♪ >> it's a clear day in jacksonville, florida. i it's >> bill: zb morning, there are millions of americans that have seen this in the skies waking up again to a haze of smoke. canadian wildfires darkening skies across the northern u.s. triggering air quality alerts in massachusetts and minnesota. air pollution in new york city some of the worst in the world. eric adams will hold a news conference a few moments if now and bring you updates. first we have this on the trail. chris christie promised he came out swinging and running for

president in a direct challenge to former president donald trump and made no bones about that. back together in new york city. i'm bill hemmer. good morning. >> dana: so glad you're here, my friend. >> bill: miss or not really? >> dana: 12 on the miss. you were missed, yeah. >> bill: i'll take that. >> dana: you should take that. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." good to be back together. more on the wildfires in a little bit. i remember last week my parents saying they couldn't see the mountains from denver because of these wildfires. the east coast dealing with it as well. christie launched his campaign yesterday and attacked the president straight out of the gate. >> he said president trump made americans smaller by pitting them against one another. >> if you look back at our history, when we have had great leaders, at every pivotal moment in our history there was a choice between small and big.

and america became the most different, the most successful, the most fabulous light for the rest of the world in the history because we always picked big. >> dana: he is not the only one entering the fray. north dakota governor doug burgum is set to announce today and mike pence will follow suit this afternoon. the third vice president in history to challenge the president he served under. >> bill: good trivia, right? mark meredith is in iowa with the pence team. alexis mcadams is with chris christie in new hampshire. we start with you, alexis. >> good morning from new hampshire. chris christie knows how to work a room. here at the town hall he talked for more than two hours trying to connect one-on-one on a personal level with these voters in the room telling personal stories and jokes trying to convince them he has what it

takes to be the president of the united states. if they believe him we'll have to wait and see on that. one topic he kept coming back to was president donald trump. listen. >> the person i am talking about who is obsessed with the mirror, who never admits a mistake, who never admits a fault, and who always finds someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right. it's donald trump. >> the former new jersey governor took several questions from the crowd on a wide range of topics from his pro-life stance on abortion to the debt ceiling deal. he came back to the topic of trump telling the crowd one of his mistakes when he ran in 2016 was not confronting the former president head on earlier. christie says the country isn't heading in the right direction slamming president biden for being quiet and weak. >> he is a nice guy.

i've known him for 40 years. he is a nice man. he is out of his depth because he is not the guy he used to be. >> the dnc wrote him off as an extremist. what does donald trump have to say about the town hall? last night on truth social he tweeted quite a few things including a video and memes but posted that christie rambled on for hours. chris christie was confident he connected one-on-one with the voters. >> bill: off and running we are. 12, i do believe. thank you for that. >> dana: mark meredith in des moines, iowa, where former vice president mike pence will step into the ring today. he makes history. only the third vice president ever to challenge a president he served under. >> you're right. i'm sure the former vice president would like to make history by going back to the white house but looking to see how much he talks about his time when he launches a little later

on today. the one major advantage that mike pence has he already has national household name recognition but also got a rocky, if not bitter relationship with former president trump and a turn-off for some republican primary voters. pence will launch his campaign later today in iowa joining other republican candidates talking a lot about his experience as a member of congress, time in the indiana governor's mansion and time in the white house. he released a campaign video this morning. he did not mention trump by name but certainly took a swipe at the current administration. >> our country is in a lot of trouble. president joe biden and the radical left have weakened america at home and abroad. the american dream is being crushed under runaway inflation. today, before god and my family, i am announcing i am running for president of the united states. >> perhaps the most striking thing about pence's campaign is challenging his old running mate for the same job. we haven't seen it since johns garner challenged fdr in the

1940s. pence fired saying he had no authority to overturn the 2020 electoral college results. seven hours north we'll see another candidate jump into the race. doug burgum is launching a long shot bid as a former tech executive he knows how to steer america's economy. >> i think there is a yearning in america for someone with deep private sector experience who understands the needs of small business, i've been there as a small business owner. >> burgum is expected to be here in iowa later on this week. we'll see if pence receives a bump in the polls. he has been in iowa a few different times. dana, any idea why pence is choosing today? >> dana: i think i know. because it's his birthday. >> it's his 64th birthday. >> dana: i heard it this morning. thank you, because i just lost a trivia match to bill hemmer before the show started. now i feel better.

