hezbollah terrorists in lebanon, and of course they continue to knock a leadership in the hamas savages that invaded israel on october 7th. also in the next hour, vice presidential nominee j.d. vance will be at a campaign event in michigan. now this is just the first time we will see him since those kind of interesting moments which people are calling widely in the media and beyond a win for him at the vice presidential debate last night, so later today president biden and vice president kamala harris will go to hurricane hitting storm hit zones, biden in north carolina, kamala harris in georgia. a lot to get to there, no doubt. hopefully they can do some things that haven't been done yet. that storm hit last thursday. america reports will be all over it as they always are, so let's get there. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪

>> john: brand-new footage from the pentagon shows american personnel helping israel shoot down iranian ballistic missiles. it has been just when he for hours now since iran unleashed its largest ever ballistic missile attack on israel. and prime minister netanyahu says tehran will pay. it's just a matter of win, not if. hello, i'm john roberts. good to see you this wednesday afternoon. >> gillian: thank you. good to see you, as well, john. i'm gillian turner, sandra smith is on assignment. this is "america reports." israeli officials telling axios all options remain on the table, include take out iran's oil facilities and may be air defense systems, may be targeted assassinations. >> john: so what is the best course of action to stop iran's aggression? we ask for a republican congressman mike waltz. >> gillian: we have fox team coverage starting now but we are going to begin with trey yingst, who is on the ground in haifa.

hi, trey. >> hi, guys. what you are witnessing right now in the distance is extensive hezbollah rocket fire coming into northern israel. we have seen a number of barrages like this, but this is one of the largest that i have seen since we have been reporting here from the north. some of those rockets getting intercepted by israel's missile defense system, the iron dome. these are life images you are watching. these explosions in the skies over northern israel. it gives you a sense of just how this story is developing. one of those rockets just landed. it did not get intercepted, might have been heading toward an open area. but as we report here along the border and i am looking at the lord's coming in on my phone, you can get a sense it is not just the ballistic missile attack overnight from iran, but also the ongoing activity coming from hezbollah in southern lebanon. we learned today that eight israeli soldiers were killed fighting hezbollah in the southern part of lebanon. they were in a village when they

were ambushed by these iran-backed militants. according to the israeli army, five of them are soldiers from the commander unit. two of them were recon and reconnaissance soldiers, one a combat medic. siren still sounding across northern israel. it looks like the initial barrage is over for now. but as we look forward here to the israeli position, and the current security state, not only do you have this incoming rocket fire and the ongoing ground fighting inside southern leb lebanon, you have what is expected to be a massive israeli response to this attack overnight. you saw the photo of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu today. he was sitting across from other top officials including israel's defense minister yoav gallant, and they were discussing how to respond to these 180 ballistic missiles that relaunch from iran overnight that impacted a number of areas of central israel and also the southern part of this

country. and as we look forward here at the current situation on the ground, you have to remember one person was killed, two israelis were injured, and the iranians say for the first time the use the advanced fatah hypersonic missiles and responding to the killing of hassan nasrallah and hamas leader is -- the security situation remains tense. we do expect more statements from the americans and senior defense officials telling fox news today that conversations are continuing between israeli officials and their american counterparts about a possible israeli response following that ballistic missile attack overnight. guys, back to you. >> john: so trey, american officials keep calling for a cease-fire trying to tamp things down, in the meantime it is probably impossible for israel to let stand what happened yesterday. what has the top talk then of what the possible response might

look like? >> so we have looked at a number of israeli media reports and they are citing israeli officials who say that israel has everything on the table right now, from iran's nuclear facilities to oil production facilities and the energy sector, and i'm just looking behind here because there are still some alerts going off in northern israel, but in terms of the possible response for the israelis blowing this ballistic missile attack, they can target a variety of things in iran. we heard today from president biden, who said he does not support an attack on iranian nuclear facilities, but it is not president biden's decision, and the israelis have made clear that at this point in the conflict, they feel they have iran and its proxies on their heels, but last night attack changed the equation. remember, there was a ballistic missile attack against this country back in april. there were very few impacts and it was far less significant than what we saw last night. so israeli officials overnight that speaking with fox news said it is not a question of if

