migrant charged in the rape of a 13-year-old girl. they set a trap for this guy. moments ago this is the mug shot that we've been awaiting and now we await for the news today and that will be an appearance in court. good morning, everybody. dana has the day off today. i'm bill hemmer in new york. >> why i'm sitting here. great to be here back for day two. i'm martha maccallum. this is "america's newsroom." this group of neighbors basically knew the bodega where they expected he would return as they did. they stopped him as soon as he came out and held him down between two vehicles until the police arrived. the "new york post" calling it a town haul. authorities are looking for him since thursday. that is the day that the police believe that this man went into a park, found a 13-year-old girl hanging out with her friend, had a machete that he says he found, held them at knife point, raped this poor young girl in broad daylight and the nypd are now praising these neighbors for the action and the courage that they showed. >> the community, we put the picture out. tips started coming in. when you think about these kids, how courageous they were to help us to give a sketch artist. the whole city said no, the community stepped in, they made it -- they tried a little street justice and we made the apprehension. the city needs this. we had -- >> bill: might be more street justice around here. new york. thousands of miles away near san diego a crisis that shows no signs of stopping. fox cameras capturing another surge of chinese migrants crossing into california, border agents arresting one of them identified as a murder suspect back home. >> martha: earlier this month the president announced executive actions on the border. they don't seem to be having a lot of effect. he says numbers are down but they're still very high. 42,000 illegal crossings since that crackdown began. team fox coverage. bill melugin at the california border. let's start this morning in new york with eric shawn. good morning, eric. >> good morning. well, he should not have been here in the first place. the illegal migrant charged with raping a 13-year-old girl at a new york city park. he reportedly was set to be deported and ordered to be gone but never was. immigration judge in new york city ordered the man to leave our country on february 2, 2022. he crossed the southern border in texas illegally back in 2021. authorities say he had minor runins with the police in texas and new york. now faces the charge are include rape, sexual assault and kidnapping. he pulled a machete on the teens in a park in queens and raped the 13-year-old girl. residents did recognize him from the wanted posters. you can see in the video there was a struggle as they pounced him and on the sidewalk and kept him and held him for the cops to arrive. angela she is the one that called 911. >> we were trying to hold onto him. it got to a point where we had to handcuff his ankles. he was hiding under the car like a cat. it was me and jeffrey screaming like oh, we found the person, the rapist. >> former president trump blamed the biden administration immigration policies for allowing the man into the country and remaining here. he told fox digital i grew up right near there. something like this was unthinkable years ago. like to pay my highest respect and love to the parents and family members. this tragedy should never have happened. we asked the department of homeland security for comment on the man. we haven't heard back. he will be in court for arraignment later this morning. >> bill: paul mauro is with us in studio. this is a neighborhood. it's a nice park. all kinds of things around that area. the mets play baseball there, the u.s. open. trump grew up near there and you played baseball there, too. >> i did as a kid. not at the nicest baseball park in queens when i was a kid. nice bucolic area inside the city and a terrible thing. kudos to everybody who got this done. to advance the story a little bit. they would have gotten to the scene, god bless these two kids. brave kids who gave a great description. our hearts go out to this little girl. her information led to something interesting here you don't see often. the sketch. the sketch ended up being key here. from this sketch they got to the video according to the reporting right from the police department. there is a sketch artist who is the unsung hero. the description that the two kids gave. i can tell you the police department pulled out all stops on this. pulled all resources in. everybody wanted this one done. they got at the scene a water bottle and shoelaces. those will be part of the slam dunk here. they would have dnaed that is already submitted. he remains the accused. not convicted. innocent until proven guilty. the evidence looks strong and looks like everything was done right. the public stepped up when you needed to. thank god they got him quickly. think about something else. he took the two phones, right? the phones are locked these days. you have to know where to fence those. that argues something we've seen previously in migrant crime in new york city. there is a market to sell these phones so that they can be jail broken and forced into so you can extract the information. that is getting done according to the previous reporting on another ring in venezuela. now i know he is not venezuelan. nonetheless a lot of communication among those who do this kind of stuff. you have to get into those phones otherwise if you can't they are just a brick and throw them away. he knew enough to take the phones and knew enough to turn them off. one of the things the cops would have done right away is ping those phones to try to figure out where he is. >> martha: this is a $10,000 reward. i talked to the woman yesterday and she said these