kennedy. >> one requested a blow fish. >> that's unhealthy. >> oh, so cute. >> boiled bottled water, ridiculous. i asked for a shaving kit. >> be sure to tune in tonight when our "outnumbered" host harris falkner is back in the anchor chair 8:00 p.m. eastern, you do not want to miss it. here is "america reports." >> sandra: a live look from iowa, any minute now mike pence will be speeching to voters as a presidential candidate. >> john: running on a record with his time with the trump administration, ask him that in his first interview since throwing his hat in the ring. mike pence joins us after his event straight ahead on "america reports."

>> i looked and i seen the sun this morning, bright red. oh, my god, what's going on? >> when you look high up the buildings, looks pretty rough. >> looks way different from now than yesterday, way different. >> completely agree. >> i feel i have a blocked nose as well. slightly irritated. >> a little concerned about my kids going outside, but -- so, for once i'll actually let them stay on their devices. >> sandra: begin with the smoky skies that have become an air quality emergency for millions of americans and officials are warning things may only get worse in the coming hours and days. hello, welcome everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. john, hello. >> john: if you have some masks left over from covid, might want to dig them out. smoke is blanketing the eastern u.s. triggering air quality alerts in big cities like new york and philadelphia, and more than a dozen states. outdoor activities have been canceled at schools across the region and tens of millions of

americans are advised to stay indoors today as much as possible. >> sandra: the haze coming all the way from the wildfires in canada. officials saying it is one of the country's worst fire seasons on record, could mean the air quality problems linger here in the united states. team coverage kicks off now. katie is live in philadelphia. >> john: start with nate foy, air quality is almost getting worse. >> certainly is, john. saw a big difference in the past two hours, conditions certainly getting worse. i was just speaking with people biking and walking through central park. they tell me that their throats, eyes and noses are burning as a result of breathing in this smoke. i'll show the photographer to pan up as the smoke is settling lower here in new york, you can see the visibility to the high rises impacted on central park south. but down here people i think

maybe, john, don't realize how bad it is. i want to show you a live look at the new york city skyline, but i'm not sure we can even call it a skyline because you can see in the live camera it does not exist. you can barely see anything with that smoke hovering over new york city. mayor eric adams projects tomorrow to get even worse than what we are seeing right now. he has this advice for new yorkers. listen here. >> this is not the day to train for a marathon or to do an outside event with your children. stay inside, close windows and doors, and use air purifiers if you have them. >> john, take a look at the smoke from last night. environmental conservation issued an air quality advisory because of this, and new york city and buffalo schools will not have outdoor activities for students as a result of these

conditions. take a look. it's all coming from wildfires in canada. over 400 fires are burning there, including as you mentioned over 100 in quebec that's impacting the northeast region. not only the northeast region. take a look at this next video. we made a quad box for you. chicago, detroit and philadelphia, as well as canada where these wildfires are burning and where the smoke is coming from. but you see those three cities in the united states all experiencing similar conditions to what we are seeing here in new york city. and back out here live, attention on capitol hill. chuck schumer began his opening remarks talking about this issue, and blaming it on climate change. and then we saw a democrat congressman from new york wear a face mask on the house floor in solidarity about all the people here in new york as well as other parts of the northeast, upper midwest, as far south as

north carolina, all dealing with similar conditions. back to you. >> john: nate, a great website if you want to check the air quality, it's airnow.gov, i was just on it. here in washington, d.c., we were very unhealthy a little while ago, now down to unhealthy. the air quality really changes minute by minute depending on the air currents. >> it certainly does, and that's why mayor eric adams is telling everybody here in new york to close your windows, last night new york city had among the worst air quality in the entire world. today it's a little better than that, but tomorrow is expected to get worse. it's something we will continue reporting on, john. >> john: looks like upstate new york is taking the brunt of it, syracuse, rochester, places like that. nate, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: thank you so much, john. meanwhile, air quality is also at a code red in philadelphia. officials warning some people

