>> not the i hate cowboys and all dogs go to hell. that's jack. >> here is your dad. passed away when you were 22. >> from manhattan to montana. chase rice. guys, you were great. >> support the band. have a great weekend. >> bill: good morning. the president finally breaking his silence on those three aerial objects shot down last weekend. he said they are not believed to be connected to the chinese and the spy craft recovered off the carolina coast. intel officials assessing the three objects. we don't know what they were or who they belonged to. he said they're likely owned by private companies or used for recreation. president spoke for less than ten minutes. did not take any questions. more coming up on our program here but first there is this now. request denied. biden administration telling

ohio it is not eligible for federal disaster assistance in the after math of a toxic train crash in east palestine. good morning, i'm bill hemmer. dana has the day off. back by popular demand sandra smith. >> this is "america's newsroom." fema shooting down the governor's request. the agency said the toxic bill in east palestine does not qualify as a traditional natural disaster. >> bill: the administration is sending funds to help with medical costs. the head of the epa was there for the first time. on the scene yesterday ohio senator j.d. vance. >> it is like chemicals coming out of the ground. let me show this to people. watch this. you can see the chemical pop out

of the creek. this is disgusting. the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact these chemicals are still seeping in the ground is an insult to the people who live in east palestine. >> sandra: health officials insist the water is safe to drink. but people who live there are concerned. >> i haven't seen any ground testing. as far as my kids can go play basketball outside or ride bicycles and play in putt else. i haven't seen anything in it. >> that creek is did. there is not one thing in there, no frogs, dead snakes. i went through there sunday and i thought i would die. i'm curious what i sucked in, will it kill me? i'm scared. >> please help. please, my biggest fear is this will be a forgotten town.

>> sandra: we go to lucas tomlinson in east palestine, ohio this morning. >> senator j.d. vance says he wants norfolk southern to pay for the damages, not the american taxpayer. speaking to reporters i asked him does he want the epa administer to drink the tap water that he says is safe? >> look, i think if the epa administrator wants to stand here and tell people the tap water is safe they should be willing to drink it. >> it's been exactly two weeks since the massive train derailment here in east palestine. mike dewine says the state will set up a medical clinic in town in the coming days out of an abundance of caution. he said tap water is safe to drink. if you own a well, here is the governor a few minutes on "fox & friends." >> the water we have tested

comes back good. we are telling people if you are on the city water, the village water, you certainly can drink that. we're testing anybody who has a private well, we'll test that. >> some residents are joining a class action lawsuit against norfolk southern. we spoke to some residents today saying they've received $1 thousand checks from norfolk southern. we also just learned that a girls high school basketball team was supposed to play a playoff game here last night. despite schools being in person since monday, the playoff game was canceled. >> sandra: it is changing the way of life for so many on the ground. >> bill: let's bring back michael regan who was there yesterday. you spoke to my colleague, dana, two days ago. thank you for your time. senator joe manchin said this.

well, i'm glad the epa administrator regan will visit the site today. unacceptable it took nearly two weeks for a senior administration official to show up. to you, what took so long? >> i have to say i'm thankful for the emergency responders including my epa staff that were on the ground hours after the train derailment and have been there since. i think we have to be responsible here and understand when you bring in a senior official at the cabinet level you divert a pull away resources from the emergency response, from the state police and the like. so we wanted to be sure that the emergency responders had all their resources and focus to do what they've done. thankfully no loss of life. no injury and that is because emergency responders and local officials were able to focus on the job and not visitations. yesterday was a great day for me to visit the derailment site. i spent time at a local creek.

