Bill in is the news of the moment. Fox news confirming that democratic california senator Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90. She was currently serving a sixth term in the senate, winning election in 1992. Described as the year of the woman in that election. She would become the longest tenured woman serving in the u. S. Senate. Rest in peace, god rest her soul. We watched her with her Health Continueing to decline over the past year. A fighter to the end. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off today. Welcome to the coverage of the ongoing story. Im jacque heinrich, this is americas newsroom. She has battled Health Problems and multiple hospital stays battling shingles earlier this year. She missed a pair of votes yesterday afternoon and she was also absent from a Senate Judiciary committee meeting. The senior senator from california was 90 years old. Bill one of the images that comes to mind immediately is what we saw recently, the effort she made to fly across country and really show up on capitol hill in a wheelchair in order to perform votes in congress. She lived quite a career. Just really an incredible tenure she led there. This news coming as a surprise. There were rumblings of this earlier this morning. This all just coming together in the last 45 minutes or so. The news coming out she has passed away. Bill considered a democratic centrist. Center left for most of her political career. Not aligned with the progressive that has developed in the Democratic Party today. What does gavin newsom do . He has indicated, as has been reported, that he would appoint an africanamerican woman to her position, as you see the image of feinstein that we just saw about a month ago in washington, d. C. We all knew at the time, jacque, she was not doing well. Was fighting to hold on. That was clear from her return in washington. She was a moderate democrat. Six decades of political experience shaping National Security policy and big on gun control reform. Career first, first woman for the San Francisco board of supervisor, first woman senator for San Francisco. First woman senator from california. She was on the Board Of Supervisors when the mayor was murdered. Huge career. Bill she oversaw her share of American History and saw it from a lens that was far closer than many of us could ever see it. Back in early august when she fell at her home in San Francisco and went to the hospital, had a number of scans. The scans cleared her, but that was an indication again of her Failing Health that we saw about a month and a half ago. Well talk to byron york and chad pergram. With us in studio in new york is the host of Fox News Sunday shannon bream. Welcome to our coverage. Your thoughts as we watch the passing of an American Legend in congress. A legend. I cover the Supreme Court and nomination and Confirmation Battles she has been in the middle of so many times. Even in recent years you think there were some on the left who thought she wasnt tough enough on some of these nominees that came before her. You got the sense she wanted to have a conversation that was respectful and feel the nominees in the seat were taking a lot of fire. She took a lot of heat for some things she said about peoples religious beliefs and convictions and how it may affect them on the bench but cordial with them noting they had children and she related to the position they were in. I think the Confirmation Battles she has overseen that have been very contentious. Bill the Kavanaugh Hearing comes to mind because of the way it was carried out. What about her role during that hearing . You think about the fact this letter came forward at some point that had been directed and she would have had knowledge of it that once we thought that Confirmation Battle was done that whole conversation reopened it. So she found herself in the center of that battle over reopening another investigation, another flank of that conversation. Bill the last minute during that hearing and shocked a lot of people at the time. She played a Critical Role in the middle of that. That one went several rounds as we remember. That was anything but a typical Confirmation Battle. She was right in the middle of that. Over time she had moved a little to the left from a centrist. That sort of colored the more recent coverage of her. Do you think that that is, you know, what people will remember most looking back at her entire career . They will see her as a trailblazer. I love that we have the old clips. She was breaking glass ceilings in the 60s. She was the first in a lot of things she did. She was somebody who fought hard. She was a servant to her state and country. Whether you agree with her or not she was committed to the battle. I think she garnered a lot of respect on both sides of the aisle for her staying and fighting power, whether you had enormous Policy Differences with her or not. I love we get to walk through steps of her life and she was somebody constantly pushing the boundaries for Women In The World of politics. Because of her i think women now on capitol hill would say in many ways she blazed a lot of trails. Bill well get a lot of reaction throughout the next hour. Bret baier joins us the host of