spokesman and iraq war veteran rob smith. fox is on the front lines of this crisis as we get video of a dozen migrants appear to be held together by rope attempting to cross the rio grande river. but they're certainly not the only ones that come here illegally as southwest land border and counters hit more than 164,000 last month. and taught more than 1.7 million in this fiscal year. plus, illegal drugs are also a huge problem with border agents seizing $3 million worth of meth at the u.s.-mexico border. in texas, the border crisis is being blamed for even more serious crimes. with a human smuggling suspect hit with a slew of charges including murder. after police say the teen ran a stop sign while fleeing from border agents. and t-boned a car driven by a 59-year-old missionary and her 22-year-old daughter killing both instantly. the lieutenant governor of teas saying the blood of these american citizens is on the hands of president biden and vice president kamala harris. rob smith, what are your thoughts on the unfolding tra

it's rob smith.nd she joined the rockets just so she could kick people, fox news contributor kat timpf. liz, like me you're a heavy boozer. >> as. >> do we have any say in this? remember the time when the customer is always right. now it's like they can say anything because their taking money from the government. >> that's a great you just made. you can say it's because it's like an animal version. >> just declare that upright. >> right. >> we've had hours of discussions over the exact diet minute definition definition an we've realized that we realize nobody knew who it was very. >> we are done copyediting, liz. >> i miss the days when people were smoking on airlines and th 10,000-mile club. >> that's a little low. that's tupelo. 10,000, whatever it was very. >> where are you. when it was a free-for-all on airlines, and now they're regulated. i think it would be more scary to sit next to joe scarborough or anybody on then anybody not wearing a mask. >> that's true. apparently people aren't fans o mo

rob smith joins me, good morning to you. what do you make of that drop?hese things are hurting all americans but particularly african-americans as well. african-americans were the cour the horror and trauma of the trump years for african-americans was the horror and trauma have having low unemployment and low gas prices, lauren from of being able to afford groceries so black people and african-americans are waking up to what is going on in the country and they are not liking it. when it comes to inflation and gas prices, in 2022. ashley: i did use a look at this. last lesson of 2021, florida, omicron happens when we act selfishly like governor ron desantis. omicron is searching everywhere so why is desantis being singled out? >> it is weird because i came from new york to florida and florida seems to have a lot of people in the liberal enclaves like miami have a pathological hatred of ron desantis and i'm not sure they know why they hate him, because he is a republican but the governor is governing with such authoritarianism that he comes close to fascism

come in rob smith.e situation. we have a new mayor. he is going to take office in january. he is a former cop but you still have the problem with the prosecutors and city councils making all the rules that give benefits to criminals over law-abiding citizens. >> yeah, you do. i think what we're seeing right now all across the country in places like new york, california, et cetera is basically these far left policies and these far left ideologies started out on twitter that actually made their way up into the policy realm. we're seeing a decade after all of this stuff really started we're seeing the results of these policies and results are just not good. now they're scrambling back to the center. scrambling back to put more police on the streets. you have to understand this, the calls to defund the police never came from the people that actually live in the crime-ridden cities, they came from idealogues on twitter, many of whom are white liberals that don't live in the cities. when you talk to people th

thank you, rob smith, liz mc donald, kat timpf. you at home given the opportunity, we will. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, i'm jesse watters along with dagen mcdowell, richard fowler, kennedy, and greg gutfeld. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ president biden is preparing for a new covid stirred by doing what he does best: attacking and blaming everything on nonvaccinated americans. delivering a doom and gloom morning, while only focusing on vaccines, and ignoring the many therapeutics available to fight the virus appeared >> it is here now, and it is spreading, and it is going to increase. for the unvaccinated the, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death. for ourselves, families, and hospitals, they will soon overwhelm, but there's good news. if you are vaccinated and have your booster shots, you are perp protected from severe illness and death. >> doctors are pointing to the science that says this new variant is less severe. >> it is replicating at a higher level in the nose, but at a lower level on lung tissue. that is where severe illness occurs. it expla

thank you, rob smith, liz mc donald, kat timpf. you at home providing. have a good evening. ♪ >> welcome to fox news at night. i'm shannon bream in washington. breaking tonight, a major battl over a federal vaccine mandate has landed officially at the u.s. supreme court. after a lower court tonight reinstated the biden administration on a virus vaccine or testing mandate for private companies with more tha 100 employees. another covid 19 surge is just around the corner according to dr. anthony fauci says the goalpost has been moving for whether or not americans are considered fully vaccinated. one week until christmas, we'll your packages arrive on time? we begin tonight with the reinstatement of the covid vaccine and eight affected more than 80 million workers nationwide. we're going to go to kevin in just a minute was our white house correspondent checking on that. but first up tonight in the pandemic round up because that is the top of the used to, new york city's christmas spectacular show will go dark for the rest of the year. that follows several b

