[applause] >> we're going to go marching out. good luck this weekend, everybody. >> thank you so much. >> i'll be at belmont tomorrow. >> we'll be watching. >> goodbye, everyone. >> bill: good morning. back on this now, smoke on the horizon, hazardous smog coming into the u.s. from canada grounding more flights at major airports. canceled ballgames for kids and try to keep children indoors. not the way you want to start your summer on the east coast. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." it's bad but going to get better. screen left new york city is where the smoke is grounding flights at laguardia for the second day in a row. screen right is philadelphia.

flights are stopped there also. >> bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. >> dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. >> bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. >> it seems apocalyptic.

>> could see it rolling from the office window. >> we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn't see anything. >> i thought the world was burning and i thought something was wrong and i was surprised. >> it is ridiculous. not normal air for us to be breathing in. >> dana: meteorologist kendall smith on the forecast. dr. nicole saphier on the health risk but let's begin with nate foye in jersey city. hi, nate. >> good morning to you both. we're noticing the smoke a lot more at this time than we were yesterday at 9:00 a.m. people are taking more precautions. we see more people wearing facemasks. he have on our crew are feeling it in our chest from spending the day out in central park yesterday. you are looking across the hudson at new york city skyline right now. you can see still covered in a thick haze from all that smoke coming from those canadian wildfires. the higher vantage point you see

what is hovering in the hair. a live look at this. keep in mind as you look at this, new york city mayor eric adams predicts similar to yesterday, conditions will get even worse as we move through the day. speaking of yesterday, take a look at this, bill and dana. at 2:00 in the afternoon we were at central park and you could not see the sun for a period of about 30 minutes. it was so dark the drivers were using their lights to navigates the city in the middle of the afternoon. people across the northeast complained of physical symptoms from the smoke. listen to this. >> i feel it. i get a little headache. >> my head was hurting. i was having bad head aches and my nose started bleeding. >> you mentioned a ground stop is in effect at new york's laguardia airport until 10:00 a.m. newark international and philadelphia airport seeing delays. the yankees and phillies games were both canceled last night.

they're supposed to play a double-header today but see how conditions progress throughout the day to see if they can fit the game in. a wnba game was canceled in brooklyn set to be played indoors. that is notable. on top of that several broadway shows were canceled because of the air quality including the hit show "hamilton." send it back to you. >> bill: whacky stuff. kendall smith fox weather here to run it down. give it to us today. good morning. >> good morning, bill and dana. this situation is unlike something we have experienced in 40 years for a lot of us, especially in the northeast. this is what's going on right now. we have 233 active wildfires burning all across canada. equating to 9.4 million acres burned so far. all of that thick smoke is coming straight down from the north to the northeast which new

york city saw the worst air quality on record yesterday. the air quality index reading we maxed out at 436 breaking the old record in 1981 of 279. not only did we break the record we smashed it. not a record we want to be breaking. today where we're dealing with the worst air quality. much of state of the pennsylvania, new jersey. we're taking into account the smoke from the wildfires as well as that ground level ozone. a lot of pollutants are in the atmosphere and why it will be dangerous for spending time outdoors. numerous air quality alert. tens of millions of us under air quality alerts. they will be reissued tomorrow as well. visibility is a major concern. two miles in new york city. barely three miles.

one mile now in harrisburg. travel delays and ground delays at laguardia and newark. when will the smoke get out of here? the northwesterly flow funneling in all that thick smoke. we'll start to see some relief heading into the weekend and start to see a shift in the winds. the southerly flow will help kick the smoke out of the atmosphere and start to get a little relief. until then it will be a tough go of it for a lot of us especially today. i have a feeling a lot of occasions in the ohio and tennessee river valleys and much of the great lakes. >> dana: any rain in the forecast for the canadians? >> a few chances to see scattered showers and thunderstorms. it is a drop in the bucket. what we need to see to help put out some of these massive wildfires. >> bill: we need the winds of change to shift. we're waiting on that for some time. thank you. for more on the story download the fox weather app or stream

