because he wants to realize what he calls his china dream. it is not about which administration is in the united states but rather -- rather what are the thoughts of xi jinping? >> he pushed back on secretary of state blinken insisting in the last couple of days here that there is no access being formed between china, russia, iran and north korea. >> they are working together that's for sure. whether an axis, alliance, it is up to anyone to define it but there are signs they are working together. >> the ambassador acknowledged americans are divided over these foreign wars. israel and ukraine. the billions going abroad. he says the taiwanese people are ready and willing to fight if china invades. bottom line, bill, he is saying he is hoping whoever wins the white house in november continues their strong partnership with taiwan because they need that.

they need a strong u.s. to deter the ccp. >> bill: it will remain a big story regardless. aishah hosni, good work in the interview live in d.c. now it's been one week since helene made landfall as a cat four hurricane leaving a trail of damage and devastation. in town after town after hard-hit town where folks have lost just about everything, leaving them with no food, no water, no power, no shelter and now wondering whether or not the rest of the country has forgotten about them. dana has this friday off. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city as we roll into our number two. >> sandra: we've been in afghanistan and know how to do it. they need more resources. it wiped entire towns away. we've seen the video still coming into us as the biden white house is facing harsh questions as the victims of

helene are left to fend for themselves. hundreds dead, hundreds more still missing at this hour. and now private volunteers are stepping in. mobileizing ad hoc rescue operations to help stranded victims in the hardest-hit areas as the search for survivors grows more dire by the day. >> bill: fema is starting to show up in some areas. for too many desperation is growing and hope is fading that help will arrive before it is too late. >> it's too late. i mean, they took too long. they -- it took them five days to get here. it is disgraceful. they keep saying we the people. there is no we the people. it's them versus us. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you now. bryan llenas covering the trump campaign in fayetteville, north carolina. let's go to madison scar pino with a look at what is left in north carolina. what are you seeing on the

ground there? >> hello, sandra. as of this morning the death toll from helene stands at 222 people. unfortunately we do expect that number to rise according to multiple agencies on the ground. the most of those deaths here in north carolina. a look around at what we're seeing. some of the buildings in this town, one of the hardest-hit areas are completely leveled. you look at what used to be a mobile home and see personal items like this walker and someone's living room couch. you can only hope they were not inside of there when the worst of this flooding hit. it's just going to be a long road of recovery for people. while some of these roads are begin to open. cell service restored for some. a lot of people don't have power, water. people in this town are telling us horrific stories of clinging onto trees during the flooding. people sitting on rooftops screaming and people telling us

they lost some friends. when it comes to that federal aid, a lot of people tell us they haven't heard from fema. we talked to one person who tells us they knocked on her door yesterday and she did apply for some federal relief but it just doesn't seem to be enough for some people here right now. they are really relying on neighbors helping people. people sharing chain sauce doing everything they can to help up with cleanup. with spoke to one man who went with his friend named rob on kayaks to help save people. >> rob to me, the biggest hero. a diabetic and took his pump off and barefoot tipped over and a baby was in the water and he got the baby on the roof and somehow held onto my kayak and then i had to take that baby and it was all shivering so bad. i felt so bad for it. got it to the shore. >> where we are right here in this city this morning has been a ghost town. when it comes to the cars on the roads, the majority of those

cars are relief groups. we've seen american red cross, volunteers driving down with some food and water in their trucks. we even saw customs and border patrol. we'll be out here all day long talking to folks and getting their stories. we'll be sure to keep you guys updated. >> sandra: thank you. we have to keep telling their stories. they are in the fight for their lives so many of them. >> bill: former president trump will head to hard-hit state of north carolina later tonight and hold a town hall in fayetteville, north carolina. bryan llenas is there getting us a preview before later today. good morning. >> bill, good morning. former president trump will host a town hall here in fayetteville, north carolina at 7:00 p.m. tonight. a 4-hour drive from where madison was just reporting and from the epicenter really of where hurricane helene landed and caused incredible devastation here where roughly half of the deaths from this storm are here in north