special report. Good morning to you. Good morning. Bill oftentimes we turn to you based on your time in washington, d. C. How do you reflect on the life of Senator Feinstein in the early hours of this announcement . Listen, i think shannon is right. She was a trailblazer on a number of different fronts. You remember her time when she served alongside Barbara Boxer from california. It was a powerful 12 punch for the california democrats. She held close to her believes on the left side of the spectrum but she had a great rapport with her colleagues on capitol hill. Left or right i would say she was really engaging. I think at the end obviously her capacity diminished and there was real concern about how she was going to be able to continue. Its a sad day but it is also a reflection of her long career that was really storied when you think about women in politics. Bill it may not be too soon to reflect on who succeeds her, bret . She comes from a state that is increasingly progressive. You have a governor gavin newsom who has shown himself to rise in democratic ranks over the past two years. What does he do with this seat now do you believe . You know, its fascinating. This is a real choice for gavin newsom to determine what to do. The person who is appointed, you know, will have to run again and very soon. So it is a seat that was coming up that was already a contested primary. So i think that this is an interesting choice. Whoever is that person automatically gets a headsup, a leg up on the field as far as a reelection possibility. Bill Thanks For Jumping on the phone. Back to you when the news develops. Dana lets bring in chad pergram over on capitol hill to pick up where bret left off. Chad, you know better than anyone that there is already a jump ball on who may succeed Senator Feinstein. You have at least three house lawmakers already in a competitive contest. Lay out for us where things are headed, what that race looks like, and also if newsom, the governor there, has indicated he has any favorites who he might nominate to succeed her . Just how fast gavin newsom might appoint somebody. Other circumstances you might think it would come really fast. They are trying to avoid a Government Shutdown. On the senate bill they have the votes to pass the bill. It is not like they need her vote. This is not at least the way things are arranged now down to the razors edge. We dont know just how fast he could make that appointment. Again, this really raised a lot of hackles with barbara lee from california who has been in office since the early 1990s, saying you said, governor, you were going to appoint a black woman. A senior woman, a served as the chair of the congressional black caucus. Why arent you appointing me . She thought she had been sidelined in the process a little bit. That would give barbara lee a Leg Up Running against katie porter and adam schiff. The favorite of the former House Speaker nancy pelosi to take that seat. We dont know exactly who he might appoint. Again, the quickness, is it something that will come right away so they can vote as early as tomorrow on trying to keep the government open . Or if we get into a Government Shutdown and some other legislative solution materializes and it is a razor wire vote and they need that vote. We dont know that yet, jacque. Speaking of how important her vote is, the margins, the way that they are, you talk all the time about how important the math is. It is going to be more difficult today to get to 60 votes on anything because Senator Feinstein is not there today and it will take some time for the governor to replace her. How does that impact this is happening at a very heightened tension moment where you are trying to fund the government that expires tomorrow night at midnight. How does that impact things . It is a precarious situation but not as you might think because of the reasons i stated. They had 3 4 of the senate, 77 members voted on a test vote on this bill on tuesday. Not quite as many on a test vote later in the day yesterday. They will be able to get cloture to overcome a filibuster. That comes tomorrow. Something later on maybe they need that. If you have a narrow senate always, you if you are the Senate Majority leader, chuck schumer. You want as Many Democrats there as possible. It is about the math. We learned just yesterday that the democratic senator from michigan has covid and announced she would be out for a few days. Something like that, these real world circumstances, start to interfere with the vote matrix on the hill especially as you try to fund the government as we get right down to the post here at 11 59 p. M. Thinking of her family and children. Terrible loss for them. Chad, stand by. Thats what you get in a 50 50 senate. First reaction from members of congress. The first is from a republican. Marco rubio writes this. Senator feinstein was a political pioneer. Intelligent. Hard working, treated everyone with courtesy and respect. May god grant her eternal rest. If you follow marco rubio on twitter every morning he sends out a passage from the bible and his last line there would go right to that point. Peter doocy joins us live from the white house. What is the initial reaction, if