insurance. >> right now, a gang that originated in prisons in a town of aragua, venezuela, hence the name, they spread into our country. it's one of our top priorities, just like fentanyl. tomorrow it might be something else but today it is tda and fentanyl that represent some of the biggest threats to our people in this country. >> sandra: that was border patrol chief jason owens sounding the alarm on the rising threat of violent gangs in the u.s. during an exclusive sitdown interview with fox. he says the venezuelan gang

tren de aragua coming across the border is just as much of a threat to the american people as fentanyl. serious stuff, john. welcome back as speech 27 rolls into the second hour. i'm sandra smith here in new york. stu and it's amazing how quickly that train is rolling across america. i'm john roberts in washington. tda rapidly spreading across the u.s. and handfuls of its gang members have been accused of vicious crimes and cities from coast to coast. >> sandra: despite all of that, california chief law enforcement officers expected to double d down this hour on efforts to stop president-elect trump's immigration secure the border. >> john: we have got texas shift had done my fat cleveland on hand to react but fi griff jenk. >> he had a lot to say, and 27 gang members arrested were tda. we are back in eagle pass because it is the busiest

sector. you can see from our drone shot, despite being fortified, they are seeing groups of 100-200 on a near daily basis which is a large number. dozens of unaccompanied children as well as a lot of special interest migrants from the middle east, from asia and european countries. a day ago they had 11 afghanistans. and owens says, among the 106 individuals who had the terror watch list last year, they pose some of the greatest threat to national security. listen here. >> they hate who we are. they are the ones you have to try and find. it's the people that come from these special interest countries, they are not all bad actors. but there are some that are mixed in among them that are. it is up to us. it's our job to find them and keep them from coming in to do harm. >> he says there is an uptick in the children being smuggled because cartels see an opportunity. brand-new video showing a

5-year-old being smuggled. i was also able to talk to owens a little bit about the upcoming trump administration plans and how he felt about what he's hearing in the pick of tom homan as border czar. here's what he said. >> i'm excited because tom homan is a brother border patrol agent. he served time in his uniform. so i'm excited to see any of our green family make good and i'm excited to see what he's going to do. i can tell you that the interior enforcement and the deportation, what they represent is a consequence. >> he said the past year has been a difficult and challenging one, one that saw 646 assaults on border patrol agents and four deaths of the men and women in green. but he says every single one of them remains in the fight to this day. >> john: difficult and challenging to say the least. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas. thank you. sandra? >> sandra: let's bring in cher's thad cleveland from carroll county texas

with the inundation of migrants all over this country, would anybody be against enforcing the president-elect's plans to secure the border? pico thanks for having me back. to your point, as i heard jason speak and i've heard all the rhetoric come from the left about the mass deportations and seeking out those who are criminals in our country, how we still have leaders in this country who would rather make it a political point rather than doing what's right by the citizens. we continue to have these left sanctuary cities who continue to badmouth, if you will come a president trump about what he wants to do with the criminal agents, but yet we had a president eight years ago that was known as the deporter-in-chief. so quite a stark difference in political rhetoric there. >> sandra: there's also this idea that we don't know what we don't know. there's a lot of bad stuff that

we already know about coming in, but this is more for that exclusive sitdown on the dangers of the unknown at the border. listen. >> there are still areas of the border that we don't have persistent surveillance, and we need to be able to know who's coming in and we need to be able to stop them. we need to make them come through the front door. it is that unknown, and what the intent is that scares me the most. >> sandra: it keeps us all up at night when we hear that. there is so much that we do know about this border crisis, including the 520,000 known gotaways, including the 3,000 pounds of fentanyl seized, including the 520 gang members arrested including 27 linked to that gang, and 106 individuals arrested from the fbi terror watch list. and you've got him warning we don't know what we don't know? there's a lot of unknowns at the border?

