he upsets the favorites. it is gold for the usa! >> oh, what an american success story. felt chills. >> i struggle to run a ten minute mile, so this is amazing. and also, it is wonderful to see americans win like this. >> just took the lead in gold by one. winning over all but took the lead in gold by one. >> they cut to cole's mom right before he ran. she had bowed her head and it was so beautiful, and when he cross that finish line, he said these two guys, ran right past them. >> lyle wooding the 100-meter for the first time in a long time. >> congratulation to all of these champions and team usa. thank you all for watching and i hear a "america reports." >> john: emily, thank you, and we are waiting updates for the

white house and state department i have a mistress and plans to iraq injured service members and contractors. john roberts, busy day for a spirit >> sandra: this is "america reports." defense secretary lloyd austin blaming an iranian-backed group and warning the u.s. will not tolerate further attacks. >> john: while we wait to hear the administration's next move, growing concerns of an imminent strike on israel by iran. john kirby vowing to have israel's back. >> we were involved in some pretty intense diplomacy across the region, w. if iran moves forward as they have repeatedly said they are going to, we are going to make sure we will defend israel one way or another and our own interests spirit >> sandra: chief koren for a spot at trey yingst's live in israel for us. trey, both israel and the u.s. are both on high alert. >> sandra, good afternoon.

on monday, these two rockets were fired at a base in western iraq at an airbase that houses american troops, and seven u.s. service members on contractors were injured during that incident. they were fired by an organization, the main iraqi shia militia that is funded and supported by the iranian regime. so this was used to send a message to the americans that they will be threatened, as well, when there are operations that take place against iran and its territory, like the killing last week of thomas leader ismail haniyeh. israel and the united states are in close coordination. we are told by israeli officials that u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin has been on the phone with his counterpart, defense minister yo, the possibe response to an iranian attack against israel and whether or not the americans will decide to push back against this large

iran proxy in iraq be a this was not the first or second time that american forces in the region were targeted since october, it was the 219th time. lloyd austin calling this a dangerous excavation in the region and we do await at this hour and today to see if there will be a direct american response to that attack on monday. sandra? >> sandra: wait and see at this point. trey, reports at the lebanon border, what can you tell us? >> yeah, absolutely come over the past 24 hours, hezbollah has been directly involved in the fight, launching rockets and drones into northern israel, and it comes as israel is bracing for that suspected attack from iran and its proxies, and the united states is urging restraint. hasan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, just yesterday at a joint meeting of a number of his top commanders in beirut, he addressed them, saying that israel would be attacked, they would strike back for the killing of a senior hezbollah commander. he said this.

>> [speaking another language] >> interpreter: our response, god willing, we'll be strong, influential, and effective, and between us and them, are only a few days and nights until we meet in the battlefield. [end of interpretation] >> spoke from a bunker over fears of being killed by israelis amid these new threats. u.s. diplomatic efforts are underway to try to avoid a crisis and widening war appeared other diplomatic conversations continue related to the war in gaza, where more than 300 days in, there is no end in sight. yesterday, hamas decided they would replace political eater ismail haniyeh, killed last week in tehran, with the current head of hamas in gaza oe palestinian journalist speaking to fox news highlighted this was hamas' way of sending a message to israel they are not back down and will choose someone extreme for the job. sandra, today the white house said they feel they are closer than ever to getting a deal together between israel and hamas to end the war in gaza.

israeli officials don't see it that way. sandra? >> sandra: we will keep watching it. we know you are. trey, thank you very much. >> he is a very, very liberal man, and he is a shocking pick, and i'm thrilled to be a cry could not be more thrilled. there has never been a ticket like this. want this country to go communist immediately if not sooner. >> john: it off to politics we go. former president trump offering thoughts on vice president harris' vice president to pick tim walz who moments from now will make a second appearance campaigning alongside her in eau claire. but their presence in the midwest does not come without competition. a short time from now, republican vice president thomas any j.d. vance will hold a dueling rally in the exact same wisconsin town. it's a big day for eau claire. it comes as the rankings forecast shows trump with a slight edge in the electoral college. katie pavlich, editor of townhall.com and fox news contributor.