israel will respond but rather when and where, but again, a variety of options on the table and the israelis are still needing to determine how exactly they will respond to the missile attack overnight. >> john: all right, trey, stay safe. keep an eye on the ground there and get back to us of anything else happens. gillian? >> gillian: thank you, trey. now we go to new york with you and secure the council's right now in an emergency meeting. you can see footage of the floor, following senior correspondent, sean -- what is the international response like so far today? >> hello, gillian. israel says iran is a terrorist state. iran says israel is a terrorist state. so what the united nations security council deliberations as israeli ambassador danny did nontold the international body that israel will respond to the iranian attack. the emergency meeting was called by israel and france to try and

deter iran's aggressive actions. dannon before the meeting starring said israel will not standby before these attacks and will respond, a response he called painful but he did not detail what that response will be. told the international community to oppose sanctions against iran and designate the i rgc, the is islamic revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. he said iran simply wants to destroy israel with these terrorist attacks. >> we are under attack. this was not just an escalation, but a direct result on our very existence. the time for complacency is o over. the iranian regime have shed all of their beauty. they are no longer silent pocket masters. their bloodthirsty, revealing in their violence and destruction. >> iranian ambassador shot back,

accusing israel of being the aggressor by killing hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah, claiming the ballistic missile launches were self-defense, aimed at israel's military bases, though none were hit. he also blamed the u.s., claiming the biden administration is complicit because of u.s. support for the jewish state. >> was a necessity to restore balance and deterrence. israeli must understand that each act of invasion it makes, it is not unpunished and will be met with considering's is. this is the cost this regime must bear. >> meanwhile the united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez has been banned from entering israel, declared a persona non grata. that is because in his initial remarks about the is rainy iranian ballistic missile attack he called for a de-escalation and a cease-fire of the israeli foreign minister slamming him

for that, for not mentioning iran or condemning iran. in his opening statements at the secure the counsel, gutierrez did condemn her on and as blah but also criticized israel for its actions in gaza. >> gillian: that and his years of anti-israel rhetoric. we'll check in with you later. john? >> john: florida congressman michael waltz, former green beret and house foreign affairs committee. it would seem israel will launch a significant counterpunch to iran. here is what axios wrote, "israeli officials tearing down all out regional war tell axios israel will launch a significant retaliation to tuesday's massive missile attack, targeted oil production facilities inside iran and other strategic sites. there is a sense that iran just can't give, israel can't give iran a bloody nose. got to break a few bones here.

>> yeah, that's right, john. that's the only thing that is going to deter the regime from continuing to do this. look, we can't normalize hundreds of ballistic missiles being launched from iranian soil indiscriminately at israeli civilians in their cities, without a serious response. the only way we're going to de-escalate his with a partial escalation. number one. number two, i have no idea, it makes zero sense to me why biden would take iran's nuclear facilities off the table publicly. why is it so hard to say all options are on the table, and we stand with our ally israel to support itself? now tactically, operationally, perhaps, iran can surge its air defenses or protect some of its oil facilities, ballistic missile production sites, its storage sites, or elsewhere, because biden loves to tell

people what he's not going to do and what he's not going to support. and then finally, john, look, we have to, this administration has got to even if it doesn't want to do so publicly, admit that it's middle eastern and iran policy has failed. every time they say de-escalate, the escalate, and shift back to maximum pressure. they could put secondary sanctions on chinese buyers of iranian oil tomorrow. the house has passed it, schumer won't take it up, you have to dry up the cash or this is always going to continue. >> john: the president had something to say at andrews air force base as he heads to north carolina, but here is what he said about the potential way forward with iran. >> reporter: anything about iran and israel? >> yes, look, i called a meeting of the g7 today. working on a joint statement all of us agree on.

iran has gone way off the board. we are going to put together a joint statement. it hasn't been done yet. by the time we land. and there are going to be some sanctions put on iran. >> john: so he says they're going to be some sanctions imposed on iran. it sounds like the same old thing. >> yes, the definition of insanity, and they are going to be focused just as much on telling israel to tap the brakes and constraining israel, rather than condemning iran and making iran pay the cost peered what costs have they paid for all of these attacks, all of this terrorism, trying to kill a president of the united states with ongoing assassination plots. zero, none, and that is why they continue to do it. john, i think the good news here, the good story is the amazing capability, iron dome system, took down iran's most advanced hypersonic missiles, the fattah 2, and this is why

