blowing there. it is cold. currently it is freezing, 32 degrees going for a daytime high of 46. >> cold. >> they have a flag. >> stay within yourself. >> bye, everyone, see you tomorrow. >> bill: good morning. awaiting details on an army training accident in southern kentucky. two blackhawk helicopters crashed last night resulting in multiple casualties. a news conference is in one hour. good morning at home. i'm bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. jacque heinrich is in today. you picked a busy day to be here. nice to have you >> thank you for that. happy to be with you this morning. this is "america's newsroom." this crash happened last night during what is described as a

routine training exercise. the helicopters involved were hh60 blackhawks. they can transport a dozen people at a time. >> fort campbell is the army's only aerial assault division. number of casualties is not known but there are several. we expect to learn more when they address the media under 60 minutes. a big area in southern kentucky goes up along with border with tennessee. the 101st airborne division sent out a tweet minutes ago. this is the latest we have. we can confirm two aircraft from the 101st were involved in an accident last night resulting in several casualties. the focus is on the soldiers and their families who were involved. that's the latest as of this moment. >> knowing it happened on 10:00 last night. those families are -- >> bill: the bulk of that information will come out in the

news conference and hold our breath and say our prayers along with u.s. army families involved there and have a connection to that base. stand by. another breaking news story now. american journalist detained in russia for the first time since the cold war. evan gershkovitch, a reporter for the "wall street journal" arrested on charges of spying. the move now inflaming tensions between washington and moscow as if they were not already red hot to begin with. greg palkot live in london for the details and what we know about this story. >> disturbing and breaking news evolving in the past couple of hours here about a colleague of ours, reporter for our sister newspaper the "wall street journal," 31-year-old american journalist evan gershkovitch arrested in russia by the fsb intelligence agency. successor to the old kgb arrested on espionage charges. what the kremlin had to say about it. he is suspected of espionage in

the interest of the american government. collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the russian military industrial complex. the journalist quick to knock this down saying the wall is journal vehemently denied the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. evan gershkovitch. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. now, bill, he was supposedly nabbed in the central russian city of yekaterinburg. no time when the arrest happened. we get a new image happening today in moscow that shows evan coming out of a court there and going into some sort of official van. state media says he has already been formly charged and pled not guilty and that he is now in pre-trial detention until at

least the end of next month. now as you noted, bill, all this comes amid big tensions between the u.s. and russia. especially about russia's invasion of ukraine. evan is the first american journalist, you are right, to be arrested on espionage charges since the cold war. he could face 20 years in prison. a lot of restrictions on russia journalists in moscow. so far, american reporters have been free to report. apparently not anymore. back to you. >> bill: thanks. >> censorship is taking center stage on the house floor today. lawmakers on the weaponization committee are looking into claims the biden administration used big tech to censor public opinion. a lawsuit is filed against the white house. today's hearing will detail evidence collected so far. griff jenkins is live outside the house chamber. what's on deck? >> it will be a busy morning,

jacque. we're just outside of the committee hearing just about to get underway. you can see members of the public lining up and we expect missouri's former attorney general now u.s. senator eric schmitt to testify the missouri attorney general on what he calls the largest speech censorship operation in recent history. in testimony schmidt is expected to say that. the biden administration to censor speech was far more pervasive and destructive than ever known. louisiana's landri says this. they uncovered a censorship enterprise so facet spans over a dozen significant government institutions. some of those agencies include the white house itself, the f.b.i., cdc and national institutes of health. the hearing will address everything from the covid lab

leak theory to hunter biden's laptop. we caught up with nancy mace who had this to say about it. >> we have an administration and white house who talk about saving democracy and protecting it and silent why the i.r.s. would show up on the doorstep of a journalist who was to testify this week before congress about weaponization of the federal government. >> jacque, the witnesses brought a lawsuit against the biden administration and what they found in depositions including from dr. fauci and f.b.i. agent deposed over hunter biden's laptop. jacque, we'll find out whether or not these witnesses believe that any actual laws were broken. meanwhile, the white house has yet to respond to both the lawsuits or the accusations being made in this committee hearing getting underway now. >> we'll keep an eye on that. we'll have much more on this coming up in the next hour with

