>> john: the words of the volusia county sheriff, the buildings are at imminent risk after being weakened by hurricane ian weeks ago. we have fox crews making their way live to the scene. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into our second hour. i'm john roberts in washington. hi again, sandra. >> sandra: and happy friday eve to you, john. breaking news on that storm coming up, but we begin here at the touch board with the other developing news in this election week. the control of the senate coming down to the three crucial races that we are watching, of course, in arizona, nevada, and georgia. both parties within close distance of winning the chamber and begin, obviously, taking a look at the balance of power in the senate, obviously looking for that majority, 51 republicans, 49 races called, democrats 48. so watching those three states and obviously the run-off that will be happening in georgia. to the peach state, rafael

warnock will face off against herschel walker, in a run-off december 6th, after neither candidate was able could reach 50% of the vote. head off to arizona now, obviously one of the senate races we are watching for control of the chamber. masters has a steep hill to climb, given his 95,000 vote deficit. ballots are being counted at this hour. 70% in, the difference right now, 95,000 with kelly leading. and stay out west and head a bit north to nevada, watching some of those key counties in the state where the republican candidate, adam laxalt, is still leading but his opponent, catherine cortez masto is making gains in washoe, chipping away there, and obviously key we are watching those vote tallies come in, clark county, cortez masto

is leading by six points in clark county. all of this is unfolding here at home, the president is heading halfway across the world, pivoting to foreign policy and that brings us to this fox news alert. >> john: president biden set to meet face-to-face for the first time since taking office with china's president xi jinping. comes as the warnings over china could not be more blunt. >> sandra: the u.s. navy chief has said the u.s. must prepare for an invasion of taiwan before the end of the year. the commander who overseas the nuclear program has said china is developing weapons at a much faster pace or the ship is slowly sinker when it comes to deterring beijing. >> john: president biden is promising to stand firm, despite republicans casting his ability to remain strong. >> i'm looking for competition,

not conflict. and so what i want to do with him, when we talk, is lay out kind of each of our red lines are. >> john: will the president meet the moment? morgan ortagus is standing by on that. >> sandra: but first, president biden is putting the climate at the forefront of his foreign agenda, kicking off his overseas travels in egypt. get right to it with lucas tomlinson, live on the north lawn of the white house for us. >> good afternoon, sandra. a few hours from now, president biden will launch on air force 1 for egypt for the climate conference and then cambodia, and then indonesia for the g20 summit, he's not expected to meet vladimir putin, the kremlin says vladimir putin will skip the summit next week. some see it as a missed opportunity for biden to negotiate with put in, and jake sullivan says biden is not leaning on president zelenskyy to make peace with russia.

>> united states is not pressuring ukraine, we are not insisting on things with ukraine. what we are doing is consulting as partners and showing our support not just through public statements or moral support, but through the tangible physical support of the kind of military assistance. >> biden will be meeting one-on-one with chinese president xi jinping on monday who will remain in power for an unprecedented third term in office. biden said yesterday he would bring up taiwan in the meeting but would not offer any specifics. the president and vice president will go into d.c., to celebrate some election wins, some unexpected. biden says he's willing to work across the aisle, sandra. >> my power to see to it to unite the country. it's hard to sustain yourself as the leading democracy in the world if you can't generate some unity. so i'm not going to change anything in any fundamental way.

>> one place the president is not expected to work with republicans, that's the southern border. sandra. >> sandra: live at the white house for us, lucas, thank you. >> john: let's bring in morgan ortagus, former state department spokesperson under president trump. great to see you. biden is headed to the g20 in bali, indonesia, but is stopping at the climate summit, one of the worst polluters and highlights the inequities, the united states is putting forward the lion's share of the cost, like india, egypt, china, just keep polluting at the same or increased levels that they were before. >> of course they are. and really this comes down to an energy security question, john. so you have biden just in the past week saying that he was going to shut down coal plants.

