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 -- a lot of

people limiting outside activity especially for anyone with underlying medical conditions who might have trouble breathing. video from the space station 240 miles up showing the extent of the smoke from wildfires billowing in the atmosphere. the mostly cloudy -- smoke is expected to stick around and the possible danger for many. listen. >> the levels that people if they were to be outside especially if they are exercising breathing faster, they are going to be inhaling particulates at concentrations the normal smokers would inhale. >> dana: dr. saphier joining us in a moment with more on the hazards to your health and what you need to know. our meteorologist is reporting from new york city time square. >> good morning. over 9 million acres on fire in

canada. many of those fires uncontrolled right now. it has really prompted a lot of the smoke to continue to billow over the border. a blocked weather pattern in place across the country right now. big ridge of high pressure out to the west. low pressure system spinning off to the northeastern region and the smoke going through western new york, michigan, pennsylvania and into the 95 corridor. it is not until the wind direction changes that we are expecting to get relief. that won't happen until this weekend by saturday. it will still be a tough go in the meantime. air quality alerts are up for millions. school districts in the region have canceled any outdoor activity. that will keep children off the playgrounds in the schools, windows expected to be shut. you mentioned it was an eerie look in new york city on the jersey side you can barely make out the new york city skyline. another look at what we're

seeing today. ominous start to the morning with a red sun blazing over the hudson bay. smoke continues to sit just over the city and it is causing a lot of irritation. standing out here for the last couple of hours my eyes continue to water and feel irritable. we expect the smoke will stick around and make it difficult for a lot of people to get around. new york city a commuter city. a lot of people walking to get to their offices and to and from home. so it is best that you stay indoors as long as you possibly can and make sure you are taking precautions especially those sensitive like young children. >> dana: jane, thank you so much. joining us for more on the growing health risk is dr. saphier. i notice that a few people have actually broken out their n-95 masks. can it help in a situation like this? >> that's a good question. while we can say with confidence the single air cloth mask and probably the single layer medical masks won't do much when

it comes to the micro particles we are concerned about with wildfire. it is possible the n-95s if worn appropriately can filter out some of the particulate. rising pollution levels has been a concern. wildfires, what we refer to, can be more toxic because it is more cash nation and can get into the bloodstream. it doesn't get filtered out by the upper respiratory system. not only do it cause irritation to the lungs, eyes, nose, mouth. once it is in the blood potentially to the heart. the good news is the far majority of people who are healthy with good functioning lungs, they will filter out the majority of these toxins. those with chronic lung issues or chronic morbidity we're more concerned about now and we want to make sure everyone with asthma or other lung disease as

ample supply of inhalers and in communication with their doctors. it is important that everyone avoid being outside as much as possible. that's the best way to keep you and your family safe. >> bill: listening to our reporter in times square you feel it in your eyes, that's for sure. the winds are from the north, doctor and stay that way for 3 or 4 more days. it is not going to stop. until the wind shifts it will blow out to the ocean. so i would imagine over 3 or 4 days you could bring on more problems with yourself. >> well, i listened to janice dean and she said because of the winds that by the end of the weekend you should see a shift in this. you have a lot of people. my kids have soccer and basketball games, a couple of races this weekend. those are probably not a good idea if the particulate matter in the air is as high as it is. as we heard a person earlier in the slot, being outside now is like smoking cigarettes. it is not a joke.

it is dangerous to be outside. decrease the amount of time spent outside especially with increased activity like a soccer game where you are breathing more and requiring more oxygen to come in. as you suck in more oxygen you suck in more of the particulate matter. >> dana: it is true. that can require a lot of changes on the family schedule for the weekend. let's hope the winds change and everybody stays safe. doctor, great to see you. thank you so much. >> bill: california's governor newsom double down on his threat of possible legal action after migrant flights arrived in his state from florida. the sunshine state confirmed it arranged the flights saying they were voluntary. in a video released by florida officials some passengers say the conditions were great. >> all right. jonathan hunt live in l.a. with reaction from the west coast and beyond. hello, jonathan. >> good morning to you, bill.