may feel side effects like sore throats and watery eyes. katie burn is there with the latest. are you feeling anything yourself? >> i don't know if it's in my head, but i feel i have scratchiness in my throat. what we know about the hazy conditions, sometimes it's worse, sometimes better, it just depends on the wind. satellite shows us it's likely not going to kind of let up all the way until this weekend and another plume of smoke is making its way into new york city right now and philadelphia. it's heading towards us, too. so you heard nate talk about conditions worsening there. we are about to feel the other plume of smoke into the city. here we have the code red in effect, unhealthy to breathe and some people could experience health effects. young kids, teens, elderly, people with respiratory conditions should limit time

outside, and i've seen people wearing masks, and some telling me they could smell the smoke at times. one family was using a blanket to shield a newborn baby. >> the baby is only five weeks old, we want to make sure she's protected from the air and the sun and all that. >> the new plume of smoke into the i-95 corridor could reduce visibility one mile or less in the hardest hit areas. heading home from work. sandra. >> sandra: katie burn in philadelphia, thank you so much. i think everybody has a story by now. a lot of people walking around who don't know exactly what's happening, by the way. i talked to my sister, she was golfing and they got headaches from it. >> john: not a day to be climbing the "rocky" steps. >> and cloth masks, single or

triple layer, according to nicole saphier on earlier today, they won't do anything. you might have an n-95 hanging around, that would probably trap the particle, they are very small. two and a half microns. >> sandra: i would venture to say, this is the worst we have seen, new york city earth cam and looking out our windows at fox, we noticed it gets thicker and thicker, you worry about obviously traffic, seeing in front of you, this is -- this is amazing, this is getting worse by the hour. >> john: i remember the 1988 yellowstone fires that looked very similar to this across the eastern seaboard, but i don't think they were this bad. that's an incredible picture. >> sandra: wow, ok. i can promise you over the next couple of hours we are going to watch and monitor this very

closely. we'll keep our eye on those earth cams and the cameras that we have set up all over the city, all over this area where it continues to get worse and we will continue to report on it. john. >> john: a little anecdote, my son's lacrosse practice was canceled tonight, the girls are a go, everybody knows the girls are tougher than the boys. all right. former vice president mike pence set to speak with voters in iowa any minute now after officially launching his bid for the white house this morning. joins an ever expanding list of 2024 republican hopefuls. chris christie and the north dakota have also launched presidential campaigns in the last 24 hours. former vice president pence will join us for an exclusive interview on "america reports" coming up. we will also hear from our panel on the race for the white house in just a moment. but first, we take you out through the power of television to ankenney, iowa, where the former vice president will speak in 5 or 6 minutes.

>> his brother is on the stage right now, we are expecting the former vice president to make his first campaign speech of 2024. l where we are is a future farmers of america conference center, intimate feel, we do expect pence to talk a lot about his faith, his family, also his time in the white house, his personal experience serving not only as governor and a member of congress but vice president. heard from him in a video message, outlined why he's running. take a listen. >> our country's in a lot of trouble. president joe biden and the radical left have weakened america at home and abroad. the american dream is crushed under run away inflation. today, before god and my family, i'm announcing i'm running for president of the united states. >> now the video features some images from when pence was serving as vice president. what's interesting, he did not mention trump by name and no

messages of trump and him side-by-side. however in the speech, we are told pence is going to bring up trump by name, so we know this is something that will have to be addressed on the campaign trail. of course, pence and trump had a very strong relationship up until the 2020 election and ever since then, trump has continued to blame pence for not overturning the electoral college votes and i thought you would find this kind of interest. the wi-fi password for the media, is kept the oath. so the pence campaign knows they have to talk a lot about january 6th going forward and hearing about the vice president and the economy, personal relationships with his family and religion and why he feels he would make an effective commander in chief, all starts here in iowa. john. >> john: interesting to see how he differentiates himself from donald trump in terms of pursuing the same policies, yet being a different person. so, that speech in a few minutes. mark, thank you.

