon as vladimir putin escalates his war of choice in ukraine. member nations are reportedly concerned. ken buck just moments away on

that. >> plus as problems mount here at home, republicans are accusing democrats from jetting off to swanky fundraisers in europe. >> families are struggling to pay grocery and gas bills and home heating bills, he's galalanting across the country.

>> gillian: while americans here at home are struggling to afford basic groceries and gas for their cars, expensive political fundraisers overseas carry on. republicans are accusing congressional democrats of partying away across europe's most glitzy capitals. and maybe we'll get to go to paris next. >> sandra: cue the french music. power ranking due out tomorrow, a big focus will be on four senate races that will determine which party controls the chamber as we watch the four toss-ups, obviously key in the balance of power. those races are the four states

that you see here in yellow. nevada, arizona, georgia and pennsylvania. and we are going to begin in arizona. republican blake masters trying to unseat democrat mark kelly, and the latest fox news polling shows kelly with a six-point lead, not only is kelly's lead down from 8 in august, it is well within the margin of error. and hotly contested race watching in georgia, between warnock and walker there, the latest polling finding warnock up just five minutes, also win the margin of error, another tight race we are watching, even closer, believe it or not, in nevada. that race between incumbent senator kathryn cortez masto, and adam laxalt. he is shown to be up by two points. and finally pennsylvania, one of the most closely watched races

in the nation, dr. oz squaring off against lieutenant governor john fetterman. and according to our polling in that state, dr. oz has closed the gap in a big way since the summertime, and not only that, but there is still a good amount of folks who say they are still not sure which way they are going to vote in that state, and that is something we will continue to watch closely. as of tomorrow, exactly four weeks to go. new rankings are on the horizon to give us a good idea how things will shape up in early november. >> gillian: mollie hemingway, let's take a step back, look at this out today from the "new york times," get your reaction. democrats claim the momentum after the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade galvanized progressive and independent voters. now the pendulum seems to have

swung back, i wish the election was a month ago, conceded the president of the american action fund. >> it's worth remembering the election has begun and people are voting and voting throughout september, because of the mail-in unsupervised system in place. democrats missed calculation on the dobbs case, they mischaracterized what the ruling did. said americans could set abortion policy in their own states and roe v. wade had prohibited from doing that. it did not match with the reality, and the more people understand the reality turns out the vast majority of americans support at least some restrictions on abortion and that's what the dobbs ruling allows for people. so republicans have been highlighting the extremism,

don't want any, if it's nine months, or birth control, they don't want restriction and that's not very popular with the american people. >> gillian: take a look at the abortion issue in some states. the nevada senate race, clear politics, has laxalt up 2.1 over cortez masto, and says abortion in nevada, still legal. why do dems only talk about things that have not changed because they can't defend everything that has. what do you say? >> it makes sense why democrats are focussing on abortion. they think they can ride disappointment about that dobbs decision among certain key constituents in the democratic party to victory. about you what a lot of republicans are pointing out, a lot of issues in addition to abortion that people care about, which itself, it's a divisive

issue, and paycheck cuts, and the arizona border, they are worried about the threat of nuclear annihilation as a result of the foreign policy by the current ruling party. all sorts of issues that people care about and democrats are trying to make it a one-issue race, but given three out of four americans support at least some restriction on abortion, you know, from having it banned completely to just having restrictions in the later terms. and that's something that no democrat supports. you've had routine votes in the senate and the house, people are opposing any protection of unborn life, and that's again outside of corporate media and other liberal enclaves, not popular with the american people. >> gillian: in georgia, too,

warnock up 3.8 points over herschel walker. walker refutes the personal scandals surrounding abortion but looks like they are wearing on him anyway. >> yeah, and that's an interesting situation because the democrat incumbent who presents himself as a pastor actually does not support any restrictions on abortion, and wants people to even pay for other people's aforgeses. that's not a very popular issue in the state. democrats are trying to make an issue out of a scandal that's 15 years old, with herschel walker, but it does not really affect the actual policy decisions that people will be voting on. and again, it's not just whether you should have abortion policy that at least provides some protection to unborn life and mothers, but also all of those, you know, all of those really important things of people having lower takehome pay as a result of policies, senate and the house, inflation with no check in sight and you know,

surging crime, all of those issues seem to be doing more in republican direction so you see republicans focus on those more. >> gillian: might be problematic for some voters if herschel walker is advocating for abortion restrictions publicly but behind the scenes is pushing women that he's, you know, allegedly involved with to seek abortions and he's funding them. >> yeah, i think people need to understand, though. americans tend to vote based on the policy goals they have in place, people don't want to pay for other people's abortions, regardless what their personal views are, and that's what rafael warnock supports. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time for us this afternoon. >> sandra: confirmation a short time ago a russian strike on kyiv has killed a ukrainian colonel who was the head of the critical infrastructure for the nation's cyber unit. today vladimir putin dramatically escalating the fight against ukraine with the

first-ever strikes on the center of the capital city. retaliation for a blast that took out a critical bridge in crimea when russia annexed it from their neighbor. and the general assembly in the united nations is set to meet about the war. ken buck, member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here today. what do you believe is vladimir putin's intention here and what is his end game? >> well, his intention is pretty clear. he is losing and quite possibly lost the conventional war that he started several months ago, and what he's trying to do is change to his kgb training terrorist activities that he's engaged in frankly in the region. so he is attacking civilian populations, trying to spread