folks rightfully so said we want the reward. it made me wonder how powerful are these rewards and should they be higher and publicizing them more? people do deserve the reward. >> the police department has a number of programs where if you report a tip that pans out for a gun, etc. , you get a reward. the rewards do work. generally you see a reward in a case like this when the police make it quick. it was a mature institutional decision by the pd. they said we've had hit a wall here. most importantly we won't get this guy right away. it was over the weekend. put out everything we have to the public. warn the public this guy is dangerous. remember something, sex crime perpetrators tend to be habitual. they have a predilection. that's what is so dangerous about so many unvetted people. he could be a felon in ecuador doing this. >> bill: the mother of this woman killed, mother of five in the state of maryland. the culprit was wanted for a crime in california. committing murder allegedly in maryland and arrested drinking beer in a bar in oklahoma. >> i don't want to underestimate the importance of what is going on at the southern border. we're almost 2,000 miles away from it and we have had two murders in the county that i live in and rachel lived in. i really want people to understand that life itself is valuable and precious and that's what we need to preserve. that's what makes this an american crisis. >> bill: there were two murders in that same county committed by allegedly committed by illegals. where does this end? >> i don't know. you have to say to yourself look, this is happening almost daily. it really does feel now like almost daily we have some horrific crime. nobody is saying that every immigrant to this country has these tendencies that they are all criminals. we understand that. we understand the vast majority of even the illegal immigrants are here for a better life. when you let in ten to 20 million people about whom we know nothing, history has shown us. what happened? castro cleaned out his prisons and insane asill oms and sent those folks here. most weren't criminals. some were. that is a tactic maduro is using. it is no surprise unfortunately. look at the case that we have of the guy arrested in queens. if you deport him he can come back. he can come back into the country with no -- >> martha: he does the border quite well. three times. when the former president says they aren't sending their best, in these cases of these individuals he is right about that. they get lost in the shuffle because there is such a huge volume of people it makes it impossible. >> bill: we'll see his court appearance coming up shortly. >> martha: migrants from as far away as china are flooding the border in the tens of thousands. ask yourself why are tens of thousands of people coming from china to california to cross that border in those open areas? in the san diego sector patrol agents have arrested a chinese man wanted for murder in his own country. bill melugin picks up the story from southern california. hi, bill. >> good morning to you. the numbers are wild. cpb data shows more than 30,000 chinese nationals have crossed illegally here through the san diego sector just since october 1st. to put that in perspective that's enough chinese to fill up all of madison square garden and have another 10,000 left for overflow. look at this video. more chinese nationals crossed yesterday. they walk in on this railroad out here. they have no idea where they are, no idea where they are going. they stand around looking. almost always single adults, the chinese. we rarely see them bringing in kids. no border patrol around at the time we shot this video. in california national guard despite the selfie governor newsom posted the other day. they get onto a local highway and start wandering down aimlessly this local highway. you'll see random groups of chinese or folks from the middle east walking down the road. this group eventually was later apprehended by border patrol. we saw that happen. look at the second video, another group of migrants that crossed illegally made up primarily of chinese national and central and south america. the san diego sector has had 270,000 people cross illegally since october 1st. some show up with luggage and neck pillows like they wait for a flight. they expect release. lastly you mentioned the murderer. the photo here, border patrol here in san diego sector reporting agents arrested this chinese national right here in the area over the weekend. he had an active warrant for murder out for his arrest. sources telling us that murder warrant was out of los angeles. back out here live ecuador announced yesterday they're ending visa-free travel for chinese nationals because so many chinese are showing up in their country going through ecuador to get to the united states. ecuador is ending that visa-free travel for chinese likely from pressure from the united states. >> bill: maybe some progress. 13 past now. >> biological evidence, the epidemiological evidence by most qualified virologists strongly favor that it's a national occurrence. >> bill: 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[music playing] >> bill: 19 past the hour. this is happening while you were probably sleeping. how about this pair? russian president vladimir putin, north korea leader kim attending a concert together. a rare visit by putin in a summit in north korea. now they have this strategic partnership that could expand the transfer of military technology to north korea. it would also enhance its nuclear weapons and missile programs in exchange moscow will get supplies that it needs desperately for its military during this war with ukraine. so that relationship you could say is right now blossoming today. all right. 