sandra. >> sandra: hopefully put that question to the former vice president when he joins us here. now to our panel, garrett, and jessica, co-host of "the five." you've got the resume, now the panel. waiting mike pence and again, reminding our viewers he is going to then join us live on the program. the question to rephrase it differently than i believe john was just saying is can he differentiate himself from donald trump and donald trump's policies? garrett. >> i think it's going to be very tough for him to do when you are serving as the vice president to the president. president trump was the one in office appointing the judges, signing tax cuts, rebuilding the military. the vice president plays a role in that but very hard, i think you are learning this in the primary, folks like ron

desantis, others trying to lean into some of president trump's policies, you can't have trump without the policies, it has not worked that way since 2015. >> very interesting. this is former vice president pence taking an indirect shot at his former boss in his launch video. listen. >> we can turn this country around. different times call for different leadership. our party and country need a leader to appeal as lincoln said to the better angels of our nature. >> what does that tell you as the battle might look like? >> pence's team has looked at the polling and know how the broader public feelings about donald trump and his personality, not the policies, but mike pence has a lot to make up in terms of the personality politics of all of this. i was reflecting on the end stages of the 2016 election and really how seminole mike pence was when he came out after the

"access hollywood" tape, and said i'm standing by trump, and we are going to move past that. i think that he can talk about how important he was to that election, how important he was in centering the donald trump administration whatever parts were centered, and that he has a personality people are looking for because he's more like biden. they wanted normalcy in the office in 2020 and he's much more than that donald trump is. >> sandra: when you look at the growing field, put it on the screen, 2024 gop preference poll, trump at -- former president trump is clearly still the front-runner, desantis is up there at 20%, pence 5%. who do you think he makes his target? >> i think it's going to be very tough. all these folks have to eventually differentiate themselves with donald trump. you can play footsy but you have to challenge him. any republican that has come at

donald trump from jeb bush to liz cheney has not survived against him. he continues to suck up all the oxygen in the room, up by 30 points to his next challenger and not just those things against joe biden, matches up strongly in the real politics average. >> sandra: a group of gen z voters on the qualities they are looking for in a candidate. >> why they are running in the first place and why they think they have a shot at winning. >> i see so many people throwing their hat in the ring and the oversaturation just leads to a confusion in the parties. >> i want to talk to policy, i want solution, the world is scary, economics, inflation, please, stop with the political -- >> sandra: emotions are high heading into this. how do you think you grab the voters? >> it's great to see gen z is serious and they are getting a platform to talk about the fact they are a policy-orient d

generation, extremists want to lie down and kick and scream with climate change, it's not true. i think that the candidates are going to have to really make the case. people are well aware of the fact that donald trump won in 2016 because were there so many candidates and they all got a few percentage points and he was able to come together. and chris wilson has a new poll out showing that desantis is class closing the gap. and one-on-one, him and donald trump, only down by a few points there. i believe that is true. if you amalgamate everyone not for trump they could unite behind another candidate. chris christie ran essentially a blue state, a lot of independents who liked him a lot, and i could see him appealing to more people than folks are giving him credit for. >> sandra: a break on the stage as we wait for the former vice

president, we are told his wife, karen pence, will be announcing him, appears the crowd is getting on their feet there. as this happens and as we await the former vice president, garrett, let me ask you something i want to ask the former vice president coming up. the debate stage is going to be huge with the growing gop field, right. and the gop criteria for the debates as we see the vice president, the former vice president take the stage there in iowa, it has been said and one of the criteria is you have to vow to support whoever ends up to be the gop nominee. will the former vice president throw his support behind his former boss? >> i think at the end of the day this comes down to republicans don't want four more years of joe biden, don't want high inflation, don't want all the issues caused by joe biden. folks will unite around whoever the republic nominee is. l>> sandra: can he win with his conservative views on abortion, seeing how big the issue was in

the 2022 midterm elections. >> the dobbs decision will be hugely pivotal. i don't think mike pence can win through a whole host offish an -- of issues, steal back the voters that shifted for joe biden. i don't think pence is the man for that job but i think he should play into what he did on january 6th making sure that he certified that election, that's something that will appeal to those moderates and independents who left donald trump in 2020. >> sandra: bringing john here, as we await the former vice president, a lot of the conservatives that did sort of cast pence aside following the 2020 election and the loss for donald trump, he needs to fix and repair his image with them. that is going to be a huge task. how do you think he plans to do it, garrett? >> i think he's going to have to