carolina. after dhs said that fema does not have enough money to get through this hurricane season at a rally in michigan yesterday, trump blamed the biden-harris administration for spending a billion dollars of fema money on housing and caring for migrants over the last two years. the trump campaign has also been highlighting the perceived unfairness that storm victims are initially getting just a one-time $750 payment from fema while illegal immigrants have been housed in luxury hotels. >> what they're doing a very bad job. given over a billion dollars to illegal migrants that came in and they have no money for north carolina, georgia, for south carolina, and alabama, tennessee and florida. i think that's a disgrace, frankly. it is the worst-run -- this is a country that is being run by fools. >> but dhs says no disaster response money has been diverted to migrants. these claims are completely

false. the shelter and services program is a completely separate appropriated grant program that was authorized and funded by congress and is not associated in any way with fema's disaster related authorities or funding streams. so far $20 million has been provided to hurricane survivors. this is trump's fourth visit to north carolina in the last month. the latest polls show a tightening race. trump with just a two point lead here. trump is traveling to georgia first today appearing at an emergency management briefing alongside governor brian kemp marking their first appearance together since 2020. they've had a rocky relationship to say the least and kemp has praised the biden administration's response so far to the hurricane aftermath. we expect, bill, a lot of questions on the hurricane response, fema's response here today as well as on the military. this is a very strong, large military community here in fayetteville. >> bill: thanks in butler, p.a.

back to butler on saturday. >> sandra: this headline from "politico" catching some attention. walz says he speaks like everybody else and it's not working for the campaign. "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream joins us now. hello, shannon, good morning. >> shannon: good to see you. >> sandra: i suppose this is catching some attention. >> shannon: i think everybody else would like a word because they don't regularly say things that are not true, most people. and we've layered a number of explanations from the governor about this. he says he is passionate and gets carried away and has incorrect grammar. called himself a knucklehead. he says things that are, number one, easily verifiable people can check dates, times, service records and all kinds of things. it makes you wonder why there are some things he lied about that don't seem consequential why say things that aren't true?

this was a super quick vetting process, this idea of the vice president, you know, vaulting to the top of the ticket and making a decision about her number two. sounds there is consternation that some of these things weren't caught during that vetting process. >> bill: you are right. interesting that interesting? you wonder who is pulling the string behind the scenes and pressuring joe biden. barack obama will campaign through the month of october to give her an assist. in the political piece that was mentioned key members of harris's circle were not aware of some of the inaccurate statements until they become public despite the vetting process. it is not just china, right? the football story, the story going back to the dui and whether or not we were straight on that or not. and i don't know, as a politician you keep on living on these stories until they catch up with you and frankly the comment, his answer the other

night was -- it was less than adequate. halfway through a debate when you call yourself a knucklehead you have pretty much lost. >> when you start with explaining how you were wrong being in a certain place in time and i grew up in nebraska and came from a small community. where is the answer going? the things he said about his service record, carrying a weapon of war in combat. about using idf, which is very different than some of the lesser fertility methods out there that don't involve creating embryos. that's what creates the big ethical conversation. there is a lot of stuff. >> bill: i forgot about the ivf story. >> sandra: the point should be made whether he wants to say that these were -- he was misrepresenting the truth or whether people think he was misleading or lying, it is the lack of preparation to explain it, which he was caught on the debate stage. remember this cringe-worthy moment. >> governor, just to follow up

on that, the question was can you explain the discrepancy. >> i got there that summer and misspoke on this. i will just -- that's what i've said. so i was in hong kong and china during the democracy protests and from that i learned a lot of what needed to be in governance. >> sandra: everyone watching turned and stared at the scene in that moment and won't forget it. >> shannon: it was awkward and not what you want out there. these debates, normally vice presidential debates don't matter that much. we have such a limited debate schedule and these races are so tight within the margin of error any moment you have that isn't good has the potential to go viral and end up in an ad and why others in the campaign are a little frustrated with his performance. >> bill: what's coming up on sunday? are you still working on that? >> we have it lined up. we'll have jake sullivan to talk with us about what is happening in the middle east.

