bargaining chip and desperately hoping to see some resolve and washington to stay strong on the trade agreement. listen. >> our destinies are tied together. they need us as much as we need them. so we really need to come to the table and resolve this issue and allow gmo corn to continue going into mexico. >> we should see some updates after the meetings today. in the meantime mexico has implemented a 50% tariff on any white corn leaving the country to hold onto the produce and potentially in preparation for this ban. send it back to you. >> bill: we'll watch it. madison is in the fields of pennsylvania. thanks. >> dana: human trafficking is a heinous crime. we want to bring you a closer look at a multi-billion dollar industries that targets the most vulnerable in the united states and abroad. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home.

the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. >> we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. >> bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. >> good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border.

the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organizations that ship human cargo across the border. despite increased law enforcement actions and awareness across the country officials and lawmakers say trafficking is up. >> people are being forced to work at gun point until the point of death. children as young as 13 are working graveyard shifts in slaughterhouses and little girls are sold into forced sex that they endure day after day after day. just to pay the drug cartels. >> arrests for human trafficking jumped from 1,746 in fiscal year 2020 to 2,360 in fiscal year 2021. the numbers, cases and --

[no audio] >> bill: hang on a moment here. we are losing your microphone. it is important information here. i think it's reestablished, go ahead and continue. apologies. okay. all right. sorry, eric. thank you for bringing us that and we'll round out that report a little more. >> dana: numbers are astounding. >> bill: they are. >> dana: that was a lot about the migrants. a story now about somebody here right, an american like you and me. grew up in a suburb. our next guest was an all american teenager in high school victimized by a man who made her his unwilling sex slave for two years. she is the founder of the soap project. when you and i first came across each other you were getting an award and i was in the audience. your story stuck with me for several years. tell people how you were living

under your parents' roof but became a victim of sex trafficking. >> a normal american kid and nobody would have suspected. all kids are vulnerable. i was because we moved around a lot. i didn't have a good support system and i was targeted by a group of guys that weren't just high school students. they were involved in an organized crime ring in my nice suburban outside of detroit in birmingham. i was initially raped and drugged and then they took pictures of this and they blackmailed me for two years to try and earn them back while they earned a lot of money. >> dana: this is happening in your experience now in all neighborhoods everywhere across the country? >> absolutely. every zip code, yes. this is the second leading crime in the united states. people have no idea. we put so much money into breast cancer awareness.

we have more victims of human trafficking in this country than we do of breast cancer. >> dana: do you think this is highly organized in terms of crime? are the cartels a part of that? >> definitely. i worked at the u.s. catholic sisters against human trafficking. they are very aware of what is going on in the border and very aware of what's going on with our laws across the country and we're not supporting victims. we still think it happens in other countries. this is everything from organized crime to parents doing it to their kids in rural america. >> dana: how did you end the abuse and what did you do with that you call the soap project? >> i created the soap project, save our adolescents from prostitution. there is no such thing as child or teen prostitutes. that's what they get deemed as, as a bad kid. so we get together hundreds of thousands of volunteers over the

course of a year to label bars of soap with the hotline number and we give them out to every hotel and motel. usually around big sporting events. you can see that's some of the super bowls that we've been to. 11 super bowls. we have 21 chapters that continue our work all around the country. even more importantly than rescuing the missing kids that are being trafficked, because -- >> dana: one of the things on the label of the soap which as i understand it they would make you go into the bathroom in between the people they were auctioning you off to. so then the label has the number if you are being trafficked and in trouble call this number. when they call that number, what happens? >> it goes to polaris project in washington, d.c. it is 114 languages, manned 24/7 and get rescued that way. they can get hooked up to services to get them out

immediately. >> dana: what do you want viewers to take away from this? >> i want them to know that this is the second leading crime. i've been doing this for 15 years. still people have no idea that this is happening in every zip code around the country. this is really imperative that we shout this from the highest mountain tops that this is not just organized crime, it is everything. as parents, uncles and aunts it is boyfriends and it is a horrific way to live as a survivor, let me tell you. >> dana: you are a survivor and glad for that. i'm proud to know you and i think this soap project is amazing. congratulations with it. we'll get the word out about it. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> bill: you think about detroit, michigan. she lives in columbus, ohio. she is in the midwest of america. >> dana: i remember when we first met her it could be happening next door to you and have no idea. they would say we'll show these pictures to your dad's boss and