i spent time in a home, a community member's home. so we've been there since day one, i want to stress. we've been there since day one. >> bill: that may or may not be good enough for the folks who live there. let's go through it one-by-one. what did you learn about the air? is it safe? >> you know, from day one we have deployed advance technologies, aerial technologies, mobile van. we have stationary air monitors all around the community and we've tested the indoor air quality for close to 500 homes. we have not detected any elevated levels and the air is safe to breathe. for our homes that have not been tested and if there are folks who are skeptical, i ask that you reach out to epa. go to our website east palestine is on our home page. click on that site and access the information if you want your

home tested, we'll test your home. there are no barriers to epa testing your home. >> bill: you just said the air is safe. what about the water? is the water safe? >> you know, i trust governor dewine. the state has primacy and the state is leading in this recovery and testing the water. as the governor said, if your water has been tested by the state, we believe it is safe to drink. if your water has not been tested or well has not been tested, i implore everyone to reach out to the state. get your water tested and until it is tested as the governor has directed, continue to rely on bottled water. i have confidence in the partnership that epa has with the state of ohio and if there are concerns reach out to state and local officials and we'll accommodate those tests. >> i didn't hear a conclusive answer on the water. are you saying it's safe or do

you know? >> the drinking water is safe for those homes that have been tested and the data proves those homes are safe. there are as you know many people that rely on well water. i ask that if you rely on well water, have those wells tested. the state is ready to test those wells. until then, continue to drink bottled water until you get the green light from the state. >> bill: governor dewine was with our colleagues a bit earlier today. he says the air is good, his quote. he says they set up a clinic next week in town. as of yesterday i think 480 homes have been screened. i imagine more have been screened since then. final question to you. the order to return home, was that order given too soon? >> you know, state and local officials consulted with both the governor dewine and governor

shapiro of pennsylvania. they made the determination that they could return back to home-based on local data as well as data we provided from an air quality standpoint. the state has primacy. they are leading. we are there to support the state and provide the resources to continue to be there for as long as we need to. >> bill: based on -- >> we're with the community and we'll be there. >> bill: they are relying on you, too. you are saying the order to go home was okay based on the information you have right now and the order to return home did not go out too soon for those people. >> i trust governor dewine's decision. we provided all of the data in terms of the air quality. and so when they ordered that return home, we trust that the air was safe for those that returned home. and again, for those whose water was tested and given the green light, it was safe to drink.

for those who have yet to have been tested or when they were ordered to go back home and their water hadn't been tested the governor stressed they should rely on bottled water. whether it's congressman johnson or governor dewine or epa administrator michael regan we'll hold norfolk southern accountable for this mess and be there and see this through. >> bill: i hope you come back. there will be more questions very soon. thank you, sir, for being here today. >> any time. >> president biden: we don't yet know exactly what these three objects were. nothing right now suggests they were related to china's spy balloon program or surveillance vehicles from other -- any other country. >> sandra: president biden addressed the nation. commander-in-chief says three unidentified objects shot down last weekend were most likely

balloons tied to private companies. still questions on china's spying efforts remain unanswered at this hour. peter doocy is live there the white house with the latest for us from there. hi, peter. >> good morning. president biden insists that ame american spies were spying on the chinese spy craft all along. >> president biden: we tracked it closely, analyzed its capabilities and learned more about how it operates. because we knew its path, we were able to protect sensitive sites against collection. >> that was the chinese spy craft. the other three objects shot down remain unidentified. however, a hobby group thinks theirs may have been blasted out of the sky over alaska. the northern illinois -- they had a balloon go missing in

alaska. they don't know for sure it was downed by a fighter but fits with the president's early read. >> president biden: the current assessment is that three objects were balloons tied to proverb ott companies, recreation or research institutions. >> radar enhancements are helping norad spot more objects in the skies and new rules are being put in place to give the commander-in-chief options when to shoot one down. >> president biden: i'll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed and they will remain classified so we don't give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. going forward these parameters will guide what actions we take while responding to unmanned and unidentified aerial objects. >> president biden doesn't want a new cold war with china over this and expects to talk soon to

chinese president xi. sandra. >> sandra: very interesting. peter doocy live at the white house. thank you. >> bill: saw you on air yesterday afternoon when the press conference took place. the group out of illinois says it was our balloon over alaska >> sandra: they think, not confirmed. >> bill: biden does a spy balloon fly by and offers little but glib reassurance. he hopes to talk to xi soon. that gave me an indication they haven't spoken yet. just keep an eye on that. how long it may take to have that conversation. >> sandra: there wasn't a lot of new information offered after such a long wait to hear from the president. it was pretty remarkable. dana said it on "the five" last night. not anything he said yesterday in that news conference that he couldn't have said ten days prior. >> bill: we waited for that, too. more reaction on this. nikki haley is a presidential