who knew that eau claire, wisconsin, -- >> lots of traffic, hopefully everyone is aware of that. >> john: the trump campaign calling out tim walz for his progressive record, drilling down in response to his response to the george roy alliance in minneapolis. >> first of all, kamala harris would not have been running away from that, leaking all of these issue thought that would be popular. tim walz's record as a very far left governor were popular, they also wouldn't be trying to reshape him, which is smart, because he is not that well known across the country, so they really have an opportunity to define him for the voters before they decide to define him for themselves or before the trump campaign can get a hold of his full record. but minneapolis in 2020 is a big onz admitted that he failed on those riots. the entire city -- not the entire city, a lot of the city was up in flames, and damaged the very communities that kamala harris and walz claimed to be standing up for. that's a leadership issue and something they are looking for

closely. also, if you pay attention to who is celebrating the walz pick from kamala harris, democrat socialists of america said in a statement yesterday that they are saying the reason that walz was chosen is because they can't be ignored, that they are happy with the pick. lets remind everybody that those are the same people who helped rally in d.c. just a couple weeks ago the union station, hamas is coming graffiti. they are behind the protests so they may be helping with pushing schapiro out of the running. >> john: ilhan omar and aoc shahin great choice. trump this morning saying schapiro would have been a much better choice for kamala harris, listen to what he said. >> i'm no big fan of josh shapiro but i would have said others were a better choice. an interesting, just about all of them -- except this one -- is better than her. >> john: it's kind of interesting what he said because the trump campaign is going thank god it wasn't shapiro because they thought he might

take pennsylvania. >> that is to be foreseen but josh shapiro is a very popular governor in pennsylvania, the question is whether he is moderate. where would that be defined? school choice is one of them, very different when it comes to tim walz on the issue of school choice. to transgender issues for children and the economy, they are very similar in terms of their beliefs, but josh shapiro was pushed out of the running, just mention the democratic socialists of america had a big role in that and a lot of other groups did not want him to be the vice presidential nominee so they are giving a nod to their far left of the party by picking walz while trying to redefine kamala harris and her 2 2020 presidential record is moderate. >> john: j.d. vance was asked, do you have any evidence there is anti-semitism? he said, look, there's a lot of reasons he was passed over, that's probably one of them, but trump was suggesting jewish voters may start to break his way in places like new york because of shapiro being passed over. >> there was a poll that came

out yesterday, jewish voters in new york, locking down 51% of the vote in that state. a lot of jewish voters in pennsylvania. it depends on what they vote on, not all jewish voters vote on the issue of israel, certainly not the war, but we do have these admissions from people inside the democratic party at the very top saying anti-semitism has become a big problem within the party and it has not been well addressed by kamala harris, who has quite frankly done little to tamp down these campus protests, which we saw in the spring, school starting again, and also a belated statement with that riot that happened at union station. >> john: on the subject of jewish voters in israel, aipac invested heavily in the cori bush primary out there in missouri and she lost to the more moderate candidate. here was her response. listen to this. >> aipac, i'm coming to tear your kingdom down. let me put all of these corporations on notice.

i'm coming after you, too. but i'm not coming by myself. i'm coming with all the people that's in here, that's doing the work. >> john: aipac, i'm coming to tear your kingdom down. lordy. and with progressive candidates being defeated in democratic primaries, do you think kamala will have some buyer's remorse for taking tim walz? >> she may, but they may be successful at rebranding that he is not that far left despite his policies come his folksy, neighborly vibe from the midwest, see how well that plays out at how well the trump campaign can to find him, but cori bush losing, aipac invested heavily but she is also under investigation from a just permit of justice for inappropriate use of campaign funds, paying her hf thousands dollars for private security. people also were worried about her positions on crime and corruption, and they wanted someone to represent them, which is why she lost to a stateless prosecutor. >> john: i daresay she wouldn't have been defeated if democrats had really wanted her to stay.