well, what is china do? they are building hundreds of coal plants just this year. so when you look at climate change as an important topic, sure, absolutely. but my big concern is that this administration and every administration has to do this, you have to make trade-offs when you are negotiating with other countries for the policy priorities that matter most to you. and this administration we are seeing time after time making concessions on our own energy security or even things like, you know, different shipments from china related to their solar panels. we block that in the trump administration and the biden administration for a time allowed to go forward. why does all of that matter? when you sit down, when john kerry sits down with the chinese and wants climate change concessions for them, number one, i would never believe what they agree to. number two, you have to trade off in other areas of important national security, things that i think that should be higher

priority than what the climate change concessions could be. again, it's not saying that john kerry should not negotiate on climate change. for me, the problem the emphasis the administration puts that they are willing to sacrifice things i think are more important to the american people and more important to our national security in the short-term. >> john: you mentioned china and president biden is planning on sitting down with xi jinping one-on-one in bali over the weekend. the president said this yesterday about what he intends to discuss with xi. >> what i want to do with him when we talk is lay out what kind of each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of china, what i know to be the critical interests of the united states, and to determine whether or not they conflict with one another. and if they do, how do we resolve it and how to work it out. >> john: is that all he needs to do or do more here?

>> well, i'm a little concerned about this meeting. i do think this meeting is incredibly important, i've been to the g20, it's important for these world leaders to sit face-to-face. but i think xi jinping will be sizing up biden the way putin sized up putin before putin went in to invade ukraine and i think ping is making the same assessments with biden. and one of the most important things biden should be doing, if i was prioritizing his agenda, at the top of the list, you have to demand that china stop sending the chemical precursors to mexico which turns into fentanyl, which is the number one killer of americans. i don't know why this is not a more important and vocal issue for biden, it's number one killer of our young people, must be stopped. number two, why doesn't he hold china accountable for their support of the russian invasion of ukraine. they care so much about this

invasion, they care to demonize russia as they should. why aren't you holding china accountable, not only publicly but together with the european allies and saying many german chancellor scholz should not make the first trip to china after covid bringing his entire trade delegation. tell them if we are serious with the war with russia and ukraine, time to impose costs on china for being the supporter, the major support behind putin in this war effort. >> john: we'll be following every minute of all of this. morgan, great to get your take, thank you. >> thanks, john. >> john: the president, sandra, says he's going to bring up the issue of taiwan with xi and reiterate the united states is committed to defending taiwan, but a school of thought china thinks it could win in a limited military confrontation and take over taiwan by the time the u.s.

got anywhere near it. >> sandra: all eyes on the president with the face-to-face, and q and, he was pressed by reporters on how he would act if that were to happen, so this is going to be an interesting meeting for sure. good conversation. >> john: we'll be following it. >> sandra: breaking news, word from a florida sheriff some homes in florida where they are experiencing the storm, wow, look at these pictures coming into right now, some of the bridges and buildings co collapsing, and a row of condos at risk of imminent collapse, as the hurricane is soaking everything in its sight. rick, wow, some crazy pictures coming in. robert ray joined us earlier giving us a look at some damage they are already seeing there. what more do we expect?

>> yeah, pretty crazy, really prolonged battering across the eastern coast of florida that also took a battering from ian as well, a lot of beach erosion and houses that are beginning, a few have tumbled into the ocean and still a threat. take a look at this, about 12 hours ago, making landfall, the second latest landfall we have ever seen in the month, or in the state of florida, just really remarkable. it's now moved almost all the way across the state and the center of it to the north of the tampa area and continues to pull off over the northwest, big bend area, will not strengthen, but a lot of moisture across parts of north florida, a lot of energy that continues to be pulled up across parts of georgia and the carolina coastline. so the battering is not done just yet. also a tornado threat there, a tornado watch in effect to 7:00 p.m. tonight. another one extended a little further off toward the north and

tomorrow a threat across the mid atlantic and philadelphia and baltimore, we will watch that closely. it will get pulled up into a front that's beginning to approach and that will bring a really windy and really wet day tomorrow and into saturday across parts of the northeast. this is the future track of the storm, moves across parts of the southern appalachians, a lot of moisture there, potentially some flooding and then across parts of the mid atlantic and northeast and that will bring us a threat for flooding and the leaves have not fallen, this will be a windy rain and knock the rest of those leaves out, that will probably exacerbate some of the flooding as well as some could get caught up and make the drainage not so good. hard to believe in november and we are talking about still a tropical storm we are dealing with. >> sandra: remarkable. thank you, rick. we'll keep track of it.

