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the director of immigration and customs enforcement confirms that more than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder have been caught at the border and then released into the united states. a letter here tells the tale. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. can you believe this, sandra? >> sandra: which means they are here, and this is just an unbelievable development. i'm sandra smith in new york. good to be with you, john. this is "america reports." bill melugin has this news for us outside of douglas, arizona right now where vice president kamala harris is set to visit later this afternoon. the details of this news, what do you have? >> sandra, bear with me. we just got these numbers moments ago. but it is a jaw dropper, to say the least. to set the stage, let me just explain what these numbers mean. i.c.e. has something called a nondetained docket. essentially what that is, it means migrants encountered by dhs who are no longer in federal

custody. so who is on this docket? it is illegal immigrants who are caught and released at the border, released with a court date years away, and immigration proceedings, combined with illegal immigrants who have already been ordered deported from the country by a judge but are still here roaming the country. keep that in mind, this nondetain docket. according to a letter that the acting director of i.c.e. just sent to texas congressman tony gonzales, on i.c.e.'s nondetained docket, they are currently tracking 425,000 noncitizens who have been convicted of a crime. of that number, over 13,000 noncitizens have convictions for homicide and are on the nondetained docket, meaning they are roaming the country right now. on top of that, there are another 15,811 noncitizens convicted of sexual assault who

are roaming the country right now on i.c.e.'s nondetained docket. it doesn't stop there. those are convictions. the i.c.e. director also says there are currently just under 1900 noncitizens on the nondetained docket who have pending homicide charges, who are roaming the country, and another 4,250 noncitizens who have pending sexual assault charges who are roaming the country on the nondetained docket. the people's eyes maybe glazing over right now with all the numbers we just threw at you. just to put in a nutshell, what we have learned from the acting i.c.e. director via this letter to congressman tony gonzales, right now there are over 13,000 illegal aliens convicted of homicide who are roaming the united states right now. there are another 15,811 illegal aliens roaming the country right now who have been convicted of sexual assault, and there are even more who are facing charges

for homicide and charges for sexual assault. so this just goes to show, guys, the nondetained docket has excluded under the biden a administration to i believe over 7.3 million. they are anticipating it could hit 8 million by the end of the year. looking at the numbers on this letter right here, there are currently over 600,000 noncitizens on i.c.e.'s nondetained docket who are either convicted -- excuse me, 600,000 noncitizens on this docket roaming the country right now. of that, 425,000 have already been convicted of crimes, 222,000 are pending crimes. again, the most serious crimes we just told you about. over 13,000 convicted of homicide, over 15,000 convicted of sexual assault. honestly, that's not a surprise to hear, given these horrible headlines we keep seeing popping up in multiple parts of the country. almost every day now, horrible sexual assault or murder or

another violent felony committed by an illegal alien who is often caught and released from custody. the jaw dropper here, guys, all these numbers we just rattled off, they don't even account for the nearly 2 million got-aways who have crossed our borders under the biden administration. those almost 2 million got-aways were never encountered by dhs. they were never encountered by border patrol or i.c.e. there is no record of them, so they have nothing to do with the numbers i just rattled off to you. these are just the numbers of people that i.c.e. has already encountered, that border patrol has encountered, that dhs knows who they are. we just saw those horrible stories in nantucket the other day. i.c.e. ran a week-long operation in nantucket, and in a single operation in a 48 hour span, they arrested two salvador and illegal aliens who came into the country as got-aways were arrested for child rape on nantucket. they had a guy who was arrested for sexually assaulting a

resident, and a guatemalan guy previously deported he was arrested for sexually assaulting a nantucket resident. so we see all these headlines about migrant crime popping up in different cities all over the country. this right here is the first time we have ever seen specific numbers as to who and what i.c.e. is tracking when it comes to convicted criminals who have crossed the border at some point and are either supposed to be deported or are going through the immigration proceedings but are not in i.c.e. custody right now and are roaming the country. i will ping it back to you guys, but some pretty dry chopping numbers that we are still going through as we speak right now. >> john: this letter is sent from the acting director of i.c.e. to congressman tony gonzales of texas, the response to an inquiry that gonzales sent him back in march. i just talked to him a moment ago and he's going to be joining us at the top of our next hour. he is surprised he ever heard back at all. but what is interesting, in this letter, the acting director says, "i.c.e. recognizes that some jurisdictions are concerned