fox weather on your favorite tv device. thank you. >> dana: i'll bring in dr. saphier, fox news contributor. we had you yesterday and talked about the health concerns. now that you've had 24 hours of this and it looks like another four hours to go before we see relief what do people need to know today? >> that's right, dana. when we talk about the air quality index that's the measure of the particulate matter in the air. above 150 we say it is unhealthy. above 400 is toxic levels. as we saw yesterday new york reached over 400. areas of pennsylvania still over 400. i worry about the air when it comes to infants and young children who maybe their respiratory systems aren't developed. elderly, chronic lung and heart disease. any of them are more vulnerable. please try to stay inside until the air clears out. it does sound like over the weekend it will get better in many parts of the country.

as we heard, even the healthiest of individuals being outside, the air is an irritant now. you can feel it in your eyes, lungs, chest. if you can limit your outdoor activity is the best thing to stay indoors when the air is at such unhealthy levels. if you have medications make sure you have them by your side. if you're an asthmatic have the inhalers and stay in touch with your doctors. >> bill: you go out on the sidewalks in new york now the masks are back. do they work in this circumstance? >> listen that's a great question. if you are walking around with cloth mask, they won't do anything. any mask at this point, the surgical masks maybe they will filter out some of the larger matter that is in the smoke but when it comes to fine particulates it won't do as much. n-95 may filter some out but not filter anything out. a non-smoker, has never smoked a

cigarette, i want to keep my lungs as clean as possible. when i left the hospital yesterday, i did put on an n-95 to walk to my car to filter out some of that matter. it didn't filter out everything but decreased some of the matter i inhaled into my lungs. >> dana: was it necessary for some things to get canceled like broadway and an indoor wnba game? >> well, necessary is subjective. in the hospital yesterday we felt the air from the h vac systems and doors opening and closing. we were feeling irritants. we were coughing and eyes burning. it is perhaps inside those centers when you have a lot of people congregating the doors wide open maybe inside had a lot of outdoor air. maybe that's why they did it. staying inside is in theory much better than being outside. you think being inside would have less effect or less need to

be canceled but i can tell you when the doors are being opened you get a lot of outdoor air. i don't know what the quality of the air inside those areas were. >> bill: new york city was the most polluted major city on earth yesterday. that's something else. >> dana: this is beijing every day. this is what it is like. it's not good. thank you. >> bill: thank you. >> no, it's not. >> bill: ten minutes past. the threat from china closing in our shores. the "wall street journal" reports this. beijing wants to pay cuba billions to host a secret spy base. the outpost about 100 miles from florida could allow china to monitor u.s. ships and electronic communications across the southeast. we have a look at that breaking news. what have we learned now? >> still a number of outstanding questions about this. "wall street journal" story cites unnamed u.s. officials. it is not clear whether

construction on this eavesdropping facility has begun yet and not clear where exactly on the island of cuba it might be. of course, the big question what such a a facility could do. it could monitor all u.s. communication, electronic communication along the southeast. phone calls, emails, satellite transmissions, even tracking u.s. ships. it comes on the heels of worsening relations between china and the u.s. it was just four months ago the u.s. had to shoot down a spy plane over u.s. territory and also a number of close encounters in the region between china and taiwan between warships as well as military aircraft. that is something admiral kirby addressed earlier this week. >> sadly this is just part again of a growing aggressiveness by the prc we're dealing with and prepared to address it. there was no need for the pla to act as aggressively as they did.

>> blinken heads to china later this month for talks. back to you. >> steve harrigan in heim. general jack keane will come up here next hour. it feels like a soviet-style move. >> dana: you have to wonder how it will also affect the primary season, right? everyone on the republican side will want to see how biden reacts and have their own views as well. this will happen in that vacuum. a fox news alert. long time religious broadcaster pat robertson has died. he passed away overnight at his home in virginia. lauren green has more. >> good morning, dana. pat robertson is one of the pillars of evangelical christian community and certainly his legacy will live on through his many ventures. robertson died today. his death announced by the broadcasting network. he came to people daily through