>> bill: i like your outfit. well done. kayleigh mcenany, let's do this clip from chris christie in new hampshire on how he argues he will win over trump voters. >> there is no such thing as trump voters. he doesn't own them. he didn't take title to them. they are not one of his buildings. i voted for him twice, okay? am i a trump voter then? >> bill: i would say yes. if he voted for him twist. pence, christie, burgum, etc. where are we? >> christie, i don't see how the campaign strategy is a winning one. donald trump is popular. a take-down campaign may help some of the other candidates. he may help desantis or those who don't want to call trump by name. currently he is polling as an asterisk, under 1%.

in attacking the frontrunner in a manner he said a lonely self-serving mirror hog. i don't think any name calling be hooves any candidate particularly when he are aiming at a popular frontrunner. >> dana: what about mike pence? you can look at this objectively. what are his chances? >> his announcement was very strong. he has two qualities i don't think any other candidate has. number one, the only candidate other than trump remember the four years when we had economic prosperity? i helped guide the way there. he he can also say i'm the most seasoned candidate in the race. stood -- i have been a governor and in the legislature. he has been under the spotlight. pence campaign tells me today the location they chose is strategic, all 99 counties in iowa and expect to hear

something forward-looking. mike pence is well-known but people don't know him well. the genuine, authentic vice president i saw in the white house is likable and a good sense of humor. they bank on that to take him far in iowa. ron desantis drove a news cycle on immigrant flights. two days ago tim scott did going on the view. how do you drive the news cycle if you are mike pence? >> bill: within the last hour bank your vote. this is the campaign now to educate americans, specifically republican independent voters how you vote in 2024. it is pretty much about embracing early in person voting. ballot harvesting where legal and what they didn't do in 2020. >> a huge reason why republicans did not have great success in the mid-terms. the rnc committeemen from pennsylvania, andy riley said any party that votes for 50 days speaking of pennsylvania and

what democrats have done, is going to beat a party that votes for 13 hours. he is right. fetterman had 960,000 mail in votes. who won the race? john fetterman. happy to see republicans do that. an after thought was we plan on competing in the digital space, too. i want to hear more about that. joe biden is banking on that. he brought tiktok influencers to the white house and a reach of 67 million. in addition to mail-in voting what are you doing on the platforms to get young voters? >> dana: a quick comment a lot of these campaigns hire people on their own, consultants of their own staff to go out and try to get this. they do it through third parties. some of the results have been bad. the nevada senate race last year people hired to reach out to republican voters you ping their phone they were sitting at starbucks and not doing anything. a lot could be improved in that front. >> so true. rnc has to have willing partners

in the campaign. they said we have to have campaigns step up and importance of mail in voting up on the trail. it's up to the candidate as well. >> dana: thank you for joining us. smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in canada has drifted south over the eastern u.s. blanketing the skies over new york with an orange glow. the haze prompting health warnings saying the air in some places is too dangerous to breathe. nate foye is live outside in new york city with the latest. how is it this morning, nate? >> well, down here, dana, not too bad. you can see people are walking around but air quality levels are still in the unhealthy category and you can actually see that if we pull up this live look at the new york city skyline just after 9:00 a.m. new york city mayor eric adams says he expects things to get worse throughout the day. i can tell you things were really bad last night. you could not walk around the city without noticing the sight

and smell of the smoke. it is not just new york city, millions of people across the tri state area, northeast, northern midwestern states all dealing with the impacts of wildfires in canada, over 400 across the country right now. in northeast specifically we are seeing the smoke from 100 fires burning in quebec. look at the impact in new york city last night. the state department of environmental conservation issued an air quality health advisory for new york city and surrounding suburbs. public schools in new york city today will not have outdoor activities because of this. now smoke also lingered over the yankee's game last night. look at this. more of these conditions are expected, dana. fox weather team projects the smoke to linger through friday of this week. back out here live you guys have mentioned that mayor eric adams plans to hold a press conference at 10:00. we'll listen for an update. millions of people under air