lean into -- the pro life issue is big in the republican primary, general election, it's a different question. he has to lean into that, lean into his time as a governor as well, conservative policies he did then and congress, he has to remind people that the problem that pence and every other candidate faces that this is a primary that is just dominated by trump and his policies and so it's very hard when this continues to happen when he's leading by 30 points against most of the candidates. >> john: and garrett and i and richard were talking about yesterday on "the falkner focus," the interesting thing, you have two, i think they were described, garrett, by you as lakes, you have the trump lake, and there's only one person swimming in that lake and that's donald trump, and that's about 50% of the republican vote if you look at the polls and then the other lake that's got all these other candidates swimming in it. but the water is not crossing over between the lakes. so how does -- if pence wants to become the nominee, he's got to draw from the donald trump well and nobody has been able to do

that yet. so, and jessica, is that possible for any of these candidates to do? that pool seems to be so faithful to donald trump that something really radical would have to happen for them to discard him. >> i agree something radical would have to happen. a chance more radical things are to come when you look at the special council and what could happen in georgia as well, but i would argue ron desantis has drained a little from the lakes. he started out in the single digits. growing and growing, and did better last week. he's becoming more of a national figure and i think his vote share will increase as he's able to hammer the line of argument and other candidates will as well that donald trump loses elections. he lost the presidency in 2020, he cost the republicans the is that right in 2020, and in 2022, with the candidates that he supported. and i think at least what i hear from a lot of republicans that i

speak to and i understand these are not necessarily maga die hards, they may like trump but they like winning more, and you are not going to be able to get anything done if you are not in office. >> sandra: you have seen a lost of the hopefuls setting their sights on desantis, nikki haley taking him on with the disney issue, she said vendetta type stuff. where he will set his sights is a huge question. >> big challenge for the second place. i would disagree with desantis, if you look at fox news polling in november, december, where we are today, desantis has dropped and trump has gained. and did not get much of a bump after he announced. pence will have to look at nikki haley and tim scott as competitors, but can you challenge donald trump as a front runner. yet to be seen in 2024.

>> john: as we await the former vice president to come up to the microphone after he is introduced, and you see we are monitoring the problems with the smoke from the fires in canada. for anybody travelling, this has gotten so serious there is now a ground stop in effect at laguardia airport, so nothing is taking off or landing at laguardia. we have no idea how long that is going to last, but this smoke is of a concentration now they believe it's not safe to be sending aircraft into the air or landing them because of low visibility. again, the air quality ebb and flows with the breezes. hopefully it does not last long but it may. we'll keep you updated with that. let me just come back if i could, jessica, to this point. january 6th, a lot of republicans thanked god mike pence was there who was -- showed fidelity to the

constitution and certified the electors. but there are so many people who support donald trump who think pence betrayed them on that day that they would never vote for him, and without getting those voters, how do you become president? >> i think you bank on the fact people will want you more than they said joe biden and increasingly i think on both sides it has turned into that. donald trump has been a polarizing figure, are you for the other guy or for him and that's all it is, and the same would hold true if the nominee was someone other than trump, and how polarized the parties are. when i said the wpa poll a few minutes ago, that was iowa voters, not the national one. thank you for the national correction. >> sandra: thank you very much to our panel, garrett, jessica, great to have you on. john, the former vice president any moment now, and also monitoring the situation with the haze, that is something with the ground stuff. i don't know how you o he oh ground traffic, let alone air

traffic, this is going to cause major concerns over a large range, john. as far as big topics with pence, you have the economic situation and the peril we are in and the pessimistic view where we are going with the economy and the country, how he plans to tackle the fiscal spending. ukraine obviously he's very different. >> here is the former vice president with the announcement. [cheering] >> hello, iowa! secretary paul payton, congressman greg pence, speaker todd houston, my fellow

hoosiers, my friends in iowa, my fellow americans, it is great to be back in the hawkeye state. indiana will always be home for us. i get why people make big announcements back home, in their hometown, at their resort, even on twitter. but we wanted to be here in person, in iowa, we are here because we know that iowa was the right place to start our engines for the great american comeback.