>> that is true. good point b >> john: katie, good to see upa thank you very much. they changes yesterday in terms of the democratic party at least in that particular race. jamaal bowman also defeated in a primary. i think ilhan omar, alexandria ocasio-cortez, rashida tlaib will most likely go ahead and probably win reelection, but just shows what is happening on the left. a lot of people are saying we need to be more moderate. >> sandra: going to be really interesting to watch how this goes and how they test the record of both kamala harris and her running mate, speaking of which, greg urban will be coming up, he is a minnesota business owner. he was greatly affected by those riots. we will see what he has to say when he joins us shortly. mark penn, former clinton advisor, will be joining us with his thoughts on the democratic party as we are awaiting that rally with kamala harris any moment now, john. >> john: looking forward to that. >> tropical from debbie bringing devastation, and it is not over

yet. fox weather correspondent nicole valdes is live right now from north myrtle beach for us, south carolina. nicole, how is it looking there? >> sandra, north myrtle beach deserted, as it should become a wild wind and waves forcing lifeguards to shut down. every beach chair, lifeguard stand, and post moved off the sand as we continue to feel impacts of tropical storm debby. south carolina governor henry mcmaster warning goes across the palmetto state of the potential for life-threatening flooding, something we have already seen in places like charleston, the low country, and right here in myrtle beach. in fact, drivers struggling, some getting stuck and soaked as they try to drive through flooded roads. we know the department of transportation has about 2,000 people now working 24-hour shifts to respond to problems

that they expect to only intensify in the next coming few days and hours. we also know the national guard is ready to go in case we start to see even worse situations. now back here on the beach, there is the concern that beach erosion is now going to add into the possibilities of threats, as we've just passed high tide. you'll notice here that rough and dangerous surf, the water off limits now, but i will say we are expecting tropical storm debby to make a second u.s. landfall right here on the south carolina coast in the next 12-24 hours, sandra. >> sandra: nicole, do you see anybody around? >> no, thank goodness. >> sandra: [laughs] all right, we will keep watching this. what a mighty storm this has been and continues to be pure nicole valdes on that. nicole, thank you. >> the justice department has

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>> john: well, after months of bad, finally some good news for prospective home buyers. mortgage applications are surging and rates are starting to come of this into this, come down after hitting record highs. we will delve more into this with charles payne and just moments but first we go to lydia who of fox business. lydia, what is behind the mortgage rates? >> news for potential home buyers, after the jobs report that sparked concerns about labor market and economy, investors searching for safety, piling into treasuries, which drives the yield bonds down, the 30-year mortgage tracks the 10-year yield so we get falling mortgage rates. take a look at this. raised on the 30-year are now sinking to the lowest we have seen this year according to bank rate interest rate on a 30-year mortgage down 6.5%. last week was 6.83%. maybe it is not surprising people are rushing to seize on this opportunity. new data just out today shows

mortgage applications are up 6.9% in the past week, and applications to refinance surging by 16%. more encouraging news for home buyers, housing stock is hitting a post-pandemic high. there are 36% more homes on the market now than there were the same time last year. that improvement helps home buyers in the short-term, but still, we've got to think long term. most homeowners have a mortgage that is well below 6%, and that will deter them from selling. listen. >> going to bring people back into the market that we have more to go before we see a lot of those really get off the fence. >> and finally, home prices appear to be stabilizing, according to data from realtor.com, they are so high, $430,000 for a home that was listed in july, but those prices are not continuing to skyrocket.