>> sandra, my county specifically, we are the busiest county and the busiest border patrol station. that's a 600-mile swath of border and that is largely the big bend sector which makes up a quarter of the u.s.-mexico border. we have a giant unknown out here. have a giant unknown in my county. back in fiscal year 2022 we had over 7,000 apprehensions, over 8,000 gotaways, and in the unknown. those we know across our border but we don't know anything about them. we don't know anything about where they crossed. so definitely that is a concern. but also, as jason says, we talk about this tren de aragua and the fentanyl being the biggest threat to this country, and you may not remember back in february of this year we had a six and a half ton seizure at the eagle pass port of entry of methamphetamine. 6.5 tons. so all that chaos that's been going on with those people crossing the border illegally, tying up the border patrol agents, it allows the cartels to

exploit one of our ports of entry and attempt to get that much through. if they see that much, think how much more made it through, sandra. >> sandra: and think about the fentanyl that's made it through, and the member of those gangs -- look at this map showing in the country where that gang presence has reached. we know as far north and northeast as chicago and new york. we have obviously been reporting on the gang presence in denver, colorado, and just outside of it in aurora. but they are spreading and they are spreading fast. what is at stake here, whether or not president-elect trump gets what he needs to secure the border and stop this from happening? >> sandra, he's already making an impact. just by becoming our president, being elected into office, he's a ringer when it comes to the u.s.-mexico border. he's already let the world know that it's going to change in about 46 days. so that's already having an effect.

we know the day he gets in, i foresee him bringing back the migrant protection protocol which will stop those that are seeking asylum and make them remain in mexico. he will also use those at cbp and i.c.e. to engage down in central america and some of those countries where we see a lot of the immigrants coming from. that is the plc he had done, working and negotiating with other countries. but when we talk about, again, these mass deportations, focusing on the criminal elements, i would say it is spread beyond the states. this might be crime in locations handled that doesn't get reported out to the police. i guarantee that. >> sandra: to your point, sheriffs, that is the confirmed presence from authorities. what hasn't been reported is another unknown. thank you so much for joining us again. good to have you on.

>> thanks, sandra. god bless you. >> john: sandra, a judge in massachusetts being hit with press charges after she was accused of helping it twice deported illegal immigrant evade i.c.e. back in 2018 by letting him slip out the back of the courtroom. molly line live in use newton, massachusetts, with the latest on this bizarre case. molly? >> good afternoon, john. judge shelley joseph stands accused of willful judicial misconduct by the state judicial conduct commission. that's the body that oversees state court judges. the charges are before the state supreme judicial court, but the saga all began right here at the district courthouse in newton, massachusetts, way back in apri. federal prosecutors eventually dropped the charges, but they allege that judge joseph and a court officer helped a suspect evade i.c.e. agency were waiting here at the courthouse. the judge instructing one i.c.e. officer to leave the courtroom and wait in the lobby. the officer then allowing the suspect, jose medina perez, to

slip out of the rear sallyport exit. though i.c.e. agents cut umpteen weeks later. he was a fugitive from pennsylvania facing mr. meaner drug charges. the defendant, as you mentioned, had twice been deported in 2003 and 2007 at a federal order had been issued prohibiting him from entering the u.s. until 2027. initially the court officer was charged with conspiracy and instruction of justice. but in 2022 u.s. attorney was not overseeing the case and announced the charges were dropped after judge josephs agreed to refer herself to the commission on judicial conduct. her suspension from the bench also ended. her attorney told fox in a statement, judge joseph looks forward to hearing where all the circumstances finally become public. that public hearing date has yet to be set and judge joseph is currently assigned at the boston municipal court. >> john: we will keep watch of this one. molly, thank you. now this.

>> based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear that the victim was specifically targeted. but at this point we do not know why. this does not appear to be a random act of violence. >> sandra: a manhunt is underway in new york city after health care ceo was shot dead outside a midtown hotel. paul mauro on what we are learning right now. >> john: plus the supreme court weighing a ban on transgender medical treatment for minors. we will talk to gender care clinic whistle-blower jamie reed on why she cannot continue to be silent on the issue. that's right after the break. stay with us. >> we are in a position in this country where the science is showing that this is not something that we should be experimenting with, as it were, for children. there is no historical evidence that this is a benefit for kids. liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds. with the money i saved i thought i'd get a