candidate. she announced two days ago. we'll talk to her about this and a few other matters coming up shortly. we have this coming up. >> i listened to mayors and listened to the supervisors and border patrol. if you could have heard their voices, they are shaking. they are not sure what to do. >> sandra: lawmakers witnessed the chaos at the border. her message to those on the front lines of this crisis. >> bill: the family of the actor bruce willis giving a major update on his battle with dementia. what we're learning about the severity of the diagnosis. >> sandra: americans are racking up record amounts of credit card debt and what it says about the u.s. economy.

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>> bill: 20 minutes past the hour. dangerous and deadly trend sweeping country involving litheiam ion batteries. the ones that power so many of our everyday items increasingly catching fire. at least 42 so far this year. one of the latest in brooklyn, new york. we're standing by with details today. good morning. >> bill, good morning. the building behind me went up in flames earlier this week. the cause lithe -- they're found in e-bikes, e-scooters, cell phones and laptops.

it can go to a room in flames in 30 seconds. just the last two months there have been at least as you mentioned 42 battery fires across the country. firefighters south of boston blamed charging e-scooters for a fire there. last week a battery fire left four people injured on a united airlines flight. colorado mom christie says her son's battery-powered hover board exploded in their home last week. she was able to safely get the hover board outside and into the snow. firefighters had to break it apart to put out the fire. >> i went back outside and i had not called 911 yet because i thought i had gotten the flames taken care of. as i was taking a video of it, it exploded again and went on to explode again. i feel like i bought my son a bomb for his birthday. >> the consumer product safety commission says there were at least 208 fires or overheating

incidents from 2021 through late 2022. 19 of those were fatal. fire safety experts say there is little time to escape. >> if they are to go and try to get an extinguisher, when they come back chances are they won't have an impact. >> the fire that happened behind me 1 of 24 that have happened so far in new york city alone this year. a few safety tips. experts recommend buying safety tested batteries following the manufacturers instructions and for those larger items, charge them outside if you can. bill and sandra. >> bill: nice to see you. on behalf of the fox news channel welcome to our family. it's great to have you. >> bill, thanks for the warm welcome. >> bill: we'll see you soon. >> sandra: big welcome to her as well. americans are deeper in the red

than ever before. the last three months of 2022, credit card debt in this country rose to $986 billion. that's a lot of money and a record high as inflation makes a cost of everyday goods more and more expensive. steve moore joins us now. you and i have talked a lot about this. now we've got credit card debt in this country rising to a record high at a time when interest rates are going up. balances are up, rates are up and more people carrying credit card debt. triple trouble tore credit card borrowers. this is painful. >> bill, i miss our buddy austin goolsbee who moved on to big time. he may the federal reserve chairman. anyway, look, on this credit card issue, this is a big deal. the good news is, sandra, people are spending money. we got a good retail sales

number earlier this week. so people are spending. that's the good news. the bad news, sandra, people are going more and more into debt to keep up with their living standard because of biden inflation. a trillion dollars of consumer debt on their credit cards is an all-time record. that's one of the worst ways to borrow, by the way. you know a credit card company will charge you 15, 20, i've even heard 30% interest rate on that borrowing. >> bill: maybe we should ask goolsbee, steve, next time around, right? the debt is at the federal level, too. just extraordinary. you wrote a piece today on our website foxnews.com and here is your headline. this is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. what if federal workers never showed up for work and no one missed them? your point, steve, is work from home is still very popular among the federal workforce.

