[the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] will good morning on this saturday morning, beautiful once again, your national anthem. Good morning. Pete good morning. How are we doing . Will doing well. Pete heres looking at me. Rachel this is going to be a great morning. Why are you looking at me . Pete just sending it. Rachel Waiting For You to warm up. Pete he decided to go down the middle. Will thats true. Quick and efficient. Lets get after it this morning. I like your socks. Rachel did you, those two . It was a present . Pete it may have been. Will as a viewer, brown dog, socks. Pete ive got from somewhere. We are about to hear a lot more about socks. Rachel did i tell you about earrings . I got a lot, it was great. Rachel come up with more things we like. We are going to turn to fox weather alert, live look at rodin. In hatteras as Tropical Storm ophelia moves towards the coast. Will 50,000 outages in North Carolina and virginia were governor Glenn Youngerkin has declared a state of emergency. Pete a lot of water on the boardwalk and ocean city, maryland, ophelia bringing heavy rains. Lets turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. Reporter last weekend was leave, this weekend ophelia. Probably wont have too many more. Big storm developed overnight, night before last, got going and became a strong Tropical Storm, almost a hurricane. Center of the storm on shore in parts of North Carolina bringing a lot of rain with it, pretty significant in Land Flooding from this. 3 to 5 inches of rain plus as well. It doesnt move quickly. By tomorrow afternoon, somewhere here, the storm stalls out a little bit, reince itself out, Tropical Storm warnings in effect and hurricane watches across North Carolina. A lot of areas dealing with coastal flooding, high tide cycles with onshore push of moisture, 1 to 3 feet of storm surge to myrtle beach, South Carolina to surf city, North Carolina. Then two to six feet out towards cape hatteras. Then towards the lower chesapeake bay. We have storm surge across parts of the jersey shore and the long island sound. A lot of area on the eastern seaboard, a lot of areas getting additional rain. Already had a lot of rain, 3 to 4 inches. Some areas are saturated. A lot of rain across the northeast that wont take much to cause flooding. Keep in mind we will have a wind driven storm. That gets more surface area for the wind to hit, some Power Outages as well. Will should be a fun weekend traveling. Turning to a major washington corruption scandal. New jersey senator bob menendez and his wife facing bribery, fraud, and distortion charges. Pete he reportedly helped egypts government and received gold bars, a mercedesbenz, cash, and more in return. Rachel Alexandria Hoff joins us with details. Reporter Senator Menendez stepped down as chairman of the Senate Relations committee but says he will not give up his elected position despite calls from fellow democrats including Governor Phil Murphy who stated, quote, the alleged facts are so serious they compromise the ability of senator menand as to effectively represent the people of our state, therefore i am calling for his immediate resignation. Charges against the senator include bribery, conspiracy to commit Honest Services fraud and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of the show right, that has to do with bribery related to public officials, the indictment was unsealed yesterday and also named four others. Senator menon does, the senior us senator from new jersey and the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, and his wife, nadine menendez, engaged in a corrupt relationship with hana, uribe, and davies. Through their relationship, the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Rachel halfMillion Dollars in cash stuffed in his jacket pockets, high value gold bars were also discovered. In exchange for intervening in kernel prosecution, mendez dez was gifted a mercedes. He used sensitive Us Government information to aid the government of egypt. Senator menendez remains defiant. Yesterday he stated it is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a latino and push him out of his seat. Im not going anywhere. The senator is expect it to appear in federal ct. Wednesday. He was tried six years ago on unrelated bribery charges that resulted in a hung jury. Will its because hes latino. Latina. Rachel anything bad that happens to me is because im latina. Pete gold bars and jackets stuffed full of cash and he played the race card. Hes going to get his name at this Point Charges and allegations but the understanding is there was a middleman, information would be passed to, it would go to the egypt in government and it was military aid, releasing money, different types, Different Things that the ruling party in egypt seemed to want, they went through the middleman to Senator Menendez and he has a powerful spot on that committee. Allegations are he was doing work for them. Rachel he would be smarter if he had let his son be on the board of some sort of powerful company. Im not making a joke. This is serious. Will it is the same, not that he would have been smarter. His wife was doing this. It is analogous. He is using a Family Member to establish the relationships with foreign powers to than profit. His wife was the one making the introductions to these guys. That is the same story. Rachel just less money. You make more money doing it for hunter biden way. They made a whole lot more money. Im not making excuses for him because he is latino. I am saying it is even worse on the hunter biden case. It proves to you when the fbi wants to find connections in bribery they can. That is in the case of hunter biden, they didnt want to connect the dots. Pete seems more straightforward. Straight out of the new jersey mob boss. Gold bars, mercedes, different from carveouts and shutouts. It is dumber. It is oldschool if you may. Rachel they go after him because hes from new jersey, they can distract from what is happening with hunter biden, we do go after people and wont lose a seat in the senate because it will be replaced by other democrats. Rachel interesting thing that caught our eye is Senator Menendez spent a lot of time talking about donald trump during the trump years including February 2019 when he said trump is compromised. The American People deserve to know who they elected to be their president. They deserve to know if he is putting americas interests first. They deserve to know that donald trump is wittingly or unwittingly an agent for the russian federation. Pete says the guy who at that time or around that time was, pretty allegations, an agent of the egypt and government. Rachel heres what larry kudlow had to say on the matter. Senator bob menendez of new jersey was indicted today for violating corruption