the car. he was hiding under the car like a pet. basically it was just me and jeffrey, like, screaming. we found the 13-year-old rapist. >> we know he entered the country from ecuador through texas, through eagle pass, texas, back in june 25th of 2021. when he did come into the country, the federal government did take fingerprints and dna from him at the border, so that is still being worked on. >> sandra: brutal crime in new york city highlighting the unchecked prices at our southern border after a migrant who entered the country illegally is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. hello and welcome, everyone. i'm sandra smith in new york, and it's good have you today. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner intro john roberts. this is "america reports." the man charged with a disturbing crime is slated to be in court in the next hour. police say they held that girl in a 13-year-old boy at knifepoint, and then force them into a secluded area of the new york city park. he allegedly tied up both his victims, raped the girl, and fled with their phones. >> sandra: the suspect remained on the run for days after that attack until community came together to take him off the streets. today's cover of "the new york post" says it all, calling the takedown a town haul. we are now learning just three years ago, in eagle pass, texas. joining is now is texas governor greg abbott. governor, we are grateful to have you on the program today. >> how you doing? >> sandra: the first, your thoughts on what you learned from all of this? it is so shocking for all these numbers to see what is happening right there in their own community and having to take matters into their own hands. >> well, listen, it's totally the result of biden's open border policies. you giving one example, but there are so many others, such as the mother of five who lost her life, and illegal immigrant who came from el salvador, and lake and riley, the stars just go on our americans are dying at the hands of those who are allowed by his policy. you talk about how this person came across eagle pass back in 2021, that joe biden allowed in. because biden was using eagle pass as ground zero, where there were up to 5,000 people crossing a day, that's exactly why i ordered our national guard to wire shut the crossing in eagle pass. no longer do we have thousands of people crossing the border a day. on average there's only two people crossing a day at that location, and those people are arrested by the texas department of public safety. >> sandra: governor, you go through the details of these stories as they come out. american citizens who are harmed, in some cases killed by somebody he was never supposed to be here in the first place, or was here illegally. and you look at the charges now against this man. rape, robbery, sex abuse, medicine, unlawful imprisonment, act in a manner injurious to a child, criminal possession of weapon. the neighbors had to step in. they said, we know this guy. they bound him by his legs with a belt to keep him from running away. is that where we are? this border crisis has spread so far beyond the border that now you have american citizens having to take matters into their own hands? >> you mention two things, both of which are prolific. one, for a while the illegal border situation was something contained, but texas and arizona, largely, and that has changed over the past couple of years. now this is an american issue. every state is now a border state. and then you add to that the fact of the matter which, under the biden administration, they have abandoned the rule of law in large cities across the country, and our fellow americans don't have law enforcement the way we did last decade, and they are in fact having to take matters into their own hands, because you can call on enforcement and they may not show up for 30 minutes, an hour, or a day. our fellow americans are sick and tired of it, and by god, we are insisting on the rule of law in the united states, even if it means a fellow american stepping up and doing what they have to do. what texas has had to do, in fact, because of the open border policies, texas has taken it into our own hands securing the border. real quick, in the past two years, because of texas building a border wall, because our national guard is building a razor wire barriers, illegal immigration into our state has decreased 75% while it's been going up in t the new mexico, arizona, and california. >> sandra: i also want to get your reaction to this, a brain interview that happened on this network this morning with maryland governor wes moore. he faced some tough questions over the rape and murder of a mother of five. this is the democratic governor of maryland, who says he's infuriated by the murder of rachel morin but refused to criticize joe biden and its policies by name. >> harford county, in our state, where this brutal murder happened, is 1800 miles away from the border. so when people think this is an impact if he states, this is impacting every single one of us. this thing is so long-standing, and there's been a lack of courage that we have seen for a long period of time in washington that has allowed this to take place. >> sandra: he placed the blame on "washington." your reaction? >> remember this, four years ago we had the lowest immigration 45 years and i think is a plus he's put into place by donald trump. in his first day in office he is executive orders to deliver all the policies that lead to that immigration, and joe biden opened up the borders and now there's been more than 11 million people crossing illegally including people crossing illegally and going to maryland and killing that woman there. >> sandra: governor, i want to ask about the president's latest move, touting his plan. this was yesterday, his remarks on daca. listen. >> keeping couples to getting remarried, where one is a u.s. citizen and one is undocumented. they been living in the united states for at least ten years. these couples have been raising families, sending their kids to church and school, paying taxes, contribute into our country. living in the united states all this time. it's fear and uncertainty. we can fix that. >> sandra: your reaction to his latest moves? >> listen, this is the last straw. americans have had