your dad will get fired and your dad won't have a job and you will be homeless. when you are a teenage girl you believe some of that. >> bill: blackmail. she fought back for two years and won. thanks for sharing your story. busy day on the hill. house scheduled to vote on a pill to immediately end the covid health emergency. in may. so -- >> dana: no time like the present. >> bill: the house oversight committee is interviewing the general counsel about the classified document scandal and an update from republican leaders on a host of issues they are tackling sometime this morning. we'll get more to you on that as it comes in. >> dana: house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan is threatening subpoenas as the panel looks sloe into claims the f.b.i. abused its power who intimidated parents at school board meetings. the national school board

organization had a letter to merrick garland saying they were like terrorists. >> he is writing to the former interim executive director of the national school boards association. our request that you appear promptly for a transcribed entire interview. we will obtain your testimony. republicans are eager to dig into the justice department's monitoring of parents at school board meetings and wrote to president biden on september 29, 2021, asked help with parents raising concerns about covid lockdowns and curriculum changes at school board meeting suggesting the parental push back could be a form of hate crimes or domestic triskaid triskaidekaphobia -- terrorism. >> mr. jones is thinking about talking at the school board meeting. maybe i won't go and speak up.

i know mrs. smith had a visit from the f.b.i. last week. first amendment free speech is what we care about. this committee is about protecting the constitution and in particular the first amendment. >> the white house is signaling cooperation. counsel to the president wrote to jordan last week looking forward to engaging with you and your staff in good faith in the constitutionally mandated accommodation process. adding president biden is committed to insuring that teachers and other public servants can do their jobs free from violence, threats and intimidation. we've reached out to the national school boards association. no response so far. >> dana: mike emanuel will stay on top of it. >> bill: the homeless crisis in portland, oregon. a lawsuit revealing taxpayers are on the hook for a lot of stuff they did not know about and they are not happy about it. coming up. >> dana: a surgeon general sounding off on the adverse effects on social media and how it is affecting young minds. >> if parents can band together

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>> dana: this just in during the commercial break. congressman george santos, this is no lie, will recuse himself from all committee assignments. we have multiple sources confirming that. he has made this announcement during a gop meeting this morning while he is under a lot of pressure. if you aren't on any committees i don't know what you do all day. that's happening. >> bill: we'll see if another shoe drops or holds fast to his position there from long island, new york on the hill. nine democrats running for mayor of philadelphia have all said the same thing. those nine mayors say they'll

declare a crime emergency in the city if elected. the impact of such a declaration would mostly be defined by the mayor who implements it. here is the problem. the city is currently in the midst of an unprecedented crime crisis. gun violence surged. the video of that area called kensington. it's atrocious and revolting to think a major american city that activity like you see on camera are the rampant drug use is everywhere in that neighborhood. >> dana: you have a crime crisis -- crime emergency but you have is a crisis of prosecution. you have the repeatism is so high. they did try to recall the prosecutor there krasner that didn't work. the crime crisis allows for police to do more and see if that's acceptable. >> major events in downtown philadelphia with the eagles playing or the flyers. >> dana: it is a wonderful city. >> bill: you have all the democratic fundraiser. the president and vice president

will raise money in all the stuff going on in philadelphia. try to square that. difficult to do. those are challenging the current mayor will say they'll clean it up. >> dana: let's go to portland, oregon. one of the worst homeless problems in the country. the county purchased tens of thousands of tents and tarps to shelter those in need. news to taxpayers footing the bill and little to no public oversight as to who got the tents or where they would even be used. dan springer is live in seattle with the details. hi, dan. >> hi, it took a lawsuit to uncover the fact that portland's visible homeless problem is at least partly self-inflicted with taxpayers buying tens of thousands of tents and tarps which for years have littered the city. a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of portland residents disabled seeks to enforce the americans with disabilities act and require the city of portland to remove all homeless encampments the block sub lick