that cooperating will erode trust with immigrant communities and make it harder for law enforcement to service populations." however, sync trade policies can end up shielding dangerous criminals who often victimize those same communities." that would appear to be, from the acting director i.c.e., a tacit acknowledgment that sink trade policies are endangering the public. >> 100%. i've talked to a lot of contacts pretty much every single day and that is their biggest frustration. all over the country there are these jurisdictions who simply will not cooperate with them no matter how heinous the crime is. the boston i.c.e. office is arresting a child rapists in these horrific sexual assaulters, and in these local jurisdictions i.c.e. will put a detainer on them and say, hold them in custody, will send our guys and pick them up, that way they don't get back into the community. the locals ignore i.c.e. and the detainers and release them back onto the street, sometimes with

a tiny bond, a few thousand dollars for a child rape or aggravated sexual assault. he makes i.c.e. want to pull their hair out. he saw that in the i.c.e. director's letter. it is a head-not, we have to deal with a lot of sanctuary city jurisdictions who will not cooperate with us for any reason, and when kamala harris visits the border today, she takes any questions, and i'm hoping she does, one of the things i'm hoping to ask her, back in 2019 she campaigned for president by saying she wants to get rid of all i.c.e. detainers, that they tear families apart. one of the biggest things we hear from i.c.e., there's this misconception about them that they are kicking in the doors of grandmas and little kids and going after people who are just working, and are here for a better life. the people they are going after right now are the worst of the worst. we are talking serious felons, murderers, sexual assaulters, rapists, that sort of a thing. when i.c.e. detainers are not honored and these local jurisdictions just released people back out onto the streets

without notifying the feds, it is dangerous for everybody involved. it is dangerous for the local community who might have a sexual predator back on the streets. it is dangerous for i.c.e. instead of having someone handed over to them in a secure environment, now i.c.e. has to use their resources to develop intel and try to find this guy and find out where he's going to be, and then use 6-10 of their officers to go apprehend this guy who could be violent. maybe they'll fight back. maybe they won't want to go back into federal custody. so it is dangerous for everybody involved, and the sanctuary jurisdictions, it's going to come to a point here soon -- donald trump is bowing to end them. i had a phone call with him the other day and i said, how are you going to end then? what are you going to do? and he said, if it comes down to it, i'm going to strip federal funding away from sanctuary city's. i asked, how far will you go with that? will you pull fema disaster money from them?

i would love to ask kamala harris if she takes any questions. we'll find out later. but her running mate, tim walz, has advocated for pushing to have minnesota be a sanctuary state in the past. these are questions she'll have to answer about where she stands on think you're a jurisdictions, detainers. she pledged to get rid of i.c.e. detainers back in 2019. where does she stand on that now? has she flip-flopped on that like she has on some of her other border positions? hopefully we get the chance to ask that, john. >> john: we are looking forward to that in the moment the head. just to recap the breaking news, more than 13,000 convicted criminals across the border illegally have -- convicted murderers, rather, wh who have crossed the border illegally come almost 16,000 convicted of rape and sexual assault. great reporting, bill. we look forward to it you have to tell us later on this afternoon. >> sandra: not to mention, as

we bring in former acting i.c.e. director tom homan, joining us by phone -- not to mention the over 400,000 convicted criminals on the nondetained docket that are right now roaming the country. your reaction to this breaking news? >> i'm shocked. i am sitting here shocked, because i spent over three decades with i.c.e., and it is just incredible, these numbers. that's what you get when you end catch and release. president trump ended catch and release. these people shouldn't be walking around the streets. however, they restarted catch and release, and while they are releasing these people, understand this, there are thousands of empty i.c.e. beds. beds already paid for by i.c.e., already paid for, sitting empty while these people are running the streets. and here's the scary part, as bill said. not only do you have 2.2 million known got-aways, we know they