the 700 club television shows and regent university, the american center for law and justice which defends first amendment rights of religious people and operation blessing. international humanitarian organization. he made a run for the presidency but lost to republican nomination to george bush who he later endorsed. but in his run, he helped make religion central to republican party politics through his christian coalition. he was 93. no cause for his death yet. he is 93. dana, you and i know what a political figure he was for the republicans for a lot of years and going into christian and religious organizations to make that part of the republican party. >> dana: no doubt about that. thank you for bringing us that

update. may he rest in peace. >> bill: what a life. 13 past now. the long arm of the long catching up to joran van der sloot. holloway's family think he is responsible for the fate of their daughter in 2005. will her family finally get justice? >> dana: big movement in the investigation of an alleged bri bribery scam. >> bill: everybody has a view. rory mcilroy teeing off on liv golf. what he says about the stunning merger with the pga tour. >> i hope it goes away. i fully expect that it does. ber. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. check it out, you could save $700 dollars just by switching.

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>> dana: house republicans killed the vote after the f.b.i. said it will allow all members of the house oversight committee to review documents claiming president biden was involved in a bribery scheme. when will it happen? chad pergram with the latest on capitol hill. >> good morning. a reprieve for christopher wray. he avoided a contempt of congress vote scheduled in committee today. this came after the f.b.i. agreed to allow all members of the oversight committee to view the f.b.i.'s 1023 form. that's a document which reportedly alleges that president biden accepted a bribe when he served as vice president. house oversight committee chairman james comer ditched contempt proceedings late last night. >> they are negotiating. they are offering deals now to

try to cooperate with us in our investigation. my investigation has always been about following the money and all the leads that point in the direction of explaining how the biden family has been receiving millions of dollars from our adversaries around the world. >> the f.b.i. will also grant comer and top democrat on the oversight panel raskin access to two additional documents. unclear if the offer completely satisfies the gop. >> congress has the power and the oversight of the f.b.i. he needs to show it to every republican and every democrat on the committee. if he is willing to do that, then there is not a need to have contempt. but if he doesn't follow through with that, then there would be a need for contempt. >> democrats believe this is all a republican stunt. >> found mr. wray to be cooperative here when we asked for information. he should be. our committee has jurisdiction,

as the house does, to important cure that information. i'm certain and made it clear from the beginning the speaker mccarthy's team will try to make this as political as possible. >> president trump nominated wray to run the f.b.i. and he was confirmed 92-5 in 2017. >> dana: thank you for the update. >> bill: now to the intriguing story of 2005 that lives again in 2023. the extradition of van der sloot is underway being transferred as you see from the video from a prison in lima, peru, to an airport in the city's capital with a plane with f.b.i. agents are on the ground ready to take him to birmingham, alabama. it will happen this morning. a former attorney is here.

lima is an hour behind new york. it is 8:22 local time there now. you thought this day would never happen. apparently it will. why did you think that? >> i did not think this would happen. van der sloot received a sentence of 28 years in peru and i had my doubts he would ever make it back to alabama to face justice for his crimes. >> bill: he will be charged, apparently, with extortion and wire fraud. that stems from a lie that he made up for beth holloway, the mother of natalee. apparently behind bars what he said that his father buried her body under a house. that was not the case. what did you learn about that? >> well, we have to remember that van der sloot preyed on the emotions of a mother whose child had been murdered. he reached out to her and said

that he would provide her the location of natalee's body for $250,000. a representative of miss holloway's family went to aruba and paid van der sloot $25,000 for when him to show them where the body was buried. in fact, van der sloot lied. there was no body buried where he said there was. and van der sloot was able to flee aruba to peru before we could file charges. >> bill: the government in peru said they have a bit of an interesting legal system. he gets visits from women. had a baby with her and now divorcing her. how does this work? >> their justice system is far different from ours and penal system is very much different

than ours. something i am looking forward to van der sloot coming back here in the united states prison system. he won't have the privileges and benefits he had in peru. >> bill: peru is cooperating with the f.b.i. nine agents on board a plane that headed yesterday and we'll see what the plane is in the air. thank you for your time. it is happening. >> thank you, bill. >> dana: at home big decisions on the docket for the supreme court including a potential decision on student loan relief. we'll tell you when the ruling is in. did you see this? >> you read the economic news and look at what's happening everywhere in the world, three-day work week doesn't get the work done. >> dana: martha stewart says it's time to get back to work. she is not the only one. maria bartiromo joins us to talk about the growing backlash. those balances can sneak up fast. even worse,

