to learn more. ♪ spee2 we are learning more about a disturbing tragedy in texas where 7-year-old girl was abducted killed allegedly by a fedex driver. athena strand was reported missing from the driveway of our home on wednesday. digital evidence and interviews lead them to believe she was killed within one hour of her abduction. hello. welcome to fox news live. i am arthel neville. eric: i am eric shawn. another senseless attack.

this one happening in new york city. caught on camera. one man eating another over the head with a baseball bat. that suspect you see walking away is still at large. reaction continues to orient on elon musk about how twitter blocked the biden story. eric: alexandria half on elon musk. nate on the latest disturbing attack in new york city. first, charles watson and chile new details on the fedex driver charged with abducting and murdering a 7-year-old girl. >> this woman said she has been sounding the alarm's about the 31-year-old fedex driver accused of abducting and killing 7-year-old athena strand.

the 23-year-old woman whose name we are keeping private right now said he sexually assaulted her in 2014 when she was a minor. the man who raped the f-16 eight years ago murdered athena strand, the 7-year-old girl. i hope the family gets the justice they deserve. i hope everyone who did not believe me when i talked about this for eight years does now. the woman has posted chat messages that date back to 2016 accusing him of assaulting her. we are not clear if there was or will be an investigation to this and he has not been charged in relation to dl legations. he is facing murder and kidnapping charges for the 7-year-old case. he admitted to up ducting her before killing her and dumping the young girl's body.

>> from the investigative standpoint, digitally as well as good old interviews, we think athena died within an hour or so after her departure from her home. >> the seven year old's mother and family heart rogan. the mother wants the world to know athena's name. "she was perfect from her creation. she was born perfect. daddy and mommy were scared of how beautiful she was and we feel like we failed deal. i love you and love does not even cover it. mommy is broken without you." sad story.

as for the suspect in this case, he has jailed on $1.5 million bond. arthel: it is really heart-wrenching. charles, thank you. eric. eric: a nightmare for parents. a fedex truck drops up and drops off a package and then kidnaps and kills your child. the covid-19 pandemic has caused an increase of abductions because more personal interaction. in michigan in july police investigated a kidnapping attempt there. neighbors jumped into their cars and blocked in amazon truck from leaving after reports involving a young girl. how widespread is this? special fbi agent at this now. this was solved so quickly. fedex trucks have gps. some of them have cameras.

there may have been a ring doorbell. digital evidence as well as the confessing. >> the combination of all of the things that you just said our how they got this individual. when you look at the digital evidence that is out there and you combine all of these different things, it is very easy to track somebody if you have a combination of visual. if they have a tracking device on that truck and if the individual who kidnapped the girl has a cell phone -- i'm not sure of the 7-year-old had one on her, but the phone company in cooperation with law enforcement especially in an emergency circumstance, they have the ability to track a phone. it is just a click of a button. just has to have legal approval. this is what, i do like to see this in law enforcement.

when law enforcement works fluidly. you get to the bottom of things very quickly. there were about two-re- hundred, i don't know the exact number, of volunteers out searching. you have a community that came together with law enforcement. law enforcement worked fluidly and quickly to catch us individual and then the interrogators that worked with him to interview him were able to get the information and a confession out of him in a very short time. when we look at all of these things that law-enforcement a or may not do wrong, right here is a perfect example of what they do right and the community comes together with them. in this tragedy, that is one thing that we can look at. in this community, that worked. eric: hats off to the neighborhood and people in the neighborhood. when they hear that little athena is suddenly missing.

her stepmother is making dinner and she at some point when outside of their front yard. where she had an interaction with this fedex driver. do we know any information about that? details on that, why this time went by before the stepmother realized that the little girl was gone? >> i saw one report that they had had a little bit of an argument. her and the 7-year-old. she left out of the house. that happens every day all day around the country and the world. unfortunately, this predator was outside waiting. i would suspect that when they look into this one of two things probably happened. the fedex driver drove by and saw her and took a target of opportunity or he was there earlier or around that area before and picked up on this

young girl. there is a possibility that that occurred. we have seen that in the past with these types of predators. interestingly enough, when i was looking at the fedex page a minute ago, what it takes to become a contractor there, there are some hoops they have to jump through. one of the things that surprised me is if you have a felony or any other record or you are on probation or parole, they are okay with that as long as it's been a year since those things past. that is very interesting to me. in this country, if you have done something and you are a felon, you probably have a record of doing things and as we have seen from this report from this other individual, this person had a history potentially most likely of doing these violent things. >> a woman who claims that he raped her when she was 16 years