the political fight over the migrant flight continues as florida officials hit back at those claims from california governor newsom that those who arranged the flight might face kidnapping charges. the florida division of emergency management released this video of the group of migrants who appear to be happy to be traveling singing at times and expressing gratitude. the video, of course, was heavily edited and released by florida officials. we don't know from this video the details of the documents the migrants are seen signing. neither do we know whether we they were loaded onto the plane they knew they were going to california. at least one of them seems happy on arrival. some california officials still dispute the idea that the migrants knew anything about their destination when they were loaded onto the plane.

the release of the video about florida officials appears to be a direct response to a tweet from california governor gavin newsom in which he called florida governor ron desantis, now a candidate for the republican presidential nomination, a small, pathetic man. bill and dana, back to you. >> bill: speaking of that, we go to the mayor, eric adams. now here in new york talking about air quality. >> i was out walking the streets. clearly we knew something was happening that was beyond normal. the screen shots really show you the mists and clouds that was over our city. we had dangerously high levels of wildfire, smoke from thousands of miles away. thousands of miles away. from the gloom over yankee

stadium to the smokey haze on our skyline, we can see it and smell it and we felt it and it was alarming and concerning. last night at 10:00 p.m. the air quality index hit 218. a very unhealthy level on the levels of health concern it sent shock waves throughout the entire city and this region. this morning at 7:00 a.m. the air quality index was 174 in the bronx and will remain around that level for at least another day. this is an unprecedented event in our city and new yorkers must take precaution. the new york state department of environmental conservation has issued an air advisory.

first deputy mayor will go into that coordination. at the moment, we recommend vulnerable new yorkers stay inside. all new yorkers should limit outdoor activity to the greatest extent possible. this is not a day to train for a marathon or do an outside event with your children. stay inside, close windows and doors, and use air purifiers if you have them. >> bill: here is what's going on. canada is on track for its worst ever year of wildfires. they've got fires burning in just about every canadian province and territory. that usually happens in the western part of the country. >> dana: and much later in the summer. >> bill: now it's happening also in quebec and why the u.s. is feeling it. the winds are blowing our way. this comes from reuters right now. they are saying the rate of increase is so high they could hit record levels for area burn

throughout the entire year but at the moment, the modeling shows increased wildfire risk in most of canada through the month of august. >> dana: wow. >> bill: any time those winds shift and if the fires will be where they are now we'll feel it as well. >> dana: could be one of those summers. we have to pray for rain just during the week. all right. let's bring if dave rubin host of the rubin before. before we got that update we were talking about the rivalry between governor newsom and governor desantis. i say rivalry with a smile. i think newsom thinks he is in a rivalry. ron desantis isn't worried about him. governor newsom, if you want the run for president, go for it. he says in a tweet. you small -- newsom says about

desantis. you small, pathetic man. he just wanted to get in the news. dave rubin, what do you think? >> well, in that over a million people i think 1.3 million people have fled california in the last three years, the majority of them going to florida. you can figure out who people like and who they are running from. before we get into the two of them. the first blame here goes to the biden administration for not protecting the border. that's important to qualify this with. look, at the end of the day gavin newsom should be thrilled now. he wants to run a sanctuary state and loves illegal immigrants who by definition are breaking the law by coming to this country not through legal means and he should be very excited that he can put them in some of the empty buildings that are los angeles or san francisco and they can become part of the community and he can give them phones and the rest of it.