send it back to you. >> john: and thank goodness the rates are studding to edge down a little bit. lydia, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: john, thanks. charles payne, host of making money on fox business, thanks to lydia for her reporting, what does all of that tell you? >> there is pent up demand. i think lydia pointed out the key here is that big jump and applications overwhelming come almost 16%, refinancing. 1% to purchase a home. >> sandra: people have been waiting for these rates -- >> they will wait a little longer before they make their move and let's not forget why our rates coming down? the scare in the market this week, buying yields come down precipitously. they come down like that is a flight to safety and talk of a recession. no matter where you think it is going to happen, conventional wisdom is recession is closer now than experts thought, and some people may say, listen, i've been saving this cash, why not wait for the perfect one-two

punch? for rates to come down in housing prices -- >> john: you are one of the experts, is a recession coming? >> i think so. here is the thing about recession and what bothers me a lot, we always talk about the recession, who gets to say when it is a recession? we know there is an organization, the national bureau of economic research. i have looked deep into this entity. by the way, they never would have given this official title, somehow over the last 100 years they have been de facto became the guys who get just a recession, and they always say it long after the fact because back-to-back quarters of negative growth -- >> sandra: traditionally that's the definition. >> nber says, the folks there are saying it is not vehicle inside the organization, i found one conservative. and some of these folks have economic theories out of this world. by the way, have you ever looked at janet yellen's economic theories? it is not pure capitalism. here is what i like. about two weeks ago, a firm, the largest buy now, pay later

company in america, they did a survey, recession is personal. the majority of folks watching this, in a recession on the cusp of one. >> sandra: yesterday in philadelphia, everyone out there saying it s-u-c-k-s out there, their words not mine pure it still going to vote at the top of the ticket democrat. speaking of which, waiting on this rally to begin. i keep listening for where she stands. she has said some things on the economy. >> we will take on corporate landlords and cap rent incr increases. a future with affordable hou housing. we fight for a future where we build a broad-based economy where every american has the

opportunity to own a home, to start a business, and to build wealth. >> sandra: it all sounds great. i just haven't heard any specifics. i keep telling people, go to kamalaharris.com. there is not a single policy idea there that would bring down your grocery, your gas, utility prices, nothing. >> everything she does even hint at, though, goes back to why we are in this crisis in the first place. big government intervention. big government under obama intervened with the student loan situation, going to cut out the middleman, this way it will be affordable for everyone, skyrocket to the moon. now they put all his money in after covid to help everyone. all they did was make prices so high we haven't seen this in four decades. for the government to get involved in housing, talking about buying housing, building housing, it's scary. it's absolutely scary. what you see is someone who does not believe in capitalism's. for these in large government -- >> sandra: you firmly believe that? >> i 1000% believe kamala harris

does not believe in capitalism, that she thinks it's responsible for some of the wrongs of yesteryear like slavery and jim crow and those kind of things, and ultimately the real goal here, watching the pick of the governor of minnesota, rather than other candidates, to be quite honest, were better choices, it's because they both have this belief that they are going to war with the notion of the ethos of america. and capitalism is all the center of that. >> sandra: okay. so as all of this is happening, timing is going to be everything, as we watch the stock market, the economy, larry kudlow suggesting we might already be in a recession are entering a very soft economy, hopefully i got those words right because you know larry is going to send me a note, but as far as household debt is concerned, he said he is concerned with delinquencies we are seeing on some of these rising levels of debt in the household, credit card bills, et cetera, and the delinquencies are happening with the younger age group, 30-39 years old. they are not able to pay their

bills. that is a change from what we have seen in just recent months and quarters. >> it's the exponential rise, you are pointing to, that should scare everyone. just like the decline in jobs we saw on friday. we are going to get a report any moment now that is going to be catastrophic on all fronts. by the way, they are not even counting student a link with these right now. that comes next month or the month after. we are going to see a chart here real soon, all going to be skyrocketing months higher. >> sandra: i'm not going to let you go before i end on somewhat of a positive note, you and i were chewing on the stock market, we have seen headlines that indicate market meltdown, global sell-off. the markets pretty much climbed back and clawed back a lot of the losses we saw in that big sell-off on monday. do you think it has been sort of overdone talk of, you know, this global market meltdown? >> yeah, i did, but here's what we have known we have created what i called the financial is asian of our economy in the world, before you