if you are looking to save money and debt continues to go higher, make your case about what you would do with this group. >> people have to know this story. for the last three years now, they have had rules in the federal workforce. remember, we have well over 2 million federal workers, that have not been required to go into the office. not to go into the federal office buildings. and look, that might have been justified during the height of covid but, bill, covid ended a year and a half to two years ago. now you have federal employees who haven't shown up for three years. they are collecting a full-time paycheck and look, there is a lot of sloughing off. i live in the swamp. i have friends and neighbors who have been working 4 or 5 hours a week collecting an eight hour full-time paycheck. it is ripping off taxpayers. a vote last week, bill, where

the republicans in the congress voted to say let's get back to normal pre-pandemic working conditions. and the democrats all voted against that. why do you think that is, by the way? the federal employees union gives almost all their money to the democrats. it's a rip-off of taxpayers. >> sandra: can you leave us on a positive note, steve? it seems like there is a lot of doom and gloom. end of day the stock market seems resilient. what is that disconnect from what people are feeling to how the stock market is behaving? >> by the way, let me finish my point on that, bill. it is interesting most people don't even know that federal employees haven't been showing up for work and my point of my piece was maybe we don't need them then. maybe we can cut the bureaucracies if we don't know they are working. on your point, sandra, you are right. the stock market has been good. the economy has been growing a little bit faster rate right now. inflation has come down a bit

but still high. here is my problem. when we talked about the consumer debt, that's a trillion. but the report just came out yesterday, sandra, that cbo just added another $3 trillion to our debt. boy, i thought biden said in the speech he is reducing the debt. he is not reducing the debt. these are world record levels and i think if we don't get this under control there will be a financial crash at some point. >> sandra: steve had his coffee this morning. >> bill: we're going to $40 trillion in our lifetimes. steven moore, thank you. pennsylvania democratic senator john fetterman seeking treatment for depression in the hospital. how does it affect your ability to serve? a group of house republicans making a visit to our southern border. the white house right on cue saying the trip is a partisan publicity stunt. >> let me tell you, it is a crisis. the border is wide open.

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go to red land cotton dot com and receive 15% off your order with code fox news. >> sandra: pennsylvania senator john fetterman checked himself into walter reed medical center to seek treatment for clinical depression. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live with the latest from the hill. hi, chad. >> good morning. two trips to the hospital have derailed the young senate career of john fetterman. his chief of staff says the capitol attending physician recommended him for in-patient care at walter reed after suffering from clinical depression. fetterman had a stroke last year. >> doing that debate wasn't exactly easy. after the stroke i got knocked down but i got back up. i will fight for everyone in

pennsylvania whoever got knocked down ever had to get back up. >> doctors determined last week fetterman did not suffer a second stroke after that hospital visit his colleagues weren't worried about fetterman missing time. >> i've been with him at lunches and committee meetings and he is doing fine. >> will he be able to be there for big votes in the future? >> no question. >> lawmakers are applauding him for speaking out about mental health struggles and seeking treatment. he sat out a committee hearing id and missed a third of the senate's votes this year. customary for the senate to close ranks around ill colleagues. it's not uncommon for senators to miss substantial time after major health problems. there were some that missed a year, a senator in the 1940s missed four years after falling

ill. >> sandra: chad, thank you. fetterman's health and impact on his duties already becoming a story line in the senate. "the washington examiner" reporter covers the ins and outs of pennsylvania politics and joins us live next hour. >> no one believes our border is secure. not the border agents, not american. >> i listened to mayors and the supervisors and i listened to border patrol and if you could have heard their voices, they are shaking, they are are not sure what to do. they have lost hope. >> bill: a small group of house republicans getting a look at the border crisis in arizona. speaker kevin mccarthy and others met with local officials taking aerial tour near tucson, that area seen a notable spike in migrant getaways. oregon republican freshman was part of that delegation and joins me now still in tucson on a firsthand look for her and

others. good morning to you. as i like to say, seeing is believing and seeing is understanding. you've been to the border before in mcallen, texas, a short while ago. what did you learn in tucson this trip? >> well again, picture is worth a thousand words. we can hear the statistics, we hear them all over the news, we hear them within our communities, the concerns that people have. but until you can come to the border and you can see first-hand what first responders are dealing with, what business leaders are dealing with, you know, what elected officials are dealing with. i was a former mayor. you have to be on all the time to hear what your community is asking. i can tell you this, there is desperation and frustration in their voices about not getting eyes from this administration to really recognize what the cartels are doing to these communities right on the borders. and how that affects them. somebody like myself representing oregon's fifth