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>> dana: president biden vetoing a republican bill to overturn his $4 hundred billion student loan forgiveness plan. the veto came despite support from senate democrats john tester and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. the supreme court is set to issue a ruling on the program. it could come today at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> bill: stand by for that. fox news can confirm federal prosecutors have notified donald trump's legal team the former president is a target, a target

of a criminal investigation for the handling of classified material. this move potentially sets the stage for an indictment. griff jenkins is watching it live in washington, d.c. with what we think we know now. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the latest legal development is significant one in a traditional sense notifying individuals they're a target is a routine part of criminal investigation done at the discretion of prosecutors. there is a lot we don't yet know. let's start with what we know. the notification trump is the target of a criminal probe. sources close to the investigation say it's an indication smith may be close to deciding whether or not to bring charges. this comes after trump's legal team met privately on monday with smith and his team at the justice department. no indication of what transpired in that meeting. what we are watching now is a possible decision from the

federal grand jury here in washington, d.c. related to trump's handling of classified documents. we have also learned that smith has a second grand jury in miami to hear evidence in the documents case proving if any crimes were committed at mar-a-lago. fox news learned a former trump spokesperson testified in the documents case. trump reacted to all of this latest news on truth social yesterday saying this. no one has told me i'm being indicted and i shouldn't be because i have done nothing wrong. i have assumed for years i am a target of the weaponized d.o.j. and f.b.i. this comes as a separate special counsel is currently investigating president biden's alleged handling of classified information after documents of his time for vice president were discovered as his home and washington office. as for timing or if the trump

grand jury will issue anything sources say jurists are arriving and now we have to wait and see what happens. bill. >> bill: thanks. you will follow it. he is on that for us today in d.c. >> i cannot really stomach another zoom, zoom here, zoom there. it wasn't get the work done in the right way. if you read the economic news and look at what's happening everywhere in the world, a three-day work week doesn't get the work done and doesn't get the productivity up. it doesn't help with the economy. >> dana: martha stewart on a rampage to get america back to work and major corporations are following suit. some businesses like sales force are now promising to donate to charity if their employees come into the office. i'm not sure that will work. at google if you don't show up at least three days a week you get docked in your next performance review. maria bartiromo is here to talk about it. is martha stewart is on to

something and other business leaders are seeing a decline in corporate culture or productivity or creativity. >> i'm not sure about that. productivity is down, i will say. it is down for a number of reasons. we look at productivity every time the jobs numbers come out. when you actually look at productivity levels they are declining. whether or not that's about remote or hybrid work is debatable because many say that they are working double by working these hybrid schedules. no doubt about it, companies are getting tougher and stepping up the consequences for those not adhering to at least a three-day in the office work week. and the other days hybrid. look, i think the jobs market has been so incredibly tight. wages tight, employees, we're still talking about corporations saying this is the tightest labor market they've ever seen. it's one of the reasons that we

have not seen a recession and an economy slowdown further. you have inflation on the one hand keeping people nervous and then the employers on the other hand nervous because wages are staying high. the problem is wages are rising, not as much as inflation is rising. next week we have a federal reserve meeting. we'll get more information from the fed as to whether or not they will raise interest rates again. perhaps loosening the market and we have the cpi next week out on tuesday, another indication of how bad things have gotten. no doubt companies are getting stricter. they want people in the office at least three days. it's amazing to me how many people have changed their approach and expectation of what their work week looks like after covid. >> bill: no doubt about that. they say it's better for work/life balance, probably true. better for mental health. for some might be true as well. companies are trying to run a business and that's true, too.