old. we don't know the disposition of that case. the number of missing children, those now watching could be worried. the fbi, 300 30,000 missing children last year. 395 attempted abductions. only 142, i say only when you compare to the 200 30,000. there it is right there. 142 nonfamily abductions allegedly like this. here is what the missing kids of california say. here is a good slogan. if asked to go in your parents don't know, shout no. if asked to go and your parents don't know, shout no. run until someone. teach children age seven to resist. make noise, make a scene if someone tries to get them to go someplace. they also say in terms of dealing with the young children that if you are seven-10 you

need close supervision. going back and forth from school ensure your child understands. it has always been the rule. don't approach strangers. stranger danger. tragically, it may have failed. so sad in this case. what the fbi is saying is these types of cases are up because of the pandemic. >> right. i will tell you something. when i was in the vi and i was working with a parade, i got a girl that was lost, 10 years old, a be a little younger, the terror in that little girl's eyes is something that still stuck with me today. luckily, we found her parents very quickly and all the things were resolved. once that occurs, if there is not summative their responsible, they could be gone forever.

a child is shown that they are in control of their safety to an extent. this is very important for people to realize. >> they can be there one second and you turn around and they are not there. sadly. thank you very much. thank you to your service to our country. >> you've got it my friend. arthel: brutal attack in broad daylight in manhattan caught on camera. some of you may find this video disturbing. a man walking up to the victim and bashing him on the back of the head with a baseball bat. the man is noun hospital listed in stable condition. the suspect is still at large. natives live with more. >> five days since that brutal attack. not only is the suspect still out there, police don't even

know who he is. they release this video hoping someone will be able to identify him. a very disturbing video. you see the man dressed in black sneaks up on the man dressed in red. he lets a bystander walk by and then he pulls back from underneath his clothing, takes a full crow hopping to the man in the back of the head. he goes down. the man dressed in black stands over him. unsure if there is interaction before this or why this person was targeted. you see the victim sits up. he went to the hospital nt should be okay. i want to show you a picture of the suspects face. this picture taken on the same day, the attack played out tuesday in upper manhattan. police just released these images yesterday. unfortunately, take a look at these numbers. crimes like this are pretty

common here in new york city. crime is up 26.8%. felony assault like the one you just all play out or up 13.2%. some blame the da for that. so far he has downgraded 52% of all felony cases to misdemeanors which is up from 39% in 2019. back out here live, those images just being released by nypd yesterday. they are hoping someone can generate tips so they can bring that man to justice. back to you. arthel: that was 845 in the morning. people on their way to work. >> you get my point. you are starting your day and this is happening. thank you very much. eric. >> today marks three weeks since a brutal murders of the four university of idaho student in

idaho. investigators still have no suspects as of now. the mother of one of those victims expressing frustration after she says police cleared certain people, and her words, very fast. christina has a very latest on the investigation. how close are they? we don't even know if they have a suspect yet. >> no word on the suspect, motive or murder weapon. that mother that you mentioned, she says this horrific case is what nightmares are made of. kaylee's father says he spoke with the lead detective on this case and there is no doubt that this detective is working as hard as he can but he is still frustrated with the lack of information being released from the public. >> day after day after day. you just wake up and think today's the day we will hear something.

>> a sixth person on the lease that was never even there. quit playing games. this is the future of this community. >> hours later, early this morning on fox and friends, kaylee's father also expressed his frustrations with the efforts in general. >> do you feel confident in the police investigation and the people investigating right now? >> i do not feel confident. that is why it pushed the envelope and set a little bit more. i hate to be that guy, but there's a job to do. everybody has a job in a role to play in this. this is my role as the parent. >> idaho state police maintain that this investigation has been conducted appropriately. they continued to state that they are not going public with

some information because they don't want to compromise the investigation. >> we do know that there is a person in the community that has murdered for people. we recognize that there is a fear in the public. we are trying to work through that. it is what we are trying to do is advise the public of where we are at. that way they are comfortable. >> the latest update from police , details on the help from the public in this case. law enforcement has received 3000 tips to try to help solve this investigation. of course this is something that while enforcement is looking at as they try to catch the killer. back to you. eric: thank you. arthel: reaction still coming into elon musk filing on how twitter censored the hunter biden story.