quality alerts. if you have respiratory issues, young children as well as older adults are all recommended right now to limit the amount of time that you spend outdoors. send it back to you. >> dana: thank you, nate. and the -- >> bill: ugly night last night here. >> dana: you walked outside, why so dark so early and smells weird and i realized what it was. the smoke drifted across and could last for a little while. today is not the day to go for a run outside if you are in this area. >> you need northern winds to blow the stuff out. right now it ain't happening. stand by for more of that over the next couple of days. this breaking news from overseas. pope francis is in the hospital for surgery on his intestine admitted earlier today. he will be put under general anesthesia and stay in the hospital for several days. got a history of health problems

back in march diagnosed with bron bronchitis. prayers for the pope on his quick recovery. >> dana: 9/11 families accusing the pga betraying them over their merger with liv golf. plus this. >> cop city will never be built. cop city will never be built. cop city will never be built. >> bill: apparently this went on for a long time like 14 hours. atlanta's approval on a new police training center drawing fierce opposition. why is it so divisive? we'll talk to two city council members on both sides of the issue and find out whether or not it goes forward. >> dana: new york city's new drug-themed vending machine emptied in 24 hours. this a viable strategy for curbing overdoses?

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>> bill: news from saudi arabia, antony blink en has arrived there meeting with a women's group in saudi arabia. we'll follow those travels and find out what the headline comes from there momentarily. opec said they would cut oil production and see if it affects the gas tank throughout the summer. the stunner of the week, the u.s.-run pga and government of saudi arabia cut a deal over gulf. the merger with liv has been announced. the deal came out of the blue surprising the families of 9/11 victims quite critical. chair of the 9/11 families united. her husband died in the north tower. she has three kids.

terri, good morning to you. we were speaking during the commercial break and now you are a grandmother. life goes on, congratulations on that. let's get to the serious stuff now. the statement, right? the statement from 9/11 families united saudi operatives played a role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and now it is bank rolling all of professional golf. i imagine when the liv news broke two years ago you weren't happy then. what do you think today? >> oh, bill, i am so disappointed. this is a real gut punch to wake up yesterday and read these headlines. i thought oh my god, the saudis have infiltrated professional golf like they infiltrated our airspace on september 11th when they sent their saudi paid agents over here to america to create the support network needed for those 19 jihadists to hijack four commercial airplanes, carry out the worst

terrorist attack this country has ever witnessed murdering nearly 3,000 people on american soil and killing my husband and the father of my children. >> bill: a strong statement. monihan runs the pga. he took slings and arrows all day yesterday. before it happened with the players later in the day this is what he said. >> as it relates to the families of 9/11, i have two families that are close to me that lost loved ones and so my heart goes out to them. and i would ask any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga tour? what we're talking about today is coming together to unify the game of golf and to do so under one umbrella. a lot of people have been reading about the tension. and today that tension goes away. >> bill: i should have set that

up better. one was a clip from a year ago. the second clip was yesterday. that clip from a year ago. any player that is left or would ever consider leaving have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga tour? he was talking about the guys taking the money from the saudi arabian government. in the end, terri, this is a business and somehow can you eventually reconcile that? >> no, i cannot. he used our stories, our pain and our suffering to malign liv golf a year ago and now he does this complete 180 and has decided that he is going to give them this bigger platform for their sports entity which he said over the last year many times that's exactly what liv golf is. i am embarrassed for him. he should be embarrassed for himself. he and the other governing bodies of the pga have all turned their backs on the 9/11

community, taking these billions of dollars into professional golf hoping what the saudis want is to erase where they used to spend billions, supporting terrorism and financing al qaeda and financing the september 11th attacks. shame on all of them. >> bill: thank you for coming on today. will you protest a golf event? any plans for that? are you and others? >> we are working on it right now. the u.s. open is next week. i will know in a day or two what we'll be doing exactly. >> bill: that's in los angeles. we'll see what happens. your kids are 21, 25 and 28. congratulations on that. thank you so much, terri. we'll speak again. beautiful stuff. >> dana: she is now a grandmother, a wonderful story. the "wall street journal" editorial page said the pga and liv golf merger is. crown prince wins again. over the weekend riyadh cut its