any, from there today, peter . Nothing yet, bill. We believe President Biden is still in the residence here at the white house but 25 minutes from now he is supposed to load up in the motorcade to give remarks next hour in arelington, virginia at the chairman of the joint chiefs mark milleys retirement ceremony. We would expect the flag on top of the white house to be lowered any minute now. It happens pretty quickly. President biden has been in washington, d. C. As well worked alongside Dianne Feinstein for a long time when he was in the senate. I went back when she announced that she was not going to run for reelection in february, he released a long statement. A lot of accolades. At the end he wrote over the three decades ive known her diane and her late husband, richard, became dear friends to jill and me. I have served with more u. S. Senators than just about anyone. I can honestly say that Dianne Feinstein is one of the very best. I look forward to continuing to work with her as she serves out her term. That sadly is not going to happen but we expect a lot more reaction from President Biden either as he gets into the motorcade or steps up to the microphone next hour. Bill. While you are there have you heard anything about whether the president is going to delay his plans this morning . Or make some remarks at the white house . No, we havent heard anything. We would expect he will keep to his schedule because it is not his event that he has at 10 30. Chairman of the joint chiefs over at Handerson Hall across the potomac. It wont be long until there is an opportunity for him to speak about this. Thank you, peter. Expect he will make remarks there. Bill another statement from another republican Thom Tillis Out of north carolina. He writes Senator Feinstein was a trailblazer, lived an incredible life dedicated to public service. One of the most effective legislators in recent memory because of her willingness to work across the aisle in good faith in order to solve complex problems. It was an honor to serve with her, susan and i extend our deepest condolences and prayers to her family and staff during this difficult time in a can tankerous see that is quite a statement. Always working in faith to solve complex problems. Brit hume joins us by telephone. How does sthe rank . She was a trailblazer, as many have said. She was a democrat through and through but she was not a particularly partisan actor. And she was a gracious woman and wellliked as you heard from other tributes on both sides of the aisle. And it was very sad that toward the end she had obviously deteriorated mentally and was painfully obviously senile. But there was a tendency to forgive her on that score simply because people had liked her so much and she had been such a dignified and gracious figure for so long in the u. S. Senate. There is a lot of reporting when you talk about her having some mental challenges toward the end of her life, that her staff was heavily advising votes and things like this. She had very clear positions on things. Did that at all seem to be out of step with her whole career and her Voting Record that she had amassed over so many years . I think so. I think it was she had been in had her full faculties, cases where staff were sitting next to her and telling her what to say, how to vote, what to do and all the rest of it. And she, i think, you know, she clearly was not herself as weve known her. She hung on for a long time and, of course, this situation with staffs is something to behold, because the reason they work for senators, these many of these Staff Members in the house and senate is to exercise what political power they are able to as assistants. When the Assistant Job becomes the brains and the operation, thats not how things are supposed to be. I know had she be her full self she would have not appreciated that. Bill if Memory Serves were you covering congress in 1992 when she was elected . I was covering the white house in 1992. Bill so bill clinton is elected and she comes in in the democratic wave. Yeah, 1992 i was covering the white house. Bill let me jog your memory. How significant was her election . Was it so . She had been the mayor of San Francisco and well regarded. So it was and while everybody likes to say that she was a trailblazer and i suppose she was, she was not an ardent feminist in the way that you might expect or think. She just seemed somebody naturally suited to take the job in the senate and she was. I well remember having lunch in the Senate Dining room some years back with ted cruz trying to figure out why i had been so critical of him. And she was there having lunch with a soviet ambassador. He told her something she thought was positive for some Disarmament Proposal or whatever it was but progress toward something the United States was interested in doing at the time. I wish i could remember exactly what it was but i cant. She came over afterwards and we spoke and ted cruz was a very partisan figure. I was intrigued to see how she would sort of act toward him. She was characteristically gracious and friendly in the way that she was and i thought well thats Dianne Feinstein and how she is. Bill thank you for your reflections today. Thank you. Bill