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>> sandra: a dei reckoning is looming as conservative activist christopher rufo offers to help president-elect trump's team rollback progressive policies. this means budget cuts might be on the way for schools that refuse to dig critical race theory and radical gender ideology. fox business' lydia hu has more for us. hi, lydia. what do you know about the proposals here? >> hey there, sandra. conservative activist christopher rufo published an essay just this morning, but we previously know him as a vocal critic of dei. you may remember that most recently he exposed incidences of plagiarism with former harvard president claudine gay right before she resigned. but now rufo is urging trump to eliminate dei and affirmative action at schools and beyond, throughout the entire federal government. he wrote in an essay published

just this morning, "the federal government is steeped in left-wing race and gender ideology. bureaucrats abusing the public trust to advance their own ideologies should be put on notice. they will be shut down. , they are to bargains abolished, and their employment terminated." when he's urging them to do is order agencies to abolish all dei departments and programs, and fire the employees associated with them. he wants trump to use artificial intelligence to identify ideological content associated with these federal programs and then defund them. he wants civil service in place to be prohibited in engaging in partisan political activity, and finally ban affirmative action in federal government and at federally funded entities like colleges and universities. sandra, these proposals are concerning among dei advocates. listen. speak of the thing to remember is that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies are not about favoring one group over another.

they are actually about meaningful diversity, authentic inclusion and opportunity for everyone. these policies help lots and lots of people. so this incoming president will be well served to understand just who he would be hurting with these types of policies. >> and the lawyer's committee for civil rights under the law says they will challenge these proposed efforts to eliminate dei if they come to fruition. >> sandra: we will certainly keep watching that. lydia hu, thank you. >> i am so honored to represent transgender adolescents and their parents who spent years thinking about how to best take care of their suffering children. today we were able to stand before this court and say the constitution protects chance people like it protects everyone else. >> john: and openly transgender lawyer making arguments before the supreme court for the first time ever today. at the center of the case, a law banning certain medical care for

transgender adolescents. the court decision will impact a range of states with similar bans. let's bring in jamie reed, whistle-blower from the children's gender clinic who spoke outside the supreme court today. it's good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> john: the free press ran an article authored by you regarding your remarks you gave out with in front of the supreme court today. they've described it this way. "you wouldn't expect reed to support these are public and lead band. she's a lifelong progressive lesbian married to a man who has detransition and describes yourself to the left of bernie sanders. with this is not a legal issue for you. it's an issue of health. >> correct, this is not a partisan issue. this comes down to the basics of science and how we treat young people in this country who are in distress. right now the other side is proposing that we continue to use ideologically driven harmful interventions to kids, and there are so many of us in every single political sphere who do

not agree with this policy. >> john: so this is what you said in your remarks today. how did we get to this point? the medical practice of treating children who are distressed about their gender started out with good intentions, but this case at its core represent the profound failures that have occurred in our institutions. failures that began when activism took over science. people like chloe cole, you know well, and who has been on this program many times, say that she had gender dysphoria, she wasn't sure whether she was a boy or a girl, that she got pushed in the direction of being a boy. she had a double mastectomy, she had all these other medications that were given to her. in many of the processes she went through, they were irreversible. >> yes. but it wasn't just the speed with which chloe was progressed through these treatments. these treatments alone caused irrevocable harm in children and young people. at its core, there's no way for us to diagnostically decide

which child might have distress like chloe had all the way until adulthood, in which child might see that go away with other treatments, ways to just talk, support the family, support the child through being bullied. there are other ways to address this than to permanently change a child's body. >> john: so many people say that, while the only way you can get away from this gender dysphoria is to transition, but studies have shown that, in 85% of cases, the gender dysphoria is a temporary thing and by the time the child goes to puberty it has abated. when you blew the whistle, you said, at our clinic, patients often had glaring comorbidities like depression, anxiety, adhd, eating disorders, or were on the autism spectrum. many are young people who, if left alone, it would likely grow up to be gay men and lesbians like myself. they were still the idea that they must be trans."

