what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
long running mystery. who killed the veterinarian? i think the perpetrator stood there and watch him die. there were so many different leads and murmurs. i felt like it wasn t for me. jealousy? rage? revenge? it was a question of who done it. could anyone solve it? look at what it s done to our family. it was hard. i wanted justice for my brother. there was a broad swath of prairie. where the cattle outnumbered the people. and the sad summer breeze sang around the modest dwelling in the grass. this is marlene they called it the bunk house. though it was really just a single wide trailer. my husband just went down. richard. to see if he wanted to go to pasture. an honest little place out on the montana prairie. along the edges. do you know where he shot himself? okay. is he still alive? there s blood everywhere. i place a young vet could achieve while he built his business. we ll, if you can have somebody go check and see if he s s
found the body of the mother behind a vacant apartment. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. the suspect had violent history of rape, assault and kidnapping dating back to the time he was 11 years old. cleotha abston only 16 when he began a 20-year prison term. let s turn to brooke singman with the latest. brooke: police have confirmed the body found is the body of eliza fletcher. the memphis police department and law enforcement discovered remains of a body, forensic investigation positively identified the body was in fact eliza fletcher. carley: s fletcher s body was located seven miles from where she was kidnapped and a mile away from an apartment complex where cleotha abston was seen cleaning the floors of his suv. her family says they are heartbroken and devastated and grateful to federal law enforcement for tireless efforts to find her and bring justice to the person responsible for this horrible crime. cleotha abston is charged with first-degree murder, agg
there on the 4th of july as well. hello and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith. and look who is here. nice to see you. john has some time off, i m bill hemmer. this is america reports and good afternoon to you at home. we expect police to provide new details on the alleged plot very soon. richmond about two hours south of washington, d.c. sandra: we find our own mike emmanuel, live with us. we know in about an hour richmond police chief smith is going to brief reporters here in richmond on a plot, a tip they received related to a proposed mass shooting event in richmond on the 4th of july. we know arrests were made, weapons were seized, and beyond that law enforcement has been pretty tight lipped at this point. there was some violence over the holiday weekend in richmond, virginia as there was in many american cities, but it sounds like it could have been a whole lot worse. plans for a mass casualty attack around our national holiday and at this point it sounds li