what we're seeing here right now is the very clear distinction between the two roads american can go down. americans have to decide which one they want. we can either have law and order and legal immigration, we can have policing that actually works and is funded, we can be a society that is based if law, or we can just let anyone come, do whatever they want, give them services, put all those services on the back of the taxpayers, and i think it's obvious what americans want and why he put the question mark in it. he should be thrilled. >> bill: he said ultimately who is accountable and responsible? the buck should stop with ron desantis and the games he is playing. the folks on the front line doing the dirty work and ultimately what we have to determine whether culpability lands and resides. you said it. california considers itself a sanctuary state. >> newsom may not know that ron

des desandt -- desantis isn't president yet. >> dana: the other thing this does is gives desantis a way to get in the news with earned media and not a campaign stunt. in a crowded field it is hard to figure how to stand out. i don't know if newsom realizes it helps desantis in a primary by being able to talk about it. >> of course. there is no one in florida or on the republican or roughly conservative side of things that looks at this and is like it is a bridge too far for ron desantis. he is doing what the federal government will not and he has consistently done that. gavin newsom by his own policies of eric adams that you showed at the press conference in new york. these guys say we're sanctuary states and cities, nobody is illegal.

all the meaningless slogans. they should be thrilled to get more of these people. the key thing is this is about illegal immigration, not legal immigration. newsom, i don't know where he is standing on this. you are getting more people. it is very exciting. >> dana: thanks for paying attention to all of this for us and telling us your thoughts. great to have you. >> great seeing you guys. >> hold up, hold up. >> bill: this was some chaos, parents holding a protest outside of california school board meeting. tensions hit a boiling point as the school board debates the inclusion of lgbtq plus issues in the classroom. we'll see where that went. plus this. roll it. >> today, before god and my family, i'm announcing i'm running for president of the united states. >> dana: former vice president mike pence one of several

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>> dana: terrible video captured outside a school board meeting. protests evolving into violence over a california school decision to bring lgbtq plus issues into the classroom. what happened here? william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with the latest. >> parents are upset. under california law they don't have a choice of how or when gender and sexual orientation or identity are taught in class. violence erupted yesterday over the glendale school board decision to make june pride

month. groups squaring off outside as progressive protestors squared off with the more conservative armenian and hispanic parents who said school is for academics, not sexual orientation. >> they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identified as. children aren't sexual beings nor should they be. >> elementary schools are being asked to choose a pronoun. must share bathrooms and locker rooms with transgender students. the board claims it is only following state law which says curriculum must include lgbtq plus instruction. history lessons must include lesbians, gay, by sexual and trends gender americans. parents can't opt out of any of those lessons. schools must refer to a student by the name or pronoun of their choice. cannot disclose that to parents

and transgender students shall have access to the restroom and locker room of their choice. inside parents debated that issue. >> honoring pride month at all schools shows people who have historically not been represented or welcomed that we see them. we celebrate them and they have our support. happy pride. >> where is the consent form that gives this school district or any other school district to discuss or confirm my child's gender orientation or identity. >> in los angeles the school board approved a resolution making june pride month, october is l -- the 11th of october is national coming out day. november 20th is transgender day of remembrance. march 31st is transgender day of visibility and april 12th is a day of silence honoring the lgbtq community. so in california, whether parents like it or not.

sexual and gender studies are dictated by sacramento on down. >> dana: william la jeunesse, thanks for the update. >> bill: republicans trying to be proactive before 2024. a new campaign they're launching now called bank your vote telling fox news digital to beat joe biden the democrats in 2024 we must insure republicans bank as many pre-election day votes as possible. newt gingrich author of a new book called march of the majority is in new york in person. not in a van down by the river. he is right here now today. >> right here. >> bill: nice to see you. >> nice to be back with both of you. >> bill: we are talking about drop boxes, talking about early mail-in voting here. talking about ballot harvesting where legal. they did not push that in 2020. what do you think about this? >> i think the chairwoman is doing the right thing. she understands that we have to be competitive. it would be like a football team