missouri senator eric schmidt. >> bill: new fox polling numbers. tells us a little bit about how you feel about your political leaders. it finds president biden's approval rating remains in negative territory at 44%. ratings for handling several major issues also underwater. kellyanne conway, some analysis. you are the lucky one in florida. i think this is interesting. among democrats, would you like to see president biden run again or see someone else? he is at 52%, right around where he was a month ago. advance it one time. the intriguing thing. the key biden number is up seven points from a month ago. does that tell you much? >> yes, i looked at the cross tabs. what is really driving it more republicans want joe biden to run in 2024 than do democrats. i think that's because republicans are wise to the fact

we're watching a crumbling presidency and economy right before our eyes. biden is doing a little better on foreign policy and doing better overall. approval rating on the key issues that voters say will motivate them to the polls are really very poor. on the economy his approval rating is 35%. on border security it's 36%. and among independents, that key and growing group across this country, his approval rating in the fox news poll is 35%. he has a net negative 30% approval rating. 65% disapproval. 35% approval among independents who will decide who the next president is. >> bill: donald trump is looking better than he did in our last polling. he is at 54 points, up nine points from the previous month. ron desantis ticked lower down four points. tell you much there?

>> it tells us a loot. not like desantis is just in tallahassee. he has been around the country. a smart move for him to make the country his focus group to tip his toe in the water and say you know, let me see what's out there. if there is really as great excitement for my candidacy among voters as there are among political prague no, sir indicators. we sat on election night and dana on the mid-term fox coverage. if anybody had said that night that come march donald trump would be beating ron desantis by significant double digits, 30 points in the fox news poll in late march, that person would have been seen -- something i said to dana on your program november 18th, 2022, which is that voters decide who our presidents are, not the donors, not the pollsters, anchors or political class. the more voters are told who can

win and who can't win the more they like to remind all of us they have a voice and choice. i think what's most significant about the fox news poll is trump is up by 15 points among women from the last poll. you have the stormy daniels stuff going on. he is up 17 points among young voters. so much for the young voters saying i want generational change at least right now. there is plenty of time. ron desantis hasn't announced his candidacy. he has a big bite at the apple and a huge splash and get to know you moment. get to know me moment in his formal announcement but he has lost some traction and time since the november mid-terms. i think he talks a little too much about woke, a little too much about covid. the idea that republican presidential primary voter in 2024 will want to hear about covid is pretty remote. last point, i love the fox news question. it rarely gets asked in other polls. voters both democrat and

republican were asked what matters more to you in a candidate for president-electability or their position on the issues? when they can win the electability 18 wehrs wehrs. their position on the issues 73%. give credit to voters. they are paying attention and want certain issues to prevail and others to fail. >> bill: much more to go over in time. trump is up 11, not nine. my math was poor. nice to see you today. thank you, kellyanne, more to talk about soon. breaking news with jacque. >> sad headlines now. army official confirmed to fox news that all nine service members aboard the two blackhawk helicopters were killed in that crash last night at fort campbell near kentucky's border with tennessee. the 101st airborne is the army's only attack division and the focus is on the soldiers and families who were lost.

the army is saying now. we're trying to find out more details about how this all happened and we're waiting on anything new. >> bill: the blackhawk has been a work horse in the american military for 20 years. something else to see in performance. the location is trigg county, kentucky. the 101st airborne division is based out of fort campbell. very important to the community and u.s. military. i would expect to see the governor at the press conference. we'll carry that live. two blackhawk helicopters last night in some sort of incident in southern kentucky. that is tough news for the families watching this now. stay tuned. more coming up on that shortly. >> reports now that the covenant school shooter's manifesto will be made public. nashville council member said the police are doing an analysis of the shooter's life.

lawmakers on capitol hill are calling for answers. >> i believe in transparency. i know they have to do an investigation. the shooter is dead. and i this i the families need to know what was going on in the mindset of this person and frankly the country does. >> police and f.b.i. continue to search for a motive for monday's tragedy. >> you covered capitol hill for several years and now at the white house. you had this incident from a democrat bowman out of new york and massey, a republican from kentucky. they were caught on camera -- caught is a poor word here. they were observed on camera with this exchange about the debate over guns in america. i'm talking about gun violence.