and bribery laws. But according to reports, menendez, who was chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, probably took in less than one Million Dollars in cash, a used mercedes, and a bunch of gold bars. Somehow he was selling secrets to egypt, which is actually an ally of ours and knew all of our secrets. Hunter biden, on the other hand, apparently took in 20 million in cash, got himself a new porsche for one hundred 40 grand plus a pocket full of diamonds, dont forget 1 million a year directorships. Got to hand it to him. Menendez wasnt on any of those papa biden Conference Calls or those dinners because he took in a whole lot less than hunter. Rachel larry kudlow making the point i am making, the real bad situations, hunter and menendez and hunter, it is obvious that joe biden is the bigger fish and taking money from a much more dangerous country, countries i should say, with much bigger consequences. Russia, ukraine, and our enemy, china. Pete we will talk about the media later in the show but states are so high that the media cant cover it. Will we will talk about the media later in the show but lets start by talking about it now, this one particular instance. You heard about dave portnoy who wrote there was a hit piece about him at his pizza fest which is today in New York City. He got wind they were calling sponsors and advertisers at pizza fest and asking them questions like why are you supporting the guy who made racist and misogynistic comments . Essentially harassing sponsors into answering that question. He said i will call them. He called the Washington Post. It is a reporting tactic. You want someone to respond, indicate there might be something negative and get them to engage. I wanted them to engage with me. Sad state of journalism if that is a tactic. What i would say is make up something about somebody. Will he said why is this in an email . Sometimes we say provocative things to get them to respond. That is the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. Say something false. She didnt think it was false because they published the article anyway. Pete they didnt see this coming. They said he would record the call, he did, it went viral online, they posted the piece. There was a portion of what it says. Pizzerias navigate, back lash and Dave Portnoys pizza festival. Since one bite festival, it was announced in early august, some influences and activists have been calling out the pizzerias, none of the pizzerias or sponsors indicated they were pulling their support after we pressured them. Some said they lent their name and reputation to the event in exchange for publicity and access to the social media savvy audience and some support portnoy who they see as a champion of small business. Rachel like he didnt give millions of dollars to Small Businesses during covid when government couldnt step up and do it efficiently after they forced a shut down but heres What Dave Portnoy says. It is surreal. We live in a country where activist reporters can admit they are creating a false narrative to generate engagement and controversy and they still publish the article. A good point. Pete it reads like an editorial which is meant to be an opinion piece. This is a food critic writing this, pushing one perspective. I had hit pieces like this where you hear from your friends who say i am hearing from reporters and this is what they are saying and they say this about you, that about you and you go they talk to me, no one is talking to me. I called them before, reporters. What dave portnoy did was recorded the whole thing. Thats what you have to do. Im recording you and record it so that both sides of the conversation are out there. Otherwise it can be cathartic to talk to her reporter but they are going to print whatever they want. They have written their hit piece. Thats what happened to portnoy. Rachel interesting a food critic would want to bust up a pizza party. That her goal to get bread among liberals because she took down dave portnoy. Some negative feedback that shes the victim, shes going to take a sabbatical to decompress. Interesting article in national review, the Biden Administration actually approved 5. 7 million in Grant Funding to George Washington university to create a program that will provide psychological care to journalists who believe they are the targets of misinformation driven harassment campaigns. Imagine how many trillion, 32 trillion in debt in debt, 5. 7 million going to George Washington university to provide psychological care for traumatized journalists. Isnt it crazy . Pete the status of the Washington Post and journalism in general laid bare for everyone to see. That is what they re reporting does. Will is this the start of a new trend, people are pushing back, it seems the Pizza Businesses arent going to back off, so many will go to this festival . Pete Us Border Patrol revealing there were more than 230 illegal immigrant encounters in august. Historic high for the month. Alejandra mayorkas is set to meet with the president of honduras at the southern border in texas. So far this fiscal year agents have encountered 186,000 nationals at the border. President biden is set to join United Auto Workers on the picket line, michigan on tuesday. To show support for striking workers, his visit will come when donald trump traveled to detroit to give a speech. Prompting thousands of furloughs and layoffs. The uaw strike is expanding its walkout to 38 locations across 20 states targeting gm and stellantis. The union is making progress in its talks with ford. To college football, Wisconsin Badgers taking care of business on the ground against Purdue Last Night Scoring for rushing touchdowns. That is high school football. Is today, full slate of games including the cincinnati bearcats hosting never 16 oklahoma sooners. We will be there live, hope you get ready for todays games. Coverage starts at 10 00 eastern time, kickoff is at noon and those are your headlines. Biggame for colorado. They randomly do that. Will high school friday, college saturday, pro sunday. 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Pete a shocking report painting a dire picture of the state of education in the city of baltimore. According to a new report, 40 of city schools had 0 students, not one that tested proficient in the 2023 math exam. Joining us is baltimore mother of three in Baltimore CityPublic School administrator, blocker, thank you for being here. It is staggering statistic, some defending the schools that its a money problem. What do you make of such low numbers . Nothing to do with money. Our budget is 1. 62 billion. The school ceo earns One Hundred Thousand dollars. She has ten chiefs under her which earned 200,000 each. The statistics, 0 students, the total number of students is 6232. 6232 p