20 past. martha. >> martha: senate panel examining the origins of covid and experts testified what could have caused the virus, ranging from an act of nature or leaked from a research lab in china. >> i believe available evidence points to a natural spill overevent. >> i don't believe the available scientific -- supports that it was created in a lab. >> i assess a large amount of evidence the virus the causes covid entered humans through a research incident. the six approaches to the question that all support a lab leak as a source and can go deeper into each of those with questions. >> martha: he went through them in a very specific way and joins us now, ceo. thank you so much, doctor, for joining us today. you know, there is a good editorial in the "wall street journal" this morning. it want to read this and ask you to address the first part of it first and then the second part of it after that. the real covid failure. it's super fast spread told us early the virus was unstop able and likely lab modified. the second part of it goes on to say that americans have now experienced the disease and realize it was far from unendureable. the lockdowns were needless destruction. test, trace and quarantine was absurd and worthless. these steps were a political show. to the first point, doctor, super fast, unstop able and likely lab modified. that is really your theory and has been all along, right? >> it's one of the many pieces of evidence that it was engineered because a new virus from nature isn't very good at infecting humans. so for who is infected it is bad. human-to-human transmission is not observed in a natural virus. here we had something very different. my concern is that scientists in the u.s. who knew about this research, dr. fauci, dr. collins knew this and failed to tell the front-line doctors you have to watch out for human-to-human transmission. taiwan did that properly. they had 2% of our deaths. that's what could have happened in the u.s. >> martha: why would they not make it known if they knew that, as you say? >> 1% of nih grants involve gain-of-function research but their paychecks depend doing this kind of research. if it's known it came from a lab and modified there and known they made it purposely asymptomatic and human-to-human transmissible they would have to expose that process in order to give front line doctors the proper advice. but i just don't see how you can do that. >> martha: you are saying because of money dr. fauci decided not to let people know this was a lab-born virus, is that what you are saying? >> he has a record of 15 years ever supporting gain-of-function research. my own analysis is that kind of research has led to no useful civilian uses in medicine. >> martha: he was willing to put that investment, those 15 years of connection with gain-of-function research as a priority rather than the spread and the killing of millions of people globally. that what you are saying? >> that's right. if you know the first week of january there is human-to-human transmission you get that information to the front line doctors and they act differently the way that doctors did in taiwan and you end up with 2,000 deaths instead of 1 million. >> martha: what did they do differently in taiwan that we should have done? doctor fauci is saying he would have left the schools open and opened them early and accepting the societal damage we're suffering from, doctor. >> so they did a very simple thing, minor inconvenience. boarded every plane coming from wuhan and took temperatures before people got out of seats and quarantined those folks with temperatures and contact traced all the people coming from wuhan and avoided it. 6% of the taiwan population is in china at any given time visiting family, doing business. they were the country that should have had the highest penetration of the virus but by taking that simple step at the end of december, they were able to get it down to 2% of what is u.s. had. >> martha: it's shocking and now he is selling another book and going on a big publicity tour and talking about how he handled all of this so well. thank you, doctor, thank you very much. good to have you here. i hope everybody pays attention to what you are saying and hope we behave much more responsibly the next time around. >> can i say one thing? i would like every one of your viewers who lost a loved one to write your congressman and tell them the name of that loved one, describe what they meant to your family and tell them to honor their life by investigating this origin. >> martha: good advice, sir. doctor, thank you very much. great to have you here. >> bill: wow. sobering, right? 25 past now. middle east, israel's northern front is heating up. jewish state and hezbollah trading intensifying strikes. the biden administration avoids transferring a key weapon of war and what's up with this in tel aviv. trey, what's happening? >> good morning. a feud is unravel between israeli and american leadership over weapons shipments to the middle east. netanyahu this week slammed the biden administration for withholding thousands of bombs for fighter jets. israeli leader claimed without evidence the move is slowing the rafah offensive in southern gaza. americans have expressed concerns over u.s. weapons being used in gaza for the civilian death toll continues to rise. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken responded to netanyahu's comment saying this. >> i won't talk about what we said in diplomatic conversations. i can just say again that we have a commitment to make sure that israel has what it needs to defend itself against a whole variety of threats. >> that commitment comes as israel prepares for the possibility of a much larger war with the iran-backed lebanese group hezbollah. israeli military said in a statement