>> a school that allows teachers to carry -- >> more guns lead to more deaths. look at the data. you are not looking at any data. >> bill: so you have that. i know you are a veteran watching this now. >> a sensitive issue. representative bowman worked in schools previously. i think he was a principal at one point. you have representative massey who was trying to convey what a lot of these republicans feel, which is you should start arming teachers if you have schools becoming targets. and the two of them clashing very publicly. it seemed like one was shouting more than the other. got a little heated there. >> bill: this school was a private school. they did not have a resource officer on that campus. waiting for more on that. in the meantime 14 past the hour. giant security breach at the border. we find hundreds of migrants crossing on freight trains, how smugglers are organizing these

overnight operations yet again. >> breaking news of another train derailment. this one in minneapolis. what these cars were filled with and why it's forcing people nearby to evacuate. >> bill: a top democratic senator accusing president biden of political mal practice when it comes to inflation as an alarming number of americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck. maria b is here to break it all down next. vir come on in. but firefighters entering a burning house... will one day save time when lives are on the line. visualizing a patient's most recent scan... will help speed up decision making in the er. and while the woolly mammoth is still extinct... that doesn't mean students can't take field trips to visit them. the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real.

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>> bill: evacuations are underway after a train carrying ethanol detrailed and caught firing in raymond, well west of minneapolis 100 miles. rail company says the train went off the tracks in the early hours overnight. no one was injured.

we'll bring you more on that later in a live report there west of minneapolis. and there is this. >> president biden: i want everyamerican to know that i'm taking inflation very seriously and it is my top domestic priority. >> jacque: president biden said lowering prices was his priority over a year ago. americans are still struggling to make ends meet and half are saying they can't miss more than two paychecks. party members are casting blame. joe manchin not mincing words. biden's inflation reduction act betrayal. maria bartiromo is here with us. what do you make of this op-ed. >> senator manchin feels betrayed. he was the final vote for the massive 1.9 trillion omnibus package at the end of last year. republicans were about to take the mantel but jammed in another 1.9 trillion bill and joe

manchin said ill oh he do this but please put permitting inside the inflation reduction act. in the journal this morning he writes that he is betrayed. we put 8 trillion to the debt just in the last two years. added to the debt and they are actually not implementing the law as intended. here is what he writes. specifically they are ignoring the law's intent to support and expand fossil energy and redefining domestic energy to increase clean energy spending. there you go. that's what republicans told us the whole time. the inflation reduction act is a clean energy bill and it looks like it is. >> bill: what this reminds us of is the american rescue plan in march of 2021, 1.9 trillion and passed it and said to the cities and counties and states across the country, do with it as you see best. >> i would say that is the origins of 40-year high inflation. the mistakes of keeping interest rates at 0 for 15 years and 11

month period go from 0 to 5%, what a shock to companies. it will continue to reverberate. that added to the fact that the democrats kept spending $5 trillion if borrowing in two years, that's why we had 40-year high inflation. the debt impact will continue. there is a trillion dollars going to mature on corporate balance sheets this year and those companies were paying something like 4%. now pay 8 and 9%. some of those companies won't be able to do it and we'll see bankruptcies this year. >> jacque: i feel like build back better was going nowhere until manchin said we can do the bill inflation reduction act. if you don't get permitting reform at the front end you won't get it on the back end. >> a great point you raise and why some people are saying maybe this op-ed is about re-election and maybe he is trying to convince his constituents that no, i'm all in on fossil.

i'm all in on drilling. i wanted the permitting. to be fair to him he has been talking about permitting for a long time. this administration said it's the oil company's fault. i spoke with the chairman of chevron. i don't know what the administration is talking about, about leases. it is permitting. massive bureaucracies around permitting and it takes forever. joe biden said we need fossil fuels for ten more years. what do you think a major ceo of an oil company is thinking when he says we have ten years? these projects are long-term projects. 10, 20, 30 years. if you hear the president say we'll only need fossil fuels for the past ten years they won't invest. >> bill: the line i pulled out of this. i believe the only person, manchin writes, who can rein in this extremism is mr. biden. jacque, you cover the white house. how would the white house respond to joe manchin? >> he has been saying that

