fish will come. he bides his time and waits and jasper would have loved that. percy could not care less about fish. >> bill: the dog is catching fish in a hot dog bun. where is the mustard? do you have any grey poupon? harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with a fox weather alert today. the heat is on from south florida to oregon with extreme temperature watches, warnings for 100 million americans. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." nearly 1-third of the united states population under ararity at this point. the extended amount of time of people in triple digit temps and no major cool down at night. you are infrastructure stays red hot. temperatures are breaking records in cities that are typically hot this time of the

year in phoenix but the stretch of days that is setting this heat wave apart from others. reaching into the teens, 114 degrees, for example and more for two weeks. >> getting overheated like that you start to get tired, irritable, angry, not thinking clearly. >> it is killing us, it is. >> hard to enjoy the beach when you can't be out in the sun for too long. >> it is hospital. miserable. >> we're from vegas and we are typically prone to this. but today is out of control. >> harris: team coverage on the dangerous heat of summer 2023. fox weather's max gordon is in las vegas. let's start with janice dean at the fox weather center. this is the stretch of time that people are dealing with this? >> we are going into the fifth and sixth week for folks in texas under relentless heat and humidity and now talking about areas that typically do see heat this time of summer but the stretch is breaking records.

look at phene ix now, saturday 118 degrees. the all-time records is 122. we're getting onto the longest 110 day plus streaks for phoenix. we'll tie it today and look at the forecast over the next week and a half. so above 110 degrees for many days. we'll break that record. what we need is the monsoon season to kick in. that's the seasonal shift in winds that brings the moisture from the pacific, that brings the temperatures down a little bit and brings in that much-needed moisture to this area. we're not getting that in the forecast right now. as you mentioned, close to 100 million people under some sort of heat alert across the country from the west coast down south across the gulf coast. texas is dealing with the potential of a failure of the grid. that's what we're concerned about here. several days, weeks on end of

relentless heat and humidity and people are urged the stay inside. i'm glad you are covering the story. it is a huge deal. we're breaking records and we don't see any relief in sight. >> harris: i was home in scottsdale which is 20 minutes from phoenix where we live and it was 115, 116 just last week. it has been miserable the last couple of weeks there already. but i didn't realize how much like san francisco, parts of phoenix look like now. there is a homeless encampment, there are 3,000 plus people on the streets in phoenix now and you cannot live in this heat without structures. >> you can't. this will be a big deal in areas where we have big homeless populations because we have to have cooling centers, right? it is up to our local officials to save lives. i can give you the forecast but it is up to them to bring people inside into the air conditioning. >> harris: one of those heat managers in phoenix on a board they've started to really tackle

this now says it is like a national disaster for phoenix because so many people are suffering. thank you so much. i'm glad we're on the story, too. 100 million people hit with everything is the third of the u.s. and we need to know. i'll go straight to las vegas. the all-time record temperature. janice dean gave the tfrms. 117 there. how close will they get? you heard the power grid issues in "focus" here. take it away. >> yesterday was the peak of the heat wave here in las vegas. we thought maybe we would hit 118 and break the previous record. we only got to 116. i say only. that tied the daily record for the city of las vegas. a little cooler today is 112. cooler centers are open all across clark county right now. help for folks who are unhoused or without air conditioning turned off. there is water available at these locations and staff are watching to make sure people

coming in don't exhibit sights of heat illness. the surface temperature of the asphalt in las vegas got up to nearly 158 degrees. the inside of some vehicles heat et up to 178 degrees. the heat has been dangerous and it can be deadly. southern nevada health district says seven people have died since april in southern nevada where we are now due to heat-related illness. people told to stay inside in a.c. if possible during the heat of the day. a little bit of relief is on the way here in southern nevada. we should expert some thunderstorm activity. really for the higher elevations. here in the las vegas area it will stay very hot. harris. >> harris: looking at the graphics just over the right side of your head it is 96 degrees at 8:05 in the morning. it only goes in one direction when the sun is out. thank you. you can follow the latest news. if you don't have this app you