made widgets, invested in peopl. you hand someone $10,000, they hand you back $11,000. we are starting to see the unwinding of that complicated thing -- >> sandra: quick cash. >> yeah, quick cash. but the stock market benefits, you have the federal government pumping out money -- >> sandra: i said to hemmer this morning, the money is still getting pumped in -- >> pumped income unprecedented levels, and it makes powell's job, he can't do his job, but all of that money goes to places be at first to the bottom lines of corporate america, and then to the top 1%. they are making out like bandits. the more money kamala harris talks about spending, the better the rich people in this country will be. >> sandra: that is what they have played out so spending, more spending. listening for her, in her own words, what she is pitching to the american public in moments. now this.

[sirens sounding] >> john: the george floyd riots back in 2020 had lasting impact on communities in minneapolis, and business owners are pointing the finger know my finger at minnesota's governor, newly tapped buys presidential candidate tim walz, for the followed. our next guest is a business owner impacted firsthand, joins us just ahead pure >> sandra: one republik and lawmaker proposing a bill to lower student debt. speaking of which come without a taxpayer-funded bailout how is ackley does that work? that is next.

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♪ ♪ [sirens sounds] >> john: the riots that broke out across minneapolis back in 2020 had devastating effects on business owners. many of them are pointing the finger at the governor of minnesota, the now vice presidential candidate, tim walz.

next guest was directly affected by it and calls walz a "great divider," let's bring in greg urban, and want to get to what happened to your business in a moment, but first of all, from the 30,000-foot level, you say that walz is a failure for minnesota. why do you say that? >> walz is absolutely a total and complete failure. he is an incredibly divisive leader. he shut down the state for almost two years. anybody that would go against his rules, so much as opening a coffee shop, would end up in jail for long periods of time. he stood by. he had every resource to end the riots very quickly, and he chose not to. he stood by he let the burning, the looting, the protesting go for several days, and it was just a terrible thing for this city, and the city still hasn't recovered. >> john: so you had a location of wilde greg's saloon in

minneapolis. you also have them in pensacola, austin, and lakeland, florida, up your you close down the one in minneapolis. why? >> there was no road map ahead. minneapolis was a failed city and it hasn't gotten any better. we are losing money every single month. where every other city came back very quickly from covid, and you can only lose money so many months in a row as a business owner before you have to pull the pin, and nobody would come downtown minneapolis, or anywhere in minneapolis. they were scared because of the crime. a lot of people are getting mugged. their cars stolen, cars broken into, there were no police. you call the police, and unless there is a murder in progress, they might not even response or take an hour or two. it was a very, you know, troubling time, and tim walz refused to provide any state

resources, state police, things other cities, such as austin, texas, for example, had some help from the state. here in minnesota, tim walz provided no leadership to help minneapolis. >> john: yeah, just in terms of the increase in crime, under his leadership, he was elected in 2018, here is with the minnesota department of public safety says. 2019, there were 12,371 violent crimes in minnesota. that increased to 16,119 in 2022. an increase of 30%. so clearly crime was on the increase, which goes to what you were saying just a moment ago. there's an interesting contradiction with walz, as well, when you look back over his record the past four years. listen to what he said yesterday at a campaign event. >> in minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. [cheers] even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there

is a golden rule, mind your own damn business. >> john: mind your own damn business. but back during covid, he set up a snitch hotline in which people were encouraged to write each other out if they saw covid behavior that contravenes the guidelines. here is what one email to that hotline said. personally, i don't feel people are being compliant with the stay-at-home order, such and such convenience store in white bear lake, and in-store traffic is the same. customers are coming in and saying i'm bored and needed to get out of the house. they buy lottery tickets, a candy bar, soda, et cetera. those items are not "essential." on the one hand, he is saying mind your own damn business, and on the other hand, he is encouraging the karen's of the world to tell his office what's going on. >> yeah, walz was a complete dictator through that whole period. really an evil person, more than a dictator. he actually made it illegal for