speaker johnson with us, too, if they will call back congress for more funding for helene and israel. senators ernst and fetterman will be with us. they agree on israel but not a lot else. we'll talk with them. >> bill: jd vance set to advance the border crisis campaigning in georgia today. a bombshell report from the house finds 1.7 million illegal migrants posing a national security threat. have been encountered at the border since the biden-harris administration took over. griff jenkins in d.c. that sounds like a big number. what's that about? >> it is a big number from the house judiciary committee. the report warns that the terror threat is growing under this administration. take a look at the numbers. the committee says cbp encountered 1.7 million special interest aliens from 26 different countries including iran, iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, all ties to significant terrorism. in the report, they highlighted,

bill, the case of afghan national who was twice released by this administration despite being a match to the terror watch list coming after dhs inspector says cbp, ice and tsa have been releasing migrants into the country without i.d.s and letting them board planes to fly domestically. former president trump weighed in on that yesterday. >> you don't have to know too much there is a risk with that like nobody has ever seen before. they have no idea who these people are, where they come from, where they are going. they release them in. there is no country in the world that would allow this to happen. >> dhs, which has clashed with the inspector general in the past, says in the report it contains inaccurate statements, lacks important context and is misleading adding every individual processed by the department of homeland security at the border goes through rigorous public safety vetting. we wait to see in a few hours what jd vance has to say about

the border. he is heading to lakin riley's home in about three hours. >> bill: griff jenkins in washington, d.c. thanks. >> the water was up over the gutters on the roofs and spam were screaming from the rooftops. some people in their attics and fingers sticking out through the attic vents and screaming. >> bill: they were rescued. harrowing stories of tragedy and survival emerging in the aftermath of helene. people have to resurrect their destroyed communities. most of the hardest hit areas don't have home insurance. the struggle to rebuild begins now very soon. >> sandra: israel targeting the le likely hezbollah successor. more on the mideast coming up.

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>> we still tried running through the house looking for him and you are thinking maybe a neighbor evacuated him. when he seen his dog, i knew he would never leave his dog, never, ever leave his animals. >> 222 people across six states are dead in the wake of helene's devastation. crews continuing to search for victims. north carolina bearing the brunt of the damage. we're reporting on the ground where folks are still trying to pick up the pieces. what are you seeing? >> they are, sandra. samaritans purse just showed up here. they spent the last couple of days digging out this property of all of the debris from the cove creek that rose a near 25 feet. devastating this entire

community, a small town. that's what we've been trying to do. highlight the small communities in western north carolina. they have been devastated. many here growing frustrated with the slow response from state and federal officials. resources haven't been trickling in at the magnitude in which they need to be. it has been an operation of neighbors helping neighbors. some telling me it's the only way they have survived using chain saws to cut themselves out after being trapped for days. i know that the national guard are still doing search and rescue. they have done 146 missions so far. over 500 have been brought to safety. we saw that yesterday in nearby burnsville when the national guard came down and did rescues in avery county as well. the connecticut national guard has stepped up and is also aiding in bringing the elderly and pets to a safe place.

the thing is here, though, that there are many people who have been trapped for days now and access is still difficult to get up to those areas. that's why samaritans purse, red cross, many of these disaster relief organizations are trying their best to get out to these areas that desperately need the help. i spoke just a couple of minutes ago with a pastor from roanoke, virginia who joined samaritans purse and telling me of a man trapped underneath his home for ten hours as they tried to dig him out. unfortunately, once they brought him to safety he did not make it. and so there has been a lot of stories of heartbreak, a lot of stories of hope. but locals have been pleading to me to not let the light die out. to not let it dim especially in these small communities. many of which haven't been reached yet and some fear that hundreds are still missing.

>> sandra: thank you for telling their stories and know you'll continue to do so and we'll keep covering it. >> bill: the devastating damage from helene put in focus on the hundreds of thousands of homeowners across the southeast who don't have flood insurance. gerri willis who has family in western north carolina with us here on this. >> i do. tiny proportion of families have that kind of coverage, right? the tragedy unfolding for inland states in the southeast hit by hurricane helene may be only starting. as they just said most residents have no flood insurance coverage. listen. >> it is not going to be over in a week or in a month. this is going to be -- it will take years to recover from. there is entire neighborhoods and entire towns that are essentially gone. >> my home state of north carolina, for example, only half a percent have fema flood coverage.