now maria, another story that dana and i were talking about earlier today. helicopter parents, right? >> dana: mine were not. >> bill: noted. the same. >> i didn't hear what dana said. >> dana: my parents were certainly not helicopter parents. thank goodness i was a fairly good kid. >> i have to say my mom is one of those mama bears and i remember when my nephew moved into my mother's house because he needed to be closer to new york city for his job. on his first day my mother followed him into manhattan making sure he got everywhere in time and safely. so i do have a helicopter parent. don't get in the way of those mama bears as they insure that their kids are going to work and getting there safely. >> bill: this is not new then, right? we were thinking mom and dad were helping out with the work

ethic. >> dana: there is this one kid. having your parents call your boss like if you want to call in sick, that's a little bit of what this is talking about. or calling their bosses and saying they deserve a pay raise or they need more time off. that's the kind of thing that caught our attention. that would never happen. >> never, that never half happened. that's putting the person in a worse position because there was one anecdote in that story they never called the person back because the mother showed up. so i do think that it has to be a soft touch for those helicopter parents and not calling in sick for the person. >> dana: but your mom following the nephew in is pretty cute, i have to say. >> bill: if i asked my mom and dad to do that i wouldn't get very far. maria, great to see you. have a great thursday. bye-bye.

>> dana reads sports. >> dana: the reds rally again. watch here. >> anticipation. >> oh goodness, the ball had a family. >> dana: cincinnati owes top pros coct launches a 485 foot blast. his first home run in the majors tying the game at two. will benson had a game-ending home run to give the reds an 8-6 victory in their second straight walk off win. is this the year for the reds? last year you were miserable. >> bill: they were bad last year, too. this guy is a player. his second game since he was called up from the minors. s six foot five. he had a triple. he ran from home plate to third as fast as any baseball player has gotten there. so i think things are looking up

is what i'm saying. >> dana: the transition between talking about basketball and baseball. give me a break. >> bill: you do so well. that's why we read the sports. okay, early polling already taking winners and losers in the republican presidential nomination fight. look out, dana, the numbers could be a mirage. karl rove and mark penn on the history and why. rory mcilroy is not done teeing off. choose stelara® from the start... and move toward relief after the first dose... with injections every two months. stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu-like symptoms, sores, new skin growths, have had cancer, or if you need a vaccine. pres, a rare, potentially fatal brain condition, may be possible.

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>> very loyal to pga he did not hold back yesterday in his comments before a microphone. check it out. >> it is hard for me to not sit up here and feel somewhat like a sacrificial lamb. i hope it goes away. i fully expect it does. i think ultimately this is going to be good for the game of professional golf. i think it secures the -- unfiles it and it secures its financial future. >> bill: he went on to say he

still has confidence in the pga commissioner jay monihan. he was taking slings and arrows. >> dana: i'm neutral. i don't feel one way or another. people have strong feelings about this. >> bill: the last point about being good for the game is right. it will explode if parts of the world we can't see just yet and it will happen. >> dana: we want to get back to this. the republican primary is exploding and growing quickly. mike pence, chris christie and doug burgum jumped in this week. they face long odds but say they aren't worried. karl rove and mark penn join us now. let me show you a little bit from this morning. give you a little sound. we don't. it's burgum, pence and christie. you know them all well. three men who have all announced this week. burgum is the governor of north dakota, pence former vice

president and chris christie the former governor of new jersey and quite a friend to donald trump. karl, your "wall street journal" op-ed biden and trump could both lose in 2024. could you explain that to folks here what you are thinking and seeing that leads you to that conclusion? >> well, this contest starts in iowa and think about this. in may of 2007 mike huckabee was at 3%. november 27th% and won it with 34%. sanitarium was at 4%. by november he worked himself up to 6%. then he won it two months later with 25% of the vote. ted cruz 2015 we forget he starts at 5% in may, doubles it in the fall in october and november to 10% and wins it in february with 28%. donald trump has built his entire argument on i'm