deciding they don't like forward passes. >> dana: even i get that. >> that's the game and that's what's going on, you have to learn to play within the game. it is a lot like we don't have election day anymore. we have election months. election 6 or 7 weeks. if you don't compete in that environment, by the time you get around to the old-fashioned way of doing it you probably lost the election. >> dana: rnc can do its part but need help from the campaigns itself and state parties haven't been as strong as they have been in the past. >> the changes that came out of the way that the law was changed. what you have now between the citizens united case and the mccain fine gold bill is parties have limited resources. billionaires create pacs. the amount of money is enormous but what the parties control is smaller. >> bill: the rnc has to explain

to americans this is how you vote in 2024. >> republicans historically like to vote on election day and they now you have to be competitive from the very first day you are allowed to vote. we have to be out there getting votes in. it is interesting. democrats focus on the election. republicans focus on the campaign. huge difference. that's part of why i wrote the book. we have to get back to understand how the system works and we have to be competitive within that system. >> bill: you adapt or die, right? we put up the early voting numbers. 2020 republicans trailed democrats by ten points. better in 2022. those numbers have to change if you want to win. four, this is right now where we believe the preferences for republican voters during the primary. i think we're up to 12 candidates. donald trump at 53, ron desantis at 20. everybody else in single digits.

how do you assess the field? >> a two-lake competition. a trump lake that's about -- today 53% and everybody else. and one of the challenges for desantis is how to drain the trump lake. that's the great challenge. how do you go after trump and at least up until now there is a poll that desantis took in iowa showed him moving but a poll his campaign took. we'll see if there are other polls. >> dana: former vice president pence is making history. he is challenging a president he used to work for with the nomination. his announcement today. >> we're better than this. we can turn this country around. different times call for different leadership. today our party and country need a leader that will appeal as

lincoln said to the better angels of our nature. >> dana: at any other time this might have been a really big announcement. you have the vice president coming forward. so much news and controversy, so much emptied up in all of the things that happened between trump and pence and now do you think that pence will get on the debate stage and try to figure out a way to make his case? >> i'm a big fan of mike pence. i've known him for many years, a wonderful, decent human being. the biggest challenge he will face every commercial and interview he did in favor of trump. on the one hand you said you said this. now you said this. he has got to figure out. also back to the other problem. you have governor christie has announced now, the governor of north dakota is announcing, a billionaire and self-funder. i was here the other night with tim scott who i think is a wonderfully positive human being. you will have 20 candidates and i'll guarantee you every new

candidate leads to more cham pain being popped at mar-a-lago. he wants 15 or 20 candidates and then he will be the one person everybody knows and the others will be out here in a scrum. >> dana: he might get his wish. >> bill: a stocked pond. great to see you in person. >> dana: congratulations on the new book. great to have you. >> bill: come back any time. want to get an update in richmond, virginia. police giving an update on the shooting. two people killed were stepfather and stepson. five victims hospitalized all non-life threatening injuries. 19-year-old suspect is charged and being held without bond. what relationship the shooter had with these people we do not know. that is what we're getting from the police today in richmond, virginia. >> dana: unhealthy air from canadian wildfires in the northeast. we're tracking the dangerous conditions and keep you posted. a pga tour and liv golf coming

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>> it's been a very dynamic and complex couple of years. and for players, i'm not surprised that this is an awful lot to ask them to digest. and this is a significant change for us in the direction that we were going down. >> dana: that's commissioner monihan defending the merger with liv golf. criticism and questions about the agreement hitting the biden administration. for a view from the white house peter doocy is there. tell us more. >> president biden is a golfer and played at joint base andrews on sunday. for now, he is trying to make this merger out to be a punch line. >> do you have a comment on the

pga agreement with liv? >> family members of 9/11 victims say pga leaders should be ashamed. our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed. it was never to honor the great game of golf. white house officials taking their time to develop an official position on this. >> i'm not going to be commenting on that particular merger. >> i don't have anything to say about that. i have no comment on that today. >> what are the odds? secretary blinken is in saudi arabia today. the biden administration is trying to make nice with the saudi royal family fist bumping with the world watching hoping the saudis wouldn't make the oil production cuts they just did

while insisting they are problematic people. >> do you remember calling the saudis pariah? >> do you feel that way? >> president biden: i don't regret anything that i said. what happened to khashoggi was outrageous. >> message received. the moves these oil production cuts, saudi royal family announced this week could impact president biden's re-election effort if gas prices go up. >> dana: peter doocy, keep us posted. thank you. >> bill: martha stewart throwing shade on remote work. the queen of home and hospitality says there is no way employees can get everything done well if they go to the office only three days a week. quote, should america go down the drain because people don't want to go back to work? end quote she says.