it. because of joe biden's policies we have had record breaking illegal immigration that has led to crime. now this amnesty proposal is a magnet that would entice even more people to come to our country illegally. this is it, americans have had it. to make matters worse, what he's doing is completely unconstitutional, illegal. texas is going to step up and take legal action and shut it down. >> sandra: as you mention, governor, we have life pictures where we have seen a lot of activity in recent days, a flight camera provided to our viewers. so we can continue to keep a look on the crisis. as you mentioned, this is no longer the epicenter. we are seeing the flow over the border and so many other border states now, as this reaches across the country. the white house itself, governor, is estimating that, as a result of the president's plan, that the number of immigrants expected to be affected by this new biden plan, 500,000 illegal immigrant spouses, 50,000 illegal immigrant stepchildren. i mean, we haven't even started to talk about the medical system inundated with those who are here illegally that need medical care, the schools have taken on a huge burden, and kids who are behind because of the pandemic. there are problems everywhere. politically, how does this issue take form as we had to november? >> for one, when the cartels learned that more than half a million americans, immigrants, getting amnesty, they'll use that to gin up even more business, entice even more people coming across the border. politically speaking, listen, this is a disaster for joe biden. we've all already seen the polling about how biden is underwater with regard to his illegal immigration policies, and this is only going make that policy worse. this likely will lead to joe biden losing his job, because he is going against the overwhelming majority of americans, and what americans want. they don't want open borders, they don't want amnesty. they want the laws of the united states enforced, and joe biden is appeasing to do that. >> sandra: governor, it's always good when you can come on. appreciate you being here. >> thank you, sandra. take care. >> anything under 90 i'm okay with, the once he gets over 90 that's where i want to be inside. >> i'm doing very badly with the letter. thank god for air conditioning. >> i know astroturf is on a lot of dog parks here. it gets really hot. >> we're trying to have a good time heading home for the air conditioner. it's hot out here, definitely. >> i would say this is hot for just moving into summer. >> gillian: americans frantically now looking for ways to try and keep cool as this record-breaking heat wave sweeps the eastern part of the country. right now more than 200 million americans are baking in 90-degree plus heat. those temperatures are going to go up over the course of the week. fox weather has been tracking all that. we have chief meteorologist rick reichmuth on how long this heat wave expected to last, the first let's go to zach greene, live on fox gray new york city. how is it feeling out there? >> it is getting steamy as we speak, and this is the core of the heat taking over the entire northeast onto the mid-atlantic and backing up into the upper midwest, where yesterday we recorded 30 independent daily high record temperatures. we have 70 more poised to set records by the end of the week. this is spanning all the way from burlington, vermont, through chicago where they saw a record high on monday afternoon of 97 degrees. manchester, new hampshire, shattering a record of 94 that was set back in 2018, and many other locations from west virginia all the way down to d.c. new york city is currently sitting with a heat index value in the triple digits, and we have hours to go before we wrap up this warmth. but still, on this juneteenth, that is not something stopping tourists from getting out and about. i spoke with one of the visitors coming from wisconsin, saying he's just trying to get out of the cold. >> it's really nice just walking pass all the different doors that are open, getting a breeze, and going a couple more doors, getting another breeze, and working through it. >> it's amazing to witness some of these tourists around here. they are still trying to take it vantage of the sunshine, but they have to dodge in and out of the shadows to make sure they remain safe. 500 cooling centers have been opened up here in manhattan alone and the governor actually deploying 50 national guard members to areas in cities in albany as well as syracuse, who saw a heat index of 100 degrees. with a heat dome of this magnitude, yet very stagnant air. it is sinking air. as that happens we get air quality concerns, so folks with respiratory issues, folks who deal with long irritants, this is a scenario where we have to stay inside and enjoy the ac. if you can't do so, sign a family member or a friend to remain cool and safe. the gillian? >> gillian: and people who can't do that are taking advantage of those cooling centers. thanks so much. sandra? >> sandra: for more on the record-breaking heat, let's ask the question to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth we are all wondering in the fox weather center right now. how long is this heat wave going to last? >> a wild. i think part of the problem with this heat wave is just the duration of it. sometimes to be a heat wave you need that for three days in a row. we'll be talking about in some cases at least 7-8 days. take a look back here, by the way. really cold across parts of the west that had snow this week in the northern rockies. not the entire country is hot, but we do have it for mid-atlantic all the way through the northeast. we are going to watch his temperatures climb. this is friday's heat index. 