oil production. tuesday liv golf announced a merger with pga. >> bill: both of these organizations were knee deep in litigation. most of it behind the scenes. as best as i can tell throughout the day yesterday, this is what they were trying to avoid. they did not want to open the door into the saudi government or pga tour to what is happening with their organizations behind the scenes. the way you do that is to make sure the door never opens and you come to a deal where all litigation ends, all legal wrangling stops, and you move forward in the most private ways that you have conducted your organizations up to date. >> dana: glob illization is alive and well in the sports world. it is taking a dive other places in terms of popularity. it might be inevitable given the way the world works, technology and it is a business.

it doesn't diminish their anger. >> bill: i will say if you are a fan of golf, this is going to help the sport explode in parts of the world that we've never thought about. you will have international champions out of countries in africa someday very soon. so the game will go big because of this but we'll see what happens in the meantime on behalf of the government pushing an antitrust investigation. >> dana: at home check this out here. >> cop city will never be built. cop city will never be built. >> dana: chaos erupts in atlanta as city council members push forward funding for a police training center. why the vote has so many up in arms. plus why california governor newsom is now threatening legal action against florida's governor ron desantis. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades.

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cnn. he loss the trust of the employees there. joe concha is here. this was pretty stunning. he has only been there about a year. you followed this story closely, including the recent profile that ran of him by tim alberto over the weekend and didn't do him any favors. >> none whatsoever. you don't allow if you are a network president, if i were, i wouldn't allow a reporter to follow me around for a year, including going to my workouts in the morning and witnessing what i'm doing around the office and expect the profile will be more positive than negative particularly with all the struggles he has had as cnn president. he started in april of 2022. we're talking less than 15 months he is gone. i can't recall the last time a network president getting the axe so quickly. an internal coup led by on-air talent at the network even its

own media team that brought him down. why? because many could not accept the fact that he was attempting to move the network from being seen by conservatives and independents as an activist news network, resistance news network aimed as disparaging through personal opinion those right of center and destroying the decent credibility it once had. remember, he had inherited a network that lost 75% of its audience comparing early 2021 to the spring of 2022 and new leadership gave him marching orders saying move the network back to the center. the network was under bernard shaw and air brown and bill hemmer. less provocative opinion. more solid reporter, more republicans on the air. the dam broke at the headquarters south of you when they had the audacity of hosting donald trump. the clear frontrunner for republican nomination. received 74 million votes. a town hall.

the same people internally who had 0 problem putting trump on their air for countless interviews in 2016 great for ratings and clicks. now there is a moral outcry over the may 2023 town hall borderline hilarious to witness. it was that atlantic piece that came out a few days ago that brought him down, bill and dana. >> bill: i was stunned to see anchors from cnn quoted in the "wall street journal" yesterday. that was telling. but i think you are exactly right about the trump town hall. that was the last straw. no matter how you conduct it, whether you let all the audience members ask the questions or the anchor to interject, that did not go well inside the walls of cnn. >> no. you talk about reporters going to the "wall street journal" and going and disparaging their boss. anderson cooper went on the air the day after the trump town hall and he said -- he told viewers he wouldn't blame them

if they never watched the network again. this is insane stuff. so look, in the end, licht was in the atlantic piece. he was critical of the network's covid coverage under jeff zucker. accused journalists of fear mongering the public to keep up ratings. he was 100% right about that. i'm not saying he did a good job, right? a former morning show producer before he was with steven coll bare and creates a morning show that stars don lemon and gets fired. the show can't attract 400,000 viewers on average and a year the find a replacement for the 9:00 p.m. slot. crucial for a cable news network. a year. look, he was in over his head. a former show man for steveer colbert. cnn is a rudderless ship right now. >> bill: after the trump town hall i never seen a network