private insurance typically don't underwrite residential flooding losses. we have estimates of four to 10 billion. one expert saying it will be a slow and painful recovery, two to three years maybe more. some victims of hurricane florence which hit coastal north carolina are still living in fema trailers. listen. >> flood insurance has very low levels of penetration in much of the country. only 8% of at-risk homes have any sort of flood insurance as it is. i have read numbers recently those values are even lower in western north carolina so the money to repair and recover is going to have to come from somewhere else. >> residents without coverage typically get some kind of money from fema but they say a few thousand dollars for emergency

expenses and minor home repairs. thank you for covering this story, guys. please keep on it. i'm in touch with people locally there. we are in big trouble. people -- there are so many more people to be found alive, not alive, sadly. it is something we have to keep an eye on and make sure the feds do what they need to do. this is an area that typically gets ignored. let's not ignore it this time. >> sandra: they are in need of basic things right now, water, diapers, >> gas, oil, no cell service, electricity, water. water. there is no water. >> bill: thank you for bringing life to that story. my best to your mom and sister. they've moved out of carolina into virginia now. who knows when they will be able to go home. >> that's a good question. >> bill: our best to them. >> sandra: some police departments are using a.i. to write their reports. will those hold up in court?

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papaians have never herd a little high. he lived in pennsylvania when he was living in connecticut. >> i spent the majority of my life in pennsylvania. when i said i was living i was. senator casey is once again lying. >> the same guy who lies about where he lives is lying about my position of fracking. i voted against a fracking ban. >> pennsylvania, senate race that will matter. bob casey, the democrat, going for another term up against dave mccormick who made a run a couple of years ago. casey, the democrat, has a slight lead here at four points. on the presidential level, look at this. right? the average of polling in pennsylvania has got harris at 48.2, it has trump at 48.2. that's on the presidential level. let's talk about the senate stuff now. dave mccormick joins me live and thank you for your time. i was watching a few clips earlier today. things got nasty when you have

lived in p.a. for the greater part of your life. is his attack on you, is that working? >> when you are a guy that has been in elected office for 30 years and born with a political spoon in your mouth and you haven't done anything, you attack your opponent. so senator casey is anti-business, he is anti-success. he doesn't have a record to run on. so i think he is running scared and this is his attack. he is a career politician, he has been weak when we need strength. he has voted for a liberal agenda. out of touch with pennsylvania. i'm excited what i'm seeing on the campaign trail. lots of energy every time. i'm the underdog for sure. every time people get ex potioned to me i think i gain traction and why the polls are closing as quickly as they are and why i have the momentum in the race. >> bill: you ran for senate just two years ago. what did you learn from that race? >> i lost a race by 900 votes.

1.5 million cast. when you lose that close, you know, you have to do a gut check. do you really want to do this? i decided i really do want to do this. duty, honor, country and run a campaign where i get exposure to all of pennsylvania, a true retail campaign. that's what i've done. i have done 450 visits this year. i see energy everywhere because people are frightened about the future. they need strong leadership. someone who is an outsider and combat vet and trying to bring common sense leadership to the challenges we face in our commonwealth and country. >> bill: casey said vice president harris is running a strong campaign and said i think she will carry pennsylvania in a close race. we showed what the numbers tell us right now. does harris or trump make a difference on your race on the senate side? >> sure, president trump makes a

big difference. he helps get out the vote particularly at these rural counties. most counties across pennsylvania are red. the better president trump does that will help me and i hope the better i do that will help him. this is maybe the one place where having kamala harris at the top of the ticket is worse than joe biden for the democrats. by that i mean she has a set of positions in her own words banning fracking, having mandatory buy backs of guns, citizenship to illegal immigrants and defunding the police. out of step with pennsylvania. the more people are seeing who she really is and the fact that bob casey is a 100% vote for her the more her support will soften. we'll see. when i'm on the trail the more they get exposure to kamala harris. biden spent 50 years campaigning in pennsylvania and knew every county chair and union leader. kamala harris will have a tougher time the more people see who she really is, a san

francisco liberal who is an extremist and will take our country in a direction which i think most pennsylvaniaians would not be in favor of. >> bill: last question. roll this clip of joe biden talking about the war in israel. sometimes senate races are nationalized and sometimes they are more local. you ticked off a number of issues that run the board in a national way that affect people who live in pennsylvania. i will ask you a specific question after i roll this from joe biden on retaliation by israel. >> [inaudible question] >> president biden: the answer is no. >> [inaudible question] >> president biden: we're discussing that. i think that would be a little -- anyway. >> what are the plans to allow israel to strike back against iran? >> president biden: we don't allow israel, we advise israel.

