from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
and taiwan in high alert with four american. china set to respond with live fire military drills surrounding taiwan new video showing chinese tanks rolling on its coastline. beijing piling on with the threats and sing america will pay. we will respond and a response will be strong and forceful. nancy pelosi not backing away from this face-off with tran about the white house is refusing to take a firm stance of the trip. nothing has changed about our one china policy. the speaker has a right to travel. she is the speaker of the house. she is a member of the congress. members of congress of both parties have traveled to taiwan even just this year. it s an independent branch of government. we gave her advice and counsel in context and information obviously as is typical we are helping with their transformation. but this is a decision that only she can make and we support and respect that decision. republicans are calling out that the white house are showing weakness and
risk a rise in tensions between the u.s. and china. the death toll is rising from the devastating mckinney fire in northern california. at least two more people found dead inside their homes. the fire burning more than 56,000 acres, nearly 6,000 people under evacuation orders. also, rescuers struggling to reach flood victims in eastern kentucky. dozens of people still unaccounted for. thousands without power or water. the new danger, temperatures expected to climb into the 90s beginning tomorrow. news tonight about more missing text messages following the january 6th attack on the capitol. a watchdog group is accusing the pentagon of wiping text messages from cell phones belonging to top officials. the nfl suspending the owner of one of its top teams. what the league is accusing him of doing. the monkeypox outbreak spreads across the u.s. more than 6,300 cases now reported. a fifth child now tests positive. the windsor castle includer now charged with treason in t
President biden warns israel to not occupy gaza. Ready for a likely invasion. I am jon scott, this is special two hours of the fox report. It is 10 p. M. Here in new york. 5 00 a. M. In israel. Just hours ago president said in an interview, he is confident that israel will act under the rules of war in deploying u. S. Troops will not be necessary, this is as president is considering a trip to the war ravaged nation in the coming days. Nothing has been finalized. Since the wharf began the war began last week, officials from d Biden Administration have been jets to the middle east, the white house is pledging israel its unwaiverring support. The u. S. Is working with Palestinian Authority to support on going humanitarian efforts in gaza, pentagon officials stress that u. S. Military is only advising israel. President biden said he believes happ hamas must be eliminated there must also be a path for palestinian state. And urges emergencies to be on alert. Americans to be on alert, our cor
good evening team from new york. i m chris hayes, here for a special second hour of all in. president joe biden is navigating extremely tense difficult international crisis, in the war with israel and hamas enters its 12-day. they believe 340 hostages remain in hamas custody. from gaza rockets continue to fly, roughly 250,000 israelis have been evacuated in the areas near gaza, and israel s border with lebanon. nearly 1 million residents of gaza have been displaced or told to leave their homes. the israeli war on hamas has led to destruction across gaza, not just in the north. right now, the palestinian ministry of health estimates that more than 8500 people have been killed in gaza, including more than 3500 children. the palestinian ministry of health is controlled by hamas, but in the past, it s statistics about death during these sorts of conflicts have been broadly accurate. international child wealth organization save the children is now warning the [inaudible] just ch