disparage it's on network more than when they were done with the event as trump. they have a different leadership team in there and see how they do now it's their turn at-bat. >> dana: good to see you. >> cop city will never be built. cop city will never be built. >> dana: protestors still fired up in atlanta after the city council approved a $31 million budget for the controversial police training center. cop city is what it is called. it passed in an 11-4 vote yesterday. despite more than 15 hours of heated public commentary and angry opposition, the vote was approved. steve harrigan live in atlanta with more. have things calmed down at all, steve? >> they have calmed down for now. an amazing atlanta city council meeting. 15 hours, more than 200 speakers just packed with protests and

activists, heavy security as well. finally passing that police training center. $90 million construction project. those who say atlanta needs the center say it is time to modernize the facility. those who oppose it, it will militarize the police force. >> the policing will not make atlanta safer. in fact it will put our communities, particularly our black and brown communities, in significant danger. >> the opposition to this training center has been violent now for more than a year. activists have camped out in the woods near the construction center and lived if trees. they've attacked police officers and committed acts of vandalism. after an activist was killed by police in january, there was a small riot in downtown atlanta. one police car set on fire. some shop windows smashed as well and in march 1, '00 protestors wearing masks set

construction equipment on fire. the response from georgia authorities has been severe. they have arrested 40 people, many of them coming in from out of state. charged them with domestic terrorism. that carries a minimum five year jail term. dana, back to you. >> dana: steve harrigan, thank you. >> bill: meet two of the atlanta council members. one voted for it, one voted against it. thank you for your time. keisha, let me ask you, you are in the minority on this vote. what don't you like about it? >> well, there are a couple of things that i find challenging. one, it's the price tag of $67 million that taxpayers will be footing the bill on. i think it's challenging. this project did not go through the normal procurement and contracting process. it is almost -- meaning the voters, the taxpayers, have very little information in terms of how their tax dollars will be

spent. finally, i do believe we need a facility. i believe that the process is tainted given that an activist was shot 57 times. the community that's impacted has very little input or engagement in these conversations so i believe that we didn't have to do this on monday, june 5th. we should have taken more time to having engaged the constituents. >> bill: seems to me it's gone on quite a while. a year and a half. michael. you were taunted roundly by the opponents. i think it went on for 14 hours. you voted for it. tell me why you think this will help make the great city of atlanta safer. >> well, thank you, bill, for having me on the show. this facility is essentially necessary because within the city of atlanta, there is basically almost no place for our fire and ems personnel to train. the police facilities are delap

tateed. this is really a 20-year conversation that came to a head on monday. people often -- activists have often talked about the police atrocities that have occurred across the country and inside of the city of atlanta. no one supports those things. but that doesn't absolve the city of atlanta from making sure that we provide adequate space, adequate training, adequate equipment for the employees that we have that are operating on behalf of all of us. and so i support the facility because something else that doesn't really get -- gets drowned out in the conversation. people don't often talk about the amount of people who die who are depending on ems and fire services. how many heart attacks, how many strokes, how many medical emergencies that they do not or are not able to get to in time. and so we're short 200 firemen.

they are basically the fire class that we have now is basically training in a trailer. so the sooner this facility can be built, we can fill those positions because we have the applicants and we can get more people on the street to respond to ems concerns. i want to point out there are 500 or 600 activist. i'm a former activist myself. i appreciate the activism but we have 3,911 calls a day in atlanta. that's not the same 3,000 calling every day. that's new people and so that's proof of the desire for the service. for public safety services in atlanta and we have to do everything we can possible to address that. >> bill: you both know atlanta will only get bigger, right? keisha, he made two interesting points. he thinks this makes atlanta safer and it makes it healthier. what would you say to that,

keisha? >> you know, council member and i a very cordial. most legislation we agree on. this is just one issue i don't agree. nearly 600 people showed up at city hall and engaged in the democratic process and spoke. they indicated this is not a project that they support. lots of things we can do with $67 million. first thing is address mental health issues which we're dealing with on a national basis. affordable housing in atlanta is a major issue which is one of the reasons that we have such a high level of crime in the first place. so we have to address the reasons why we're dealing with it the levels of crime. the homeless population is extremely high in the city of atlanta. if we want to take that $67 million and address the root causes of crime, you wouldn't