sidewalks and parks. the plaintiffs lawyer uncovered something stunning. the county's joint office of homeless services used $2 million of taxpayer money to by 22,000 new tents and 70,000 tarps during covid. passed out all of them for no accounting for who would get them and who would be used. they were for an unsheltered homeless population of under 2,000. >> you provide them 22,000 tents and tarps over a couple of years. we believe the likelihood is quite high that most of those tents and tarps are what ended up in the sidewalks, streets and parks. >> the county response outreach workers generally tell people to sleep where it is legal and safe to do so to avoid being swept and they offer information on where folks aren't allowed to be. they can't ultimately control where folks set up. here is the other problem with that. taxpayers are on the hook every

time one of these unsanctioned camps gets swept including cleaning up all the bio hazards left behind. the city increased the cleanup contract to $26 million over four years. the mayor's spokesperson justifies it saying we have 800 self--sited unsanctioned campsites. this is a public health emergency. critics say the whole massive tent giveaway is anything but compassionate with lots of people, thousands of people living in squalor, a lot on the taxpayer dime. >> dana: those taxpayers have to be mad. thank you, dan springer. >> i personally based on the data i've seen believe 13 is too early. the time it's important for us to be thoughtful what is going in to how they think about their self-worth and relationships. the skewed and distorted environment of social media does a disservice to many of those children. >> bill: a reason why the

surgeon general is talking about that saying that parents should hold off allowing their kids to use social media especially as young as 13. my next guest is raising concerns about it in a new op-ed. he writes this quote. social isolation threatens devastating consequences for the social fabric of our nation. it will be some time before we understand all causes of and treatments for this growing catastrophe but talking frankly about the crisis, its consequence and potential solutions is a vital first step. senator chris murphy wrote it. democrat from connecticut. thank you for your time. saw you in a clip from cnn with. he is making the case brain chemistry at that age is like a dopamine dump. i know you agree with that. the question is what can we do about it? >> i just think that every parent in this country knows we have a real crisis out there. your reports are about 60% of teenagers today feel intense

feelings of loneliness. i care about this issue because i have a 14-year-old and an 11-year-old and i see how these social media companies are intentionally addicting our kids to these screens. you are seeing youth participation in sports dry up. you are seeing kids spending more time in their rooms and less time socializing. a crisis that is growing. i don't know all the answers but what i know is that we can't sit back and do nothing. we have to look at these social media companies and require them to be more responsible about how they are addicting our kids if they aren't going to be responsible on their own. it is up to every parent as to what age they decide their kid should be on social media. it is up to the social media companies as to whether they build this intentionally addicting products that are designed to hook 8-year-olds and 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds before their brains are ready to spend that much time. >> bill: someone was quoted as saying your kid is going up against the best computer

programmers in the world. and it is like what chance does your 10-year-old have of getting through this? the surgeon general also said none of this is out of our control but to get that control you have to have cooperation with the parents. do you see a way of doing that? >> well, listen, we also have to be sympathetic to parents today. part of the reasons that kids aren't involved in as many after school activities is because parents now are working multiple jobs. they have less time than ever to get their kids to activities outside of the house. so part of combating loneliness is getting back to a world in which a 40 hour work week is enough for a parent and have evening and weekends free to get their kids to do activities that involve socialization. yes, we have to involve the parents but also build an economy in which parents have the time to get their kids into healthy activities outside the house.

>> bill: take tiktok. the head is coming to the hill in a month. we'll see what happens. a lot of governments across the country are saying ban it. kick it off. would you go further than that? >> if we are going to ban tiktok not because it is bad for kids it is because it has a connection to the chinese government, right? so we shouldn't expect that banning tiktok will solve our social media problem because snapchat, instagram and youtube, there will be another tiktok showing up six months from now. we need to protect our national security by restricting access to tiktok or banning that. i'm in for that conversation. i don't want that to be our solution to what plagues our kids' lives today. ultimately something will just replace tiktok. we have to get in the business of common sense regulation of social media. it doesn't make sense that we regulate so many things in the world today but no restrictions on how these social media companies are corrupting our

kids' brains. i don't want to go overboard but we have to be in this conversation. >> bill: it is a big conversation with a lot of big-time solutions that no one has come up with. what you laid out is like playing wack mole, right? >> if you ban one particular product another one will come along. we decide to make our cars safe for our kids. when a kid gets in a car we want to make sure it's abilities in a way to make an accident the least likely. so let's decide to build social media in a way that still allows kids to have enjoyment but protects them against exposure to content that's way too mature for them. that doesn't addict them in an intentional way. it is a decision we make as a country to allow social media to get away what w what they are getting away with. >> bill: it sounds too logical. thank you very much today. >> dana: the verdict is in. pro-life activist acquitted in a