we just wanted you to know, men and women of iowa, we know the next republican nominee for president and the next president of the united states will get their start right here in the hawkeye state. so we thank you all for being here. we are truly grateful, all of you that have come from near and far. i stand before you today, deeply humbled. as a son of the heartland, the grandson of an irish immigrant, my dad was a combat veteran in the korean war, my mom a first generation irish american. 91 years young. and looking on from home today. hi, mom. [applause]

our family lived the american dream. i married the girl of my dreams. now you understand a little bit more of how special she is. elementary school teacher, an artist, a pilot, and the best second lady the united states of america has ever had. would you join me in thanking my amazing wife? karen pence. [applause] as karen just told you, together we raised three incredible kids. married three amazing spouses and just in the past two years we became grandparents three times over to the three most beautiful little granddaughters ever born in the history of the world. our son is a captain in the united states marine corps. [applause]

our daughter charlotte is a best-selling author and married to a lieutenant in the united states navy. they just finished top gun. [applause] and our daughter audrey is a yale law graduate. now practicing law. and just say as karen did, we love you guys. and we miss you today. you know, i actually started in politics in another party, you may not know that. but i've got to tell you, as soon as i heard the voice of the 40th president of the united states i joined the reagan revolution and never looked back. i came to faith in jesus christ, a man in college, and started a lifelong love affair with the

constitution of the united states. for all of my adult life as my brother just said, the introduction i prefer is pretty short. i'm a christian, a conservative, and a republican, in that order, and it has been my honor to serve you, the people of this state and nation. [applause] now most americans know me from my last assignment in the white house. what you may not know, i was also a congressman from indiana for 12 years. i was a leader for house conservatives, we fought for life and liberty, i battled against big spenders in both political parties during those years and most of them remember it. a governor in indiana where we cut taxes, expanded education choice, stood for the right to life of freedom of religion. as your vice president, i was proud to stand by president

donald trump every single day when we made america great again. everything i am, everything i ever will be, i owe to my family, people of this country. and to almighty god. i often think of that verse of king david, who am i, who is my family that you brought me this far. you know, i truly do believe in the boundless potential of every american to live the american dream. l travelling arounds this country over the past two years since i left office it feels different, doesn't it. talking to our fellow americans i see weariness on faces everywhere i go. and i hear it in their voices.

i don't have to tell any of you here this country's in a lot of trouble. president joe biden and the radical left have weakened america at home and abroad. the confidence and pride that once lifted the american spirit to new heights, not so long ago, has given way to fear and growing angst our best days might be in the past. in many ways our country has grown barely recognizable than just a few short years ago. there are crises everywhere. our border is under siege, inflation at a near 40 year high, gas prices through the roof, fertilizer and fuel prices, crime is skyrocketing in major cities, real wages are

falling and national debt is piling up like a mountainrange on our children and grandchildren. and the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan has emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world. and maybe worst of all, the timeless american values are under assault every day. in classrooms our children are indoctrinated into radical ideologies and even taught to hate our history. and from board rooms, our faith and beliefs are insulted routinely. while government agencies target concerned parents and punish consumers in the name of social justice. we are better than this. this country has been so good to my family and i've been honored to serve it, we both have. it would be easy to stay on the sidelines. that's not how i was raised.