stuart: still head on the program, 11:00 hour, leo terrell, indiana senator mike braun, rob smith, westst act now. we need to really pull back or at least pause build back better. that is my opinion. more of that after this. ♪♪ at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner with access to financial advice, .. >> we save america and just kill the bill. >> their prices up 10%. 10.6%, another body blow. >> we are not at the end of the bull run, too much money involved. wildcard is jerome powell. >> i'm not worried about the overflow, what i'm worried about with omicron is healthcare workers becoming symptomatic. >> bad news about the virus, automatically out of the box. good news about the virus is fake news. ♪♪ stuart: it is 11:00 eastern time, tuesday december 14th. breaking now democrats moving to raise the debt ceiling up by $2.5 trillion. a vote on it is expected later today. left-hand side of the screen the important news of the day is the market. the nasdaq, going down, 260 points, one.7% and the dow is down 164. big tech really taking it on the chin, tears, nasdaq,

was dining inside nations giant hamburgers when a man walked in and tried to rob the place at gunpoint. ktvu see azenith smith is in the newsroom after talking to a witness. yes, i spoke with that cashier who was held up at gunpoint and she is understandably upset. the sheriff's office tonight identified this aspect as a 29 year old man from richmond. most skin. why. coming incident. customers turned away at nations giant hamburgers on san pablo avenue in san pablo, closed sunday night employees traumatized after what happened earlier in the day came in had gone. pointed arrows can't really describe how i feel. after that. just shaken up the restaurants, cashier whose identity we're protecting, says the man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked inside the hamburger joint around 11 30 in the morning. he then told her to open the cash register. as she looked down. she saw he was holding a gun and feared for her life. the one talking to him he was he was talking to me. how. if anyone would have been shot, i would have been the first one to get shot. coincidentally she says, a customer was eating at the back of the

rob the place. ktvu azenith smith spoke to a witness and has the story. play.ment incident customers turned away at nations giant hamburgers on san pablo avenue in san pablo, closed sunday night employees traumatized after what happened earlier in the day. had a gun pointed at us can't really describe how i feel. after that . just shaken up the restaurants cashier whose identity we're protecting, says a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked inside the hamburger joint. around 11 30 in the morning. he then told her to open the cash register. as she looked down. she saw he was holding a gun and feared for her life. that was the one talking to him. he was he was talking to me. if anyone would have been shot, i would have been the first one to get shot. coincidentally she says, a customer was eating at the back of the restaurant. it turns out it was a uc berkeley police sergeant. not on the clock, he yelled at him to drop his weapon. and did he drop the weapon or now? i'm not sure we've ran with my rand hand i all of her was a bun shock. i don't know how many were

rob mayeda is tracking the storm's path. plus -- >> today sheriff laurie smith'sversary in office, and we will talk about the allegations against her. >>> legislation supporters argue will protect thousands of workers otherwise ignored when it comes to bona fide benefits. >>> if there's a conviction, the remedy is removal from office. >> right now at 6:30, santa clara county sheriff tangled in controversy. the new grand jury accusations laurie smith is facing this morning and the impact it could have on her future. >>> the pressure to get vaccinated before the new year. this is "today in the bay." >>> rain is already making its way back into the bay area after monday's downpour. here we are wednesday morning. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. i am laura garcia. >> i am marcus washington. we are broadcasting to your television as well as streaming to nbcbayarea.com. as we look out at storm ranger on san bruno, rob mayeda is in for kari this morning. >> the view, the camera view interesting. partly cloudy skies and a few temperatures out there. mi

but russia's foreign minister, sir galeb rob is adamant the kremlin will protect its interests. bernard smith reports from moscow. this was the 1st face to face meeting between antony, blinkin, and circ. a laugh rav since joe biden became u. s. president. the u. s. secretary of state, use the encounter to warn russia of the serious consequences, including sanctions, if it invades ukraine. c. it's now on russia to deescalate the current tensions by reversing the recent troop filled up. returning forces to normal peace time positions, and refraining from further intimidation and attempts to destabilize ukraine were watching the situation very closely, were in close contact and coordination with our allies, russian back separatists in easton, ukraine had been patrolling these trenches for more than 7 years. after russia mixed crimea, now a build up of russian troops along the border. more than $90000.00 says the government in kiev is fueling fears of a russian invasion. across the field, ukrainian force is a holding exercises. russia says ukraine is being provocative, deploying more than half it