president trump is talking about a big beautiful iron dome for the united states. the obama administration when they defunded it, i think they have all been shown to have been wrong. the experts have been wrong once again, john, to channel j.d. vance last night. >> john: let me turn to north carolina and hurricane relief because the president is headed there, the vice president is going to georgia. you are critical of the lack of immediacy in the administration's response to what is happening to those poor folks out in the western part of north carolina and some other areas. >> the north carolina national guard has a few assets out there, they are trying their best, but i am talking to volunteers, including my colleague cory mills, represented of cory mills, who are paying out-of-pocket moving helicopters, moving supplies, and meanwhile, you have a huge base at fort bragg, now for liberty, with dozens of

helicopters and i'm talking to them, they haven't been authorized by biden, harris, or secretary of defense austin. he just did today a week into this. people are running out of oxygen, medicine, the supplies that they needs. water. this is very serious come up in these mountains and the only way you can get to them is by helicopter, and you've got a whole base for right down the street. why haven't they gotten the go-ahead from the pentagon to get up there? these are active-duty helicopters that could be up there right now saving lives, and we are a week into this and we have just now are getting a thousand soldiers out of this white house. >> john: that's a very good question, congressman, and one we will put to this administration to find out why they are not utilizing a readily available assets. commerce and michael waltz from the great state of florida, former green beret, thank you for joining us, really appreciate it. >> thank you.

>> john: gillian? >> gillian: a growing number of container ships are awaiting offshore, stranded today, as the dockworkers strike freezes dozens of ports for the second day. what it could mean for consumers, as well as refrigerators, if the strike is not resolved this week. >> john: plus president biden and vice president harris will tour the damage across the southeast today amid scenes of sheer devastation from hurricane helene. we will hear from one fire chief in one of those hard-hit areas coming up next. >> we are in accessible. there's no roads. there is no major roads in or out of the western north carolina area. >> it's pretty brutal. this is going to be one that goes down in the history books. h just to see if you qualify for a home loan. yet, some lenders charge you hundreds of dollars in upfront fees just to apply. they keep your money even if they turn you down. call newday. unlike other lenders, at newday there's no upfront appraisal fee, no upfront

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steroids. you know, everybody that i know is isolated from everything else. >> the magnitude of it is great. we moved here from the bahamas to get away from storms. >> pretty record folks appear. this thing was bigger than all of us. >> john: north carolinians reacting to the utter devastation from helene. it is now the deadliest storm to strike the u.s. mainland since hurricane katrina. at least 170 people have died. that number could rise with hundreds still missing. beginning this hour, president biden and vice president hairs are set to tour the damage across the southeast. the fire chief in boone, north carolina, joins us in moment but first to steve harrigan, lived at maggie valley, north carolina, to walk across a destroyed bridge. i don't know you heard michael waltz a moment ago saying there's all sorts of rotary wing assets at the 82nd airborne, the 82nd airborne is home in north carolina.

is there space there, steve, where they could landor airlift goods in by dropping them? >> john, just as you say that we see a military chinook fly overhead. we have seen the u.s. military really land helicopters on a dime in places like haiti on muddy mountainsides, so helicopters don't need a lot of room and with the u.s. military's expertise it could be done if they wanted, even in times like this that are pretty much cut off as far as electricity and water and road vehicles, there is really no wan or out. we have been asking people here basically one question: are you getting help you need? are you getting any help at all? and really to a person the answer is the same. >> haven't seen anyone yet. i understand that there were some forster people here a day or so ago, but i never saw them come through, and i'm not sure, you know, they are not the ones that we need the help with. the campground, you know, they

need help to have people come in, help clean up everything. a lot of people have just volunteered to do everything they can who live here. >> you really get a sense of pride, too, when you ask people if they need help, they will really come out and say we are desperate for help, but what they will say is we have gotten zero help and we are helping each other. that is what we have seen so far. the real challenges water. they have been using river water to flush the toilets and to wash with but the wells are pretty much all contaminated from the flood, and that's really the danger, water to drink, that's what they really need here, john. >> john: in the mountains, clearly they need some assistance. steve harrigan, great reporting. gillian? >> gillian: those scenes across north carolina this afternoon, a testament to helene's terrible power. one community that has been hit particularly hard is boone, a college town, about 19,000 folks live there and rely heavily on tourism, especially during the fall season. some major roads in boone right