district, bill, in oregon this last year we had our largest fentanyl drug bust in oregon history. 150,000 pills. enough powder to kill 4.5 million people. that's larger than the size of oregon. that's why it is concerning for somebody like myself to be with my freshman colleagues, to be with the speaker to come down and address these issues firsthand. again, the border patrol is working tirelessly. to think about not only trying to see who is coming through, the bad actors, but also think about the humanitarian saves they do. 2 2900 rescues in the terrain in the border. less than 3700 border patrol agents trying to control that southern border. what they are doing now is processing. so more gotaways, more migration that we're seeing. we're almost up to a million just this fiscal year. >> bill: if i could jump in a

moment. we were in yuma earlier this week and met the sheriff there. he has an interesting theory about the cartels and fentanyl. he thinks the cartels use the human smuggling to distract the attention away from the drug smuggling because they can make more money on the drugs. the sheriff in yuma from this week. >> the cartels tie up border patrol resources by sending across large groups of give-ups. you are not looking at the 28,000 gotaways in our county alone where cartels tie up all the border patrol resources with large amounts of give-up. >> bill: i'm sure you saw that for yourself and there will be a hearing in a week or two in yuma. i understand a few democrats will be along for that hearing. that might be a really good thing for the people of arizona. >> that's right. again, we have heard the same thing on the ground here. when i talk to the landowner,

who owned this last for over 100 years. they've had over 500,000 migrants pass through their land. 14 dead bodies on their property over the years. they need help. they are asking for help. they are looking to the federal government and looking to freshmen like myself to say enough is enough. we have to show up, be accountable and hold this administration accountable for the policies they have in place. the drug cartels are running this country. speaker mccarthy said it best yesterday. the mexican government has no idea who is leaving their country and the american government has no idea coming into the country but the sinaloa cartel knows. we need to speak loudly and stand up on behalf of the american people. we can no longer have our children die on the streets due to the cartel running the show. >> bill: we have a lot of work to do and glad you went down there. get more very soon hopefully. the people in arizona are paying

their taxes. what are they getting for it out of the federal government? not much. lori, thank you for your time and talk to you very soon in tucson. >> thank you, bill. >> president biden: intelligence community is assessing all three incidents. we don't know exactly what these three objects were. >> sandra: americans finally hearing from the president about the flying objects shot down over north america but learning nothing new. ro khanna will join us live ahead. san francisco mayor london breed once led the charge for defunding the police and now changing her tune amid the city's rampant crime. our panel on that next.

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>> bill: now we're learning that violent crime tripled in one northern california county under liberal bail policies according to a stully published by the d.a. there. criminals walking out on low or no bail reoffended faster and more often than those who did not. the sacramento area d.a. behind the study with this comment. >> the impacts of 0 bail on violent crime are obvious and horrific. we have more people being shot at, stabbed, assaulted, robbed, beaten. these are real victims. >> bill: the d.a. saying this should be a warning to say that 0 bail is the answer to problems within the criminal justice system. >> we're listening to the community and prioritizing investments in the african-american community as a first step in this effort. we will redirect $120 million

for law enforcement to support these priorities. >> sandra: she was one of the first to defund the police slashing millions of dollars from their budgets and now trying to get her city's crime crisis under control proposing spending more than $120 million on police overtime. president of the san francisco police officers association, tracy mccray. author of san francisco-sicko. and leo terrell. tracy, let me start with you first. 27 million on police overtime. is this enough to reduce the damage caused by her initial steps to defund the police? >> no. i think you need to put it in context. $27 million to provide just the basic services. so this is for us to still be able to go out and respond to calls for service because we don't have enough staffing.