dick durbin, senator from illinois, democrat writes this. She was my friend and seat mate on the Senate Judiciary committee for more than 20 years. Always a lady but never backed down from a cause she thought was right. She has written a great record in areas like the Assault Weapons ban, violence against women and so many other areas. Weve lost one of the real leaders in the senate end quote from dick durbin that shows through the statement how many issues she has been involved in during her career. Critical ones, too. We can expect a lot more from her colleagues after they dropped flowers on her desk this morning. Lets go to William La Jeunesse in los angeles. You have been reporting on the Potential Path for a successor here. What is happening in l. A. This morning . Well obviously it will come out. We want to talk about moving forward, right . It was two years ago during the recall election Governor Newsom promised to appoint a black woman to fill that seat if necessary. Recently on Meet The Press he said if we have to do an interim appointment well do it. It was because after senator Kamala Harris left as Vice President there is no black woman in the u. S. Senate. The problem is the most prominent person is already running for that senate seat, democratic congresswoman barbara lee. Appointing her now would be seen as meddling. Two others announced. The governor is under no statutory deadline to replace her. History suggests he will probably act quickly. Democrats need that vote in the senate. One thing we do know is whoever her replacement is will be a lot more liberal. Lets go through the three candidates likely to replace Senator Feinstein. Katie porter from iowa, currently serving in the house. She is seen as a very progressive individual kind of a protege of senator elizabeth warren. She is kind of a prolific fundraiser. A harvard educated attorney. Another member of congress and harvard attorney is adam schiff, former federal prosecutor elected to the senate leading the Impeachment Effort against President Trump. Finally, 76yearold barbara lee was elected to congress in 1998 and reelected by wide margins ever since. Right now in polls, right now adam schiff is leading by 20 , katie porter 17 , barbara lee at 7 . Under californias top two primary regardless of party will advance. The republican is a nonstarter in this election. So the question is, thoughts were that Governor Newsom might put in a place holder like an Arnold Schwarzenegger or jerry brown. On Meet The Press he said he will appoint a black woman. Thats where we are right now. Back to you. There have been so many concerns about her health, william, feinstein stepped down as the top democrat on Judiciary Panel after the 2020 elections just as democrats were about to take majority and in 2023 she said she would not serve as the Senate President protem. She was on the Judiciary Committee with the news about Senator Menendez stepping down from his chairmanship of that committee. That puts that committee in even greater of a spotlight. Im sure it does. Im sure its up to the chairman who decide who goes into that location in congress. I would doubt the replacement would automatically receive that seat. You know more about that than i do. Well check back with you. Senator menendezs democratic colleagues are calling for him to step down. He had a closed door meeting yesterday saying he is not going to do that. He will fight this. Byron york, Fox News Contributor by telephone. Byron coming onto the conversation. Your top line reflection on Senator Feinstein first off. Well, the top line is on top of all the things she accomplished over these many years, i do think the last year or so of her life has really started and contributed to a conversation were having in washington about aging lawmakers and president. More concern with a number of high officials over 80 years old. We have had situations in the past where senators long overstayed their time, senator Strom Thurmond ran for reelection at age 94 and won and served until he was 100 years old. But he was unable to function at that point. I think you cant impose an age limit for senators. It is not in the constitution. But there is really a conversation now about how long a lawmaker should serve and still be able to effectively serve his or her constituents. Bill on that point Chuck Grassley is 90 and hasnt slowed down. This is an individual thing. Chuck grassley for any Senate Reelection he has all 99 counties in the state of iowa. Senator feinstein, Senator Grassley says, did an outstanding job representing the people of california. I worked closely with her as a member of the drug caucus and Judiciary Committee. She was ranking democrat. We had a wonderful working relationship. A true Public Servant and i will miss her. Grassley is one of just two senators currently in office who have served longer than ms. Feinstein. The other is mitch mcconnell. The problem with the grassley situation is that the senate term is six years. So the voters of iowa were making a bet not only on the abilities of Charles Grassley today at age 90 but Charles Grassley six years from now at age 96. And that can change. I think most people would say that 96 years old is too old