i ask you, ms. perino, what do you think? >> dana: well, i believe a lot of leaders who are very accomplished and have done extremely well as an entrepreneur, others say something similar. they feel the need for people to be in the office. they see something either in the culture or the productivity or numbers that say people need to be here. however, i do think that it has -- there is a new generation who wants three days in the office at most and it is now a competitive advantage if you are a company that can offer that. i have friends in washington, d.c. who just lost some employees because a competitor was able to pull them over saying they could work from home. so i think this is a talent pool issue. i don't disagree with her and i like being in the office. i think that's what's happening. >> bill: i like being in the office, too. even in the office during covid. that was one of the few weirdos. i'm on team stewart.

maybe cut the deal where you get three days a week at a minimum you can function at a higher level. jamie dimon and musk, martha stewart i think they're on point. more popular than candy and soda. the first ever vending machine filled with crack pipes and drug overdose treatment cleaned out in only one day. we're live in brooklyn with this. did they buy it or break into it? >> well, bill, we have the details. some supplies are still in the machine set up on monday. several shelves are now bare. the machines cost about $11,000. inside there are supplies to reverse a drug overdose and also items the city says will make using drugs safer. the machine features items like crack pipes, lip balm, fentanyl testing strips and narcan used to reverse a drug overdose.

all items are there. every three hours a new yorker dies of an overdose. plans to place three more machines? neighborhoods ravaged by overdose deaths. >> there is a shelf life for all the materials. that's why we check it very regularly and excited to put it on our site. we have an office down the block to get services and help or people to check on restock. >> at least 18 other states and washington, d.c. have debuted similar vending machines because of the opioid epidemic. not everyone likes the idea of these. new york city republican councilwoman slamming them as, quote, something out of a fiction -- science fiction novel. city officials face future

machines including syringes to inject drugs like heroin and other items. bill, back to you. >> bill: something we'll watch. wow, only day one. imagine that. thank you, nice to see you in brooklyn. >> dana: hemmer thought you had to pay for it. it's free. an update on the haze happening on the east coast and upper midwest of our country. we are covered with just incredible amounts of this smoke that is coming down from canada. there are wildfires there. they are happening earlier in the season than typical. it is usually in the western part of canada. these are also in the eastern part of canada and because of the wind conditions right now and for the next several days it is pushing that and all the particulate matter and all the haze down to us. so we are going to monitor this. the mayor has air quality warnings out for everybody. check local listings and with your officials if you have any conditions that could be exacerbated by this kind of smoke. the state of mississippi is turning around its reading

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>> bill: smoke from hundreds of canada wildfires spreading across the united states. all outdoor activities at the public schools in washington, d.c. have been canceled due to concerns about the air quality. we are monitoring it. a lot of different angles on the story. going to be for sometime. maybe a week and beyond. that's what we got out of d.c. a moment ago. >> dana: an oklahoma school board voting to approve the first taxpayer funded catholic school. it will ignite an intense battle. martha maccallum is here to talk about it. one of the reasons they want to do it catholic school produce good results. some taxpayer dollars can go to fund the school. >> very interesting. not surprising it would spark debate about public funding going to a catholic school. when you look at it through the view of choice and allowing parents to use their education

tax dollars the way they want, if you shoot this down you also have to shoot down any parent who wants to take that taxpayer money and use it as a catholic school in these open situations that we have in a number of states, including florida. so i think there is a good legal argument to support this because it is part of a choice program. nobody is being forced to go there. >> bill: could be a court challenge. >> i would imagine. that's part of the reason they put it forward but good legs. >> bill: the a.g. is disappointed they violated the oath to do it with tax dollars and exposed themselves and the state to potential legal action that could be costly. >> they are allowing the parents to make the choice with their tax dollars where they want to go. they should be able to use that money as they see fit because otherwise you could argue why are they allowed to go in any different kind of school? >> dana: there was exciting news out of mississippi.