terror, demorallize the ukrainian population to turn around the conventional war. >> sandra: his own words after the attack. listen. >> if attempts to carry out acts of terrorism on our territory continue, russia's response will be harsh and its scale will correspond to that of a threat made against the russian federation. no one should be in any doubt about that. >> sandra: so what do you suspect will be his next steps, following that declaration that he deems that strike on that bridge a terrorist attack, congressman? >> well, we need to back up a little bit, sandra, to understand. he supposedly annexed a piece of ukraine after attacking crimea militarily and moving his forces in there. that doesn't make it russian territory, does not make it russian territory in the eyes of

the world, certainly in europe's eyes, crimea is not part of russia. nor are the four areas that he recently declared part of russia. so for him to claim that it's a terrorist attack on russia is factually untrue. vladimir putin grew up in the kgb, he understands terrorism, he has used it not only on his neighbors but his own population, accused of killing political opponents, dissidents, and killed dissidents in other countries like england. so the idea he is using terrorism is nothing new. he is going to continue to bomb cities with missile strikes and he has no options at this point. he can't win the war with conventional military means. the russian military has been shown to be what it is, a weak military at this point. ukrainian military is highly

motivated because they are defending their own country. >> sandra: i'll ask you how long you think they can hold on while this is happening and as vladimir putin promises russia will respond harshly to what he is labelling terrorism. the president of the united states, president biden has responded to russia's most recent missile strike saying this, we will continue to impose costs on russia for its aggression. hold putin and russia accountable for atrocities and war crimes and support necessary for ukrainian forces to defend their country and freedom. we call on russia to end immediately and retreat from ukraine. what do you think of the president's handling? >> in order to rate the president fairly we have to look at what's happened before russia invaded, the early stages of russia invading and then more recently. earlier the president did very little. at the early stages of the

invasion, the president was offering president zelenskyy a ride out of town, sending a completely wrong message to russia about our intentions. since then america has done a very good job with some of our european allies, not all of them, but some of them, of arming ukraine so that they can fight and win a conventional war. so i think more recently president biden has done a good job, but he is still sending mixed messages about where the limits are of what we will do to help a country achieve freedom and maintain freedom and protect our western european allies. >> sandra: and right now the white house is sending, by all accounts, messaging it will continue to stay the course on its strategy. congressman ken buck of colorado, thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. >> gillian: america's spiralling crime crisis has a lot of victims speaking out of laws that go soft on crime, a lifelong criminal is making the

case in his words that some evil really can't be cured. >> sandra: his warning did not come in time for those who set him free after he killed his own grandmother at the age of 14. but instead of taking advantage of that second chance, foster wasted no time stabbing then his own sister. he served time but then got out and then he slashed three women during a stabbing spree. >> gillian: in all, arrested over eight times in two decades. and he is blaming the victim for the beating. >> sandra: he told the newspaper she did something i can't say what, but he added "i'm not a good guy, i never will be." >> gillian: the daily news reports he spent much of the off camera interview cruelly mocking his victim, and charges of attempted murder. when he wants someone dead he

has proven he can make that happen. >> sandra: and meanwhile, scammers are finding new ways to prey on the elderly, especially those who are online searching for love. david spunt is live at the justice department on a story we are all intrigued by. tell us about it. >> hi, sandra and gillian. a growing problem, according to the fbi and you are going to hear from the daughter of a victim. >> this is my dad by the time i started taking care of him, he was in debt, a lot of debt. >> angie's late father, donald griffith, was defrauded out of more than $700,000 by a ring of nigerian scammers who posed as a love interest trapped abroad. >> she started asking him for money and started in smaller increments and then eventually worked up to 20, $40,000 at a time. >> romance scams like the ones that angie's father fell victim to are among the most commonly perpetrated types of elder fraud. >> how much money did your

father give to this scam? >> about 750,000. >> the fbi agent who investigated this case tells fox news that multiple families were scammed out of more than $20 million. now, 11 are behind bars while one is still on the loose abroad. >> i've gotten i think a total of $500 over the course of a couple of years. >> out of everything. >> yes. >> aaron tap is the fbi assistant director of the criminal investigation division. >> as the technology develops, they will use the modality to prey upon the elderly population. >> in 2021, more than 92,000 elderly victims were scammed out of more than $1.7 billion. >> the shame and guilt and sense of remorse that comes after being a victim is incredibly harmful. >> the scammers, they are manipulate, like psychologists, they are evil, they are really good at what they do. >> if you think you are a victim or know a victim, reach out to

the fbi, back to you. >> sandra: important story for many who might not have the potential scams on their radar. life from the doj, david spunt, thank you. and gillian, thank you for joining us. great to have you. >> gillian: thanks so much, sandra, it went by quick. >> sandra: it flew >> martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. this is "the story." escalation as vladimir putin un unhere -- unleashes revenge attacks all over the ukraine. a fireball engulfed the bridge. scores were injured as the russians attack all of these cities that are marked here including kyiv and kharkiv. this young woman was talki