this was argued before argued before the supreme court. because they cannot limit the risk of detransitioners, so becomes a peer exercise of weigt benefits versus risks, and the question of how many miners have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits is one that is best left -- >> i'm sorry, counselor, every medical treatment has a risk. even taking aspirin. >> john: you were pretty shocked when i showed that to you a moment ago. >> honestly, it's absurd. there are so many levels that it's absurd. aspirin has been regularly tested in all sorts of age populations. we know what the risks come from. we know there are some people who should not take aspirin and why. she is literally talking about experimental procedures that will impact a young person's fertility for the rest of their lives. i believe it is a human right for a child to have the right to

make decisions about their fertility, about their sexu sexuality, about their body's health, as an adult. she is talking in such a way that completely, completely ignores how impactful it is to have body parts removed from children. it's absurd. >> john: a double mastectomy, there's no going back from that. >> there's no going back from it, but she is also missing the element about what children have the right to consent to. children -- even parents cannot consent to sterilize their children. children have a human right to grow up with their bodies intact. >> john: they can make decisions when they are adults. >> absolutely. >> john: jamie, thank you for coming in today. we appreciate your arguments and your passion. sandra. sandra? >> sandra: a verdict in daniel penny's choke hold trial could be coming in at any

moment. a live look at the u.s. state supreme court here in new york. in the new york city mayor is now weighing in on this case. paul mauro is here. >> john: plus san francisco's incoming mayor vowing to bring back common sense to clean up the city on day one. fox business' max gordon live from san francisco with a preview. max? >> hey there, john. san francisco struggled with drugs, crime, homelessness. we will talk to the newly elected mayor and talk to him about how he wants to turn this place around. that's next.

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>> john: breaking moments ago, brand-new surveillance video into our newsroom showing the moment that unitedhealthcare ceo ryan thompson was fatally shot outside of the new york city hotel. let's go to alexis mcadams, live at the crime scene in midtown manhattan. this is pretty graphic and -- i mean, it was just a cold killing. there is no question about that.

>> john, i know, when i saw that video on the ground before we were able to get it into the newsroom, to say shocking is an understatement. i want to put that video right up on your screen and let's go through it. this is what shows what happened at 6:45 a.m. take a look on your screen. this is that ceo of unitedhealthcare, brian thompson, walking in that blue suit jacket. one pop right there from that suspect he's got his face hidden with that gun, and it has a silencer on it. he shoots him twice and then he moves in again for a third shot. so we know three shots were fired, at least two of them hitting and killing this ceo who was just in town for a couple of days, just since monday, for this set of conferences. he was even staying at this hilton hotel you are looking at there. he was saying across the street. brian thompson, only 50 years old, shot and killed while he was in new york city. his wife told him other outlets, john and sandra, that she had been hearing there were some threats against her husband, not knowing what they were about. but the ceo of united health care's insurance division

had a big job and he had a lot of people here waiting to see him. in this case, they said the suspect was waiting, too. as soon as he walked out, he killed him. john? >> john: you can see the gun seems to jam and he clears it before he pulls out the second shot, and it's clear that he was being targeted. the unitedhealthcare ceo. because there's a woman standing and leaning against the building holding what looks like a cup of coffee, and he leaves her alone. she runs away after the first shot is fired. that video is just chilling. >> it is paid then he walks away it goes across the street, hops on a city bike, according to investigators, and went right toward central park. the millions of people coming in for the holidays, new york police are on high alert now. >> john: is obviously lots of video of the sky. we will see if the police get him. alexis mcadams, thank you. >> sandra: paul mauro joins us. i know this and update to the story there, and you said that you have learned it is not a city bike.

>> i'm going off of what i've seen in the still photos out there relative to the bike. it looks like a black bike and it doesn't have the shape of the city bike. those are blue in a very identifiable. the chief detectives that it is an e-bike. that's a distinction because the city bike is trackable. you need a credit card to take it out of the dolly it gets stuck into. so if he's got a noncity bike, it becomes more difficult to track. chief detectives that it might be trackable by gps because some of these bikes have that capacity, but if you look at some of the stills bouncing around out there, it could be an aftermarket better you can anywhere. >> sandra: the bottom right corner is when the government takes the stance. you had a comment when he sat down about his stance. a lot of people look at this, though he carried this out, and say this looks like a professional targeted hit job. but you said you observed something about the way he moved in and how he stood. >> he is shooting as he walks. i would guard against