for more fox weather, download the fox weather app or stream on your favorite connected tv device. >> john: voters in georgia will head back to the polls as the race for the senate officially heads for a run-off. >> sandra: lawrence jones has been spending a lot of time in the peach state, he's here fresh off the election night coverage. awesome, by the way, to break down how he sees the races playing out. >> the democrats ran a good campaign against walker, but it's not personality competition, and the whole country is relying on us, georgians, to get this right. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan, i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now, i'm managing my diabetes better, and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of managing your diabetes

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>> sandra: so we are now weeks away from that georgia senate run-off race, it's going to

happen december 6th. lawrence jones was there in the state on election night. we all saw him, this was amazing stuff. he's been busy travelling across the country speaking with voters in recent weeks on issues that matter, so did the concerns they had on the ground match the results tuesday night. i shouldn't say the results, they don't have results. they are still waiting. you have been on the road so much and election night i thought the coverage was amazing, on the ground. in a bar? >> i was in a bar, election morning i was there in the diner and that night in a bar as the results were -- >> sandra: it was amazing. i remember this like it was -- yeah, so there you are, and look at the lady with her pint glass on the left. she might have -- >> had a little bit of drink. >> sandra: they were enjoying themselves, responsibly, hopefully. you spoke with georgia voters on election night and heard a little bit of their concerns. let's listen. >> brian kemp, he's pro

business, whenever the schools were shut down, brian was the first person to lift the mask mandate. >> it's the economy and inflation. just -- the price of groceries and gas is -- i'm a small business owner and i drive every day for a living and it's -- it's a lot. >> i have two teenage girls and i'm concerned about what the future is going to be like for them. and i need to vote my conscience and vote the way i feel will protect their future. >> sandra: covid, mask mandates, economy, inflation, gas, future for their children. >> so you said a sample, and i think it's -- if you really want to understand georgia, you have to go back to the primary election where donald trump selected an opponent against kemp in his -- in the governor's race. and when i was on the ground talking with voters, they said we knew kemp and although they

respect them, he was their guy, and blew out purdue on the ground, he had the connection with the voter. past forward to the general election, there were no surprises for me. the only thing that i think i was waiting for is if kemp would be able to drag walker across the finish line. it is clear, as you heard from the voters, they appreciate it. his response during the covid lockdown, he opened up quickly, the gas tax, able to repeal, also able to talk with those black business owners as well as business owners and make a business friendly climate. so when i saw those results that he won by a landslide, that was not surprising to me. when you get to the walker race, they didn't care about the mud slinging back and forth. it got to the point the voters said it was a wash, looks like herschel walker has some baggage, and rafael warnock has

some baggage. walker was not able to tell a story. until he will have a coalition of voters on the ground -- remember, kemp was able to get a lot of black males. ask yourself, why wasn't walker able to get those same black males. it's because kemp presented a business agenda for those males and they really turned out for him. >> sandra: really interesting. ok, you also spoke to a voter, tanika, on the impact of president biden campaigning with voters. >> if our president currently polled or not polled but ran with anybody on the trail, it would be kind of a, how do you say it without bleeping me, it would be a [bleep] show. >> sandra: how nice to give a head's up on that. >> one of those things i like to

do the focus group, every swing state, and these were transparent conversations. this was not a lot of bickering back and forth. you know, if you listen to the voters, they'll tell you biden is doing a poor job. 75% of americans believe we are headed the wrong direction. it was no different in georgia. a lot of our folks, i was watching our analysts during election night and they were so shocked about how partisan the country is. i am not shocked by that. when you look at the democrats i had in my focus group, they will say we are headed the wrong direction but they disagree with the alternative. independent voters said they were going to give the other side a shot, but those progressives, they still back their side even though they know we are heading down the wrong direction. i found that being shooing. >> sandra: you have your ear to the ground you are on a plane all the time and cross country, the name of your show, airs saturday nights, 10:00 p.m. eastern time, such a great