didn't get fingerprinted and vetted at all, but people need to understand, the vetting process on the southwest border, many people, we don't have access to criminal data from el salvador or guatemala or venezuela or china. so a lot of these countries, they could be criminals, too, but we'll never know it if we don't have access to that data. to these numbers are obviously much higher than this. and look, i will agree with bill on this. century cities are sanctuary for criminals. president trump sued century cities. we are in the middle of a lawsuit from the end of his presidency. the first thing joe biden did when he got his office was to tell the doj to drop the lawsuit. so it's like a perfect storm for american public safety. it is just incredible. >> john: how does this happen? we are told by the biden a administration that these people are coming across the border illegally, but we are vetting them and putting them through a process, and if eligible they are allowed to remain in the

united states. i mean, how do they miss the part about convicted murderers? how did they miss the part of being convicted of rape or sexual assault? >> because the vetting is terrible. when he vet them, it's only against nci databases. some give that database most don't. three weeks ago they arrested a person from venezuela here in the united states wanted to over 20 murders in his home country. but we didn't have that data during the vetting process. that's a problem. and that is why you don't -- that is why you don't end detention. they keep these people in custody so we have time to drill down into their history and make sure we know who these people are. even the alternative detention, these people are released on these procedures. and here's another thing, i.c.e. has decreased significantly how many of those people are no longer in gps. they used to be on an ankle

monitor or a phone that tracks them by gps. it's been cut tremendously because they don't want these people tracked. this is a scary part, the administration is lying to the american people and these people are not showing up in court. and here's the thing -- if you look at the report, for those 90% of asylum-seekers who are getting order removal in the future because they simply don't qualify for asylum, if you look at the report, when it comes to family, only 6% of that 90% actually leave the country, because we can't find them. again, a massive failure by this and administration. >> sandra: i have heard a lot of warnings from you before, but perhaps none like you just said, after learning of this news. you called it the perfect storm for american public safety. what is it that you are suggesting? based on these numbers, 13,000

convicted illegal alien murderers roaming the country. 15,000 convicted rapists are here. over 400,000 convicted criminals are now roaming the country. what are you suggesting this could look like when you call it the perfect storm? >> well, people are saying -- we talk about crime in this country, and that there's no such thing as a migrant crime surge. yes, there is, and this is more evidence of it. kamala harris is not going to fix the border. as a matter of fact, she should be ashamed even going to the border, because she broke it. we had the most secure border in my lifetime, and they unsecured it on purpose. she compared i.c.e. to the kkk. she attacked the men of the horse patrol, calling them racists. they have open the floodgates. in november this, secretary mayorkas told i.c.e., you can't even look for somebody in the country illegally unless they are convicted of a serious crime. the most illegal aliens a good running around free knowing no one is looking for them because

the policy of the sadness duration. this is why we need president trump back in office. number one, who will secure the border and catch and release and hold century cities accountable. sanctuary cities, we want them to feel welcome to report that crime without fear of us working with i.c.e. that is a stone cold light. victims and witnesses of a crime don't want the bad guy released back into the community to take revenge. sanctuary cities, sanctuary criminals. bill mentioned that. when you release the bad guy from a county jail, i.c.e. is going to look for that person and that will put them at great risk. we don't know what access to weapons. they put the immigrant community at greater risk of crime because the bad guys go back into that community to reoffend. it puts the community at greater risk of i.c.e. arrests, because when we find that bad guy he'll

probably be with others not even on the radar. and any politician, go to the immigrant community and ask one simple question. would you rather have i.c.e. in the jail or the community? most would say the jail. because immigrant communities, even though they are here illegally, most are god-fearing family people that want to protect their families, too. they don't want creditors in their neighborhood either. so this is another barrier of the harris administration that can only be fixed by putting donald trump back in office and doing what we did best, making the border of the most secure border with ever had. and that was proven by data, just a stone cold facts. and taking the handcuffs off i.c.e. so they can go look for these people who are here illegally and convicted of the most heinous crimes. let i.c.e. do their job. they're good at it but you got to let them do it. >> sandra: tom homan joining us on the breaking news. thank you very much. >> john: now let's bring in the former acting i.c.e.