taking -- cleaning a too much information from that. he is shooting, the gun jams. that doesn't necessarily speak to someone who is is a professional. on the other hand, he has a silencer. that's a clear shot then i saw it earlier. i would argue he's got a real silencer, not a homemade silencer. that is tough to get. they are de facto illegal at least in new york. that argues a certain level of proficiency, professionalism, access. >> sandra: what do you take away from the recording of the wife back they've got children and they are dealing with a lot at home right now. she made it sound -- and coming to nbc news she said she was aware of some threats against her husband. she also weighed in on whether -- on what the motive could be. she said, i don't know, maybe something about a lack of coverage. anything you take away from that? >> all i would say is this, that is the obvious potential motive here. let's guard against confirmation bias, something that we think

must be true and therefore is true. for instance, what if it is mistaken identity? what if there is a completely different motives? what if it is a hit for higher? the person seem to know his route and knew that he would be there, if it is in fact the right person. that being the case, it looks to me then that the convention is the point of access. the convention schedule is likely public. i'm sure they're looking very hard at who had access to that convention schedule, who has hit the website of the convention schedule. maybe cross-referencing that with people who might have pending claims, et cetera. on the other hand, the longer this goes, the more unlikely it is to get at street level solves, and you're going to get a detectives solve that goes deep into the background of the victim. >> sandra: i know you are working your phones. you picked them up at the break. you are on this. we know the manhunt is underway. we know the last sighting -- >> going into central park. >> sandra: central park. how big is this manhunt? what does this look like? how do you tackle this as fast

as you can connect to your point, if this doesn't happen in the next couple hours, we may never see this guy caught. >> he ran through the cut through, that means he's probably case that location previously and how to get away. they'll be pulling video from before the event to see if they've got somebody with a similar body language that is visible to them. goes into central park, a lot of it has got to recover. even though there are some cameras, that's a blind spot for them. at that point he could come out almost anywhere and he's carrying that backpack which could very well be a change of clothing. that's why it gets harder and harder as time goes on to get a street level solves, somebody who sees him and recognizes the bike, somebody who saw somebody running. now you're getting into, we've got to look at the back end of the victim and do deep forensics. i'm going to say they solve it but it will take a bit of time. >> sandra: wow. just incredible. to have seen that video now is just heartbreaking for this family. >> chilling pair the public has seen it for that is what a murderer looks like. unfortunately these things get

anodyned when we look at true crime websites. that's how brutal it is. >> sandra: keep us updated on what you learn. john? >> john: clearly shot in cold blood. san francisco is newly elected mayor promising a return to "common sense," beginning with lowering crime rates and increasing public safety. it's a message that helped him defeat mayor london breed. max gordon took a walk around san francisco. what did you learn about his background? >> hey, john. he's a philanthropist. he is a levi strauss air and also a native of san francisco. importantly he is also a political newcomer. i asked him if he believes his election is a shift away from progressive policies here in san francisco. >> i describe it as shift toward common sense, and it is something that we all agree on. when we see problems on our street, let solve them. >> lurie says that common sense includes hiring 500 more police

officers and tackling a drug epidemic. >> where do you see yourself on the national stage? >> i don't. i'm focused on san francisco. a lot of people are trying to draw us into national discussions. san francisco, we have our own issues right here. >> but one area that could put the city on a collision course with the incoming trump administration, illegal immigration. >> san francisco is placed as a sanctuary city. do you want to keep that? >> it keeps our people safe, and i know that this is a national talking point right now. my focus is on making sure that we protect our immigrants, our lgbtq community, and that is my focus. but everything else is noise. >> that stance could end up costing federal funds, especially tough when san francisco is closing in on nearly $1 billion deficit. >> we have been spending beyond our means, so we have to get that under control, as well. >> lurie didn't provide details on how he would balance the city

budget, but cuts will likely be needed. see go this will be a challenging time for our city, but we are going to make sure that we put our small businesses front and center. we are going to invite big business back. >> lurie will have his work cut out for him. retail vacancies in the city have hit a record high, and office space has a 35% vacancy rate. that is the highest among major cities here in the u.s. john? >> john: we will see if he can turn things around. next gordon, thank you. now this. >> it leads to a trustable system that is able to complete our goals of predicting, preparing, protecting, and preventing the next pandemic. to me that is reward enough. >> sandra: more than a million americans killed, trillions of dollars spent, yet no real accountability over missteps and the handling of the covid pandemic. a final meeting today bringing new light to failures in the investigation. what can the incoming trump of administration do to get americans the answers they deserve?