to be in a top, important job in the u. S. Government. That is what the conversation is about. And we have had nikki haley talking about having competence tests for all sorts of people who are in the government over age 75. Not sure that will fly but there are going to be ideas about this because people have been concerned. Those concerns are just going to increase as it becomes an issue in the president ial election next year. It has already become an issue in the president ial election and one of the reasons you see polling showing 3 4 of folks think President Biden might be too old for another term. He would be 86 at the end of a second term. Turning 81 this november. So we have a lot of people who lived long careers serving Public Office and sadly losing one today. Bill byron york. Our coverage continues. Want to bring in Transportation SecretaryPete Buttigieg for the first i guess we could say administrations reaction. Thank you for your time today. We brought you on to talk about other things. This is the news of the moment before we turn to other topics. And your thoughts on the passing of Senator Feinstein first. You know, senator Dianne Feinstein was a formidable leader, somebody whose contributions going back to when she was in local government and then, of course, making history as a path breaking senator. First woman elected from california and somebody who shaped so much of the important legislation of the last many decades. I got to know her when i was running for president. She reached out with ideas and advice reaching back through her experience having been a mayor and the National Stage and got to work with her in this job as Secretary Of Transportation when issues came up affecting california. Just a great loss for the senate and for the country but somebody who left such a remarkable legacy. Came into office in upheaval. The assassination of the mayor of San Francisco. Drew the Community Together and responded to it and increasingly became not just a local leader and a california leader but a national leader. She presence is going to be deeply missed. Bill were an hour into this story. A lot of reaction to her life and her passing and well wait to hear word on services when they take place to commemorate and to honor her life soon. I want to turn to other topics because she leaves behind a congress that you know is razor thin. These are 50 50 margins and now there is the threat of a Government Shutdown in two days time. Were often told the sky is going to fall if this happens. What is your view on this now knowing that republicans in the house did pass three bills last night . This going to happen . Look, it shouldnt happen. We should not have a shutdown. Speaker mccarthy and House Republicans should figure out a way to come together, fund the government, get it done. The senate has a tight margin. They have been working in a bipartisan basis to do their side. They are ready to go. Administration is ready to go. It will come down to House Republicans. In terms of what happens next, the sky may not fall but it will get more chaotic. Just a matter of time before the chaos in Congress Leads to chaos at airports. Let me be clear ire Traffic Controllers will keep going to work and doing their job. But they will stop getting paid. Think about the stress that you are putting on the backs of air Traffic Controllers, tsa officers and others. There are other important functions that will stop. For example, one issue weve had built up over the years and weve been tackling it is Staffing Shortages in air Traffic Control. Were training new air Traffic Controllers and getting them on position. It has a direct impact in terms of the fluidity and on time performance of our system. That work stops immediately. You would have people in training at the air Traffic Control academy in Oklahoma City being sent home in a matter of days. I just came out of another meeting in the department on how were preparing for a shutdown, faa officials told me if they miss a day of training because of the complexity of the training it sets them back by a week. If we lose a weeklong shutdown could set us down by a month. A shut down by a month it would set us back in a year to get the urgent staffing positions. Bill were talking about training and no air Traffic Controls will leave the job. Their pay would be docked but they would get back pay eventually. Here is my point. Deadlines. They are a lot of employees who might not get back pay. The authorization lapse. Bill deadlines tend to focus the mind, would you agree . Yeah. The reason they focus is mind is you rally to actually hit that deadline. We hope and expect that House Republicans will do that. But at this point we have responsibility to prepare for what happens if they fail to do that. If Kevin Mccarthy cant deliver on the deal that he made with President Biden earlier this year and were inside of 48 hours on his ability to keep that promise, then we have a real problem across the Country Disruptions that will again mount each day that lapse continues. Set us back in important work were doing. Right now i know that sometimes federal workers get portrayed as pushing paper and the work they do doesnt matter. Some of the people