program, lawrence. a little teaser what's coming up? >> we are going to have a reunion. i traveled around the country with voters from different states, we flew some so new york city to get their thought on the election. >> sandra: i got worried about some of the patrons, way late into the night. looked like they were having a good time and especially talking to you, lawrence. >> john: like steve doocy and others, lawrence has never met a diner he did not like. and the stack they gave you for breakfast you were supposed to eat. >> i tried, i did eat half of it, i needed to carb up. so -- i ate a little bit, as you guys know, if you watch the dinner segments, i always get biscuits and gravy at every state i go to. >> john: heart attack on a plate. lawrence, great to see you. still awaiting results from

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jonathan hunt is live in las vegas for us. jonathan, how much longer could this vote counting take? >> well, sandra, if i was a betting man here in the gambling capital of the world, i would say we would probably hit the 90% plus mark of votes counted within the next 48 hours or so. but technically it could go on for several days, but the counting is underway. we can give you a live look at the counting that is going on in washoe county in northern nevada, the second most populus county in the state. the first most populus is here in clark county, 75% of the population lives and as the votes continue to come in, it is giving a further support to the campaign of democratic incumbent senator catherine cortez masto. she seems to have the momentum,

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trumpty-dumpty, can all the gop men put the party back together again. the knives are out for him in some circles. >> a lot of people are taking advantage of the failure on tuesday night to go after donald trump, and that's fine. people go after different people but seems to be a coping mechanism to neglect to deal with the fact that the republican party has failed republican voters and failed the american people. they never had more fertile ground. you have 75% of the country thinking we are in the wrong direction. a president with horrible approval rating. objectively poor economy. you've got inflation, no border, nuclear war threatening to break out. this could not have been more fertile ground and the republican party, the actual people who run the republican party had an obligation to capitalize on it and they didn't because they don't have a ground game. they don't have a means of making sure that ballots get in to the ballot box. everyone wants to talk about florida. florida is a great example. they have a wonderful governor

and good republican leaders, they also have very strong election integrity laws. they fine tuned them this year and the year before and working on it for years. but they also have a ground game that understands you need to get republican ballots into the republican ballot, or into the voting booth and into the box. and other states are not doing that. if anyone wants to emulate florida, yes, emulate the governor but also emulate the ground game and the election integrity. >> john: i remember presidential elections going back 20 years, they said oh, the republicans have such a great ground game, 22 years later, still the issues. >> and it's much more important. 22 years ago most people voted on election day, now we vote on election season. so republicans are focussing on election day. they talk about late momentum and getting people excited. democrats have spent the previous six weeks getting ballots into the box. and so by the time election day starts, they frequently already won the race.

and so republican leaders who want to blame everybody but themselves for their republican leadership failure need to look in the mirror and say how many times will we fail, not just their own voters, they are blaming their voters. no, the voters did -- >> john: yeah, mayra flores blamed voters. >> people are desperate, people are upset about the direction of the country that they could not capitalize now is a scandal. >> john: let's look ahead to 2024. you like that turn? desantis-trump. there's a chance both of them may run. but when you take a look at it, you know, if trump runs again he's a lame duck, also 78 on election day. desantis could run for two terms, and he's only going to be 46 on election day, which candidates do you go with? >> it's up to the people to decide. clearly if they both decide to run, that will be an interesting race to follow, it would be a tough situation because president trump has a great deal

of support. desantis has excitement behind him. when you look at the types of voters who support each one, it's a different group of people, college educated versus not college educated, i got a chance to ask him about this and he said he thought a fight between the two of them would not be good for the party, not good for the movement, and i think you see that's why a lot of people in the establishment who don't particularly like the movement, they don't like the direction the republican voter is taking things, they would like to see them. >> john: trump is warning desantis against running. >> that's what you are seeing and poking the bear. >> john: saying a fight would be bad, but don't run. >> curious to see how it goes. he was in a stronger position before the tuesday night results. we'll have to see. >> john: no shortage of things to talk about mollie for the next two years. >> sandra: he's been pumped up as the democratic party saviour, a genius money man who gives more cash to democrats to anyone

