Two. President biden speaking to the nation tonight with a high stakes state of the Union Address out his vision for a second terms to can lead americauwith ancient ideas that only take us back. We lead america, the land of possibilities. You need a vision for the future and what can and should be done. A big night for President Biden with his reelection bid on the line. Good evening. Im julie julie haener, and im alex savage. Tonight the president spoke from capitol hill touting his successes while highlighting some of the Biggest Challenges facing the nation. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama joining us live tonight with more on the president s address. Janna. Spoke for just over one hour, and he was really alternating between calls for bipartisan help and also holding firm to his principles and his policies. He never mentioned donald trump by name, but he and republicanss well as independents, why they should vote for a second. Biden terme. Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States, as President Joe Biden arrived for his third state of the Union Address. Democrats broke out in reelection chants. Biden came out swinging his reelection on the line, and he repeatedly sought to draw clear distinctions between himself and his presumptive challenger. Neverunaming former president donald trump. Under attack both at home andy overseas . The president started with a call for aid to ukraine, which has bipartisan support but has been rejected by some republicans, and trump, who has praised russian president putin in the past walks away. It will put ukraine at risk. Europe is at risk. The free world will be at risk. My message is that president putin, who long time, is simple we will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will biden then appealed to moderate republicans who are concerned about trump reminding americans about the insurrection of january 6th. We all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. Theyd come to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Biden then turned to reproductive rights and called ivf and access to abortion. Ctt if you, the american people, will send me a congress that supports the right to choose, i promise you i will restore roe v wade as the law of the land again. Biden said his administration has helped the u. S. Reach an economic rebound from the pandemic. 15 million new jobs in just three years, a record a record. Unemployment at 50 year lows. He also touted his bipartisan successes at one point challenging opponents of his infrastructure law. If any of you dont want that money in yourudistrict, just let me know. President biden said moving forward, he would boost manufacturing, hiring in the u. S, expand the Affordable Health care act, lower Prescription Drug prices, and on gaza, he continued supporting israels right to defend itself, but warned israel about humanitarian aid and killing innocent civilians. Tonight, im directing the us military to lead an Emergency Mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. On the border and immigration, he pointed to bipartisan negotiations. n we can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it. Im ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now. And in closing, he said, so lets build a future together. Lets remember who we are. We are the United States of america. At one point, there was one guest who was escorted out of the chambers overall from republicans. Republicans, though no major heckling as we saw that happened last year. Jana katsuyama reporting live for us tonight. Jana, thank you. And the republican rebuttal to the state of the union was delivered by first time alabama senator katie britt. The 42 year old mother of two focused on the economy and crime. Speaking from her own Kitchen Table. Right now, our commander in chief is not in command, and the free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished who recognize that secureleader borders, stable prices, safe streets, and a Strong Defense are actually the cornerstones of a great nation. Senator britt also made some news saying the Republican Party supports in vitro fertilization. Following that ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that found that embryos are children. And for more perspective on tonights state of the union, were joined now by political analyst corey cook, executive Vice President and provost of saint marys college. So, corey, 2024 election now in full swing. A lot on the line for the president tonight. How did he do . I thought he did. Well, i coming out. He hehe standard of was aggressive. I think he set forth an agenda that both looked back at his four years in office to say that weve made progress and to set forth an agenda for the general election. So i obviously its a long way between now and november, but i think this is a good opening salvo in the general election campaign. Yeah, i mean, a lot of people described his his sort of energy level tonight as being sort of upbeat. He was described as feisty by many people. He he clearly wanted to push back against the notion that he is too old to have a second terms as president here. He sort of took the issue on directly, in many cases, sort of saying, look, with age comes experience. How much do you think this speech tonight will sort of put to rest some of those concerns among a certain segment of the electorate . Well, im not sure itll put it to rest, but it certainly set a good standard for the campaign. I think obviously he was vigorous tonight. He was energetic. I think he again set a good tone for the coming general election. But i think it will continue to be a question. He will be the oldest president reelected. Should he be reelected. And so i think it will continue to be in voters minds. But iuthink he was certainly very strong tonight. And i think what democrats as at who will fight for their issues, i think he certainly did that this evening. But obviously