director, ron vitiello. on this letter you got two full pages of offenses that more than 425,000 illegal immigrants allowed into this country have committed. highlighted by the fact that there are 13,099 who have criminal convictions for murder, and 1845 who has pending charges against them. 15,811 who have criminal convictions for rape or other sexual assault, and an additional 4250 who have pending charges. where did the system break down? >> thanks for inviting me. this is a symptom of the chaos we have seen at our border during the presidency of joe biden and the vice presidency of kamala harris. when they took over, the illegal migration across the southwest border was at 50-year lows and how it is at unprecedented numbers for the last three plus

years. the population we are talking about here, that is 8 million people. so even if that number you are showing, they are putting us at risk. every town in the united states is at risk because we know the system was overwhelmed for many years and now there are people walking among us, almost every single city and town in the united states, not invited here, who jumped the wall and came into the united states illegally and are applying their trade as a cartel member, as a gangster at some other kind, someone who is abusing children or trafficking other human beings. that is what happens when sanctuary cities conflate with a chaotic border. we are all at risk. >> sandra: as we learned is breaking news i'm sure people are at home going, this is an emergency. where is the dhs secretary to speak to these numbers and tell us what we are doing about it?

it's one thing to say, okay, candidate trump is pitching to fix the problem. perhaps kamala harris, the way she plans to fix the problem at the border. but these people are already here, ron. >> that's right, and the secretary has already stated that, when they make these encounters at the border, 85% of people are being released, and he's greatly restricted the ability to go find these people. i'll just tell you from experience, when people are on a notice to appear and they go to immigration court when they get a notice from the government, years and years from now, they don't have a legal right to immigrate into united states. this is a society that values the contributions of legal migrants across the country. but this chaos in these kinds of staggering numbers scare people rightly so. why do we continue to do this to

ourselves when there are alternatives? we can have safer streets and communities, a and a border that is secure and allows people through the legal channels to come into the united states and we can vet them and make sure they are not a threat to public safety. and if and when they are, they are held to account and removed after they've served their state sentence for whatever crimes they commit in our communities. that is what needs to happen. we need to have an immigration system that has integrity for both on the legal side and when people fall afoul of the law as a legal migrants were migrants that are here and commit crimes, they need to be removed, and the need to be removed expeditiously. you can see these numbers here. i.c.e. only had a couple thousand people who were assigned to that work. so this is a monumental task that will need to be corrected, because we cannot continue to have this chaos at the border and put our cities and towns at risk to the degree that we are. >> john: hey, ron, forgive me if i'm not really up on the law. i came into this country as a legal immigrant 32 years ago.

it seemed to me at the time that something like murder conviction conviction would make somebody ineligible to immigrate to this country, either legally or illegally. am i getting that wrong? >> that's correct. if you get convicted of murder, as in your example, you are subject to deportation. if an immigration officer finds you and takes you into custody, then you will have a hearing with the judge. >> john: so then why are these people still in the country? >> most of those folks on the nondetained docket are here illegally. they have been addressed at the border, have been released with a notice to appear. >> john: but why are they still here? >> because you have the conflagration of sanctuary cities, and an immigration system that doesn't have the kind of resources or the will, frankly, under this administration, to take this problem in hand and go after the worst of the worst. >> sandra: unbelievable. i mean, i think bill melugin

said it. this is a java -dropper. people have had enough. we saw that and we see it in the polling, and it's a lot more to take in. thank you very much for joining us. i know representative gonzalez will be joining us at the 2:00 hour. sheriff lam will be here with us on the news, as well. and the former president himself, donald trump, will be speaking just over an hour from now. you got to imagine he's going to bring this up, john. >> john: i would think he probably will. he has certainly made immigration the centerpiece of his reelection campaign, so i would be surprised if he didn't have something to say about this when he's in michigan. >> sandra: okay, we will have more on that breaking news coming up. meanwhile, another top story at this hour. breaking news out of the middle east, israel says it hit hezbollah's headquarters during an air strike in the suburbs of beirut. fox news is learning the target, the leader of hezbollah. israeli per minister benjamin netanyahu approving that strike just hours after he

addressed the united nations general assembly, saying israel has "no choice but to continue fighting." trey yingst is live on the ground at the very latest. trey, what are we learning right now? >> sandra, a big element this hour. we are learning from the prime ministers office that israeli per minister benjamin netanyahu is cutting his trip to the united states short, following his address this morning at the u.n. geral assembly. this is significant because normally the israeli per minister does not fly on shabbat. so he is returning to israel tonight and he'll be here tomorrow morning, as the country is bracing for a possible response from the iran-backed group, hezbollah, following what fox news has learned was a strike against the group's leader, hassan nasrallah, in a neighborhood in the southern part of the lebanese capital of beirut. he has blessed stronghold within a civilian area. some of the initial video we are