need to get it. it is the best one. i was a storm chaser for eight years. this thing cooks. download it for free. fox weather.com and get your weather where and when you want it. the battle over free speech is the goal here. appeals court temporarily blocked the lower court's order limiting the biden communication with social media guy anality. the white house can now continue to push to try to limit americans' access to what it considers in quotes, i put it. misinformation. it often includes much more facts that they don't want us to know. you know. the lawsuit that sparked these rulings lists some topics in the censorship spotlight. covid-19 vaccines, hunter biden's legal issues, election fraud allegations. senator eric schmidt filed the lawsuit when he was attorney's missouri general and he is

firing back on the attack on first amendment. >> big government is in bed with social media giants to censor content and viewpoint discrimination. i believe as partisan as things are if the shoe was on the other foot, if the f.b.i. was telling facebook and google and other entities to censor democratic viewpoints we would be saying it's travesty and threat to the first amendment. why aren't they doing the same thing? >> the subcommittee is tackling this in a hearing this week. robert kennedy junior, who you saw on this program poised to be one of their witnesses for the republicans. my next guest sits on that subcommittee. republican congresswoman kat cammack of the great state of florida. congresswoman, first of all your goal with all of this and what's at stake. what are they trying to do to us? >> harris, i'm so glad you are covering this. it is the drama in the courts that is a direct result of biden's imperial presidency.

this is what happens when article one authority is subverted by an aggressive, unilateral executive branch. biden not only wants the make the laws but execute the laws and now as we've seen in the latest ruling wants to be judge and jury. this type of behavior is exactly what leads to the weaponization of government. the lack of separation of powers has led us to this point where you have the white house dictating terms to private companies. of course, as we know last week, the weaponization committee issued a report talking about how the f.b.i. is taking orders from ukrainian's fbu intelligence service without vetting posts taking down americans social media posts. this week we're going to be talking about the censorship that exists here in america on our soil. this is the big thing that's happening that needs to get coverage 24/7. i'm so glad you are talking about it. >> absolutely. when you talk about what's at

stake. how many people are actually really on social media now. the numbers are growing with the takeover of twitter by elon musk. it is important the white house not be able to put pressure on those companies. we'll move forward. new numbers now are exposing the severity of our nation's ongoing drug overdose epidemic. the cdc revealed from february of 2022 to february of 2023, there were nearly 110,000 drug overdose deaths. it also says that number is likely an underestimate. breaking it down it's more than 9,000 deaths per month. california, florida, texas the top three states for those overdose deaths. a mom who lost two of her sons to accidental fentanyl overdose joined "focus" earlier this one. one of the early voices sounding the alarm on a deadly new cocktail that the cartel is loving right now combining

opioids with an animal tranquilizer, watch. >> if there is any question that they are trying to kill off our children, look at the rainbow fentanyl that looks like candy. they put in candy boxes and adding horse tranquilizers to fentanyl so you can't be revived with narcan. so you can't detect it with fentanyl strips. they are trying to kill off our people. this is a war. >> harris: it is hard to argue with that. it feels like they are trying to kill off our people. >> you know, harris, this one hit close to home. my husband, matt, is a first responder, a swat medic and responds to overdoses every shift he works. we see in our own community how this is impacting us day-to-day. take this back. in china where the present cursor for fentanyl is being

manufactured, you have xylazine, a horse tranquilizer now being used to mix in so narcan can't reverse it. when you are targeting the mill tear-age population of a nation you are trying to take down think about that. the number one killer of people between the ages of people 18 and 45. it is what is in front of us as a threat to our national security. what does the white house do? issue crack pipes in san francisco. this is nothing more than an effort to make americans dependent on big government so that they in power can maintain control. this is what we've been talking about whether it is censorship or dealing with the opioid crisis. they are coming for us whether it's big government or it's our enemies abroad. >> harris: it is illuminating. the cartels are the collective middleman at this point. at the other end of the chain are the people between 18 and 45

dying of nothing more than they are of overdoses. information you are bringing is very helpful and lighting up this issue for people to react to. hopefully take action on. i'm glad you are in the fight. congresswoman, thank you. >> have a good one. >> harris: investigators on new york's long island expanding their search for evidence against the man accused of being the gilgo beach killer. we learn more about his background. the big break that helped lead to his arrest. and from coast to coast more americans say crime is their greatest fear. some on the left keep saying it is media hype and putting soft on crime leaders into major positions like in chicago, let lori lightfoot good, hire brandon johnson, farther to the left. jason rantz in "focus" on this next. day, my va home loan benefit allowed me to keep my money in my pocket. in my pocket. and my service