pulled out the job is the developing that you could get compensated for you being delayed for hours and their fault. This is stuff that matters to people and why we have the policies and these departments in the first place. Shutting them down not to mention letting Service Members go without pay is unacceptable. Bill democrats put the focus on House Republicans but this from a week and a half ago abc washington post. Majority say they would blame the shutdown on President Biden and democrats. So you have that in the mix now, mr. Secretary. I dont think thats true but its not our focus. We arent following the polling or focused on blame game. Urging House Republicans to get the job done. The senate is ready to go. The president is ready to go. The irony of all this, this was supposed to have been solved by the deal that Speaker Mccarthy and the president of the United States made earlier this year. By the way it wasnt an easy deal for any side to accept. It meant cuts to transportation. Republicans demanded cuts to funds i was hoping to use to build more roads and bridges and airports. We all came together and agreed that was the deal. They shook hands and now the question is with less than 48 hours to go, can they actually deliver or will we wake up on Sunday Morning and Service Members arent getting paid, air Traffic Controllers with a stressful job have to show up to the stressful job of not knowing when their next paycheck. Critical work including modernization. The Computer System that went out in january. We had an i. T. System in faa that went out. It going out for less than a few hours threw the entire system in havoc all day. We would have to stop the work on modernizing this system. Bill quickly two more topics. Our time is tight. We watched republicans go at it in california two nights ago and the economy and inflation. They were top of the line stories for that debate. This is what we find about President Bidens Disapproval Rating overall at 56 . You saw the numbers from last sunday in the abc and nbc poll. 44 say the family is not as well off. That must be a major headwind for him and democrats in washington. How do you see it . Look, we know what were still up against economically. There are still real head winds. We also see progress. 13 million jobs created under this president. The most of any president ial term in American History. Manufacturing has gone from a manufacturing recession that we had under the last president to Manufacturing Boom Factor east going up all over the country including the Industrial Midwest where i come from. Weve seen enormous progress. Nobody thinks the work is done and sit back and say no problem anymore. Thats one more reason why we think it is so important a shutdown be prevented. Whatever that does to the economy isnt good. Look, we have to continue the work that were doing every day with a Focus On Making Americans better off. Making their finances better off and why the president pushed so hard to get 35 cap on insulin. He was able to get that for seniors. Would have got it for everybody. He was at least able to get it for seniors and well push to get it to everybody. Other measures to make sure we keep costs under control. Bill an auto strike that knows no signs of being solved. It will move into a second week. Donald trump was in michigan on wednesday night. He was saying you have to hold firm otherwise china will have all your jobs in a matter of two years time. Inflation reduction act provided so much money for green energy. Did the administration sell out the union jobs in order to build electric cars in america . The opposite is true. We want to make sure that the electric cars, new technologies are built in america just like the old technologies. If a new technology is coming, which it is with e. V. S and china has built an advantage which President Trump allowed to happen because he didnt do much to promote American Made and union made e. V. S. Now were in a situation where you cant just trap people in the Old Technology. Im sorry, the idea that america will compete and win in the 21st century by clinging to 20th Century Technology is a wrist epi for the jobs to disappear. I grew up in the Industrial Midwest surrounded by the literal carcasses of the factories of companies that couldnt innovate fast enough. Sometimes when im hearing this dialogue and this debate, last week testifying in Congress Hearing a lot about e. V. S i feel like it is 2005 and i am meeting people from the rotary phone society. This new technology is here. The question is whether it will be built in america and largely by Union Workers or china. Clinging to the Old Technology is not a recipe for success. Uaw agrees. They arent saying we have to somehow trap people in using the Old Technology and old cars forever. They are saying its the dawn of a new chapter in the auto industry. Electric vehicles are the future and want to make sure they get good benefits making them. Bill some of the new e. V. Factories are in nonunion states. Thats a imagine or concern of people in the upper midwest. You grew up in indiana, i grew up in ohio. I know how many jobs and how Many Industries are reliant on the auto industry. We find out whether or not the strike