now completely destroyed. many folks who live there still now without cell service, any electricity, clean drinking water, so joining us now is jimmy isaacs, boone, north carolina,'s fire chief. she, thank you so much for being with us today. want to start with steve harrigan left off in his report with drinking water. i understand your water system was completely down. is it backup? is it coming back? >> the water system was completely down. we lost numerous water breaks due to erosion. landslides. we have made repairs to settle those. we did get the water plant up and running. we did get negative tests back on bacteria on the samples, so we were able to lift the water advisory yesterday, but it took a significant time to get that back. we still have numerous areas within the town that are still without water. that is going to take some

expensive repairs with the road completely gone. >> gillian: do you have any sense of the number of folks who are without power and self-service? >> well, in town, we have no better than especially the western part of our county, the western part of the county was hit extremely hard. probably the vast majority of the county is still without power. probably, if i were a guessing person, just based on what i have seen, i would say we lost over half the bridges in the western part of the county. we are still, in our district we cover, we are still finally getting to the last of the roads and checking the last of the people that were cut off. we have been doing some work, water rescue crews, double checking the cars that are in streams. and things of that nature.

it's a lot of work. i know on friday i couldn't even venture to tell you how many rescues were made friday. we know well in excess of 100. we got so busy, we really lost count. we were fortunate, we had some prepositioned resources that were extremely helpful. that north carolina emergency management, and we were able to do some really good work on friday. >> gillian: chief, thank you so much for making time to talk to us to tell us about what is going on in boone. we wish you the speediest recovery possible. thanks so much for your time, sir. >> all right, thank you. >> gillian: come with us now to the state department, where we are getting a briefing from matt miller in the wake of iran's bombardment against israel yesterday. let's listen. >> so for the past several days, we have been working, really

going back september 28th, we have been working to make seats available or to find seats available on existing commercial flights. we have been able to identify over 800 seats over that time, a number that have been used by american sis citizens. and not all cases have they been filled. and today we were able to organize a flight from beirut to istanbul to allow other american citizens to leave. it's been a priority for us to enhance the capacity of flights in and out of the region, so we have contracted with additional carriers to facilitate the transport of american citizens. there was a flight that left a couple of hours ago from beirut, had a capacity of 300. head somewhere, a little over 100 american citizens and their family members who departed. reporter one final question, reports of an american citizen killed in lebanon. >> we have seen those reports, our understanding a legal american resident not an

american citizen but we offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss. >> reporter: on flights -- excuse me -- from beirut, just one flight today? >> just one flight today. and i should add -- >> reporter: to istanbul. >> at context, we hope to organize additional flights in the coming days depending on demand. we hope to organize additional flights if there is demand. won't be able to announce them in advance because often, you understand, of course, how difficult the situation is. at times we hope to have flights and be able to get them in or out for whatever reason, but i will be able to come after they have occurred, come here and talk. reporter back you said since up to ever 20 managed to secure about 800 seats on existing flights. but you don't have any idea how many people actually took advantage? >> i don't. i can follow up after the briefing. >> reporter: 100 seats that you had secured were on the

airline -- >> the only commercial carrier currently flying out of beirut. >> reporter: are there plans for more of these contract flights? >> we are going to look to organize them in the coming -- keep trying to do both lines of effort. identify seats on existing commercial flights, and then to the extent there is demand, and we do expect there will be demand at least for the next several days, and we will monitor as we go forward, we do expect organize additional flights out of beirut. >> reporter: you mentioned earlier about the secretaries call this morning -- >> yep. >> reporter: you also said you guys are still in touch in a variety of levels with the israeli government. in terms of the secretary's conversations, when was the last time he spoke to either his counterpart or -- was it last

week? >> yesterday. >> reporter: yesterday. and... what was the result of that? >> so the secretary, along with other members of the administration, had a number of phone calls with the israeli government yesterday. obviously the secretary virtually joins the president virtually from here during the attack to monitor the attack, and then participated in a number of calls with senior israeli government officials. we are talking about their response and what their response will look like. those conversations are ongoing, and i think i will leave it at that. >> reporter: so that last contact, when we see on tv the iranian missiles coming in -- >> it -- >> reporter: it was after that? >> on that, i will leave it at that. >> reporter: so far today you are not aware of -- >> not at this point, which isn't to say we won't have any, and i should make, oftentimes --

sometimes we lead these calls out, sometimes we don't. >> reporter: do you have, whether it was on these flights from the 28th, from last week, plus the 100 or so who were on this other flight today, do you have any idea of how many american citizens have actually left? >> i don't. i can see if we can get that information. on the flight today it was somewhere a little over 100, but those aren't all american citizens, some of them are american citizens, some of them are family members were not american citizens. >> reporter: sure. thank you. >> yes? >> reporter: "politico" reports u.s. officials quietly separated escalation, including the assassination of hezbollah chief nasrallah. can you comment on that?