a good news story in education. erika jones and the progress they made when helping kids learn to read. >> starting in 2013 we were looking at issues that involved our reading instructions especially with our elementary schools. we started reaching out and using the science of reading, which really focused on the five components of reading that allows our students and our elementary schools to learn how to read and to carry that over to other subjects. >> dana: to show you mississippi high school graduation rates. that was 2011. 2020 up to 88%. this was -- they were considered 50th in the nation for education progress and now they have made -- it is not perfect but made significant gains. >> i hope the white house awards erika jones. the first lady ought to stand next to her at the ceremony and pushing this program in every

school across america because the first lady is a teacher. it would be wonderful if she would own this issue. erika jones is a hero. one of the things they're doing that's controversial is saying there is a gate at third grade. you cannot move forward if you can't read by third grade. we aren't doing any child a service by pushing them through and graduating them in eighth grade when they can't read. we have to have benchmarks that mean something. i love this teacher. she cares about the students. i hope she is rewarded. >> we'll watch the smoke and the 2024 candidacy which is fascinating to see and we'll be covering it all. >> bill: a short while ago we thought we would get 6 or 7 candidates. we were wrong. >> it is interesting the benchmark of 40,000 small donors will be challenging for some of these folks.

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females so they created and turned u.s. forces to do night raids and tactical group and to have intelligence. >> dana: you were able to get to america during the evacuation. since then what have you heard from the state department or your lawyers? >> i had my interview about 8 or 9 months ago from asylum but i am waiting for the results. i didn't have any answer from them. >> dana: are you in touch with other women who served along with you, other afghan women in a similar position? how many of you are there? >> there are only 43 that came from afghanistan during

evacuation to the united states. just 4 or 5 of us get asylum. we are still waiting for it. >> dana: do you feel the united states has done right by you? i know you are grateful to be here and i know you are working and safe. but as you wait for this you are in limbo. do you feel the united states and the biden administration hasn't come through on what you were promised? >> i don't think so because, you know, they want us to -- we are here and we worked for americans. i worked for more than ten years and also my colleagues and we are here. a lot of us, 20 or 30 of my colleagues want -- one of the requirements to join the military is having green cards. we are still waiting for our asylum. the problem they have. a lot of employers if they hire

us they need to have the status. it is really hard to find a job and it is really hard for us. >> dana: in reading about you, i know that you are somebody who is trying to keep the other women hopeful and optimistic that you have helped them deal with anxiety and that this one friend of yours says that you take time to cheer them up to she don't give up. we thank you for that. we'll stay in touch with you and hope you get the call from the state department soon. >> thank you so much. >> bill: a lot of patience. well done. remarkable woman. before we go. i was back home in ohio, helped emcee the first annual joe borrow golf foundation outing. we raised a lot of money. a million dollars. that is joe's dad. his objective is to help the underserved in ohio and louisiana.

he wants to give attention to those who need mental health. he says it is not all about the money. it is also about attention, too. he is right about so much of that. more to come. a million dollars off and running. thank you for having me. a honor to be a part of it. >> dana: how does it look for next season? >> bill: pretty good. i won't jinx it. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is up next. julie banderas is in for harris. >> julie: we begin with a fox news alert. canada's wildfires having a dramatic and dangerous affect on millions of americans. new york city's air quality is among the worst in the world but it is not alone. much of the country blanketed by hazy skies and toxic smoke coming from dozens of raging wildfires happening right now in canada. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm julie banderas in for harris. be sure to tune in to fox news