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>> harris: investigators concentrating on the home of a suspected serial killer. searching a storage unit linked to rex heuermann. he pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the gilgo beach murders of these three women whose remains were found 25 minutes drive from his home. he is also the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman found nearby. together, those four victims are known as the gilgo beach four. there were remains of up to ten people, mostly women, found on that beach between 2010 and 2012. the suffolk county district attorney says this. he asked how can they trace the phones in the gilgo beach case.

he is asking questions about the investigative means and making searches of the victims, looking at pictures of the victims online and running searches of their siblings and in one instance their child and appeared he was trying to locate them. >> harris: nate foye is live outside rex heuermann's house in massapequa park, new york. >> investigators looking for more physical evidence today. the fourth straight day they've been at this house looking for evidence related to these killings. take a live look at the fox news drone hovering over the scene. police have blocked off the area. this is the home where the suspected serial killer and 59-year-old architect lived with his wife and two kids. we've seen investigators come out with boxes in the past half hour similar to what we saw over the weekend. they came out with a large child-like doll and over 200 guns. the police commissioner on "fox & friends" this morning.

>> he had an arsenal in a vault that he had downstairs. it is concerning regarding the guns being registered or illegal or not. that's something we're taking a look at. any time somebody has that type of arsenal, we have some concerns. >> you also mentioned this. happening right now a live look, a short drive away from where we are in amityville and investigators are looking through this storage facility after his arrest thursday night. the 59-year-old architect left work in mid town manhattan thursday night. as he is walking down fifth avenue he is confronted by a group of detectives who take him into custody. they connected him to three murders by matching dna from pizza croft he threw away to genetic material found on a body. the pickup he owned helped

investigators focus on him. he is chargeded with murdering three women who worked as spsh s courts. he pleaded not guilty and being held without bail. his next court appearance in august 1st. send it back to you. >> harris: this is coming rather quickly, first court appearance friday, arraignment, now another 1 august 1st. we'll be all over it on fox news. new york city new police data show subway crime spiked last month. mayor eric adams says, though, the idea of a culture of fear among city residents is alameda hype. former new york governor patterson, a fellow democrat with adams is pushing back. >> what mayor adams has tried to say from time to time is that the media is hyping up a lot of these high-profile cases and it scares the public. now, he is right about that but

i think we can all agree generally that there is a rampant fear of crime by most residents of the city. >> harris: let's look at some numbers now. a new survey finds 87% of new yorkers say crime is a serious issue. 87%. it's not just in new york. take a look across the screen. in california 65% of people who live there say they are concerned about crime and themselves becoming victims of crime. in chicago 2/3 say they don't feel safe. in san francisco, the problem is spreading beyond downtown. the city's police union chief tells fox the problems in the tenderloin district have escaped now. instead of just being in this small area, it has crossed over and you see crime in the more affluent areas. jason rantz, seattle radio show

host. what's sad to me and we see it across the united states. when it hits the rich people, the eyes start to open. many of them looking at their soft on crime d.a.s. i hope they know they look in the mirror. they helped put them there. >> 100%. these are folks who directly contributed to the culture of lawlessness. that's the problem here. we now have a cultural problem as much as it is about depleted police departments around the countries or policies or light on crime. we were told there was no crime creels is whatsoever and made up. then it was a red state crime crisis even though talking about cities. then it is not really that big an issue. we keep getting mixed messages coming from politicians. in some cases the media as well. certainly the national media on the left has parroted those remarks. people sat back and didn't realize how bad things were getting. it prevented them from speaking