>> we were not aware of that attack, that incident before it happened so we cannot possibly quietly support something of which we were not aware. now, to make clear, we support bringing hassan ness relative justice. that is true. we made clear he is a brutal terrorist with the blood of lebanese, syrians, on his hands, but we were not aware of that in advance. impossible to support something you didn't know was happening. >> john: state to permit spokesman at miller saying while the united states applauds the killing and death of hassan ness raw because that is the way where you live. >> gillian: i asked matt yesterday, the iranian foreign miller minister was up to nonsense, reporting out they had given the biden administration a heads-up before the missile attack, so i asked matt if that was true and he said it is a lie, absolutely not true but what we do know not from -- >> john: iran light, perish the thought.

>> gillian: if the united states inspected yesterday morning something was imminent it is through our own intelligence collecting capabilities, not because iran is doing us some kind of diplomatic favor. >> john: we know the attack on the al-asad air base, the white house was given a heads-up iran was going to strike. >> gillian: we don't know by who, meaning we don't know if it was through diplomat -- >> gillian: maybe others intelligence leaned on their own -- >> john: potentially. >> gillian: i don't really give iran the benefit of the doubt, they are doing us -- >> john: that was reported yesterday, the u.s. warned and then iran said we didn't warn and the state department and pentagon. >> gillian: the other big news come inside like matt was just getting to in this briefing, the biden administration is not evacuating americans trapped inside lebanon right now, more than 80,000 of them.

>> john: no. >> gillian: there is a convoluted process where they negotiate with airlines, middle east airlines to reserve seats for americans, who might want to the book them to get out of dodge but they have to pay for them themselves and their families, they have to do all the legwork. sounds like there is not a lot of takers. not a lot of takers so far. >> john: we will keep a close eye on that, as well. j.d. vance back on the campaign trail with an event next hour in michigan, fresh off last night's vice presidential debate where it appeared he came out on top. let's bring in karl rove. there does seem to be very little argument that vance prevailed in the debate. here is a few of the highlights from last night. >> if kamala harris has such great plans for how to address middle-class problems, then she ought to do them now, not when asking for a promotion, but in the job the american people gave her three and a half years ago. i want us as a republican party to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word.

you ask about family separation. right now, in this country, margaret, we have 320,000 children that the department of homeland security has effectively lost. >> the economy -- >> since you are fact-checking me, i think it is important to say was actually going on. >> john: so it appeared to be a very good night for j.d. vance. the question, karl, doesn't move the needle at all? >> it was a very good night for him and it was a very bad night for tim walz, who offered up a couple of heavy offerings of word salad, but no, look, the first debate, where donald trump was widely seen in the polls and observers to have lost, it didn't affect the polls. the vice presidential debate is not going to affect the polls, either. it may affect the standing of j.d. vance, who had very high negatives and very low positives, worse than tim walz, but no, presidential debates and vice presidential debates do not

tend to affect things, particularly vice presidential debates. we get great moments out of them, remember lloyd benson and tdan quayle -- >> john: you are no john kennedy. >> he was a friend of mine, you are no john kennedy. we remember the line but dan quayle became vice president of the united states. take a look at this. i was thinking about this, actually got this, think about this, on the 1st of september, the race was 44-7 for trump, 47.8 in the fivethirtyeight average, as of today, it is 45.9-48.5. i mean, this race is stuck. not to say it may come unglued at some point but so far the back and forth, the television ads when campaigning, the debates have done very little to change the numbers. donald trump has gone up one points, two points, she has gone

up, you know, let's see here, seven tenths of 1%. this race is tight. >> john: it seems to be. we just saw pictures of j.d. vance touching down in michigan where next hour he will be giving a speech there after last nights debate performance. cbs said that the rules of the game last night were that they were not going to fact-check the candidates, that the candidates were too fat fact-check each other and then this happened. >> the rules were -- >> the economy -- >> since you are fact-checking me i think it is important to say was actually going on. >> thank you, senator. gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut. we have so much we want to get to. think you for ask winning the legal process. >> john: three things happening. first of all they fact-checked j.d. vance when they said they weren't going to, then they cut the microphones just as it was getting good, and then it was a rather snide, condescending sneer, i thought, that margaret brennan had, when she said "thank you for explaining