seeing here is also significant, collapsed buildings in a residential part of beirut. local media is reporting that dozens of people were injured. rescue teams are still waiting to go through the rubble and see who was injured or killed in a this israeli strike. if nasrallah is confirmed to have been killed, he would be the largest development in this conflict so far. but we have no information to indicate he was killed or even at the site when the israelis struck it. but we are learning that he was the target. as we look at the possibility of what comes next here, israeli air defense remains on high alert across this country, fearing a response from hezbollah. this morning we awoke to sirens sounding across the city of haifa, the third-largest city that sits close to the lebanon border, about 17 miles away. and in tel aviv, israel's version of the pentagon, the israeli military officials are meeting at this hour to prepare for a possible response from

hezbollah as the region looks toward further escalation. during his remarks today in new york, netanyahu said his country will keep fighting this iran backed organization, and we heard earlier this evening from the top military spokesman, who commented on the strike, saying this. >> the israel defense forces carried out a precise strike on the central headquarters of the hezbollah terror organization that served as an epicenter of hezbollah's terror. >> we know that hezbollah has been hit hard since this conflict began. they've launched thousands of rockets into northern and central israel, and the israelis last week started an air campaign that was ramped up from previous efforts, targeting the leaders of the elite radwan forces that have their soldiers lined up on the border. they've been launching antitank guided missile attacks into

northern israel, but the latest information we have, socks news has learned the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah, was the target of the israeli strikes tonight and thlebanese capital of beirut. it is unclear if he was killed. sandra? >> sandra: okay, and the pentagon is giving a briefing at this hour, trey, in which it said it had "no advanced warning" of the israeli strike in beirut targeting the hezbollah leader. so we will likely get more details out of the pentagon as .as we learn them, we will bring them to our viewers. trey, thank you for the update on the ground there. john? >> john: sandra, a live look in walker michigan were former president trump will be speaking on the economy moments from now. we will listen in as soon as he begins. >> sandra: plus you're getting a better picture of the damage caused by hurricane helene in florida. florida counties been jared moskowitz used to be the state emergency management director. he's going to tell us what things look like right now and how they are responding to this

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>> there are few actors in this world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the united states as does iran. the u.s. government is intensely tracking iran's lethal plotting against current and former u.s. government officials, including former president trump. >> john: that was attorney general merrick garland just moments ago after unsealing the indictment of three iranians with the islamic revolutionary guard corps, indicted for attempting to interfere with our presidential election. the men accused of hacking former president trump campaign, and then sending the information to biden-harris staffers. let's bring in kerri urbahn,

ethoxy's legal editor. i'm sure the nation of iran is quaking in its boots over this action. >> i do appreciate attorney general garland keeping around front and center over the last couple of weeks. he has, which we haven't really heard much about iran from his boss or the vice president, which i think is kind of disgraceful, considering that they haven't spoken out about it. can you imagine if donald trump are in office and russia was attempting to knock his political opponent out and he didn't say anything? it would be wall-to-wall coverage. >> john: even type members of the islamic revolutionary guard corps, it's not like they're going to care. why don't you take real action against them? >> i don't really know what else he could do beyond what they brought today with respect to the hacking event -- >> john: hack them back? >> we don't know. he's telling us what they are doing, what we know about. when the doj does something like what they did today, which is consider a "name and shame"

operation, it's more of a publin anything else. like, we are taking this seriously, we don't want to interfering in our elections, they are against political violence. yes, to your point, does iran really care? no. >> john: you have the iranian president here at the united nations with protection and he wants to kill the former president. >> i don't know for a fact, but this is attorney general garland attending to do his part. they indicted the pakistani man tied to iran who tried -- you had an assassination plot against donald trump. that's the only reason why there was a counter sniper that butler rally, because they are afraid of iran, which is remarkable considering how poorly that all went. attorney general garden to matt garland has spoken out in the last couple of weeks. you have all the actions they are taking against the second would-be assassin. so i feel like he is doing everything at this point that he can, and i think that's good, especially in light of how i think the doj has treated the