need to have a facility in the first place. the last thing i would say is this. many law enforcement officials also work 2 and 3 jobs to feed their families. why don't we pay them what they deserve to be paid so there are many ways that we can actually impact the root causes of crime without having to build facilities that truly don't impact the real issues and the underlining challenges. >> bill: thank you both for coming on. 11-4 is the final vote approves $31 million to the project which will now continue to go on track. thanks to both of you for sharing your opinions today. in atlanta. >> thank you for having me, bill. >> bill: you bet. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: i bet you missed this. hamlin spotted for the first time wearing a helmet at practice. he suffered a cardiac arrest last january during a game. he returned to the field in may but only allowed to do

individual drills. the bills posted a photo of hamlin throwing up his signature heart hands. no timeline when he willfuly return to the game. you think he plays next year? >> bill: i think so. i doubted. but if it makes dana read sports it's probably likely. >> dana: that's a high bar to get on dana reads sports. >> bill: i was great event back home. tell you before we go at the end of the show. that's a little clue. we go through the show and give each other includes and can you guess that? >> dana: now i know. >> bill: now you're 0 for one. >> dana: i lost earlier on. see rubbing it in. >> bill: we're keeping an eye on the hazy skies in the northeast. you have a lot of smoke from canada's wildfires moving south and blanketing the area. a lot of unhealthy air quality. >> dana: the wheels of justice taking another turn. the prime suspect in the

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>> bill: we're waiting an update on a shooting after a high school graduation in virginia. richmond police will speak at the top of the hour. two people are dead after the gunman opened fire at the ceremony. one an 18-year-old student. another a 36-year-old man. they will be charged with two counts of second degree murder. so that from richmond. >> dana: some high school grads are getting right to work. majority of americans think a college education is -- don't think a college education is worth the cost. now the job sector is hot with jobs that don't require a degree. abby, evan and kate join me now. we are excited about your futures and want to hear more. mike rowe is somebody who helped you make these decisions based on his program.

abby, tell us about yourself. you are in kentucky. what have you decided to do? >> i decided to go into the welding field. so i've moved back here from florida and have been working in kentucky as a welder. >> dana: what has it been like? >> it's definitely been different trying to get used to being in the field and out of school. but it has been a great time just having to adjust. >> dana: i read somewhere you like to decorate cakes. >> i do. i used to sell pastry in high school just as a little side hustle. so i would bake cakes and all kinds of baking. >> dana: welding is also an art. >> it really is. oddly, transferring from a piping bag to a stick rod was pretty easy. >> dana: that's interesting. evan, you will be an auto technician. that's a job in high demand.

why did you make this decision? >> i had a lot of motivations toward going into the automotive field. i had family that had some experience in the automotive field so just a little bit of experience just from my family and was able to push me into this opportunity and i had some good technology education directors and teachers in my high school who helped me learn whatever i really wanted to learn and i found that automotive i had more of an interest and a niche for it. that ultimately led me to going to the automotive field. >> dana: you said toward the end of your high school year you realized you needed more money to pay for tech schools. you applied for scholarships. how has that helped? >> i was able to eliminate roughly 80% of the tech school cost through scholarships alone. i have -- i'll be able to pay

off whatever is left fairly simply. a lot of that is due to mike rowe work ethic scholarship that was given to me. there is a lot of trade scholarships out there right now. a lot of companies that are willing to pay off your education once you start working for them. so although you occur debt in school the moment you go to work for a company they're almost willing to pay all of it off right away. >> dana: let's talk to kate in northeast ohio. farming and ranching in your future. tell me a little bit how you followed in your mom's footsteps. >> yes, i am currently managing the ranch my mom did when i was growing up. her dad is one of the partners who started and founded the ranch. so when i was 12 my mom decided to step away from the ranch so then she took our family with her and i was not involved with the ranch for quite a few years. and then when covid happened, i

was in south carolina and then when covid happened i came back home and the ranch didn't have a manager. so seeing a need and i decided it is something i always loved to do and was grateful for the opportunity growing up to be a part of that. so then i decided to step in there and manage that during my first year of school. >> dana: i read you didn't like sitting at a desk necessarily. >> no, it was definitely very hard. i am someone i grew up working with my hands. physical labor is what i've done my entire life. my dad is an excavator and i helped him. so to be sitting at a desk on a college campus was really hard but something i needed to do and i needed to learn because i think it is a valuable part to be able to experience different opportunities. i was grateful for that. >> dana: i think the three of