the legal process." >> yeah, no, the dominant media did not look good last night in this regard. and why they -- make up your mind, you are either going to fact-check or not fact-check. if you fact-checked, at least pretend you are doing both sides because there were things that governor walz said that were clearly not accurate, but look, this again is another reason why these debates, they matter to political junkies like you and i but think about this from the perspective of the voter trying to make up their mind. how does what was said last night and how do something like that exchange affect them? what does it do about their life and their community and the future of their family? that is why partisans on both sides tend to get revved up by these moments. if their guy or gal is being attacked or if they are on the offense. but in terms of affecting voter attitudes, it really has to go to water the issues being discussed? what are the values being

expressed? and do people say that affects me and my family in the future of my country as i want to see it? >> john: it wasn't unusual debate last night from the standpoint of it was a stub substantive one mostly about politics and the candidates agreed with each other several times -- >> bipartisanship, respectful, and remember how the presidential debate ended, president trump stalked off visibly angry, and left vice president harris sort of standing there. these two men went over, clapped each other on the shoulder, struck hands, smiled at each other, and then introduced their wives to each other because their wives came onto the stage. this is what america did want to see. i thing a matter with a republican democrat last night, regardless of who you thought, whether democrat or willing to acknowledge vance claim walz clock or not, this is the kind of debate i would like to see the leaders of our country participate in. >> john: the way they started off back in 1960s, "back to the future i guess. gillian?

>> thank you, john peered. >> gillian: the mideast on tenterhooks as it appears in the midst of a full-blown regional war across the area, we have general anthony topol, dan hoffman here next to discuss. >> john: plus more than 45,000 dockworkers on the picket line for the second straight day, how the port strike will impact your wallet and the grocery store shelves and may be the election. still energize us.od coming up after the break.uc meno could go up with the stock market lock in your gains? and when the market goes down, you don't lose anything. forward with your money. never backwards would have that investment strategy, that product actually existed? good news! it does! if you have at least $100,000 to invest, get your investor's guide and see if it's right for you.

>> john: americans bracing for the economic impact of the dockworkers now on the picket line for a second day. the strike threatening massive supply chain disruptions all across the country. stew leonard standing by to a explain how this could affect shelves at your local supermarket, with some of the perishables coming in by boat.

let's go to bryan llenas, live from brooklyn where it sounds like there is a noisy crowd out there, bryan? >> hey, john, that's right, a few dozen of these workers picketing in brooklyn since yesterday. they are demanding the shipping operators -- well, it is time to pay, they paid record hop profits, hundreds of billions of dollars since the pandemic. the base salary they say needs to go up as much as 77%, $69 an hour. they also want a complete commitment to not automate the ports. they don't want robots replacing union jobs. listen. >> automation, who is going to circulate the money? who is going to supply our kids? are we going to rely on foreign countries to dictate what we do in this country? we are tired. no machines, no work, and that is it. >> as each day goes by, more and more ships are arriving along

the gulf coast and hundreds of thousands of containers of goods with no places to go. some businesses are sending to the west coast. piled up on new york and new jersey with no one to unload them and 35 more ships, we are told, are set to arrive next week. one restaurant owner in baltimore says the strike is cutting into his business to fold. >> when they are not bringing in money and not getting that paycheck, obviously they don't have the luxury of going out to eat, and just yesterday alone we saw our lunch sales plummet about 60% because they weren't around. the other side of that, unfortunately, is going to be continued inflation. >> now as these protests from baltimore to texas to new jersey continue, pressure is ramping up on president biden to step in and enact the taft-hartley act to end this strike immediately.

