and giano caldwell, but first this. john: to kick off america reports, life expectancy in america dropping to the lowest level in more than two decades, according to the cdc. deaths from drug overdoses and covid fueling the decline. john roberts in washington. sandra, good wednesday to you. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york city. plunged to an average of 76.1 years in 2021. fentanyl poisoning driving that number with more than 72,000 deaths by the end of last year. john: president biden s border crisis making it worse. officials are trying to stop the flow of fentanyl from creeping into the u.s., but despite efforts, parents are feeling the consequences of drugs in their family. fentanyl has changed the game. no longer can we say just be careful or it s not going to happen to my family. it took half of what he thought was a percocet. you have to talk about these pills and other forms that unfortunately they are now taking other than just pills. no mother want
crisis firsthand. mayor adams declared an emergency in response to 4,000 asylum seekers coming to new york city over the past three months. he says they are straining the city s shelter system. but, according to governor abbott, that is nothing compared to what texas is dealing with. public officials across the country, they do need to realize the magnitude of the chaos created by biden s open border policies. they re up in arms about a few thousand people coming into their communities over the past few months? listen, in any one sector in the state of texas, we have more than 5,000 people coming across that sector every single day. and so, listen, we re full in the state of texas, our committees are overrun and i started bussing people to washington, dc when local officials could not handle the number of people that had come across their border. we have team coverage, david spunt at the justice department with breaking details about the biden administration forcing ill
from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
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