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>> sandra: mysterious drones are making nightly appearance is now a new jersey skies, putting people on edge there, as you can imagine, now prompting a federal response. nate foy is in morristown, new jersey, for us. what do we know, nate? >> hey, sandra. there is intrigue but also worry about these drones as the fbi, state and local authorities are all trying to figure out why drones are appearing nearly every single night for the past several weeks. it happened in the overnight hours. the drones are bigger than those he would typically see people flying for fun, and they are generally appearing in clusters, including near trump national golf course in bedminster.

take a look. >> these are all drones in the sky. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. seven right here. what the heck? >> so the fbi confirms it is investigating, telling fox news, "witnesses have spotted the cluster of what looked to be drones and a possible fixed wing aircraft." the morris county sheriff's office says there is no immediate danger but the drones are flying over sensitive areas including not only trump national golf club but also the arsenal military base. so the faa is canceling flights over both of those locations right now. each one is under a half an hour drive away from where these drones have been seen. so authorities right now are asking for tips. both the fbi and local authorities are also asking for people to send videos as they see more drones, which has happened everything on it with the exception of thanksgiving

over the past few weeks. sandra >> sandra: thank you. john? >> john: the intrigue deepens. the republican-led house select committee concluding its report that covid likely originated in a chinese laboratory, and that masks and social distancing were not supported by science. after more than a million americans died, countless students were taken out of the classroom, and trillions of dollars have been spent, where is the accountability? mollie hemingway breaks it all down for us. to that point, where is the accountability? >> we have not seen much account ability on multiple levels here. when this pandemic we had the situation where some federal agencies were actually involved in gain-of-function research, supporting that or finding that in some way, and probably as a result of that they also immediately moved, the same agencies moved shut down conversation about how the pandemic began, because they were worried about how it would show their relationship to how that began. and they also did something really horrific, which was

censor speech and debate from americans about the best way to handle the pandemic. that put us years behind in terms of accountability for who was involved, because you couldn't even have discussions about this, because they were asking social media companies including facebook to censor any speech or debate about this, even though, as you noted, it cost so many people's lives and it was such a costly pandemic. >> john: we remember that all too well. the chairman of the committee, brad wenstrup, said this worksheet did to even the new congress which get seated on january 3rd. do you think the incoming white house will also look into this? should they seek to hold people accountable? >> to some extent some of the best work that can be done would be from these agencies themselves. you have seen the trump transition has said they will nominate people who had a very different approach to the pandemic response. i think these people, because they were sometimes the victims of this censorship scheme that was orchestrated by these agencies, will have a vested interest in finding out exactly what happened. again, if you don't hold people accountable, it just keeps happening.

so we have had, for years now, with its about pandemic response or a host of other crises that have been related to our government, no accountability. without accountability, people can't really move on. they can't correct and they can't have a better situation. >> john: the democrats are still kicking and screaming about this. here's what they said in response to the report. "the republican led select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic fueled extreme narratives, vilifying america's public health officials, scientists, and teachers, instead of putting people over politics they prioritized partisan probes over meaningful opportunities to strengthen future pandemic prevention and preparedness and saves future lives." for four years they have been singing from the same hymnal. >> it might have something to do with the election results we sought recently, too. in fact, they are the ones who seem to be treating it as a partisan protection issue. with some of these hhs nominees we have seen, they are coming from all sorts of different places on the political spectrum because a lot of americans are

deeply concerned not just with how the pandemic began but what our response was to it. learning about how much we shut down the economy, how much we destroy children's lives, on the basis of things that turned out, according to this report, to have no scientific basis. this is a scandal, that these findings are coming out now, and that people should care about it. but without holding people accountable, nothing will change. >> john: i want to ask you quickly about donald trump's pick to head at the dea. he withdrew his name after it became publicized that he come in during the covid pandemic, arrested a pastor who was violating covid isolation protocols. congressman thomas massie from kentucky said this of that. "this chariots ordered the arrest of a pastor of rolling services during the covid panic. he was tapped by trump to head the dea. glad to see and withdraw from consideration. next time politicians lose their ever loving mind he can redeem himself by following the constitution."