up. now they are paying attention and spread outside of these major population centers, it is a little too late to simply start sounding the alarms. the bad guys have already taken notice and know they can get away with a lot of these things. >> harris: i want to talk to you about the slippery slope that crimes are going up in other largely blue-led cities, democrats in charge there for many years. here mayor adams says the crime of murder has gone down. when you look at the surveys, we can pop them on the screen. people aren't saying they are afraid of being crime but afraid of crime in general. hand on hand combat if you are stabbed in the subway. you are in fear of being targeted. that's the point. >> you can do a lot with this data. at the end of the day when they tell oils for example murders are down. gun violence is up. so the only thing is they aren't dying from getting shot but they are still getting shot.

that creates a culture of fear. you tell me violent crime is down because arson is down. okay, i'm grateful arson is down. they are concerned with gun violence and randomly getting atact by aggressive homeless people across the country and concerned about having our homes and cars broken into. when you combine all of those crimes, the kinds of crimes that impact the vast majority of people and create this culture of fear, that's where we see the incline and that's what we're all worried about. >> harris: like carjacking. they've been up in triple digits in some cities. in chicago i give that as a example. you have got voters still putting in far-left people into the positions of power. >> we do. i've been noticing at least more people talking about this. it is not always going to be equal across the country. chicago will take a few steps back. i would argue in san francisco, for example, they are headed

slightly in the rice direction. they got rid of a clearly soft on crime george soros wanna be in . london breed started to talk differently than in the past. she is taking on a slightly different tone when talking about the crime. so i think when people start pushing back in meaningful ways. we have to highlight those stories. it shows that we can actually see some progress if we all speak up. >> harris: let's hope it turns into action. you talked about it many times on this program. it will take a while to turn those policies around no matter what the discussions are in the short time. good to highlight it. a new poll showing more americans have a poor view of the nation. maybe their fear of crime might feed into that somewhat. it finds that only 1/10 of americans say democracy is

working very well for them. half say it's not working. when it comes to congress, only 16% say it is doing a good job, the government and democracy overall. this all could have a huge effect on the presidential election. new op-ed says quote has turned the 2024 race for the white house into an extensional election voters on both sides feel it's a -- >> you have radical democrats spending two years telling us they wanted to dismantle systems of oppression and white supremacist institutions and we should have believed them. they were systematically delegitimizing our institutions and it is leading to fewer people trusting our systems of government and our general way of life. a perfect example is we all knew that it was unconstitutional to go ahead and promise student loan forgiveness. we knew that going in.

the administration did it anyway. then the second they got the result that they knew they were going to get, what did we hear from radical democrats? telling us how this court is illegitimate. a court that is lawless, it's maga republicans on the court. they are trying to get us to have less hope in our institutions so that we can give them more power so they can turn it into another arm of the democrat party. >> harris: the john durham report showed they have to make changes in terms of how they use the government against citizens. with christopher wray in charge you've got basically f.b.i. agents undercover going into catholic churches looking for extreme views. that's actually -- those things are reality. that memo from the school union that put some pressure on the white house some way to get the d.o.j. and f.b.i. to look at parents as a problem. those things are happening. they are all part of that out of

balance. we're a republic. those levers of government are supposed to be equal. the executive cannot tell everybody else what to do. >> bill: what it feels like if you are one of those parents going to a school board meeting or you are a religious person going to a place of worship only to be labeled essentially a domestic terrorist. at some point you start to lose your own faith in the government. >> harris: jason rantz. good to have you in "focus." thank you. democrats feeling uneasy about senator joe manchin and a possible third party white house run. yeah, could take away votes from president biden's re-election campaign. former president trump and florida governor ron desantis throwing heated jabs at each other. >> with respect to the former president, i mean for example, he promised to drain the swamp. it got worse. >> he is a terrible candidate and he is out.