its a long way to go that said, i thought, you know, the joke he made about his age, i think is the way for him to handle it. He kind of leaned into it. Anduhe has to. Its what people are talking about. I think to avoid it is it would be a mistake. Yeah. Hes 81 years old. He just said, watch me. Thats right. Okay. So when it comes to all the issues, a lot of big issues, the economy, crime, immigration, abortion, did he hit all the major issues tonight or did he fall short and miss something . Have a missed opportunity . Do you think they a chance to tonight . No. I think he covered the broad scope of the issues that will define the general election. I think for him, the winning issues are be around abn rights, womens rights in general, obviously he sees that its a winning issue to talk about russia. And so he, he led with that. He led with his protection of democracy. You know, within the first few he ws talking about january 6th. And so obviously he sees those as winning issues. On the other hand, he was defending his handling of the economy. We have seen in surveys. Thats an area of weakness for the president that hesutried to turn into a strength, and hes had to handle the questions around the border. Hes just trying to neutralize maybe some of the republicans advantage on immigration to just make that a neutral issue for him. So talking about the bipartisan compromise that ultimately republicans didnt stand behind is his way of neutralizing that issue. uhes not going to have an advantage on it, but if he can at least address it and neutralize it, it will help him in the general election. On the issue of the economy, obviously that is one of his huge challenges here. I want to get your sense about how he was able to sort of walk a fine line here. He did try to talk up some of the encouraging economic indicators. The fact that inflation is coming down in this country, and we have incredibly low unemployment right now, but at the same time, trying to acknowledge that Many Americans are especially. How well do you think he he navigated that and kind of that that balancing act, how well did he do so perception is reality. And so the Voters Perception is that that inflation is still too high. Thats the reality. Now, he can argue that inflation has come down. But if thats spwhere voters are, he needs to provide a counter explanation. What was interesting tonight is that he did that. He actually tf large corporations and inflation. That was that was effectively corporate greed. He cast he cast himself as a champion of the middle class, and he argued for a pretty populist economic agenda while saying, you should but its not because of the policies of the administration, its because of Something Else thats happening that this administration can address. So i thought he handled that quite voters we see in survey after survey, immigration is at number one. Crime and the state of the economy are the next two things. I think he did a pretty good job of managing some of those issue for the very start of the general election. Yeah, were just getting going. Yeah. Before we let you go, were going to get a quick answer from you on the rebuttal. 42 year old elected to the us senate, speaking from her own Kitchen Table tonight, 17 minutes. How did she do . She never mentioned donald by name. No. And i think, you know, this is a tough act to follow. Its always difficult to give a rebuttal. You know, i think it was fine. I dont think it was the rebuttal that donald trump would have given, nor would it be one that he will be giving. Just, you know, what he was doing on social media during the during the state of the union. We will certainly see these two folks side to side. I thought the rebuttal set forth fairly strong terms, but ultimately its a very difficult act to follow a president. He has obviously a huge audience behind very well with the heckling andt the jeering. I think he expected it. I think he was waiting for because he wanted to show he was willing to fight back. Its very difficult to stand in your living room and give a nationally televised address or and in trying to do that, obviously she cant match the energy, she cant match the audience. But i thought she did a, you know, a fine job of laying out the issues from her perspective. All right. Corey cook from perspective tonight. Weith your appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thanks corey. All right. And for more coverage on the president s state of the Union Address tonight, you can head to the ktvu fox local app. It is free to download for your smart tv. I had trust in the pilots. They they said multiple times that they trained for this. New at ten tonight. Passengers speaking out this evening after their United Airlines plane lost a wheel shortly after taking off from San FranciscoInternational Airport on a flight bound for japan. Ktvu zac sos joins us now. Hes live at sfo. And, zach, you spoke with one of the passengers who were on board that plane. Yeah. And id have to say that he handled all of this remarkably well, especially after taking a look at some of the video he shot from on board the plane. Some of his fellow passengers understandably shaken by all of this. Meantime you saw that viral video of the tire falling from the plane. I spoke to the man who shot it from down below. This is the craziest thing i have seen. Sal gonzalez, a professional plane spotter broadcasting live to his youtube followers thursday morning as United Airlines flight 35 bound for osaka, japan, suddenly lost a rear wheel. I was just like, oh my god, i cant believe its happening. And i just saw that the plane kept going and i was like, whats going on . Did they know it was just after 1130 among the 249 aboarduthe boeing 777, Evan Schroeder and his friend devin, unaware of what had just happened. What kind of triggered a little bit of nervousness for us was when we looked at our window, we were right on the wing and they were like dumping