>> this sheriff had quite a few who spoke on his behalf saying he's really good sheriff difficult circumstances. having said that, a lot of people remembered how he helped perpetrate some of this covid panic as sheriff's and they were not feeling comfortable having him in the administration. >> john: maybe an indication of what is ahead in the 119th congress and the 47th presidency. great to see you as always, mollie. thank you so much. sandra? >> sandra: folks in north carolina are still dealing with the impact of hurricane helene. you've seen so much of it on this program. this includes family whose home was destroyed by a landslide while they were inside. britney akers joins us next to share her story. in t he nineties anymore. and when the stock market crashes and it does from time to time, our clients are protected against losses. literally, they go up with the market, lock in their gains, and when the market goes down, they don't lose anything. we keep it simple. our clients earn in a reasonable rate of return and they don't lose money. if you have at least $100,000

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>> john: hurricane helene slam parts of the southeast just over two months ago now. one family in avery county north carolina still trying to pick up the pieces. most of the family were asleep when a landslide in the storm hit, sending their home some 200-300 yards down the mountainside. let's bring in brittany eggers to see where life is now. we went to thanksgiving, obviously it wasn't too cheery and a bit for you. christmas just ahead. what is the situation for you and your husband and three children? >> right now we are very fortunate.

we are actually getting to stay in a home not far by, about 10 minutes away. it is somewhere warm and safe. it fits all three of our kids just fine. but yeah, it was sad not being in our own home for thanksgiving. you know, we are all homesick to just be back in our home. because right now it just feels like an over-long airbnb state. a bad airbnb stay, where we are at. but we are blast. wind and water has been nothing but wonderful to us. very, very good organization, and i really appreciate fox news for letting us tell our story. >> sandra: you are incredible. for anybody who's been displaced from their home or live to an event like this, they know that sense of homesickness you just described. it is rough, especially when you have the kids. but your optimism is admirable. what are you looking -- what is

the plan? how long do you think it's going to be before you can get settled and get things going again? what does the future look like? >> well, truthfully, you know how you hear "do not forget western north carolina?" in the past few weeks i do feel like we have been forgotten. the government has still not helped any. fema has been no help. which puts a stop on a lot of our other assistance programs. like, we can't get help until fema steps in. the bank where we have our current mortgage, they are saying that they will help us, and we are fortunate for that, but they won't help us until after we hear from fema. so right now our life is on hold. as you can tell, our home still looks today like it did on september 27th, which is very, very disheartening, because we

have looked for everybody to help clear up our landslide. people don't have equipment big enough, or they are too busy helping fix the side roads with the state. which is very important, i get that. it is all in god's time and it is his will, not ours. >> john: it's going to be a long road back, no question about that, brittany. but i promise this, we will not forget you. we will stay in touch and see how life goes. wine to water is being very helpful, as well. >> yes, very good people. >> sandra: god bless you and your family. >> john: god bless you. we'll be praying for you. >> sandra: absolutely. >> thank you so much. >> sandra: we will check back in. take care. we have brand-new pictures coming in right now of the shooter in the killing of that health care ceo here in manhattan earlier today. crime stoppers with some branded images. we will have them for you after the break.

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>> sandra: this just in our newsroom moments ago, these new pictures show the suspect in the murder of the unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson, john we have looked through them there are three of them, this when obvious issue under the hoodie in the back back the suspect is wearing. this one obviously shows a bit more of his face and the last one shows his face and hands cut off by our banner there, images, police are considering using. >> john: unclear from crime stoppers when it these photos were taken, if they were prior to the attack or after the attack as the gunman tried to escape you're also the location, there are also some chairs with tables in between by they do seem to have lots of video. maybe they are tracking him down as we speak. >> sandra: okay,, hopefully they are on those, thank you were joining as i am sandra smith. >> john: and i am john roberts, this story with martha