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>> harris: the freight train derailment earlier today in pennsylvania north of philadelphia we go. officials evacuated nearby homes and business but have allowed people to return. here are pertinent details. >> firefighters conducted a reconnaissance to the seen. they were able to locate train personnel and safely evacuate them from the area as well. train and hazmat personnel remained on scene and determined there was no active hazardous material leak from any of the rail cars. one car that contained plastic pellets did break open and spilled next to the railway. these pellets were not hazardous. >> harris: no one was hurt thankfully. ntsb and norfolk southern officials are investigating why that train tipped.

the two leading candidates in the republican presidential primary went after each other. >> he promised to drain the swamp. it got worse. he did not drain the swamp. he promised to have mexico pay for a border wall. they did 50 miles of wall. massive expanse still there. he would eliminate the national debt. they added almost $8 trillion to the debt in four years. >> do you see the numbers better than i do and desantis is a terrible candidate and i think he is out. i'm leading the republican party by 40, 50, 60 points. >> harris: polls show the former president with a commanding lead, 50% over desantis. far behind with 20%. then everybody else. if you are everybody else how do you get attention? on the fundraising side desantis outraised his republican opponents with $20 million.

donald trump slightly behind with nearly $18 million. however, desantis has burned through some cash quick. trump's campaign reporting far more cash on hand. power panel now. doug shown former clinton adviseor and democrat pollster and charlie hurt from the washington times. we are we are in the numbers in terms of popularity among voters and cash. >> well, that great graphic just showed ron desantis is very popular with donors and good at raising money. he is a juggernaut in his campaign in florida. the problem is he is failing to connect with voters. that will be his problem going forward. when you talk to voters in florida, his supporters will give you personal reasons how they benefited from his policies and that's why they love him. that is fantastic. the problem is, if you fail to

convert that kind of enthusiasm to voters in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, places where he hasn't been governor, then that will be a problem. he has to figure out how to uncork that knot. >> harris: doug, hillary clinton, somebody you know well failed to connect with voters, especially women and trump beat her. >> that's exactly right. hillary out raised donald trump in that election but her failing to connect proved to be a fatal flaw. the other point i would make about that chart is that while ron desantis narrowly out raised trump, trump has 22 to 12 million on hand for desantis. he has more cash on hand and harris, having been through this process with both bill and hillary clinton at different times. when you are 33 points in the

lead as president trump is, money tends to follow that. i suspect it will be difficult for governor desantis to keep at the pace he is raising money. >> harris: i will stay with you for a second. president biden's campaign is touting high fundraising totals. the biden victory fund collected 10 million from small donors during a three month period that ended in june. that figure is less than half of the $21 million president barack obama's campaign raised during the same period of his re-election effort in 2012. >> my quick thoughts are that joe biden with an approval rating at 40%, 32% on the economy does not inspire much enthusiasm among small donors. hence him flying all over the country both on his own and with the vice president to raise big dollars both for his campaign

and for his various super pacs. biden will have the money but not clear that he has the enthusiasm or can get the votes. >> harris: you have to have votes, charlie. >> yes, this is very important in an election. it is amazing how quickly politicians and political experts seem to forget that. and the other thing, i think doug is exactly right talking about trump and hillary clinton. the other thing to remember, of course, is trump is uniquely gifted at connecting directly with voters without needing the very expensive machines that most politicians use. and that's working to his advantage. >> harris: people already know him and have seen him in office. >> for better or worse. >> harris: you still have to get the votes. senator joe manchin of west virginia is stoking more fear of a possible third party run. fear among democrats.

moderate democrat will headline an event tonight called no labels. they push a potential unity ticket, a democrat and republican. democrats sounding the alarm on no labels. let's watch. >> i don't think no labels is a political party. this is a few individuals putting dark money behind an organization and that's not what our democracy should be about. should not be about a few rich people. i think the president has a very strong record to run on and we've got about 18 months before the next election and my hope is that this all gets sorted out. >> harris: charlie, is no labels a dream come true for republicans trying to beat joe biden. >> from a tactical standpoint i think it's great if the group wants to run a democrat as a third party candidate in the election because it will help whoever winds up being the republican nominee. i think it is funny when you