spthe fuel out down below the tire, smashing into a car and sfos employee parking lot. But airport Officials Say no one was hurt. Im just glad nobody, nobody got hurt in the cars, out of land, back in the air, the two high school seniors, part of a missionary group from illinois, say a message came out over the loudspeaker. All we heard was, theres like an object that was interfering with the plane. Then 30 minutes later, we were kind of just going in circles, burning off fuel, and they said that air Traffic Control had let them know that it was actually a wheel that fell off during, takeoff. Julianne fox, an Aviation Industry safety expert whose career includes stints at both boeing and united aircraft, are able to land in that scenario. So it really wasnt a risk to the people on board. But questionl she says federal investigators will now likely be asking, did that spaircraft landing gear strut jt come out of maintenance . Did they just install it . Was it its first flight . Could it be a metal fatigue type issue. You know, so could it stem back that the aircrafts been in service so long that theyre now seeing an issue that had not come forward before the flight rerouted to lax . Evan, filming with his iphone. As the plane approached the runway, it felt like a very smooth landing in comparison to others that ive had, and i think thats just a props to the pilot. Next stop japanushould be getting back up in the air soon. Hopefully we dont lose another wheel. Yeah, i mean, you got to love his sense of humor, given everything that he just went through. His flight now scheduled to arrive some nine hours late in japan. Meantime, an investigation now underway into how this all happened by the ntsb and the faa. Julie. Yeah, i mean, he is taking it really relatively well, just that video. Zach is just amazing. Were all just wondering, have you heard where did that video come from . I mean, it just caught that wheel at the perfect moment. Theyre just falling off right after takeoff. Yeah, i mean, some of it was good luck, but it was also so taken by a professional plane spotter. So basically he films planes taking off from sfo and other airports on a daily basis. And so he just happened to capture that plane as it took off. And it got distributed to his users online. Yeah. Amazing video there. All right. Zac sos reporting live tonight at sfo zach thank you. Well, another united flight had a problem coming into San Francisco earlier this week. United says flight 214 experienced an engine issue shortly before arrival on monday afternoon. Officials say the flight landed safely and passengers deplaned normally. That flight typically runs between San Francisco and honolulu. The 10 00 news, we are getting a sneak peek of the renovations happening at the historic castro theater. And crews discoveries along the way. , pleasantly enough, we got a nice night. Not that cold either, but we do have some showers in the five day that could impact the weekend. Also ahead, the search for a new police chief in san jose. Tonights forumicking off a did my legs shrink . I can move them. I mean, i knew Alaska Airlines premium class had extra legroom but this. This feels different. Okay. Crazy idea. On the count of 3. Im going to try and cross my. Ohhhhhhhhhhh boyy thats nice. Woooooo is finally moving forward with restoration work. The seats that were a bone of contention have been removed and willube sold, with the proceeds to be donated to charity. The people leading amberleigh for a look inside the theater. As they pull backc the curtains on this project, and amber joins us now live in the castro with the story. Amber julia. Earlier this evening, we spent several hours inside the castro theater. And let me tell you, it was quite a sight to see the theater stripped down with all the seats removed. But we also saw artwork hidden in the ceiling that most people have never seen before. Its science and its art. San franciscos historic castro theater is undergoing the first phase of restoration. The frame of the movie screen now exposed. There is scaffolding from floor to ceiling, blending the old with the new and revealing the stories that are sptrying to get out. Stories tht jeff green, a restoration expert , will help reveal during the work. To preserve the art in the original architecture by us 35ft up a scaffolding to get a close up look at the condition of the ceiling and walls. We cleaned this fellow today. The first phase involves assessing and peeling back the layers of dirt and nicotine from years ofupeople smoking. To show the original artwork. There are some huge dragons here. Theres a circular dragons in every single one of these panels. An asian motif blended with cherubs. Green says that many items can be restored, but some features, such as tassels that are missing, will need to be replicated, and all the original paint on the ceiling there. The final phase of the restoration will be the stage and putting in a new lift for the organ is to recapture the magic of this theater. We want to preserve the sense of the place so that when people come back in, itll be new and itll be a surprise, and itll be as it was originally. But preserve that sense of place that people identify with. Mary condie with another planet, the company which runs the theater for the family who owns it, is overseeing this project. She estimates the restoration will cost more thanc 15 million. We know that this is the most important lgbt q Gathering Place in the country, if not the world, and we want that community to come here and feel like theirupalace has been restored the restoration of the ceiling and walls will take six months. The goal is to have all the work done to welcome the public back in the summer of 2025. Julie. Yeah, to that iconic theater. Live tonight from San Francisco. Ambern thank you. Well, another big retailer announced today its leaving union square. The Global Fashion brand zara will be closing its location the cit