the new ceo claims that that is just the beginning. alexandria half is in washington with the latest. >> musk hosted a live q&a. there he was asked if he feels the relationship between twitter and the democratic party amounted to election interference. here is how he responded. >> if twitter is doing this before an election, unequivocal election, that is the very definition of election interference. yes. >> he had teased the release of more documents outcome yesterday he said the entire was made available to barry weiss who is reporting in addition to the lengthy tweet thread by fellow writer released friday. he provided internal

communication so casing the internal debate within twitter whether to suppress the new york story on hunter biden's laptop. a breach of the companies hacked to aerials policy. e-mails shared also revealed routine request from the biden team to review tweets which were then handled by staff. reaction from republicans has been swift. >> what elon musk has been able to do, now we know why the white house wanted to fight so strongly against him owning twitter. all he has done is put out the truth. now we need to look at facebook, at google. >> also asked why it seems so many mainstream media companies are downplaying or ignoring the twitter files altogether. "because they weren't complicit" arthel: we will discuss this more with former google consultant and data expert coming up.

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two days from that georgia senate runoff and both candidates are calling on big name allies to help them bring out the vote on tuesday. that race likely coming down to the wire. we are live on the campaign trail in georgia with all the excitement happening there. >> you are absolutely right. a lot of excitement, anticipation. people just want this to be over with. two days left for herschel walker to try to close this gap that is separating him and the most recent polling. he will get some help on the campaign trail by senators tim scott and john kennedy. one day after he told politico he had not in avoiding the press he mixed up the house and senate

when answering a different question. senator will also be holding rallies in athens later. getting help from music legend stevie wonder who will hold a virtual event for him. still no visit from president biden despite his push for georgia to be one of the first primary states. what is interesting is no matter how bad of a candidate key continues to tell. rejecting a very close race on tuesday. >> it will be a pretty tight race. very unlikely it will be blow out in election. as opposed to weeks of recounts and back fighting and things like that. >> here is why this race matters senate democrats who already have the majority they gain some wiggle room diminishing the

leverage that the others hold. it also opens a pathway for the president's agenda for the next two years which he very much want speared if walker wins the gop they get equal representation on those very powerful senate committees. facing a turbulent election cycle in 2024 with nearly two dozen seats up for grabs. all eyes on georgia this coming tuesday as every single vote will matter. >> living proof that every vote counts. >> absolutely. it does. >> steve. eric. >> authorities say they made another big drug bust. this time mexican police found more than 600 pounds of fentanyl stuffed inside of coconut. they stopped the truck with

coconuts in northern mexico. the truck and all this -- was headed to, of course, our country. mike tobin is headed to texas with the latest on this drug bust. >> more evidence both from drugs and people trying to get across. to that bust that you mentioned, seizing a shipment of some 660 pounds of the potent and deadly drug. taking it to lukeville arizona. enough in this seizure to kill over 5 million people. texas state troopers picked up cocaine that a truck driver tried to slip through. the cocaine was wrapped in 17 packages and secured in a hidden compartment tilt into that truck . spearheaded by greg abbott.

ceasing over 350 million lethal doses. making criminal arrests. almost 20,000 resulted in felonies. pressing the point that texas is doing the job that should be done by federal government securing the nation's border. >> it is imperative to step up this game of what it is doing at the border to make sure that they do everything possible to stop this deadly drug from coming across our border. coming into our state and then coming across america. >> migrants keep coming. agents have it down to a system. a bus picks them up and they are processed. the latest big group, a group of eight just come across the river just moments ago at our location .

they need to send back about one third of the migrants to show up here illegally. title 42 will and now in 72 days. people anticipate that the traffic will only increase when it is. >> tiny town on the border. obviously going to be picked up probably. thanks. >> elon musk now saying he plans to reveal more smoking guns after releasing that report on twitter censorship. we will have reaction from a literacy expert. he is standing by. he is up next. ♪ [vacuum cleaner] advil targets pain at the source. when pain comes for you, come back fast with advil liquid gels. better luck next time. but i haven't even thrown yet. you threw good money away when you bought those glasses. next time, go to america's best - where two pairs and a free exam start at just $79.95.