i have long believed to whom much is given much have been required. that's why today before god and my family i'm announcing that i'm running for president of the united states of america. [cheering] >> john: ok, former president mike pence with the big announcement he is throwing his hat into the ring for president. we are going to jump out of this, one hour from now, the former vice president will be joining us for his first interview post announcement where, sandra, we'll get a chance to ask him how he plans to fix all of the things that he just said are wrong with america. >> sandra: and obviously painting what he says could be a very optimistic view of america based on his policies. a lot of excitement from the crowd there and we will have the former vice president on the

program, john. >> john: do not go anywhere. former attorney general bill barr firing back at the house oversight committee ranking member jamie raskin and his claims that barr and a hand picked prosecutor ended an investigation into alleged joe biden bribery scheme at an interview with "the federalist," he says it's not true. let's bring in darrell issa. let me just play what your colleague, congressman raskin said on monday in regard to the investigation. listen here. >> what i know is that the fbi, department of justice team under william barrr and scott brady in the western district of pennsylvania terminated the investigation. they said there were no grounds for further investigative steps. so they ended that. >> bill barr told the federalist that statement did not have the added benefit of being true. your response. >> well, the attorney general who has written a scathing book

about much of the trump administration always tells it like it is. so when you talk to -- we talk about credibility and accuracy, he has that. >> john: form 1023 was sent, scott brady was looking at it in the western district of pennsylvania but it was referred to david weiss who was the u.s. attorney in delaware, actually looking into the hunter biden investigation, so the claim from james comer that this document is part of an ongoing investigation would appear to be the true statement. >> well, it is the true statement. and one thing about the attorney general, during his time in the administration, he straightened out a lot of things by going back to classic procedures and they played things by the book. so transferring to an ongoing investigation to the u.s. attorney so there would be one point of contact is appropriate. and that's exactly what we need

to have again. we need to have the predictability of an attorney general we can trust and attorney general barr was exactly that. >> john: now on monday, raskin also claimed that this document was among a tranch of documents sent by rudy giuliani to the department of justice in 2020 and the fact it was giuliani connected to this has been used by democrat, hunter biden's attorneys and some in the media to discrete the form f1023. some say the form was unrelated to rudy giuliani. so this -- if this did not have providence with rudy giuliani, it would put it into a whole different sphere. >> this is one of the problems in politics. rather than getting into the authenticity and accuracy and importance of a document, which is what we should do, they are talking about a source. look, if the document is true and correct and if it alleges a

crime, then it's significant and needs to be explored. it won't matter who it came from. in this case it's a false allegation as to who it came from. >> john: as you know, comer and raskin were shown this -- i'll let you cough there. as you know, comer and raskin were shown this document by fbi director wray at a scif at the capitol on monday. document was redacted to some degree but comer is saying i want to see the entire document, unredacted version of the document, and if you don't provide me that document itself in its unredacted form we are going to hold you in contempt of congress and those proceedings will start tomorrow. where do you come down on levelling charges of contempt of congress against the fbi director? >> excuse me, contempt is a tool -- yeah, i'm fine. contempt is a tool that in fact is used as a last resort when somebody won't cooperate. the fact that james comer is saying in camera, in a scif, i

want to see the document as it is, i won't take a copy of it, i won't make a picture of it, that kind of request is the kind of a request that should never be denied of a full committee chairman doing a valid investigation. contempt, though, by definition is something we try not to do when we held eric holder in contempt, on the day we held him in contempt we were still negotiating trying to get compliance, which we failed to do. i'm sure james comer is doing the same, making it clear he only wants what he's entitled to. he'll minimize it but can't be looking at a document that doesn't tell the whole story, particularly in a scif in camera off the record. he has a right to know and he needs to be shown that. >> john: just so we have your position on this, do you support the contempt of congress charge? >> if -- if the christopher wray will not comply and will not reach an accommodation, of course the chairman has no

choice. but again, you know, the threat of contempt often does end up with compliance. i know that chairman comer, what he wants is compliance, and the compliance is not unreasonable. he's not asking to get a copy and put it on the front page of the wall street journal, he's asking to see it in a secure location so he knows exactly what's in it and that's fair, that's part of his investigation. he has not only a right to do it, but he has an obligation t see it. >> john: congressman darrell issa of the state of california, glad you are with us. everybody is suffering from the smoke, blame canada, as we say. we hope it will get better over a little while. >> sandra: fox news alert, new pictures in and john, it's breathtaking, look at this. new york city, our earth cam showing just how thick this haze is getting in new york city, that's the skyline. and this has caused the federal aviation administration to implement a stop in flights

