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ethics scandals. is this politics? its tuesday, im bill hemmer. good morning. >> dana: its tuesday and politics. any day is politics. im dana perino and this is "americas newsroom." whats going on? the supreme court is facing renewed criticism over reports of justices failing to disclose what democrats say are questionable financial transactions. that includes justice clarence thomas accepting vacations from a wealthy donor and justice neil gore -- >> the democrats see the court needs ...

sunday. im fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnns natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department o...

Arguing someone does and how much was paid for them. and hunter did get a slap on the wrist yet from the judge over his team abusing their ability to redact financial records. >> bill: unless there is a settlement it will go on for some time. thank you for that from the north lawn. jacque heinrich. >> dana: a scary scene north of houston. schools briefly locking down after police thought they spotted the suspect accused of killing five of his neighbors on friday. as the manhunt for the gunman co...

About 40 miles east of the border of poland. not sure if it was a test, not sure if there was russian air activity, we havent seen any russian fighter jets or bombers so far. this city which they call the cultural capital of ukraine has not been struck at least not that we could tell. life is returning to normal here believe it or not. traffic is full out here, obviously don hasbrouck. far different scene north of ukraines capital where rows and rows of russian armored personnel carrier are maki...

The cover this week, one of the covers we put out. >> lets put this up. >> yeah. he was injured while photographing, so he was on the scene north of kyiv, really close to the front line where refugees were escaping, and he was photographing them as they walked across a river along this kind of narrow walkway. and the russians started shelling. the russians started shelling, basically, the only way out for refugees out of that town, irpin, and the ukrainian soldiers who were there fell back. thos...

Should they be allowed to come here? but the pres repeatedly there are middle eastern people in that caravan, and today, he was pressed on that, too? >> reporter: he was asked directly if he has any proof that there are, quote, middle eastern people, in the caravan, and he said, well, there very well could be. thats a direct quote, david. and said, but you dont have any proof, the president said, again, another quote, there is no proof of anything. there is no proof of anything but it could very...

As weve been telling you this morning, thousands of firefighters across the western united states and canada are fighting to get the upper hand on at least 50 wildfires burning across the region. santa barbara county, california, crews are facing an especially tough challenge with this explosive fire. in just about one day the blaze has ripped through thousands of acres and destroyed at least 20 structures, including homes. a similar scene north of sacramento as crews there battle the fire. the ...

And californias historic drought now creating the worst fire conditions ever seen. >> the fire conditions what we consider right now explosive. >> reporter: this fire quickly burning 500 acres in antioch wednesday, just feet from homes. >> it looks like its pretty close to being burned down. >> reporter: a similar scene north of los angeles. the 1,000 people evacuated here are now back home thanks to crews bulldozing fire lines and dousing flames from above. fire crews say drones could easily ta...

>> can you just -- with one or two words, tell me what the bus hit? >> the bus hit the fedex truck. the fedex truck hit into us. >> investigators have returned to the scene north of sacramento to reconstruct parts of that deadly collision. president obama says the latest health care enrollment numbers add up to success. 8 million people have now signed up for private health insurance under the affordable care act. 35% of those enrolled are people under 35 years old. the president says it is pr...

Go as far away as you can safely get, okay >> okay. okay. what did the bus hit? >> what? >> what did the bus hit? >> it hit a -- i guess the left side. it hit the -- the -- the -- >> sir, can you just -- with one or two words, tell me what the bus hit. >> the bus hit a fedex truck. the fedex truck ran into us. >> investigators returned to the scene north of sacramento trying to reconstruct parts of that deadly collision. a potentially big advance in the use op stem cells. scientists have for f...