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♪ arthel: twitters new ceo elon musk promises more "smoking guns" after he and journalist release internal data on how twitter censored the hunter biden laptop story two years ago

attorney jonathan turley calls the move a game changer writing "the release of these documents has produced a level of exposure rarely seen in washington where such matters usually are simply "handled". generally unstoppable forces but they may have met their first object in musk. let's bring in joe now. founder and ceo. expert on data protection a digital literacy and the author of automating humanity. that is interesting. joe, listen, if you could, break down what you think is so alarming about the content of these documents and does this amount to suppression of free speech? >> i think that it is very important that the stuff has been brought to the public. for the first time we have a peek into the black box which is

social media. i hope that this expands beyond twitter. i think that it is also important that we talk about right now, both sides of the aisle have been asked for things to be taken down. a dilemma about just the fact that things are taken down by politicians. this is a bigger conversation in terms of somebody who understands the first amendment rights. what really needs to be talked about here is perhaps elon is trying to deflect attention from the fact that he just -- he has hoping to put chips in people's brains. arthel: you think that there is much to do about nothing and a distraction. is that what you are saying? >> i do think that that is a big conversation being overlooked here. a lot of important conversations to be had. for one, we still need to validate the authenticity of

them. we need to see what else has been brought out outside of this immediate conversation about hunter biden's laptop. think about it. this man owns neural link. in the next six months he is hoping to put chips in people's brains or human trials. he has twitter which is going to be the software india star link which will be the internet for this. arthel: we don't want to put it out there that somehow if you use your phone or tweet that you will get chips put in your brain. let's not do that. it's a crazy concept. we will step away from that one. back to the hunter biden story in the new york post, the twitter employee say they did debate at the time because they were not sure if it was a russian hacking operation which we know there's a lot of russian hacking all over the place in recent years around that time. it seems like they are trying to make it seem that there is some sort of conspiracy there.

i'm asking you as an expert in that field, you connect those dots? >> i think it is a possibility. not much russia hacking as people want claims. what has actually happened is russia really leverage the platforms as they were dealt to be used. >> our intelligence community said that russia did have hacking operations all over the place. we want to stick to the facts here. we have yo because you are a data analyst. i wanted to ask you, what do you think about elon musk free-speech agenda that he has for twitter? why should everybody listening to us right now care one way or the other? >> what he is doing is clearly opening the channels. opening the conversation of what is being blocked and what is not. we still do not know how he will

react to this. we do not know what his plans are to keep things in line. he made the accounts of donald trump, kanye west, all available to the public again. then we recently saw he got rid of kanye west. arthel: he brought up some really horrible anti-somatic comments. that is the problem here. you have this hate speech opening the door. i'm running out of time here. why should we care about the free-speech aspect? black people, gay men, jewish people. why is that a problem, if you can give it to me in 30 seconds. >> it's a problem because this platform emphasizes all the cases around the world. elon musk now has a button to push to control that. kanye coming out with his anti-somatic comments. let's see what he does in the future, to. the real groundrules for what he

will do on this platform. >> all right. thank you for helping us navigate through this. it is all still fairly new even though it's not, it's been around for a while. thank you very much. i'm sure we will have you on again. take care. eric: a republican merely knocked off governor in the midterms. how can republicans replicate his recipe for 2024? lee zeldon. giving us his taken tells us how the gop can win again. he is smiling. he could have been in albany, but he is not. he has a big future ahead. we will tell you what they aresb planning when we come back. ♪

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to coast. scrambling to cross off their holiday shopping list. lucas, if the president will be in arizona, will he be going to the border while he is down there? >> title 42 does expire later this month. we will have to see. the white house is not saying exactly if he's going to the border. as you mentioned, inflation. it remains near 40 year highs and personal saving rate at the lowest level in 15 years which has eaten away at tank accounts nationwide. >> job growth is still good. inflation, gas prices down to three. at least in my neighborhood in cleveland, 319, 329, that level is down sharply from several months ago. i think we are on the right track. we've got a lot to do.

>> applauding friday's jobs reports which beaded expectations. a closer look at this economic data contains some troubling trends. companies are cutting hours. the top three sectors seeing growth or leisure hospitality education and health and the u.s. government. retail sector loss 30,000 jobs last month. the household survey, that was down 138,000 jobs. more americans leaving the workforce. participation dropped for third straight month. reagan library voting on "fox news sunday" iowa senator reacting to the news getting bumped down fr nomination. >> i am glad that republicans are staying the course. i feel that democrats have really given middle america the middle finger. senator kang. >> i'm an independent.