because of what was said a couple of years ago and you want to hold us accountable for -- you need to hold everybody else accountable. now you see what happens when that doesn't happen. now we're in this crisis that we're in. >> sandra: it's remarkable what has happened to the police force there, leo. we can put it up on the screen for our viewers. at 1,641 officers currently, the police department there has 340 fewer officers today than it did in 2019. breed said the department would hire 541 officers just to be fully staffed, leo. >> and sandra, let's be clear about this. the democrats and this particular mayor have no interest in supporting police. tracy is absolutely correct. $27 million is to replace overtime officers who are working extra hours over and over again. why, sandra? because law enforcement is not supported in california. not just san francisco, in los

angeles. why? because they have basically given way to black lives matter, antifa and organizations that believe in revamping, destroying, eliminating the criminal justice system. this is a joke and embarrassing. those who know the facts understand that $27 million is not going to replace the shortage of officers that you just pointed out. >> sandra: would it fix the problem there, michael, money? >> you know, the mayor london breed actually owes the police an apology. most people don't know the use of force by the san francisco police declined by half between 2016 and 2020 when she announced she would defund the police in 2020 the police force was already short 200 officers. now it's short 540 officers. people -- the morale is very low, people are dispirited. the police do not feel appreciated with the

community-based policing that we know prevents homicides. 25% have been threatened with assault and half have been a victim of theft over the last five years. the situation is out of control. until the mayor makes it right with an apology to the police, the situation will continue to deteriorate. >> sandra: the nation fall review writes about progressive good intentions run into big government in san francisco. there is now talk about san francisco wanting to build this village of tiny cabins for homeless people to live in. this idea has been thrown around before. they would build it in an abandoned parking lot that the city already owns in the mission district neighborhood and would advertise of 70 of these tiny houses. $7 million would be the cost over two years, approximately $1 hundred thousand per cab-in. is that the solution for the homeless crisis plaguing that

city? >> no, you might as well triple that number. everything costs more in s. we already had toilet gate so we won't even go into that. but no, because no one wants it in their district, right? they go on these tirades and say we need this and that and we need to build these homes but when it comes down to it you know, my constituents don't want it. you don't want it in your district and it's not the solution, right? we give everyone everything and we still don't fix the problem. that's the problem, we don't fix anything. >> sandra: we hear you. leo, final thought. the politicians who pushed for the mission district mind has changed her mind after overwhelming opposition. it was next to an elementary school. >> thank you for this kwechlt it is so important. the democrats don't want to solve the homeless problem. it is a campaign issue.

will you solve the homeless problem by moving these homeless individuals from one public arena to another? more importantly, sandra, let's be clear, homeless problem is not just a homeless problem but a crime problem. it is a mental health problem. all they want to do is basically fundraise on telling everyone that it is a homeless problem. gavin newsom said he would solve the homeless problem. the democrats continue to lie. they don't want to resolve the homeless issue. it is a campaign issue. >> sandra: it will be tough for everyone to figure this out. it has gone so far into bad territory for that city and the residents have been fleeing, appreciate all of you joining us. tracy, michael, leo, thank you. >> bill: more to come. to be continued unfortunately. cnn anchor now regrets what he said about nikki haley. >> when a woman is considered to be in her prime in the 20s, 30s,

40s. that's not according to me. >> prime for what? >> depends. like prime. >> bill: that didn't go over so well. nikki haley is here live to respond to that and more when we continue. ♪

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court appearance by the femme miss police officers in the death of tyree nichols. the first time they've been seen in public since the body cam footage. hi, charles. >> good morning, sandra. any moment now we're expecting the five ex memphis police officers charged in the death of 29-year-old tyree nichols to appear in court behind me this morning along with their attorneys for a bond arraignment. not a lot of details about what will happen in court today but we can almost certainly expect the defendants to have their charges officially read to them in open court and possibly learn whether or not the grand jury that indicted those officers has added other charges in addition to second degree murder and other offenses they already face. this will be the first time we publicly see the police officers since the release of that disturbing body cam video that shows officers savagely beating nichols until he is left

unrecognizable after a questionable traffic stop last month that led to the termination of three memphis fire department personnel and a six officer, the white officer seen taseing nichols. two other deputies were suspended five days without pay for violating a number of department procedures. those two deputies who were suspended are not expected to face charges. meantime the shelby county d.a.'s office is beginning to look through cases from the scorpion unit. the officers charged, their credibility is in question, sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching for that. thank you very much, charles. >> bill: top of the hour now. fox news alert. three big stories top of the news. the biden administration during oaf owe's request for disaster assistance while sending medical experts to the train wreck to address the health concerns of anxious people in the town. house speaker kevin mccarthy leading a republican delegation to t