have an organization called no labels and going out looking for a third party candidate and they pick somebody who has a label, called u.s. senator and he is a democrat. it is a strange strategy. >> harris: he has been around a long time too, joe manchin. how does this help your party? >> it isn't clear that manchin will run for president and that will be the no labels candidate. i think what we've seen in the polling, harris, and in your segment before with mr. rantz you pointed it out. there is widespread dissatisfaction with both parties, major institutions, and really our whole system of government. we had that once before in 1992 when ross perot, a relative unknown got almost 20%. polling shows that manchin or someone like him could get a similar level of support now. so i see this as a dynamic process not limited to joe

manchin. could be john huntsman, the republican co-chairman could run. he has run before. manchin hasn't. i see this as a dynamic process, where it goes, harris, time will tell. >> harris: to charlie's point those people have labels. they are clearly democrats and republicans but you call no label. that was an extra point. >> republican and democrat that balances it out. >> they are still oil and water. we'll move on. >> we'll see. >> harris: he is arguably the largest star to hit major league soccer in the u.s. since david beckham and messi got treated like the royal family in miami. excitement is growing bigger ahead of his first game in just days. look at the hugs. we love you. plus, a black diversity director says she lost her job at a woke college after she was asking questions about its inclusion policy. she is in "focus" next.

>> america's number ten, the best number ten in the world, messi >> harris: hey, it's messi mania is miami where it is good. a sold out crowd going wild for soccer star messi's introduction at the stadium. this wasn't a game, just a welcome to the team and to the city. major league soccer in the united states is messi. his first game is later this week and jonathan serrie is live in miami. jonathan, he was hugged like a relative. >> i know. he is royalty here in miami where he adorns the sides of building. the city of miami can claim messi as its own. the unofficial unveil was deterred by rain but it didn't

deter fans and cheered the greatest player in soccer, the 36-year-old world cup champion emerged from behind the curtains, walked a cross the field and hugged david beckham, a co-owner. he finalized his signing with intermiami through the 2025 season. a contract that reportedly will pay him between 50 to 60 million a year and give him equity in the team. messi is a huge celebrity among residents and tourists in south florida. when he appears in public fans flock to him for autographs and selfies. his decision to sign with miami brings great hope for the team and u.s. soccer in general. tomorrow messi will attend his first official practice with the team. back to you. >> harris: thank you very much. a black diversity director at a woke college in california is now unemployed. she claims the college retaliated against her after she

objected to some of its inclusion policies. she says the college didn't like the way she was asking questions. here is what she wanted to know. what does the term anti-racism mean at the college? why does the word black need to be capitalized but not white? in a letter obtained by one media outlet the college chancellor says lee was let go for, the quote, persistent inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff. and unwillingness to accept constructive criticism. we reached out to the school for a response but have yet to hear back. dr. lee in "focus" now. first of all, the college claims you didn't get along with colleagues. what was going on and what you make of their statement? >> yes. that was something that the district concocted in their termination notice to me. it doesn't reflect any objective reality or any of the work that

i was doing with campus colleagues, collaborators and partners. and the people who had finally started coming out and working with the office of equity, social justice and multi-cultural education under my leadership because of the inclusive way i was approaching my work. >> harris: why did you feel it was necessary to press on those issues. what were they doing with their inclusion policy? >> in my capacity as a faculty director for the office of equity, social justice, i was charged with leading an institution-wide transformation around those three issues. so in order to lead any kind of transformative effort, one of the things you have to do is encourage people to think critically and engage people in dialogue and to uncover what are the needs in that space? and that's precisely what i set out to do. what i promised i would do when

i went through a very lengthy hiring process in 2021. this was my second year in the position. and when i interviewed for the position i told them what my approach was, that i really seek to bring people together to identify points of commonality, to encourage critical thinking and all of those things. they were on board with that. >> harris: critical independent thinking. apparently they called it white planing. >> that's something i had to learn about too. i had never heard those terms white speaking, white splaining and accused of being a white supremacist as well. those are things that in my 40-year career as an educator, i had never heard teachers calling each other things like that or myself never referred to in those ways.

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