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press secretary karine jean-pierre was asked specifically about his name is sam bankman freed, the head of the cryptocurrency exchange ftx, he admitted he screwed up, he used a different word i will not repeat on television, it collapsed, and some $40 million on midterms. the white house press secretary did not get into details but asked about cryptocurrency and some problems surrounding that. >> this is something that clearly we and we see as an important issue, but the most recent news further underscores these concerns and highlights why prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is indeed needed. >> the question, sandra, what would any regulation or prudent regulation as karine jean-pierre

would look like. the white house has been asked about cryptoissues in the past. they need some regulation, not clear what would happen, and we don't want to be too premature, we are waiting for some results to come in from other states, don't know who is going to lead the house and lead the senate over on capitol hill, but what would that regulation look like between a biden white house and potentially a republican congress, after all, we have had a democratic congress and a democratic white house for a couple years with still no serious regulation, sandra. >> sandra: live at the white house. we will likely learn more soon, thank you, john. >> john: sandra, tuesday's elections casting a shadow on the future of pennsylvania's fracking industry. some say they support the industry but imposing tougher regulations. jeff flock is live in pennsylvania, jeff, what do these new lawmakers have in mind? >> well, you can never be too sure, john, i'm out here in the

marcela shale, oil and gas wells are huge here and had a blue wave on tuesday in pennsylvania. democratic governor coming in, josh shapiro, he has been the attorney general for the past several years, and as attorney general he actually impanelled a grand jury to investigate fracking, resulted in charges against a couple of companies and a list of recommendations for responsible fracking, he says he supports. expanding no drill zones, disclosing the fracking chemicals used in case somebody's well is fouled by the chemicals, and regulating the small pipelines beneath the ground that bring the natural gas to the big pipelines. the american petroleum institute, we talked with them on fox business, they say they are eager to demonstrate to the governor that they can frack responsibly, environmentally

responsibly and safely. >> energy is not a partisan issue, it's a very important issue. we would like to invite governor-elect shapiro to look at our industry operations in pennsylvania and see firsthand how we safely and responsibly produce and transport and deliver this energy resource to the consumers. >> john, it's kind of hard to get elected in pennsylvania, certainly statewide if you don't support oil and gas because pennsylvania is the number two producer, a lot of people don't know this, the number two producer after texas, it's huge here, and as i said, everywhere you go you can see one of those wells like the one behind me. so they better listen. >> john: a lot of people depend on that part of the economy for their livelihoods. jeff flock from pennsylvania, thank you. >> sandra: ok, president biden promising he will not do anything different in office despite his low approval on the economy and the consumer price

index shows costs jumping 7.7% compared to last year, a slight dip from 8.2% in september. brian, kings college in manhattan and austin is here, form council of economic adviser chair under president obama. thank you for being here. i was watching the president's speech in realtime yesterday, austin, and heard him say for a moment and tell voters with the message that was set in the midterm elections i get it, he said, with the frustrations and the challenges that americans are facing. but then he doubled down on his policies that got us here. and said he intended to stay on track with the current policies that he has implemented. a bit of what we heard yesterday. >> voters spoke clearly about their concerns, about raising costs, rising costs and the need to get inflation down. still a lot of people hurting. they are very concerned. i know it's hard for folks to see that project -- that

progress in their everyday lives. and it's hard to see the results from actions that we took. i'm confident these policies are working and that we are on the right path and we need to stick with them. >> sandra: acknowledges the raising costs but says i'm confident the policies are working. i don't get it. do you? >> seems like the white house was pretty pleased with how the midterm turned out and then when they got the cpi numbers today, that the new inflation was a fair bit below what was expected. feels like that's a double shot of good news for the white house. so i'm not sure i agree with you on the disconnect there. >> sandra: ok, brian. >> if you are looking at the election results and think the answer to that is to do nothing different going forward, then obviously the president doesn't get it. i agree, it's nice to see inflation come down to 7.7, it's still 7.7.