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the tri state area and across the country that offer higher pay and a little bit of a lower stress situation. >> find out a lot of big city. new york is not alone. chicago is like that, too. moving to other areas. in the meantime 32 past and we have this story now. a pro-life activist arrested outside an abortion clinic in pennsylvania. he has now been acquitted facing federal charges after an altercation with a planned parenthood volunteer who he says what's harassing his son. mark told hannity about that last night. >> i spent 20 years out there. the first time he has overstepped his bounds with -- my son really was the bait for him. he says -- he throws all sorts of insults and vulgarity of me and my son. i usually let it flow off my back like a duck. >> bill: david spunt is telling us about how it went down.

>> pro-lifeers are calling it a victory and vindication a win by an overreach of the justice department. you mentioned mark hawk lives outside philadelphia, pennsylvania acquitted by a jury of his peers just yesterday charged for allegedly shoving that 72-year-old planned parenthood escort during a clash outside a philadelphia abortion clinic in october of 2021 charged with violating the face act bill. the freedom of access to clinic entrances, a 28-year-old law that makes it a federal crime to use or threaten to use force to injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone seeking either abortion services for pro-life pregnancy counseling services. he was not charged in philly by the district attorney but the d.o.j. who came knocking on his door last fall a few months ago in the form of f.b.i. agents. this was almost a year after the initial incident. >> full swat gear.

hefsh re arm ored vests, helmets. battering ram bagged on my door. >> they announced charges against two in florida for attacking three pro-life pregnancy centers. this t phrases your time is up and we're coming for you. until the double indictment in florida all the charges for the face act in 2022 dealt specifically with people attacking pro-choice abortion clinics. now d.o.j. starting to prosecute the other side as the f.b.i. is now making arrests and offering rewards. bill. >> bill: interesting twist there. thank you david spunt at the department of justice. >> dana: there was a lot of attention on that particular case but also pressure on the justice department because there had been many attacks that people knew about from local media and no arrests by the f.b.i. maybe ths starting to change. >> bill: justice more mark and makes the our guest

tomorrow. that's wednesday's edition. >> dana: back to the border. watch this. >> we have also seen a significant drop in the number of cubans, venezuelans, nicaraguans and haitians arriving irregularly in between our ports of entry at the southern border. this is the model that we have built so that our principle of humanitarian relief is attainable in a safe and orderly way. >> dana: homeland security secretary mayokas defending the biden administration's parole programs and met with republican lawmakers in south florida including our next guest, congresswoman maria salazar of florida. wonderful to have you. what can you tell us about that meeting? >> well, i can tell you and thank you for having me. i can tell you it went well but in reality secretary mayokas needs to do more.

more means to fix the problem. when he is saying that the number of cubans arriving in miami or in key west has dwindled, it is true but because they put a band-aid of giving 30,000 visas a month. i'm not sure if that's constitutional. i'm not sure if that will stand in court. that is why we need and i'm happy to say it again we need to fix the problem for good. to secure the border but secure it tight. fix the legal immigration so we can give the hand to the business owners that need employees and then give dignity to those people who are here who have been here for decades legally. that's the plan. that's why i say that's the plan i presented called the dignity act which i think we'll be able to fix the problem. it's the political elite. the people here in washington, we the politicians need to once and for all fix the problem. that's a problem i do not see

the political willingness to do that in congress. or in the administration. >> dana: so congressman jimenez asked mayokas to allow these four individuals to testify. we can put them up on the screen. what do you think are the chances of them testifying and what do you think you would learn if you heard from them? >> of course jimenez serves district 26. i'm in district 27. i think it is a fantastic idea. let's hear from the people in the trenches. what will they tell you? we are tired. we cannot sustain this situation. we need help. we need resources. so we need to bring the technology that is out there. listen, i want the american people to know that this is a very fixable problem. it is very simple. just put the money that we need in order to buy the technology. i'm talking about drones and all types of technology. we don't need to be experts.

