flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
i m rich edson in for martha maccallum in new york at fox news head quarter. december shattering another record at the border. a caravan of thousands on the way, since december 1, migrant encounters at the southern border have topped 276,000. more than the population of reno, nevada. the highest monthly total ever. art del cueto is starting by. first to william la jeunesse with the breaking news about the northern border. ice revealed that it arrested an iranian national with ties to terrorism sneaking in to the u.s. near niagara falls two days after being turned away here at the rain bow bridge. he s a legal resident of canada, wanted on assault charges there. ice held him for two months before a release last week. arrests on the northern border increased by 90% last year. for that perspective, 276,000 apprehensions, that is nearly the population of pittsburgh. again, a single month. not a mention of those got-aways. the point is the mexican border is overrun. agents so bu
have now disqualified donald trump from appearing on primary election ballots. these decisions are based on an interpretation of the 14th amendment, and trump s actions during and after the 2020 election. but late thursday, california s secretary of state, decided the former president should appear on that states primary ballot. all this sets up an explosive legal and political drama that will inevitably end up before the justices of the nation s highest court. nbc s ryan nobles has more. for the second time in two weeks, a state has ruled that donald trump is ineligible to run for president of the united states. it was not a close call on the question of whether january 6th, 2021, was an insurrection. the events of january 6th 2021 were impressive dented and tragic. reporter: shenna bellows, the secretary of state in maine, a democrat, determined that trump s actions on january 6th constitute a violation of the 14th amendment. the weight of the evidence makes clear tha
supreme court set to release new rulings any moment. a big one we re waiting for will decide the fate of president biden s student loan relief plan. the court must decide whether the administration has the legal authority to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars worth of student debt held by millions of americans. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: good morning. dana: what? bill: for later. i m bill hemmer, good morning at home. the nation awaiting the supreme court decision on the student loan bail-out. at stake forgiving more than $4 billion in student debt allowing people who received the federal loans to keep that money in their pocket. some lawmakers are pushing to repeal the president s plan for student hand-outs. grady trimble live at fox business on the hill. let s start there, grady. good morning. good morning to you, bill. the debt ceiling vote is getting most of the attention here right now. but another vote could happen
referring to the crime crisis now made it to the front steps of public schools. families afraid to send their children to class. shootings and homicides have surged, 19 students losing their lives over the past year. we will hear from a parent you heard, says a failure to education system in the country and lack of accountability have allowed kids to be more and more violent. i heard him saying i need eight, within six months, i would not vote for him because he said eight years. i say six months. leadership is not entertainment, not virtual signalling, not brand building, leadership is about producing results for the people that you represent. john: friday afternoon with the race for the white house, 2024 republican candidates taking shots at one another and at the democratic party. accusing it of rigging the primary process for president biden. hello, john roberts in washington. welcome back, sandra. sandra: good to be with you, john. a busy afternoon ahead, flori