works out for them or not. Tuesday marks eight months since the disaster in northeastern ohio in east palestinian. You are on the record as saying you arrived too late there. The white house is saying the president will go there. It hasnt happened. Can you tell us when the president will make that visit for the people who continue to struggle in east palestinian . Im glad you asked that east palestinian. I dont have any Scheduling News to make. The House Republican demands for budget cuts they are threatening a shutdown over include cutting Railroad Safety inspections as if we learned nothing from east palestinian. Some of the same republican congressman who couldnt wait to get on television to make a partisan issue out of the pain of the people in east palestinian are now not on the record supporting a Railway Safety act, one of the many things that is sitting in congress right now that should get a lot more of their time and attention than a made up Impeachment Inquiry. This is a serious issue that deserves serious work. House republicans should cut their demands and get to work on a bipartisan Railway Safety act to help us make americas railroads safer. I just want to put a fine point at this. You arent saying when the president will go. I dont have Scheduling News to make. The policy news is that there is a Railway Safety act right now in congress and some of the very same political figures who tried to score partisan points off the pain of the people of east palestinian wont even go on the record whether they are for or against it. Bill to be fair to them, they went to the town. They met with the people. No. A lot of these people went on fox news. Didnt go to east palestinian like i did. Went on fox news to use the people of east palestinian and now find out whether theyre serious. Either bill j. D. Vance and they are doing great work. I was there, too. Our department was there within hours. But a lot of these people who trying to politicize it. Sherrod brown and j. D. Vance advanced legislation that is just sitting there especially on the house side. The idea that republican member of the house has time to go down to a Committee Room and launch an Impeachment Inquiry over they cant say what it is over, they are hoping if they keep inquiring they will find something and dont have time to move the Railway Safety act forward tells you how screwed up the priorities are on capitol hill right now. Bill for those who need help will there be a Public Health emergency to help them live healthy lives. The president s Executive Order made sure they got the Emergency Support. The same e. P. A. That House Republicans are threatening to shut down the government, they are holding Norfolk Suffolk accountable for the mess they made. We are there for fer the first hours of the situation and a lot of support for the people of east palestinian. The people i met on the ground, part of what i hear is that they want to they dont want to be defined by this. They also dont want to be forgotten. Bill but my question is about a Public Health emergency. If you declare that, the People Living there would receive benefits that they otherwise may not. Last point on that. Again, the president s Executive Order qualifies that region for specific Emergency Support and from a Transportation Perspective we are focused on making sure it cant happen again which is why House Republicans demands to cut Railroad Inspections would move us in the exact wrong direction. Bill thank you for your time. I hope you come back. A lot of issues out there, as you well know. Pete buttigieg, Transportation Secretary in washington, d. C. Moving on to other stories. A billionaire at the border elon musk visiting eagle pass, texas as that town has become the center of the migrant crisis. The tesla ceo and congressman Tony Gonzalez witnessed a disturbing trend. What were seeing here are in some cases some pretty extreme individuals coming through. It means they have murdered someone and so proud of having murdered someone they tattoo one t on their face for every person they kill, is that correct . Thats right. This person claimed asylum and we let them in. We let them in. Casey stiegel is reporting live from eagle pass on the story. Jacque, good morning. Before we get to the elon musk visit we want to set the stage and show you what is happening live as we speak. We have seen several groups of migrants already making the illegal trek across the southern border. Lets get right to the Fox Flight Team drone. You see that group of about half a dozen migrants or so, two dozen migrants on the banks of the Rio Grande River on the u. S. Side and then they will go right through that razor wire as we have been showing you for the last couple of weeks. Before the sun even came out we saw more migrants, a group of 100 or so that crossed and lined up and as we have also been showing you for weeks, they are directed by Border Patrol underneath this bridge which has now become a temporary Processing Center and also the exact spot where elon musk visited yesterday late afternoon, early evening accompanied by congressman Tony Gonzalez. Waving to people across the river in mexico. Livestreaming much of the event he spoke of being an