smith al jazeera. ah, what you deserve me said rob a reminder of our top stories. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay at home in the eastern chinese city of shan. 200 cove at 19 infections have been recorded since the beginning of the month. china is on high alert as it goes up to host the winter olympics in february. katrina, you has more beijing, the latest count we have now over 200 cases reported and she and in this outbreak has spread to at least 5 other cities. and there have been at least one infection noted in beijing. so from thursday midnight authorities have said that the city of $13000000.00 people will be under strict lockdown. and only one member of the household is allowed to leave the her every 2 days to collect groceries on the certified essential workers will be allowed to go to work. schools has been closed for some days now. entertain, then, use, have been closed, long distance transport that buses, trains flights have all been canceled. the city is currently conducting mass testing authority, say the already up to the 3rd round

there is a clue -- there's a huge clout smith club, even today. >> rob citino was there -- [laughs] >> i think we overlook the fact that the military influence upon demand -- a pound japan's -- and it certainly would have run counter to either british or german strategy ad is it -- as it existed to leave the potential force career which had some navel -- interrupts your movement. we sometimes forget how few japanese divisions -- i think it's like 6 that were involved in the move south. certainly the japanese were concerned about any losses at all to their naval forces. do one of the things i think that struck me in trying to do the history of the pacific war from something other than the american perspective, is how anxious, neurotic, and almost hysterical most of the japanese decision makers were and thinking about all the bad things that might happen to them if they didn't plan to eliminate any possible threat. >> i was going to add to that as well. the classic answer around the question always does come down to the sea lines of communication. the japanese can't leave an un-reduced

dining inside nations giant hamburgers when a man walked in and tried to rob the place at gunpoint. get two views. azenith smith joins us in the newsroom after speaking to a witness as well, christina. i spoke with that cashier tonight who is understandably distraught. most skin. why. common incident. customers turned away at nations giant hamburgers on san pablo avenue in san pablo, closed sunday night employees traumatized after what happened earlier in the day gone, pointed at us can't really describe how i feel. after that. just shaken up the restaurants cashier whose identity we're protecting, says a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked inside the hamburger joint. around 11 30 in the morning. he then told her to open the cash register. as she looked down. she saw he was holding a gun and feared for her life. that was the one talking to him. he was he was talking to me. if anyone would have been shot, i would have been the first one to get shot. coincidentally she says, a customer was eating at the back of the restaurant. it turns out it was a uc berkeley police sergeant. not on the clock, he yelled at hi

rob roth. thank you. father and son pleaded not guilty today to arson and other charges stemming from the cal door fire in eldorado county, near lake tahoe 66 year old david smith and his son 32 year old travis smith. are facing reckless arson and other charges for the fire in august that fire burned 221,000 acres and took more than two months to contain. it also destroyed at least 650 homes, including most of the town of grizzly flats. authorities have not said how they allegedly started the fire. the two men are also facing felony weapons charges, and they're being held in lieu of $1 million bond. new information on the man who died after being restrained by alameda police in april. the coroner's autopsy report says 26 year old mario gonzalez died from quote toxic effects of methamphetamine with the stress of altercation and restraint as a contributing factor. body cam video showed police pinning him to the ground. officers said they arrested him for his own safety after getting a non emergency call about a man who was possibly intoxicated. in a statement today. alamitos police chief called the death tragedy and said his office will complete a thorough invest

rob mayeda knew it was coming and spent the day getting ready for it. sandbag stations were set up, emergency crews ready to respond to any flooding. nbc bay area's christie smithtinues our coverage. >> reporter: along the embarcadero, people carried umbrellas ahead of the heavier rain to come. >> so it floods every -- every time we have storms like this. >> okay. >> the bottom of the hills. >> reporter: people loaded up sandbags at the san francisco public works yard, which isn't normally open on sundays. it was open today because of concern over the storm. >> the drain is really old. and so, it pushes water into the back door as well as through the house. >> reporter: jeanah is trying to create a barrier for a low-lying area in her backyard and hopes it will work. >> we will see the first time we are going to do it and we are also going to put it in front of our garage. the last rain with the atmospheric river pushed a lot of water into the house. >> reporter: this is video from october when heavy rain and wind pounded the bay area. flooding and toppled trees were two big problems across the city. public works isn't expecting such an impact this time. but has