doing to laguardia, they are kept at the departing airports until 2:00 eastern time, about 21 minutes from now. i imagine it could be extended, that was an faa bulletin a short time ago. they say the chance of an extension right now is low, but the delays could follow. ment we also have the images of newark on the right side, all flights bound to newark are delayed for their departing airports until midnight tonight, and low visibility is the cause for that. so far airlines in the u.s. have canceled 74 flights. the number is growing. delayed almost 1300 flights, according to the track site flight aware. so faa is saying this extreme wildfire smoke-haze over the northeast u.s. due to canadian wildfires could delay flights through boston, new york, philadelphia, new york,

washington, d.c., and obviously the ongoing safety and health concerns as a result of this. many schools have canceled their recesses and their gyms and sporting activities today due to the smoke. >> john: and as we pointed out, when we were talking earlier with nate foy, there is a terrific website that's partnership of several government agencies, called airnow.gov, and you can go on there and see in realtime what the air quality is outside of your window. for example, if we go to washington, d.c., air quality is unhealthy. a place like syracuse, new york, just punching in that, hazardous is where it is. it's literally off the charts in syracuse. so anybody watching in the upstate part of new york, i know we have a lot of fox viewers up there, should likely stay inside or limit the amount of time they are outside. it will be like standing beside a campfire and having the smoke

blowing your direction. >> sandra: and this has been ongoing for quite some time, in the new england area we have been seeing this. what i'm seeing from folks on the ground and obviously dramatically changed our view with the orange haze, more and more people are beginning to smell it, john. i don't know if you are hearing the same. we are clearly not outside at this moment so many are trying to stay inside because of the safety concerns but apparently easier and easier when you step outside, especially here in new york, to smell the smoke. >> john: and you can smell it in the lobby of our building here in washington, d.c., obviously because there at the fox news building on avenue of the ame americas people are coming in and out of the building every moment, so any time the revolving doors go around they bring outside air in. the right-hand side of the screen, you can barely see the aircraft along the taxiway, and

looks like one just took off. so, i don't know if the ground stop is just for arriving aircraft, do you know, sandra, or for departing aircraft as well. there used to be a website, fly.faa.gov, it's changed now and i don't know how to read the new one. looks like they are allowing some departing flight. >> sandra: the ground stop for laguardia was really specific, a ground stop for flights inbound to laguardia airport due to the smoke. newark international is delaying takeoff from their departing airports until midnight. so, different situations there, o one in new jersey, one in new york. >> john: it could only get worse as well, the fires are continuing unabated, in a pretty remote area of quebec, one of the big provinces there in canada, and i don't know how much firefighting equipment they have up there, but these things

are out of control and the smoke will continue because of this low that's centered over the northeast to be pumped from canada down here along the eastern seaboard. be prepared for a couple of days of difficult times. >> sandra: we are going to monitor that situation, and also awaiting the former vice president, but a university of cincinnati student slamming the gender studies professor after getting a failing grade for using the words biological woman on an assignment. she says the professor called the term exclusionnary and even though the rest of the essay proposal was deemed solid, those two words were enough to earn her a 0 on that paper. that student jones us now. olivia, thank you very much for joining us and telling your story. we saw this, it caught our attention, we said they have to ask what happened here. what was the problem with the professor for your use of the words biological woman? >> honestly, i doubt that the

specific word biological was the problem. i think my entire essay was the problem. the fact that i was against transgenders competing in female sports but if i were a pro, then probably would not have been an issue. >> so this is exactly the wording that we got from your -- from you, university of cincinnati professor detailing the explanation for this 0 on your essay. olivia, this is a solid proposal however the terms biological women are exclusionnary and not allowed in this course as they further -- i don't have the second full screen here, can we put it up -- i believe the issue here is that he believes this is excluding people in general to use the words biological woman. so, what do you plan to do about this, getting a failing grade it has serious consequences. >> yeah, i actually had a meeting with the school where another professor has been assigned to grade my homework,