then after that we need to fix the legal immigration and allow those people the american economy needs. then after that let's take care of the people who live here legally. simple. i go back. it's political willingness. unfor naturally the biden administration has not shown the leadership or desire or whatever you want to call it to fix this problem. i represent the city of miami. cubeance, nicaraguans and venezuela who would want to come to the united states. everyone including my parents but the legal way. how embarrassing for the rest of the world that we, the number one economy, military might in the world number one country in the world, look how disarray in our own home. i feel very bad. you know that's why i presented the dignity act. >> dana: one last quick question. we started off the show today talking about the migrant creels

is as it affects new york city and mayor adams saying he needs more help from the federal government as well but a lot of strains on this city. can you tell us in a nutshell what is it like in miami and what kind of pressure is that city under? >> the same. 10,000 new school students in the public school system. no one can sustain that. those are the kids. what about the hospitals and the roads and everything gets more congested. those are not taxpayers because those people that have been allowed to come in by the biden administration are not receiving a work permit. they receive government help. could you imagine how distorted this is? they let you in. we don't know who you are but give you food stamps and not the ability to make a living. unbelievable. congress needs to step up to the plate and say okay, let's fix this mess. that's why i introduced the dignity act.

of course which is not amnesty. it is not amnesty. don't let them fool you. amnesty is what they have now. they don't pay for roads, school or for hospitals. i will explain my dignity act the next time. >> dana: thanks. >> bill: 20 minutes before the hour. check out this video. apparently a drone strike that hit part of an iranian military facility. no one claimed responsibility. where it came from is a bigger part of this mystery. oh. yeah, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? sure, it's wireless. what's your buick's wi-fi password? it's buick envision. that's a really tight spot. i used to hate parallel parking. me too! the buick envision. built around you. all of you.

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>> dana: a humpback whale found dead on long island's beach. the 10th whale to wash ashore

along the east coast since december. what's going on? government scientists say there is no evidence that off shore wind projects harmed any of the whales. state and local officials are calling to suspend those projects until a cause for the deaths is determined. let's get to alexis mcadams live at the beach with the details. hi. >> you can see this massive whale right over my shoulder. step out of the way to get a closer look. so big crews will need to use construction equipment and this massive crane to remove it. then they will run tests to determine the cause of death of this whale. this humpback whale washed ashore on long island yesterday. the massive 35 foot long whale was spotted by crews who called it in. it is one of at least ten to wash up on shore along the east coast in the past two months. officials here say this is the first in decades in this area. >> it is not uncommon to see whales right off shore. this isn't a natural occurrence

by any stretch of the imagination and i think people really want answers. there is a lot of concern what's taking place in the last 45 days alone. >> the site of seeing the whale watched is growing more common. two weeks ago a large whale was found dead down near the jersey shore and a month ago this 30-foot whale was found washed up in another beach. whale deaths continue and some people are talking about a hold on off shore wind projects looking to pause the project happening in new jersey where the governor signed an executive order to increase the wind goal by 50% in 2040 on track with president biden's climate agenda. the whale deaths are not connected to the wind farms according to some. they say it's the second humpback whale to strand in new york since december 1st and looking and investigating the unusual mortality that they say

has been going on since 2016. back live in the beach people wanted to see it for themselves to see the massive whale on the beach. some environmental groups are calling for a federal investigation to figure out exactly what's going on. >> dana: so sad to see that massive creature washed up there. thank you. >> yeah. [explosion] >> bill: terror on the streets of iran. a drone strike detonating a portion of the military factory in iran. u.s. official eaves say israel is behind it. intriguing story now. want to bring in former c.i.a. station chief dan hoffman to our program. to fill in the viewers. this was connected with iran's space research center across the street from it. and the drones that were used were chinese built. as of yesterday, the iranians weren't accusing anybody of responsibility. no one really claimed