inevitable. so far ahead of everybody else there is no chance they will ever come up to me. iowa has a way of taking people who are down there single digits and letting them win in a crowded field with a quarter or more of the both. iowa was trouble for trump in 2016 and also a problem in 2024. it could be problematic. biden's problems are different. they are large number of the american people. 65% think he is too old to effectively serve another four years as president. look at that, 69 independence and 73% and 72%. 41% of democrats, 47% of blacks and 75 of hispanics and voters under 35 feel that way, too. finally, not a strong leader. 64% agree with that about the current president. nothing in the next year will

change either of those numbers. nobody is going to think he has gotten younger and nobody thinks he has gotten to be a stronger, more effective leader unless something like the cuban missile crisis in 1963 and we change your views about him but he is in bad shape for a general election. >> dana: mark, i wonder if you look dispassionately at the republican primary and size it up for us now. call for number three in iowa. trump is at 80%. desantis 75% in terms of favorability. given that and you have these other three republicans that have gotten in the race, how do you stack that up? could you address what karl said about president biden? he says in his piece today that biden and trump could both lose in 2024. do you agree with that? >> well, first i have said earlier even several months ago that biden and trump could both

lose. that these primaries are highly favorable as people get exposed to new candidate. the question on the republican side can donald trump be beaten? in my poll trump gets about 55% of republicans. that to me says there is 45% of republicans who will never vote for trump in this next election. then i look at trump's -- if i take trump out, desantis goes to 41. if you do the math, that means 25 points of trump first choiceers will go to desantis if he can crack into the trump vote. put that two together, 25 points a very soft trump voters, 45% who won't vote for him. trump could lose. as to biden, the problem on the democratic side isn't that biden is strong, isn't whether biden can lose, it is that he has no opponents.

there are plenty of republican opponents, probably too many. >> dana: you don't think he has a real opponent? >> he is, i think, indicating that a real opponent could pick up 20 points just by getting in the race. and so will he be a thorn in his side and next eugene mccarthy? maybe. realistically if some of those governors get in, when really i think the democratic vote for renewal of biden is really only about 40%, biden could then find himself quickly in the minority of primary voters in these contests. >> dana: you love to study history but we might be living some of it soon and great to do this walk of history with you both. have a great thursday. >> bill: good stuff, well done, fellows. in philadelphia they lifted the ground stop at the airport, good news. the haze and smog moving in like it did in new york yesterday shut down the airport.

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suffering life threatening wounds and two adults also injured. the prosecutor says they don't know the motive. they don't think it is terrorism. it's a 31-year-old syrian detained after this. he entered europe by way of sweden and was given refugee status. we hope the best for those kids and their health in france today. all right. dana. >> it's just ridiculous when you look at the people listed at the top of the southern poverty law center's website, those considered in their hate group, it is members of the kkk. >> dana: the group moms for liberty is considered extremist according to the southern poverty law center where they say the organization's primary goal is to fuel right wing hysteria. the co-founder is rejecting that label. molly line has the response from

the group this morning. >> the southern poverty law center was actually dubbed a lot of parental rights organizations as extremists. the splc made the designation in their annual report on hate and extremism for 2024 saying moms for liberty is dividing communities. they join organizations on this list labeled as anti-lgbtq, white nationalist, neo-nazi, anti-immigrant. all together on this splc hate map. >> we are letting it roll off our back in a sense because it is just ridiculous. when you look at the people listed at the top of the southern poverty law center's website, those that are considered in their hate group, it is members of the kkk. >> the law center touts its legal advocacy but faced multiple defamation lawsuit for

hate labeling. family research council itself a long-time target has launched a petition to investigate the center. moms for liberty is a nonprofit with chapters across the country known for pushing their remove books in school that they deem controversial. one of the most influential groups of its kind. ramaswamy is holding a town hall with a mom from liberty group in the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire at 4:00. >> dana: smart move. molly line, thank you. fox news alert. right now we're waiting for major new rulings from the supreme court, including a possible decision on president biden's student loan hand-out. one day after the president vetoed a bill passed by the house and senate to repeal his debt forgiveness plan which would cost taxpayers $