or the assignment and all future assignments in the class. nothing has happened with the professor as of yet, so -- >> sandra: so what actions do you plan to take? >> honestly, i just want to use my platform now that i have on social media to try and encourage other people to take action and not stand -- not like let this happen to them and stand up and do something about it. >> sandra: i understand that you are also a cross country track and field throughout high school, you are very familiar with what is happening in women's sports today. what do you see is the bigger picture here for women, women in sports, use of biological women in a college essay, what do you believe is happening here, what's your view? >> you know what, i think women are just being, you know, pushed down to a feeling because now if you feel like a woman, well, you are one, so if you feel like something you just are that thing now, and they are just eventually going to push out women from their sports which they fought so hard to get to in

the first place. like we didn't have our own sports, didn't have this ability and now they are taken over by allowing men to compete in them. and men are built different. >> sandra: can you give us the gist of your essay? the message? >> overall topic was the history of the rights and opportunities that women have fought for in athletics since, i think i began like the late 1800s, and examples, like the figures woman in the olympics and riley gaines and things like that, and then part of the topic touched on how these rights are affected now by allowing men to compete in sports. >> sandra: did you ever just exchange words with this professor about what it was that he really took issue with other than a statement issued to you? >> yeah, we had a lot of email exchanges following this, i was concerned why i was getting a 0 because of one word and i was told that i was contributing to turf ideology, which should be

the only version of feminism, and then i was told that sex is not defined at birth and not a science thing. apparently science is fake to her, so i don't know. >> sandra: wow, that is really something. i know you contacted your university's gender equality office. what did they tell you? >> actually, the woman i spoke with was super helpful and she was able to find the new professor to grade my work. but she was not able to do anything about the professor like you know, punishment or anything like that. nothing has happened yet but it's frightening to me. a lot alumni reached out and said this exact same thing happened to this person in 2007, something like that, and shared the teacher's name and i looked up, the teacher is still teaching at u.c. so i wonder how many students that has happened to. >> sandra: that's a good

question. thank you for raising issue with it and bringing it to people's attention to see what's being taught, and what's happening in the college classrooms. appreciate you joining us, thank you so much, olivia. keep us posted what happens next. >> i will. >> john: gavin newsom and ron desantis squaring off again, this time over migrant flights sent from tallahassee to sacramento. tom homan has some thoughts, he is up next. plus, there's this. >> tensions between parents and a school board in california are boiling over. how gender and sexuality is taught in schools turned violent. >> they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as. children are not sexual beings nor should they be.

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>> john: updating what we are looking at in new york city, the left, that is new york city in the orange and that is because of all the smoke that has been pumped down by a low pressure

system from the fires that are raging out of control in canada, and there's about 114 of them that are still out of control. the united states has sent a lot of firefighting equipment up there, some has been shipped in from the east coast of canada to try to get these fires under control. sandra, it's a very remote area up there, a lot of little towns, and it's hard to put these fires out. the good thing about it is, if you are talking about water bombers, there's a tremendous amount of surface water up there, that part of quebec is littered with lakes and gives firefighters an opportunity to refill the tankers and drop more water on the fires. >> sandra: remarkable images coming in. this could result in more delays. right now both airports are saying a low chance of that, and this is just laguardia and newark that have given us updates. to the white house now as karine jean-pierre has just spoken on this a short time ago, we'll play it out. >> so i wanted to provide an

update on the wildfire smoke impacting millions of americans across the country right now. the president was briefed on the wildfires in canada last week and has been regularly updated since. he directed his team to provide impacted communities whatever support they need. our team here at the white house is in touch with the government of canada. we have already deployed over 600 u.s. firefighters and personnel as well as equipment like water bombers to help canada battle the fires. >> sandra: 600 personnel deployed, john, feels like a situation we are going to know more as the hours go on, certainly we'll be talking to dr. marc siegel what the health and safety concerns are breathing this in, coming up. >> john: he'll tell us also whether there is any mask that you can wear that would help out here. this ground stop at laguardia, appears to be only for arriving

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