nothing will happen today. we'll talk about that later >> bill: a lot of those comments nothing will happen today you are giving something away. barack obama will be in harris in pittsburgh. she has spent a lot of time there. does that mean something or tell something to you? >> well, i think it tells us she is first of all pennsylvania is extremely important and she is in trouble. people who want to learn more about me go to dave mccormick pa.com. president biden and also kamala harris have been very weak in recent days in terms of advising that israel should get involved in a cease-fire negotiation. listen, the original sin was the deal that obama did with iran in 2015 that gave $115 billion to underwrite terrorist threats. that's the original sin. recently biden and harris have been weak in suggesting that israel should do a cease-fire.

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>> bill: some police departments across the u.s. are using a.i. douglas kennedy works on that and has the story in our newsroom. what did you find out? >> a.i. can make a lot of things a lot easier. including one thing most cops would like to avoid. a person who knows a police officer knows the worst part of the job is writing a police report. >> it is the least fun part of it. the most time consuming and not why they got into police work.

>> he is a sergeant with the fort collins, colorado police. a department that recently allowed its officers the write their reports using an artificial intelligence program like chatgpt called axon. >> you have your body camera that records an interview or incident and a.i. processes that information in the system. >> yes. the audio from the body camera gets uploaded to the cloud. once there it is interpreted by the a.i. and creates a rough draft for the officer to review. >> it would normally take an officer 45 minutes to write a report but with a.i. it can take just seconds. at least two other departments, oklahoma city and lafayette, indiana are now using a.i. programs for reports. two other companies offer programs to officers including true leo and police reports.ai. not everyone wants artificial intelligence involved in

criminal justice. there are obviously huge stakes in court cases. >> absolutely. this isn't a recipe, this is someone potentially -- >> hillary is with georgetown institute for technology, law and policy and says a.i. is too new and too unpredictable and possibly too biased to be used for criminal court. >> you have to know what everything put in comes out. so an a.i. is only is as good as the actual data inputted. if it is biased in any way or designed in any unfair way you get junk in you'll get junk out. >> she says at this point the program simply help in transcribing and organizing information. they're meticulously checked by officer for accuracy. he says the biggest benefit is time management. >> officers don't want to spend half their day at a computer

working a report. they want to engage with the community serving the citizens they work for. >> with a.i. he says they can do just that. back to you, bill and sandra. >> bill: or they can make it better in time. thank you, douglas, nice to see you. douglas kennedy on that today. >> sandra: dock workers striking a tentative deal to end the east coast port strike. the sides have 90 days to hammer out the fine print. we're the maritime historian that joins us now. saal, what do you make of this? are the workers happy? >> they are happy. it was an agreement they were trying to get. the maritime alliance were trying to hold them at 22% pay increase. the union came back with 77% increase. we went to the strike. now they come out of it with a 62% increase. the big issue will be the automation. whether or not we start seeing

automated terminals on the east and gulf coast. we've seen some on the west coast and caused a bit of problems there. >> sandra: to be sure they were looking for 77% raise over the six-year period but the wage offer the sweetened deal is for about 50% over six years to 62%, correct? >> that's right. the reason really for the strike was for two years the maritime alliance would not budge off 22%. it really took the strike to get them to commit just the day before the strike, they finally bent and went to 50%. but the ila was talking about the strike since june. what they really wanted to do is get this into the press and out into the public knowledge, which they've succeeded in doing. >> sandra: where did they land on automation? this has been a big point of contention for the workers. they wanted a complete ban on the use of automation at their ports. they see it as a threat to their jobs. what happens with that? >> they do. if you look on the west coast during the renegotiations there,

they automated a terminal in los angeles and led to the loss of 500 jobs in that terminal. so for the ila on the east and gulf coast they want to insure there wouldn't be any sort of automation introduction that would lead to the reduction in their ranks. it is a very expensive process to automate. 7.4 percent of the world's terminals are automated. there is a fear among the shipping companies if they start to automate on the east and gulf coast they may start an arms race between each of the companies. they really don't want to spend that money right now. what they are investing in currently is a fleet replacement program to bring in new ships that are more fuel efficient because of stringent laws coming into effect from the international maritime organization. >> sandra: a tentative deal. suspension is happening until january 15th. biden said with the grace of god and the goodwill of neighbors it will hold. fine at last thought. are you optimistic it will? >> i am optimistic. i wouldn't be surprised if we

get an agreement long before january 15th. they're close to it. they need to bring it back to the companies of the u.s. maritime alliance and more importantly every member of the ila will have to vote on this agreement. >> sandra: big deal. thank you for joining us on that. thanks, sal. >> bill: devastation in north carolina bringing community members together. how one family is stepping up to bring help to families that need it by the hour.