96 in new york, 99 in baltimore. watch what happens saturday, it climbs to the mid-atlantic. if we just go to washington, d.c., you might be saying, hey, it's warm right now. watch what happens. saturday, sunday, it's great if you like the mid 100s, 104, 105. monday, bit of a break. when it happens, it's not going to be a massive break. we are not going to get temperatures back into the 70s or low 80s. we maybe a going to get temperatures back into the 80s and lower 90s. but we do have to get through these next 4-5 days. the heat is going to continue to increase. >> sandra: wow. find some place cool and keep the ice water handy. rick, thank you. by the way, just in the last hour, the national hurricane center officially named its first storm of the hurricane season. what do we know about that? >> i tell you, we are expecting a really active hurricane season this year, just know that. if you live anywhere from texas all the way up towards maine, we will see a lot of activity this year. the first has been named, alberto. this is mexico, it is in the bay and it's going to move off toward the west. so you say, landfill here across mexico, most of the wind is to the north of the storm. so we are talking about a lot of wind and a lot of rain with this across parts of texas. at lower rio grande valley we are seeing some spots with 3-5 inches, maybe more than that. this area is dealing with drought, however, some good news, but certainly the coastal areas are going to be battered even with some moderate storm surge at times. i want to show you one other thing. we have two other storms we are watching. you look at this one and you say, that is alberto. it's not. is going to be another area that we expect potentially to have some sort of development here by the time we get toward sunday-monday across parts of the day. that means potentially more rain coming in across parts of south texas by the time to get towards early next week. to be when you're going to be busy. thank you very much. good to see you. >> we have a commitment to make sure israel has what it needs to defend itself against a whole variety of threats. >> gillian: are israel and iran have been back to her group has blood heading to war? 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(♪) >> sandra: developing at this hour, we could be finding out as soon as tomorrow whether former president donald trump will go to trial on those charges of election interference, and it all depends on the ruling by the supreme court addressing the issue of presidential immunity. justice correspondent david spunt is live in washington. we are all watching this, david. break down what exactly could happen here. >> you got to bet donald trump and joe biden are watching both of those scenarios. or all three of the scenarios. the longer it takes to get a supreme court decision, the further it pushes back the potential trial. as with just about everything, they are caveats. is this even go to trial? the former president is charged with overturning the 2020 election results. it was supposed to go to trial beginning in early march, that deadline came and passed. the case itself has essentially been on ice since late december. once an appeal was announced in the case. d.c.-based federal judge tanya chutkan overseeing the case stopped all activity, at least publicly, on the docket until the issue is resolved before the supreme court. the first appeal was to the circuit court. those judges ruled that the former president does not have absolute immunity to avoid charges. but the supreme court decided to take over and weigh in, even though the d.c. circuit ruled unanimously that trump does not have full immunity from prosecution. we don't want to speculate with the court is doing. it was argued at the end of april. they typically have until the end of june, which means about another week or so truly see opinion. depending on what they do, it could be good or bad for special counsel jack smith. this man right here who indicted the former president last year. if the court holds that trump enjoys broad immunity, expect this case never to happen. if they ruled that he has no immunity, expect the case to happen perhaps even later this summer or early fall, even though it is close to an election. if it's a complicated ruling that sends aspects back to the lower court, that might delay things, as well. we don't know until we know, and judge chutkan still doesn't know if she will perhaps be presiding over the biggest case in her career, possibly in just a few months. that old rule about prosecuting close to an election is really indicting someone. it's an unspoken rule of doj not to indict someone close to an election. judge chutkan is not bound by any sort of rule. she can have a trial whenever she wants, but there would be a lot of low back and push back if she wants to move to trial, let's say, end of august or early september. >> sandra: thanks for laying out the scenarios for us. we'll be watching it. gillian? >> gillian: there's also u.s. israeli officials now sounding the alarm about the growing threat posed by iran back terror group hezbollah. they are detailing explosive that u.s. agencies have uncovered about their nuclear capabilities, including a computer modeling program iran has allegedly acquired that could be used to develop or at least help in developing actual nuclear weapons. mike waltz serves on the armed services, foreign to my foreign affairs, and intelligence communities. thanks for coming here in person. great to see you. what do you make of this news? let's start off, because they are so many different angles here about this computer program that the iranians have that could sort of help them move towards a nuclear weapons capability quicker. >> three key elements to them having a fully functional nuclear weapon. the enrichment of uranium, that is what so much has been focused on with the iran deal, and when people talk about a breakout in weeks or months for them to be able to break out, it's about having a fully enriched and uram to have a bomb. this computer simulation is, how do you get the actual bomb formed and build the warhead that it fits on top of the missile, and then of course we know iran has been in violation of u.n. sanctions, has been developing a missile program. so this would be an absolute crossing of a threshold for the ayatollah to say, take that enriched uranium and put into a nuclear warhead, and there's a lot of distress, frankly, of the intelligence community and the administration. remember, biden's lead negotiator, also obama's lead iran negotiator, has been under investigation now for over a year. can't get any answers as to why, but has something to do with being compromised by the iranians and leaking information to the iranians. >> gillian: thankfully off the job. >> sideline, but we can't get any answers as to what was compromised