immigrant himself saying she should let anyone in who is hard working and honest and will contribute to the u. S. Then in the same breath mentioned this caveat. Should have expedited legal approval for anyone who falls into that category but by the same token we should also not be allowing people in the country if they are breaking the law. That doesnt make sense. The law is there for a reason. Cbp sources telling us in the last 24 hours, they have encountered yet another 10,000 migrants across the entire southern border, 2,000 of those here at the epicenter in eagle pass where some 5,000 are already in custody. Thats about 400 over capacity. The numbers are staggering. Earlier in week cbp said 50,000 in the last five days. The numbers just are not trending in the right direction. Up, up, up. Thank you. Bill. Bill we have breaking news. A fourth person has now been charged in an awful story out of new york city. New york city. Were not a startup, but our Innovation Labs use new technologies to help keep your information secure. Were not architects, but we help build stronger communities. Were not just any bank. We are citi. This is american infrastructure. Megawatts of power, rails and open road, and essential services of every kind. All running on countless invisible networks, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. 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A Second Fentanyl Mill was found blocks away from that Daycare Center in the bronx here in new york. Agents say they seized 40 pounds of fentanyl. The suspect was using the citys subway to transport it in broad daylight. Bridge it brennan, new york city prosecutor is back with us and in person. What can you add to this story . Twisted. It is unbelievably brazen and bold and callous. This Drug Mill Operation was running just six blocks away from where that poor child died not so long ago with the city still grieving and concerned about that. And at the same time, our investigators identified this individual, who was arrested and arraigned just yesterday, and they knew that he they believed he was involved in highlevel drug trafficking. They set up outside this location in the bronx as i say six blocks away from the Daycare Center. Saw him approach with a bag. They knew from tracking him that he had been on the subway, that he had left earlier that day with a package, came back, had the bag, they asked for i. D. He gave them an i. D. And fled leaving the bag behind. Inside the bag, 13 kilograms of fentanyl, heroin, is what we believe it to be. It was pulled through the subway, broad daylight during rush hour in new york city right after this terrible tragedy had happened, right in that vicinity. It is really heartbreaking. Jacque i want to play sound from the health commissioner. Enough drugs to kill 8 Million People. This is some advice being thrown out. Listen to this. We have defibrillators behind every bar in every business and every public event. Increasingly we have epipens in public centers. Narcan has to be everywhere. Jacque when you have enough drugs to kill 8 Million People it doesnt matter if everyone has narcan in their pocket. He has his job to do, to look at it from the medical perspective from the health perspective. Harm reduction suggestions and we have our job to do, which is trying to cut off the supply of these drugs. Trying to prevent these drugs from harming people, innocent children, innocent civilians and from reaching people who may be addicted to them and my die from them. Thats our job. Bill that suspect that went to mexico, did he fly to mexico or did he cross the border physically . You are talking about the suspect in the other case . No, thats not our investigation. Bill well look into that ourselves. In new york the wall street journal. Wallet key, cell phone, narcan. New york city tells citizen to get equipped with overdose medication. Something has gone wrong. Ordinary people should be able to depend on the government to protect public spaces. Reaction on that. I believe the public should be able to rely on the government and were doing as much as we can to achieve that. It is a daunting problem. I have never seen anything like it, the amount of fentanyl, never. Bill were you here during the Crack Epidemic . I was. In is worse than the Crack Epidemic in terms of the volume of the drug and how deadly the drug is. Now crack was associated with violence in a way that fentanyl is not. So we had very high spiking Homicide Rates during the Crack Epidemic. We see very high spiking Overdose Rates now. But we dont see the same level of Street Violence that we saw in the crack era. This is real advice that everyone starts carrying narcan. Do people need training to administer it . They need training. The Health Department does provide training. People think it is an injection. It is not. It is something you apply to somebodys nostrils. Bill thank you for coming in. Jacque heavy rain causing major flooding in new york city. Flash flood warnings in effect. Live report in just moments. Or Ulcerative Colitis symptoms are stopping you in your tracks. Choose stelara® from the start. And move toward relief after the first dose. 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