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>> harris: staggering toll of hurricane helene coming into focus with a growing death count above 200 that we know of. president biden, though, says people are happy with the government response. yeah, he really said that. new data showed the biden-harris administration's northern border craves is is spiraling out of control. a new front in all of this as fears of terrorists entering our country grows and the liberal media can't seem to deal with the fact that melania trump has a mind of her own. governor ron desantis, sean duffy, brent sadler, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: thank you, harris. helene's victims are growing desperate for help and there is one family i want to introduce you to today. done seeing their neighbors suffer. three stepping up to bring essential supplies to the front lines. even before fema can get there they are trying to make it happen. with us now reed kirkpatrick is

now in virginia, made a trip there and talk about it here. thank you for your time. you spent summers in black mountain east of asheville. you got there before fema. how did you do it? what did you bring? >> well, we were in a unique position. to begin with, we have a house there in black mountain and when we heard the house had been hit by the storm and that a tree had fallen on it, then the plan had been to go check on the house. but as we were getting information of all the devastation and getting pictures in realtime we knew that it wasn't going to be enough to send a pickup truck up. we would have to do more than that. we reached out to our local church and williamsburg presbyterian church and foundation church in williamsburg. it was a calling and something we felt. so within four or five hours those two churches were able to

fill a u haul. i heard from friends they were able to get out and which route they took. i got in the u haul and started driving sunday night and arrived early monday morning and got to black mountain presbyterian where we had been members while there and they had set up within the fellowship hall and sanctuary a distribution point and able to off load the supplies and it was needed. they took it and they were grateful and it was an incredible moment. >> sandra: these are the stories that emerge that give us hope, right? the tight knit communities that come together and help and support each other. >> thank you. >> sandra: you are part of that. i know that part of your concern is keeping the attention on these communities because you can only do so much on your own. you do need help. what is your priority right now? >> so as far as what i can see is that there has been a little

bit of mixed reporting. so the outpouring of support has been just overwhelming and in such a good way. the community is extremely grateful. black mountain is now in a position with an abundance of supplies that they can focus their attention on the other communities around them. so for the last two days they've been trying to get supplies out to other cities and chimney rock or wherever they can get the supplies to. they also know that here shortly this is going to be -- the world may move on to the next crisis and that those warehouses that they are starting to fill with supplies and that they've seen fill up with supplies will start to eventually dwindle down. we all know that winter is coming and that it will be a long recovery process. and so what they are asking is that put it on your calendar and for october 20th, 30th, or

november 3rd. three or six weeks from now they'll still need aid and support. southern appalachia has always been a place of need and a place of poverty. your supplies if you can donate them will go a long way to the recovery process, which will take a long time. >> bill: you did work in iraq as well. tell us based on what you saw, how bad is it? >> you know, it's interesting because people will say this town was wiped out or this town is gone and if people look at pictures of chimney rock you may say that. what i can tell you is that the people are still there and they form the community. and while roads are washed out, while there are trees on houses, what i saw were friends banding together in their atvs with chain saws and tractors and setting up a whole system in

which they could respond to people that were in need the most and clear roads that the power companies could come in. while i was there, over the 72 hours trying to fix up our house and fix up our road, you could see helicopters flying overhead and you saw people coming in from all over the country lending support. it is bad, the pictures and devastation is real but i want to emphasize the communities that are there are banding together and serving each other and helping each other. i think that's great. >> bill: well done. you are a good man. thank you for sharing your story. a lot more people out there like you and thank you for being there. >> sandra: our best to you. >> he will probably make another trip soon. thank you for helping out. see you at 1:00. enjoy your friday. >> sandra: you, too. >> bill: here is harris. >> harris: the