mccarthy has to produce a budget before they have any discussion about spending. they keep saying they're waiting for two weeks and the lead line they put out there is easter. but the president is trying to basically say that republicans can't agree on anything. that's why he is forcing them to put it out before they have any discussion about potential cuts. >> i tell you what i think will happen. we'll go into summer. emergency, emergency, stock market will start selling off because the market doesn't care about debt until it cares and then there is a cycle. oh, it's memorial day weekend. sign this to raise the debt creeling or you can't go home or july 4th weekend. it will probably happen again. we've seen it before. >> bill: more breaking news now on the crypto kid facing a new criminal charge. he will appear before a judge a short time from now. so we're live at the courthouse in moments to bring you that. did efforts to develop artificial intelligence go too

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at the open here. a clash among senate republicans over the future of tiktok. rand paul blocking missouri republican josh hawley's attempt to try to fast track a bill that would ban the chinese-owned social media app on government devices. >> the two main reasons why we might not want to do this, the one would be the first amendment to the constitution. speech is proper tekted whether you like it or not. >> it would be senator from kentucky entertain a question. >> i object. >> i have never before heard on this floor a defense of the right to spy. i didn't realize that the first amendment contained a right to espionage. >> hawley's legislation is trying to restrict tiktok usage. government, that was enacted yesterday afternoon. close of business i think was the deadline. and then this piece of legislation which would affect all users of tiktok.

do you think tiktok goes away? >> jacque: it's interesting that you are seeing progressive democrats try to seize on this app's popularity with gen z. aoc saying it doesn't feel right. it might go away. interesting groups rallying to keep it around. the chinese issue has been bipartisan. i was surprised to see there was disagreement with two republicans. generally the party is hawkish on china overall defending a chinese-owned app. >> bill: it is to be determined. >> jacque: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried. prosecutors say he paid a $40 million bribe to chinese officials to unfreeze a bill in

-- billion in assets. >> the charges are adding up and so is jail time associated with them for sam bankman-fried. you are talking about the possibility of 160 years behind bars when you work in those bribery charges. a look at where things stand so we get an idea here. you talk about this accusation of paying a $40 million bribe to chinese government officials. prosecutors said the purpose was so that they would unfreeze a billion dollars if crypto from his hedge fund. he is charged with violating a corruption law. 13-count indictment stemming from the collapse of ftx in november and back in new york this morning, sam bankman-fried moving from mom and dad's in california. it all happened less than 90 minutes from now is the hearing. he will hear about the new charges from u.s. district court judge kaplan. he also agreed to new bail terms

for sbf designed to make witness tampering more challenging. he has been issued a new phone but no internet capability on the phone. simple. an old flip phone. texts and calls and a laptop but extremely limited functionality. monitoring software to make sure he doesn't try anything funny there and prohibited from using any of his parents' phones or electronic devices at their home in california. people are wondering how this 31-year-old who supposedly lost everything when ftx collapsed in november can pay for his legal bills, for example. forbes has a report that he gave a gift, a multi-million dollar gift to his father back in 2021, more than $10 million. used the gift tax exception to do it and supposedly that is the money he is using now. >> bill: top minds in the tech

industry out with a dire warning saying the companies are moving too fast in rolling out artificial intelligence that could soon outsmart human beings is their fear. elon musk and others calling for a six-month pause as google and microsoft try to develop their own a.i. programs. a former google consultant, joe. good morning. we're taking it day-by-day learning as we go. what do you see as the dangers in a.i., joe? >> the dangers with this product is how fast it is moving. they have thoughts and biases just as a human does. but it is trained based on data and the people who engineer it. so one of the biggest dangers of this is not only the bias's behind it but the mass proliferation of false information that could come out. things could get hacked. the system itself is building code and can infiltrate other code systems.