president biden so far says that's not happening. writing a statement, quote, collective bargaining is the best way for workers to get the pay and benefit they deserved. i have urged u.s. mx which represent the group of carriers to come to the table and present a fair offer to the workers. john, jpmorgan estimates this could cost the economy $4.5 billion a day, this is just a 2. one other thing, they are a loud group but is only a few dozen, about 150 of these union workers who are supposed to be out here today are actually unloading cruise ships. they say their intention is not to hurt people, which is why they are unloading those cruise ships and not striking during that time. john? >> john: bryan llenas for us in brooklyn new jersey. thank you -- did i say brooklyn new jersey? brooklyn, new york. thank you, sir, so much. gillian? >> gillian: joining us is stew leonard. he is in norwalk, connecticut, his grocery store a staple of

life for people across new york, new jersey, connecticut. i understand that for the most part you guys think you are going to be okay in the long term because you source most of your products locally and you also spent a lot of time and energy stocking up on your imports from overseas. ahead of the strike, which was great. tell us where you are now and tell us how you think other folks are maybe not so well prepared are going to manage going forward over the coming days and weeks? >> you know, we have heard about this rumbling for a couple of months, okay, so you really have a decision, do you want to buy extra, and we did that. so we have plenty of product in the store. we want to assure our customers, we get 100,000 customers a week at the stew leonard's, we are going to have full shelves just like we did during the pandemic. a couple items are a little right now. this is gulf shrimp right here from right off the coast down in

florida. okay? that will not be affected, okay? but here is a bag of imported shrimp we are getting from peru right now. that is floating out on the water right now, in a container. and so, what we will do is a little bit of supply chain gymnastics right now, which is we are going to make sure we get plenty and we have plenty of from florida. we are going to have to bob and weave a little bit during this time and just talk to our importers this morning of shrimp, which comes from south america right now, that area, and he said he was paid $0.10 a pound to get it transported up to the store. this morning, he had to pay $0.22 a pound, and if this strikes keeps on going, and yes, as you mentioned, the west coast, could go up to $0.30

or $0.40 a pound -- >> gillian: yikes. >> just for transportation, and that is an extra cost for customers that are coming up for holidays. >> gillian: tell me about this shipload, a container ship load of marinara sauce that you guys have floating out lost at sea somewhere. i'm very concerned about this, stew, seven months pregnant lady, that is a lot of spaghetti and meatballs, marinara, that we could be eating. >> well, we have this on the water right now, which is our marinara. we get pasta in from italy, it's a big thing, that's floating out there. champagne, that's probably most people for christmas and new year's, so we've got that floating out there. we are hoping these will be resolved but you know what, gillian, i talked to my cousin unloads product out in long beach, california, and he said this morning it is not so

much the containers that are stuck on the water but we also export a lot of stuff. there is a ripple effect. they reuse these containers again to fill with u.s. products that ship back out to asia and south america, so there is a ripple effect that is going to clog up the supply chain. >> gillian: well, stew, thanks for taking the time to talk to us in this crisis, big fan of your stores and we will stay in touch with you over the coming days. >> thank you. we will figure it out. thank you, gillian peered. >> gillian: good for you. >> john: looking forward to that. october is breast cancer awareness month. in addition to the devastating toll on physical health, treating it comes with a heavy financial burden. we will tell you what folks are doing about it. >> gillian: plus this coming dated new york city mayor eric adams could face additional charges now in his federal corruption case. prosecutors told the judge and what the mayor's lawyers have whatever they may be.

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we hope to hear from the president. as we continue to watch this all unfold. now to new york city where the indicted new york city mayor eric adams is appearing in federal court today. prosecutors telling the judge it's highly likely mayor adams could face additional charges in the corruption case. cb cotton is outside a manhattan federal courtroom where it is all taking place. what all did the prosecutors reveal? >> john, not only could adams face more charges, others may be indicted, too, according to federal prosecutors who say their investigation is far from over but defense attorney alex biro appears confident he will be able to get the bribery charge thrown out and this all comes after last week adams pleaded not guilty to five federal accounts, accusing him of accepting every thing from luxury travel benefits to high-end hotels and illegal campaign donations for foreign donors, including one turkish government official. adams handed out favors in exchange for the free gifts, who

also say the corruption went on. arguing the flight upgrades, meals, and hotel rooms don't count as bribes under federal law. adams legal team is also asking for a special hearing after accusing prosecutors of illegally leaking information to the press, a hearing on those motions was set for november 1st and the defense attorney argued for a march trial date, so adams has time to secure a spot on next years ballot for reelection. the prosecution says it expects a trial to last about four weeks, and adams, who has ignored calls to step down, this morning reiterated he is still in charge. >> busy. busy city. continuing to move forward. >> prosecutors say their evidence includes bank and phone records as well as records from credit cards. john, back to you. >> john: cb cotton with the latest on eric adams.

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