they do what they want. >> it will have to be made by the committee early next year. >> fascinating stuff. thank you, lucas. >> lee zeldon is getting some major backing from big republicans and major donors. after nearly defeating democratic governor in deep blue new york state. writing this last month saying not only should the republican party competed in all 50 states making sure were driving up turn out within our base but we also need to go to all communities no matter how blue they are and advance proposals and economic mobility, housing, health and more. this means making sure people know what we stand for it not just for what we are against. new york republican congressman lee zeldon joins us now. good to see you. you shop the political

establishment in new york. your e-mail. is that your plan? >> i think it's really important as we look forward that republicans are not just saying what we are against. joe biden criticizing democratic party policies, plenty to criticize. the movement is based upon telling people what they are investing in. what they are getting by electing a republican president. the next level of energy and did you see as him. to that point about going to blue areas. if you are trying to compete in pennsylvania, we are not going to go into philadelphia because we will get creamed there. we will just go everywhere else. these media markets, like the philadelphia video marketing plenty of others, new york city, the people getting the news in the suburbs, they care about

that city, they care about those issues. there are a whole lot of democratic voters who when you show up say we've been waiting a really long time for you to be here. they are ready to hear our message. ticket splitters or lifelong democrats ready to try something different. eric: what would you do? you did very well in new york city. how would you try and spread that nationwide for other counties? >> so, clearly, recruitment, campaign manager talent. the way that they are prepared to lead. the ability to fund raise and spend the money efficiently. to ensure with the messaging that we are articulating what we are for. leading into election laws. i am against valid harvesting. in the state where democrats legalize it, then republicans

need to do it better than the democrats are doing it. make them regret passing it in the first place. the election efforts are certainly important as well. collaboration. i am a military guy. not just about bottom down, but top up. there is just a lot more that we as a party need to do in order to ensure that we are most competitive in 2024. work ethic is key. ensuring we are not just going to the places where we do the best to improve and increase republican engagement and turnout but to go to places where they have not seen republicans in a really long time. when you go to a black community or asian community or hispanic community, the key is not to show up and say vote for me. what they want to hear is that we care about the safety on your streets. here are our ideas to make it better. we care about the quality of the education of your kids in

school. it is our ideas, our positions of why we are republicans and putting talent in the way that we articulated to ensure that all of these people who have voted democrat in the past are willing to try voting republican in 2024. >> i do think that the election deniers made a mistake. are you concerned about the threat to democracy? and what we have seen in some of the lies we have seen about the election result. >> the election integrity is something that should be very important to everyone, regardless of whether your candidate comes in first or second. we should be having a conversation because we should be finding ways to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. if there is somebody that has some type of verified confirmed complaint, we should be able to hear them out so we have more trust in the process. what a lot of americans want to

see going forward is this conversation is about the elections in front of us. learning lessons to make sure that we are tightening election integrity is key. i am someone who is in favor of voter id in all 50 states. i'm against valid harvesting anywhere, for sure. the republican party needs to lean into this. otherwise, you will see democrats winning a whole lot more elections. election integrity should always be important. >> will you challenge mcdaniel for the rnc? >> my priority -- we need to send a message to everyone in georgia. get out of vote for herschel walker on tuesday. i don't want to distract from that. once tuesday's election is behind us i will be deciding and announcing that publicly. i don't want to take away from that focus. >> potential answer if i ever heard one. lee zeldon congressman from new

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the world against active volcano in hawaii and it is erupting for the first time in 38 years. the lava threatens a major highway on the big island.

max gordon is there with the very latest. max. >> unfortunately the cloud cover has moved in and you cannot see the lava right now. the lava is creeping down the slope albeit very slowly. 40 feet per hour now. 2.4 miles away from the main highway that crosses hawaii. geologist say that the lava is going to be coming out sporadically from here on out and they are not certain when or if the lava will be crossing the highway. this is the first time it has erupted since 1984. no evacuation orders have been issued. no homes or communities threatens. generating volcanic smog downwind. currently emitting around 180,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day. strands of volcanic glass being

blown out of the volcano. the irruption has drawn tourists and locals alike with any flocking to see the inspiring glow of lava. this eruption is a sacred time. it is also special four scientists and for those that study volcanoes. to volcanoes are currently erupting on the island of hawaii. the first time that both have erupted at the same time. at times, you can actually see the irruption from the national park where it is located. now, geologists say that all of the volcanoes here are interconnected so the irruption of one can affect another. an interesting fact is no matter where you are, you are always standing on a volcano. back to you chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really?

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mike: georgia two days away for another high-stake runoff. warnock and walker. welcome to fox news live i'm mike emanuel. herschel walker is bringing republican big wigs out on the campaign trail today in hopes of closing the narrow