something we need to take serious. in my opinion we should look at this like the manhattan project 2.0. >> bill: wow, that says the lot. sam altmann is one of the big leaders in this space, as we say, ceo of open a.i. company. asked whether or not he is scared of the power on abc. give it a listen. >> we've got to be cautious here. i think people should be happy that we're a little bit scared of this. >> you are a little bit scared you personally. >> yes, of course. i think if i said i were not you should either not trust me or be very unhappy i'm in this job. it's the greatest technology humanity has yet to develop. >> bill: he didn't sign the letter that went public. what is he scared of, joe? >> there are a couple of things here. there is the theory that a.i. will take over the world and robots do everything. that's scary and potential. the thing he is more afraid of and a lot of people who signed the letter are afraid of is

we'll lay off so many people that we'll have this transition period where people have no jobs, no insurance, no stability. and that will be more painful than if a robot takes over the world and starts killing everybody. >> bill: which sectors would be hit the most? >> everyone wants to point to the blue collar low level labor jobs. a.i. will come for those. the burger flippers, ice machines, things like that that people can do automated but for the white collar jobs. anything that is math-based computers can do super well. it could be finance, it could be content writing in social media or even journalism. we're seeing buzz feed their stock went through the roof when they use open a.i. a lot of jobs we can't even predict right now. that's part of what is scaring everybody. >> bill: i mention altmann didn't sign the letter or neither did microsoft or google or meta /facebook. if you don't get the big boys on

board the six-month pause doesn't happen, right? >> look, i don't think the six-month pause is going to happen. it is a great aspiration but both because of the fact you can't control this stuff at this point in terms of who is building it. google, facebook, open a.i. themselves have a public presence. others that you don't know about who are building stuff like this. you can't pause it in that sense. also some of the other angle we need to continue to develop this for a matter of national security. other countries will develop this. if we get behind. this is manhattan project 2.0. we need to approach and strategically think about but consider the impact on society at large. >> bill: you are an interesting guest. hope you come back. we'll stay in touch. thank you, joe, for coming on today. >> thank you for having me. >> jacque: we're waiting an update on an army training accident in kentucky. two blackhawk helicopters

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>> bill: there has been another dangerous incident in our nation's railroad tracks. a train derails in a small town of raymond, minnesota forcing residents to evacuate for their safety. some of those rail cars were carrying ethanol that went up in flames as you can see here. garrett tenney live in our midwest bureau with more on what we think we know now. >> this happened in morning around 1:00 a.m. in the town of raymond, minnesota, two hours west of the twin cities. folks who live near the train tracks say firefighters woke them up in the middle of the night telling folks within a half mile of the derailment they needed to get out of their and evacuate due to the huge fire that broke out. after 22 cars derailed, 14 of them carrying hazardous material

including ethanol. ethanol is highly flammable and can cause dizziness, coughing, burning of eyes and knock people unconscious. bnsf railway approximately 22 cars with mixed freight are reported to be rerailed with four cars on fire. no other hazardous materials on the train and no injuries as a result of the incident. more than 100 people from the small town of nearly 800 were evacuated overnight as fire crews from all over the area worked to put the flames out spraying thousands of gallons of water onto the cars. at this point, it is not clear what caused this train to jump off the tracks. but it comes nearly two months after the derailment disaster in east palestine, ohio. federal investigators are hayed heading to minnesota and the state's governor is on his way to the site. we expect an update in the next few hours. >> bill: garrett tenney in chicago. >> the crime statistics alone

are shocking. d.c. clearly has a crime crisis. the d.c. council saw these rising crime trends but rather than support policies to protect the residents, it did the opposite. >> i know this be lies to common belief. when it comes to crime how people feel is important. there is not a crime crisis in washington, d.c. >> jacque: local officials in the nation's capital are defending their crime policies before the house oversight committee yesterday coming as we learn the district is opting not to prosecute a whopping 67% of arrests that are made by police officers. let's bring in former d.c. homicide detective ted williams. when you hear the head of the d.c. council, council chair saying there is not a crime crisis, what is your reaction to that? >> you know, jacque, i believe that that city official needs to

get his head out of the sand. we have a crime crisis in the nation's capital. this is a national embarrassment. and when you find out that the prosecutor, matthew graves, the u.s. attorney will not prosecute at least 67% of those arrested, you have to question that. jacque, the chief of police, a leader whose men and women go out there every day and put their lives on the line, they are making the arrests, but those arrests have to come before a prosecutor. and the prosecutor in the district of columbia is declining to prosecute burglaries, drug crimes, gun-related crimes. and just yesterday, we had the