families together for christmas and thanksgiving. it illegal. and so people than if they saw their neighbor carrying out a turkey leg on thanksgiving, they could call the tip line and walz could dispatch his covid police to come take them to jail. i heard the comment yesterday that walz is gavin newsom with less hair and wearing flannel. the reality is, walz, i think, is more radical left then gavin newsom. he just come in a state of 5 million people, i think it slides under the radar a little bit, but tim walz was an absolute dictator, and the idea of mind your own zelenskyy business sure did not happen with him. >> john: all right, we will get to hear more from him in our next hour as he holds a rally with kamala harris be a coming up, greg, thank you for joinings and telling your story. sandra? >> sandra: a judge ruling

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♪ ♪ >> sandra: end of an era for aerosmith? the band retiring from touring and canceling all upcoming shows after the lead singer steven tyler suffered a vocal cord injury that he cannot

recover from come apparently piglets bring in fox news senior medical analyst dr. marc siegel. you know, i feel like we have heard about this over the years. how does this happen? >> sandra, usually this comes from blunt force to the voice box right here. it's a sports related injury. it used to be related to the old injuries before proper seat belt and shoulder harnesses. you don't see them as much now in car accidents. but usually it's blunt force. not from what you would think here with steven tyler, who i and you and everyone else is a fan of p or i'm glad you played "dream on," that's my personal favorite, but it doesn't sound like he was hit with anything, usually it is blunt trauma. the other thing according to our head of learned allergy at nyu. an amazing specialist of this. the kind of singing he does come he could actually cause bleeding in the voice box. and that was reported that he had that kind of hemorrhaging. what that leads to his scarring, so over the years if you sing

with that much force and that much urgency, amazing, that captivated millions, you can cause some damage to the voice box from bleeding and then scarring. that plus -- you don't operate unless it is displaced. they let it heal on its own but he still must've had scarring which interfered with his performance quality. that's how i put it together. >> sandra: crying over here. that is a play on the song, my favorite, "crying." i think aerosmith put out this statement, dr. siegel, we are all fans, i can't speak for everybody, safe to say it. aerosmith put out this statement on him retiring from touring, for all of his fans. as you know, steven's voice is an instrument like no other. he spends months tirelessly working on his voice to where it was wh before his injury.

we saw him struggle. possible. you can only imagine the that my steven tyler side trying to make him better at it just sounds like they are putting out a statement for dr. siegel, to your point, that you can't recover from this. >> i think the fracture heals but i don't think the scarring and that is a problem performing at that level. we are all rooting him on. he is 76. we are rooting bob dylan on over 80, bruce springsteen over 70, many examples of great performers into their 70s and even 80s that are still hitting it out of the park, and he was certainly one of them, so this is a big loss to music and to all of us, but i think it is not necessarily the fracture which is getting all the attention, but according to the doctor, it is probably the scarring from all of that wear and tear on his voice box over the years performing great music. >> sandra: final question to you for anybody who may be

listening wants to try to prevent this, is it preventable? >> yeah, well, it's preventable because he is an outlier. it's preventable why watching out when you play sports. you are protected by your chin and your chest and everything. that is not a particularly vulnerable area but you should know the neck, if it is hit with a blunt force strong enough, and by the way, most important message to our viewers, get medical treatment right away because the doctor says i have to see you right away, right away, to see if you need to have this corrected or not. it can cause permanent problems beyond singing if you don't seek medical attention immediately. get to that e.r. >> sandra: fans all over the world, brought a lot of joy to those who like his songs and listen to him, and it is sad to see that his career would have to end. i'm sure he will find some other things to do. dr. siegel, great to see you. >> great to see you, sandra. >> sandra: john, someone you know a lot about, you know all of these musicians, but he had a way about him that just was so

unique to steven tyler. >> john: well, he is still alive. >> sandra: i should be talking about his voice in the past, is what i am doing. his voice is gone. >> john: if you want to get a look at the powerhouse engine that he had, "national geographic" did a special on the voice, and they used steven tyler as the example, and they take a laryngoscope, i thing i sent this video to you earlier, and they go in and look at his voice box as he is singing, unbelievable what was going on down there. >> sandra: what exactly was -- just so much at work, right, to produce what he was doing? >> john: yep. his vocal chords were vibrating so quickly, it's no wonder they finally at the age of 76 gave out. who knew they were would last as long as 76 quest mike pete townsend set i hope i die before i get old. >> sandra: maybe he will learn to golf, i don't know p or we wish him the best. >> john: we certainly do, what icon of rock 'n' roll, minutes away from the white house press