former president pretty unfairly in most cases in the last couple of years. so i'm happy to see this. >> john: a lot of people just think this initiation has gone so soft. >> for sure, that's not even a question. >> john: that is not even worth the paper it's written on. i want to ask you about mayor eric adams, because he faces a litany of charges. conspiracy to commit wire fraud, et cetera program bribery, and to receive campaign conservations by foreign nationals. wire fraud, solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national, solicitation of a country should buy foreign national, and bribery, among other things. you didn't seem impressed by this yesterday. how about now? >> i have a mixed opinion on this. if that part is true, that's not good. i think a bribery component of this case is a little thin. you're talking about flight upgrades in exchange for a delayed fire inspection. [laughs] i mean, that's not really heavy hitting. but i do wonder, john, about the politics of this. if you read through the indictment, it looks like

eric adams, according to the doj hat, has been involved in this for at least ten years. so why did they care now? i just wonder who's out to get him now. why have they suddenly laser focused in on him? >> john: this to me is the most intriguing aspect of it, this post on x. by alexandria ocasio-cortez. "i do not see how mayor adams can continue governing new york city. the flood of resignations and vacancies are certain government function. nonstop investigations will make it impossible to recruit and retain qualified administration. for the good of the city, he should resign." let's put this photo here. here is alexandria ocasio-cortez with her good buddy, giovanni williams, in line to become the next mayor of new york city. >> which is exactly my point. i think there's a lot of questions. there still are, about why now, why the feds have lasered in on eric adams now. i wonder separately, what is the new york political machine doing

on this? when involvement have they had? if he was doing some of these things, it was probably one of the best-kept open secrets. everyone is known about it for years, so i now? then you see aoc come out and then you wonder if maybe it's because her friend, his deputy, a well-known anti-police activist, could replace him. that answer the question. >> john: a lot of people are hoping that doesn't happen. >> foxnews.com did a phenomenal write up today on what's happening in her district. it's a reporter, i recommend everyone go and look at it. because he writes about the migrant crisis that her district is experiencing, and why it is especially interesting. one, the prostitution is rampant, lined up all down the street. everyone knows that. but there are also migrants setting up their own little shops in front of actual shops, and the store owners are very upset, because they are offering, say, haircuts or

manicures, but they don't have to pay taxes on any of those things, so it is destroying small businesses in the area. what is she doing about this? >> john: we got to go, but there is so much to talk about. i wish you a good weekend and we will see next week with more to talk about on this. >> the water is moving very fast across bully road, and the water level keeps rising. >> it is way worse than anybody has seen. >> it's pretty devastating. this is not the only bad part of the city. hopefully everyone is safe. >> sandra: the wrath of hurricane helene being felt across the southeast after coming ashore in northwestern florida as a category 4 storm. at least 18 deaths are now being blamed on it, and millions of people are without electricity at this time. madison scarpino has got the latest, live in atlanta where there's been historic flooding. where do you see they are madis? >> 11 of those deaths in

georgia, governor brian kemp confirms, where here. i don't know much details about the circumstances but we know that one of those deaths was a first responder. we are here in one of the hard-hit areas in the city at an apartment complex in buck. i want to give you a closer look at this. you can see cars submerged in water in this parking lot. to put things in perspective, things are receding pretty quickly. these cars are complete and a water few hours ago. early this morning the majority of the water rescues in the city where he had this apartment complex. picture rescue boats going around getting people out of their apartment. the scary thing for people to wake up to in the morning here. this is normal. the georgia climate office says atlanta got the highest 48 hour rainfall ever in history. we spoke to a guy who lives on the first floor here. we can't even imagine the damage going on inside these

apartments, but he says his refrigerator was flipped upside down or on its side and a lot of his furniture is messed up, as well. we also spoke to another woman who lives here. take a listen. >> i have been here for almost two years now, so this is the first i have ever seen the creek this high. i didn't think anything until i got a phone call that people, from my mother, my friend lives down the street, the people are actually getting saved in boats. so i was like, what is happ happening? >> we also have some video we want to show you right here. fox weather's very own also in atlanta this morning. not too far away from where we are right now. he actually rescued a woman who has trapped in her car. it was an amazing thing to see. he was doing a live shot, her yelling, stopped in his tracks and went to go save her. he said she's doing fine, so they are glad everyone is okay in that situation. we of course no that was not the case for everyone, that back out here live, it is important to