responsibility. the attack itself happened and came from inside iran. piece this together right now as to how you see it. >> well, allocations are that it was the israeli foreign intelligence service that launched the attack. they have a long history of conducting strikes, effective ones inside iran. they were responsible for the lethal targeting of the leader of iran's nuclear program a couple years ago. they targeted the nuclear enrichment site with a cyberattack that resultsed in lots of explosions. israel has the capability. the biden administration upon taking office stated goal is to negotiate in their words a longer and stronger nuclear deal with iran. both israel and united states recognize that's off the table. so what the new policy is,

deterring iran from taking the last steps needed to become a full-fledged nuclear power in the middle east, which would have disastrous ramifications. >> bill: iran has acknowledged it is sending drones to help russia fight the war in ukraine. some drew the connection between this factory in iran and the drones in ukraine. maybe not so fast. others believe israel is targeting the factory because they don't want to get hit by the iranians. do you buy a or b? >> a combination of both. israel wants to demonstrate they have the will and capability to launch attacks inside iran. that's what deterrence is all about and why the biden administration sent director c.i.a. burns to israel to discuss high-level clandestine operations a week ago. the second component of what we're doing as part of

deterrence and the military exercises last week, united states military command in israel demonstrated the capability to launch bunker busting balls. a message to iran. israel that has been lambasted in the west for not doing enough to support ukraine. they can launch inside iran and help ukraine deal with the drone problem. the iranians are selling russia the drones that russia is using to launch attacks on ukrainian civilians. >> bill: iranian state media are chinese made drones. you can order these online. what a world in which we find ourselves now, dan. nice to have you on. thank you for your analysis. dan hoffman, thank you. >> dana: you've heard of students burning the midnight oil to get homework done. a school where energy saving lights are on around the clock. what's going on?

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>> dana: a massachusetts high school's green lighting system designed to automatically dim or turn off the lights has been broken for more than a year keeping the lights on non-stop and this store see crazy. douglas kennedy shining a spotlight on this. >> they were told the new lighting system would save them money. then the lights were on when no one was home. at least at school. when you leave the house your parents tell you turn off the light. >> bill: a high school sophomore wrote an article for her school newspaper explaining why 7,000 lights at her high school in massachusetts could no longer be turned off. and were on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> they told you it was a software glitch and couldn't fix it and they didn't have an off and off switch. >> at the time the company had gone through different owners

and difficult for the district and people working on the lights to figure out who to contact. >> 17 months later the lights are still on and her story has gone viral across the country. the international and even "saturday night live" poked fun at the digital debacle. >> students are doing fine. classroom hamster has gone insane. >> causing deep divisions in the city with the software snafu it is costing taxpayers thousands of dollars a month. >> this was supposed to be a cost saving environmentally friendly l.e.d. system that made it so human beings didn't have to turn on and off the switch. >> absolutely. as you know, sometimes technology works to our advantage and sometimes it doesn't. this is unfortunately one of the situations where technology failed us. >> the member of the local school committee and has been fielding complaints for months. luckily the school is now in touch with the lighting company currently owned by cooper

lighting, which has come up with a software work around and scheduled to finally make a repair over february break. the lesson for you here is keep it simple. >> absolutely. the promise of technology is amazing. however, we always have to keep in mind that there are limitations to every technology and you cannot eliminate the human factor. >> superintendent has similar advice. >> i would say avoid proprietary solutions make sure what you install can be serviced by multiple vendors. >> they will also install a manual shut-off. >> it is good to have some sort of on and off switch. >> i'm happy that it gets fixed. >> technology that in this case has thrown some light on technology's limitations. >> dana: crazy story. amazing. >> bill: that should come under the category can't make it up.

my gosh. before we go, why don't we roll this. the best part of the game for me. >> dana: the beginning? >> bill: the beginning. i liked the photography. i caught the f-16s in midair and framed it -- that's good. >> dana: excellent. i wouldn't be the person for filling it. >> says, you were gracious to us in victory and my beloved bengals until next year. we push on. >> dana: we'll push on to julie banderas in for harris. hi. >> julie: thank you. g after almost 3 1/2 years the president giving americans an end date for the covid pandemic emergency. it falls nearly eight months after president biden declared the pandemic quote, was over. i'm julie banderas in for harris