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♪ ♪ >> john: to starliner astronauts have been stuck in space for more than two months, says boeing and nasa work on solutions to get them home from what was supposed to be an eight-day test mission. and now we are learning how much longer they could be stuck up there. jonathan serrie live in atlanta. nasa officials just told a news conference. this is like "gilligan's island." they went for a three hour tour and got on a desert island. these folks have been up there for two months. >> yeah, at least they know where those astronauts are and they do have options for bringing them home. the question is, nasa engineers can't achieve consensus on what is the best way, the safest way to bring butch wilmore and suni williams back to earth. some engineers are confident in recent tests of the thrusters on the spacecraft and believe that the problem, starliner encountered on the way to the

international space station would not pose a serious risk on the way home, while others believe a safer option would be to have starliner return to earth autonomously and have the astronauts return on another spacecraft. under the latter scenario, butch and suni, whose eight-day mission has extended beyond two months, could see their mission stretch out even longer. one scenario getting serious consideration is to reduce the outbound crew for the upcoming spacex crew nine launch from four astronauts to only two. you have two empty seats on that crew dragon spacecraft. which and suni would become part of that mission. they'd stay on the space station and then return with crew nine, now a total of four astronauts on that spacecraft, in february of 2025. crew nine wizardly urgently set to launch mid-august. that launch has been pushed to late september at the earliest.

confident in its ability to return safely with crew but as we learned in that news conference, still ongoing, nasa is not yet ready to make the call. john? >> john: you look at that boeing statement, whistling past the graveyard, how do they say that, the darn thing is stuck up there and it is probably not safe to put folks in. >> even the nasa engineers, there are some of them will believe it is totally safe to bring them back. others say it is too dangerous. as one nasa official put it in the news conference, there are intelligent people who can be on either side. there is no consensus. >> john: at least a door hasn't fallen off of it. much as we know. jonathan, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: come home soon periods we are waiting several live events. top of the hour, kamala harris,

j.d. vance into link campaign events. and white house briefing. thoughts on the harris vp pick and where she goes next with her run for the white house. that's next.

♪ ♪ >> sandra: all right, all eyes on battleground wisconsin were any moment now to presidential campaigns are set to hold competing rallies just miles apart from each other. >> john: on the left side of your screen we will see j.d. vance step up to the podium command in the right corner, vice president harris will appear alongside her new running mate tim walz. >> democrats hoping the minnesota governor will appeal to midwest voters, but it is still unclear how his candidacy will impact the race in these blue wall states. >> john: also at this hour the white house is expected to give an update on how the u.s. will respond to iran after seven americans are injured at an iraqi base. first, it's a fox news alert. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: and international political assassination plot

foiled. federal prosecutors say pakistani men with ties to the iranian government was aiming to target high-ranking u.s. officials, possibly including former president donald trump. that is where we are of the top of the new hour. welcome back, everyone i'm sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. >> john: great to be with you, as well, sandra. the news keeps on coming. i'm john roberts in washington, this is "america reports." prosecutors say asif merchant tried to recruit hit men in the united states, paying undercover fbi agents he thought were assassins. to carry out his nefarious plot. >> sandra: live in new york city with latest developments. what is the fbi saying? >> the fbi declined to provide an on-camera interview but pointed us to the following statement from director christopher wray. take a look up your great reads in part, "a foreign directed plot to kill a public official or any u.s. citizen is a threat to our national security and will be met with t