wall street loves it, they are up 1,000 points because they think the fed is going to pivot, but main street is saying i'm still paying 5.30 for diesel, 3.80 for gas, 43% more for, you know, butter and eggs. that's not a good news story. so, something different has to happen here if biden says nothing changes, then boy, it's important for republicans to at least get one of these houses because somebody has to stand in the way of the spending. >> sandra: austin, we are still looking at, you know, pretty high inflation, multi-decade high inflation. our voter analysis did reveal the biggest concern for voters is sky high grocery prices. so, what in the president's policies targets food prices? how is he planning to get them down? >> well, i mean -- as you know, almost everything that happens in terms of inflation and prices is in the private market and the price of food is way up worldwide because you have war going on in ukraine and so food

prices are going to be high. as the supply chain bottlenecks have cleared out, the inflation rate, which is not the level of prices, but how fast they are rising, that inflation rate has come down in places as you got the bottlenecks, and so i think in the president's program, what he's been arguing is working on the ports, trying to enact the infrastructure program and work on the supply side so that farmers can get their products to market and get around the supply chain bottlenecks will eventually work. >> sandra: point taken that inflation has come down a bit, the white house should take a victory lap on that. come down from the sky high 40-year inflation that has happened on this president's watch, right. i mean, that inflation was not there when he took office. >> my point is not to make a political defense of one side or the other. it is to emphasize this is a worldwide phenomenon.

food price inflation is massively high throughout the world, not just in the united states. >> sandra: and that's when we hear from the white house as well. brian, you ask voters and polls after polls showed voters hold big government spending responsible for the inflation that we are all living through. >> no victory laps here, sorry, we are not at any point where anybody can take a victory lap. the fact is, there's a lot of work to do and i get concerned about how much work the fed still has to do and will they do it. look, you have democratic progressive senators writing letters to jay powell right now saying quit it with the rate hikes, it's hurting the economy. but the flip side is we never get inflation under control. stock market might like that but if main street still has 4, 5% well into next year and beyond, that is killing them. so, we are nowhere near victory here. my hope is that republicans can be a check on spending and the fed can finally do its job instead of the climate stuff

they have been focusing on. >> sandra: that reason, why a lot of wall street analysts, austin and brian, why we see the rally on the screen, the gridlock in washington and divided power can be good for the stock market. quite a rally on our hands. thank you, gentlemen. >> john: a live look at clark county, nevada, election officials are updating on the vote counting process. more on that when we are back. (snorting) (clattering) (frustrated grunt) i need some sleep. (groaning) (growling) (silence) (sigh, chuckle) if you struggle with cpap, you should check out inspire. inspire. sleep apnea innovation. learn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com. veteran homeowners: if you're on a fixed income,

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>> john: a mysterious disappearance at sea involving a billionaire and a cruise ship. laura ingle is following the story. laura, are investigators closing to finding out what happened here? >> we're certainly trying to find that out. this was supposed to be a dream vacation for a turkish tycoon that seat out on a cruise to

tahiti to celebrate her birthday. 68-year-old delac arctic is said to own a tiffany jewelry empire in turkey. she plunged to her death from the norwegian spirit cruiseship while vacationing with an unnamed 74-year-old boyfriend who apparently didn't report her missing for 24 hours. according to published reports, arctic was shown going overboard around 3:00 a.m. experts have wondered how a 5'1" woman could go over a three-foot railing. she went over the railing on the 11th floor of the cruiseship. norwegian cruise line released this statement.

>> her family has urged police to investigate her travel companion. we'll have more as we get it, john. >> john: thanks for that. appreciate it. sandra, that will wrap it up for the two days after election day. we still don't know the results. >> sandra: still hanging on. our coverage continues here. i'm sandra smith. thanks for joining us. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: all right. the story goes on. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. it's now day three of the mid-term election, which is very much ongoing at this hours. here you have a live look at some of the counting centers where they're still putting the ballots through the machines in nevada and in arizona right now. so we're still waiting. we really don't have any real word yet on these. we expect an update though very soon and we'll get you the latest numbers that are coming in.