union president to testify that over a six-year period the homicides have increased 75%. on carjackings have increased 227%. armed robberies have increased 46%. yes, there is a crisis in the district of columbia. >> jacque: police are frustrated by this. they say everyone they take off the streets should be off the streets for a reason. but the number 67 i want to put this in perspective. compared to wayne county, michigan including detroit, they decline to prosecute 33% of cases, cook county, illinois including chicago decline to prosecute 14%. philadelphia, they decline to prosecute only 4%. d.c. is way up there compared to these other major metropolitan areas. >> you know, we are absolutely

way up there. one of the problems we are having right now in the district of columbia they are trying to recruit more police officers and they are having a problem there because quite naturally a lot of the police officers are retiring and there is clearly a morale problem within this police department as well as police departments all over the country. i can tell you you, the chief of the d.c. police department are doing the right thing and making the arrests. it is very frustrating to them to make an arrest and before they blink their eyes that individual or individuals are back out on the street. that should not be happening in the nation's capital. it is an embarrassment. most recently we had a senator's aide stabbed. most recently we had a congresswoman attacked on an elevator. this is very troubling, jacque,

and they need to get their heads out of the sand. >> jacque: i want to play some sound from the exchange on the hill where they are trying to get to the bottom of where this crime is coming from and one representative is saying the schools. listen. >> to your point about how great the theaters are in washington, you have crappy schools. you are not only -- your schools are not only drop-out factories but inmate factories. you can disagree all you want to, mr. allen rick it's the fact. >> i don't agree that they are factories. >> not all of them. i said you have some crappy schools. you are telling me all of them are excellent. >> i'm not saying all of them are excellent but i would not say they are factories for crime. >> jacque: are schools part of the problem here? >> well, schools are certainly part of the problem. i think the graduation rates are part of the problem when it

comes to juveniles. juvenile crime is up and juvenile crime is up in the the district of columbia. >> jacque: thanks, ted. >> bill: we're on top of two breaking news stories this morning. two blackhawk helicopters colliding in kentucky. we're learning that nine service members are confirmed dead. expecting to learn more at a briefing in a couple of minutes. stand by on that. we're also watching a major hearing in the house. republicans investigating whether or not the biden administration colluded with big tech to censor and suppress free speech. this is covid, hunter biden and more coming up.

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move by the agency was odd. >> i'm not aware that i.r.s. agents do that except, as you said, in cases where there is an investigation for law breaking. >> elon musk thought it odd as well. the i.r.s. visit to taibbi's home happened when he was testifying in a house weaponization hearing on the hill. >> jacque: fox business is live in new york city for us. what's the goal here? >> we're seeing both coasts states are pushing to kind of hold oil companies in their words accountable and also to reduce the amount of money. lawmakers are considering a bill in new york that would be big money for oil producers. new york city climate change adaptation new york would charge

oil producers $3 billion per year up to $74 billion in exchange for their contribution to climate change. infrastructure projects to protect from global warming. which companies would be on the hook the state department of environmental conservation would be in charge of selecting the companies and measuring fossil fuel output. we haven't gotten an answer which companies. advocates say it won't come back on the consumer. those opposed say it will further drive up the cost of gas for drivers. when the cost goes up for a company it also goes up for the customer. across the country in california they can now penalize oil companies for making too much money. gavin newsom signed legislation the strongest accountability measures in the country. opponents say it will do nothing to help california's energy crisis. >> it has been to send bad

policy east. this governor likes to talk about historic first of its kind policies like the one we just saw. being historic and first of its kind does not make them good policies. >> back in new york the climb all change bill hasn't made it into the final budget. that's due april 1st. on both coasts seeing a lot of action going towards those oil producers, jacque. >> jacque: thank you so much. >> bill: 10:00 a.m. east coast time in new york. an update at fort campbell expected in kentucky. two u.s. army blackhawk helicopters crashed at 10:00 local time last night. all nine crew members are lost. the 101st airborne division was conducting a routine training mission when the choppers went down in a field 25 miles from the military base. emergency personnel from multiple counties responded to the crash site. this is the hearing we've been waiting for in fort campbell. let's drop on in here.