you have exceedingly bright futures and excited about them. the mike rowe works.org if you are interested, check it out. these three young people have a different career path than they thought initially but an exciting one but glad you came on the show with us today. thank you so much. >> no problem. >> dana: best of luck. talk about the front lines in the war on ukraine. they're under water. major dam and power station destroyed unleashing a flood forcing mass evacuations on thousands of homes is forcing zelensky's troops to restrategize. how grave are the consequences there today? >> good morning. the united states is still investigating whether it was ukraine or russia that blew up the dam early yesterday morning. the consequences are significant. there is no publicly available information right now to indicate exactly what happened. but ukrainian officials are blaming the russians and russian officials are blaming the

ukrainians. still today residents of southern ukraine are being evacuated to higher ground. thousands of homes remain under water and ukrainian emergency crews are working around the clock. the dam's destruction has drawn condemnation from around the world due to the civilian and environmental impacts. >> right now the immediate focus is rightly on all the ukrainians whose lives and towns and villages are affected by this flooding making sure they have the aid and assistance they need. right now too soon to assess what kind of impact it will have on the battlefield. >> the dam disaster comes as ukraine appears to be pushing forward with a counter offensive. reports from the field indicate ukrainian troops recaptured part of bakhmut. the russians say ukraine is trying to recapture more there. ukraine need to prove to their nato allies they are able to

liberate the eastern and southern part of the country with the new weapons. >> dana: thank you so much. let's get to bill. >> bill: our viewers a bit of an area that trey is talking about. this is the dam itself. this is the before and after pictures. look at this wall of this dam just ripped apart. let me advance it one time here. this is an image taken from back in may. this is the river. at that time in may. today if you were to line up the same image you would probably draw here and here, so this is the water on the left side, this is the water on the right side. it is clearly submerged this entire southern area of ukraine. how you get around across land is really a good guess right now. with the tactics on both sides trying to be exploited. here is the river. the nuclear power plant as it moves north to south the river flows. this is the dam in question. the russians hold the left bank.

ukraine holds the right bank. here is the dam, see this blue line? it is called the northern crimea canall. when putin went into ukraine in 2014, the ukrainians cut off the water supply here that runs through this canal. it is critical for crimea if you want to survive day-to-day life. you have water-soaked areas. zelensky made no bones about it in the "wall street journal" a week ago that they were ready to go. if they are going to take crimea, their objective now, moving tanks across this land will be tricky. crimea is the area here. this is the target zone. if you saw that interview and take a step back over here. tucker did the interview with zelensky. he said they're ready for battle and ready to go. russia says it is a barbaric act. putin blamed ukraine, ukrainians

blame the russians. we'll see where this goes. if you want to advance an army you have to have good land to travel on. >> dana: on ecological disaster. a lot of animals that people rely on for their livelihoods and the farming that has all been destroyed as well. lots of consequences to all of this. >> bill: if the ukrainians had the f-16s, what would that mean to your strategy in this war? i think you and i have just had discussions among each other. you can take an f-16 and fly to moscow, a concern on behalf of the biden administration of how much weapons you give them and what they do with it. if you had an f-16 you could fly over the dam. >> dana: an argument could be made if they had them in the first place this maybe wouldn't have happened. >> bill: i will say this is a significant moment in this war

and how each side handles it remains to be seen. >> dana: for something at home a big debate coming on capitol hill about a supplemental funding for ukraine and that will be a major partisan battle and kevin mccarthy, mitch mcconnell and biden will have their work cut out for them on that. the top of the hour now. new york city's mayor eric adams is about to give an update on the city's dangerous air quality as hundreds of out of control wildfires are burning millions of acres across canada sending very thick, hazardous clouds of smoke into the u.s. blanketing large portions of the midwest and northeast putting tens of millions of americans under air quality alerts. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: good morning. saw a little haze throughout the air in ohio. saw a lot of it in new york. it looked like october outside the window. i'm bill hemmer. folks from the