note that the valdosta, georgia, area got hit really hard, especially with those strong winds. governor kemp says there are 115 structures damaged in that area and he says inside of the structures some of them have people they are trapped that have yet to get to. so we will keep you updated with all the latest details. still over a million people in georgia without power, sandra. >> sandra: madison scarpino live there in atlanta. this will be quite some time for all those folks to recover from this. thank you. now let's bring in jared moskowitz, also the former florida director of emergency management pretty joins us now. thank you very much for joining us. just how bad is this, and what are you seeing and hearing? >> look, there's still obviously swift water rescues going on right now. a lot of first responders are out there trying to still save people. by the way, shout out to the fox weather man who stopped doing his reporting and got that woman out of the car in the floodwaters. that is what is still going on

in a bunch of areas, but then in other areas they are out there doing damage assessments right now, to determine how bad things are. in florida there are some counties that dealt with storm surge. pinellas county, manatee county, in the tampa area, as well, and obviously you're talking about unbelievable historic storm surge and wind in perry, taylor county, madison, leavy, dixie county. my prayers are with the people up there. they have been hit hurricane after hurricane. three storms. this is the third one they've gotten. i think the storm will go down in history as a storm that caused historic damage in florida and in georgia, and we are still waiting to hear about rivers that are going to be cresting in the carolinas. so there are a lot of people not out of the woods yet. >> john: you mentioned, congressman, that rescued by our fox weather correspondent. it really does highlight the

danger of how quickly the water can rise when the rain comes down. we get storm surge, a lot of rain and flesh letting inland. people need to be very aware of that. we saw some pictures of treasure island, boats tossed around moments ago. i don't know that we have seen a video yet from the actual coast, some of the little tiny towns. what do you expect happened along the shore of appalachia bay as this came on shore? >> they're talking about upwards of 15 feet of storm surge, so if people did not evacuate those homes, i am deeply concerned about them. we have already heard about 21 people losing their lives in a combination of all of the states. but i'm deeply worried about the people who, if they stayed, if they didn't listen, that sort of storm surge is up for the second level. you have homes out there that don't necessarily test that they weren't built after hurricane

andrew with hurricane code. you have mobile homes. so those of the people they are going and checking on right now. i saw the pictures out of treasure island. obviously storm surge damage, you can't see it once the waters recede. you then have to go home to home, which they will do in their damage assessments, to see how many homes are actually damaged and where the water got in, how high it got in, and those homes have to be gutted down to the studs. all the drywall and carpet, all that stuff it's got to come out. and that becomes will be called construction debris. right now i am still concerned about the folks that are in harm's way as we are going to building set of collapse. you heard about that in georgia, obviously. so we are still in the very early phases of what i would call the immediate response. we are still a ways away from the next phase, which would be starting the recovery mission. >> sandra: will be watching all of it. jared moscowitz joining us on that. thank you very much, sir. >> john: thanks, congressman.

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pair of crucial battleground states. daron shaw's here to take us through it, the republican partner on the fox news polling. thank you so much for being h here. i want to highlight what we are seeing happening on the ground in arizona. we will start with georgia. it's obviously one of the critical states we are watching right now where harris has a 3-point lead. we have been talking about how this is looking like what could be the closest presidential election in u.s. history. what are we seeing in georgia, and are there warning signs for trump there right now? >> compared to a previous poll in georgia where he had a harris versus trump match up, it's essentially the same poll. we ran one in august, the results are within a point of each other, that if you look under the hood a little bit, under the surface you see that harris has made some important gains. in particular, while the top issues still save her trump, the economy and immigration, most

voters write him superior to her, she has cut that gap. so the messaging a lot of people have ridiculed, that stuff seems to have resonated a little bit. she has improved her numbers on the economy. those are still the dominant issues. they still favor trump, but she has halved his lead. that made her more competitive and that is something the trump people have to deal with. they have to reestablish their dominance on the issue of the economy if you're going to carry a state like georgia. >> sandra: if trump is still favored in georgia with voters when it comes to the economy, but to your point by a slim margin of three points, you would expect that he would be dominating when it comes to that in that state. she has been able to close that margin a bit. on immigration, the border, you're still looking at a 15-point need for trump on that issue. when it comes to abortion, obviously harris leading on this issue right now, and 18-went margin. next up i want to take you to

look at some of what is happening in arizona, and the preference right there is for donald trump, by three points, in the latest fox news polling. but there are some warning signs for harris and questions of whether or not she can close this gap. some of the warning signs are coming from the hispanic voters. she had an 18-point lead with them in august in that state. that is now shrunk to 11. when it comes to voters under 30, not only has that margin shrank, but it's gone to the deficit. she had a 13-point lead there and it's now gone to a 12-point deficit. so how concerned should her campaign be about that in arizona? >> very. [laughs] the democratic coalition relies heavily on african american voters, hispanic voters, on younger voters, as you just pointed out. in 2020, biden's margin -- trump barely got double digits with african american voters. he was in the 30s with hispanics. he was in the 30s with voters

under 30 years of age. negative talking about numbers amongst hispanics in the 40s, numbers close to george w. bush's numbers. amongst younger voters, these are smaller sample sizes, so we have to be a little cautious here, but the fact that he is competitive let alone leading amongst younger voters is devastating news for her campaign. she desperately needs voters to swing back to their traditional patterns she's going to win a state like arizona. this is a state decided by 2,500 votes last time. you can't hemorrhage voters from your key coalitions and expect to carry a state like arizona. >> sandra: we are going to see trump later today in kent county michigan. michigan obviously critical to watch, as well. when we zero in looking at the 2020 results, the 2.8-point margin of victory for joe biden versus donald trump, tell us what you see happening there. i want to look at grand rapids, kent county. this is going to be critical to

watch. joe biden led that county by just over six points back in 2020. what can you tell us about that, and why are we watching kent county so closely? >> sandra, i love you at that touch board. you become the master of that. we are honing in on those suburban counties, as well. grand rapids has a strong suburban element. if you look at places like may macomb, the suburban vote is critical. in the polls we just released, you seem really interesting results. in the case of arizona, trump is up by five points among suburban voters. in the case of georgia, harris is up seven points among suburban voters. i'm really interested in some of the demographics within those groups. in arizona, trump is actually up by about 20 points among suburban men. harris is up by about 14 points among suburban women. so the gender gap in those is critical. in atlanta, trump's winning

white suburban voters by 30 points. it is african american suburban voters in places like cobb and gwinnett and dekalb, around fulton, that are really driving her small advantage there. whether it is pennsylvania, michigan, arizona, or georgia, the suburban collar counties are critical. that's why we are paying attention to places like that. ct is such great insight as always, daron. hope to have you on a bunch soon. john? >> john: that's a lot of information to digest. now to this, the highly anticipated vice presidential debate giving voters they are one and only chance to see these two candidates face to face. both sides hoping to move the needle in a tight race when they meet this coming tuesday. alexandria hoff has more on the controversial issue with the two candidates strongly disagreeing. >> hi, john. this is on gender care for children. it is divisive overall in his

country and legislatively these candidates have nothing in common. for example, the summer senator vance introduced a bill that makes it a felony to provide puberty blockers or hormones to kids. it also prohibits federal tax dollars from funding gender-affirming care. alternatively, governor walz issued last year an executive order and signed into law a bill in minnesota that says it makes it a refuge for adults and children seeking such care. listen. >> gender affirming health care is essential to being a welcoming and supportive state to the community. >> but globally the tide has been turning. several european countries that have been considered on the forefront of gender care for kids are now reversing course. this spring and intensive 4-year review by england's state-funded national health service concluded "the reality is that we have no good evidence on long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender related to stress." because of this, the nhs will no

longer prescribe puberty blockers outside of clinical trials. still, most major u.s. medical organizations and associations still support adolescent transitioning. the american society of plastic surgeons questions is consensus. >> we feel the data is just not there yet. it's a very poor quality and low evidence so far in the field. that doesn't mean things won't change in the future. speak at a gallop poll in june chose to make's are divided on the issue with more than half thinking it is unethical to change genders, john. >> john: lot of evidence that puberty blockers themselves, the effects might be irreversible, let alone if you have some sort of transition surgery. >> you are exactly right. you are sterile for the rest of your life. that is a fact. >> john: thank you. sandra? >> sandra: we are, as we just mentioned, watching closely walker, michigan, where former president trump is expected to speak soon. we'll be hearing from him about that stunning the report, possibly, on how many convicted murderers and rapists had

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