Bret i want to hear marthas one more thing. Should we stay . Martha 104 years old and took her walk tore this little airport and jumped out of an airplane. You would really like this story, you but, you know. Bret that was my kicker. Thanks a lot. Martha you are welcome. Bret see you. Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. We begin tonight with a stunning reversal from President Biden in his immigration policy. The president has approved the cop be destruction of about 20 miles of new border wall in south texas. This comes African Democrat Biden pledged that not another foot of wall would be built during his administration. And, again today, he said he still does not believe a border wall is effective. So why is he doing it . White house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, peter. Peter bret, President Biden often talks about trusting his experts but that is not what is happening here because it appears that he is tak
Right now. Martha good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a huge 180 from the president. The white house is scrambling to spin this afternoon over the move to do exactly what they said they wouldnt do, build a border wall on the southern border. Dhs says there is an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry. Completely contradicting. This from the president in the oval office a short time ago. Watch this. Border wall money was a pronated for the border while. I tried to get to redirect the money. They didnt. They wouldnt. Meantime, theres nothing under the law other than that they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the border wall no. Martha no. We have to untangle this. Moments ago, reporters went after Karine Jeanpierre. She said she hadnt seen the memo that was put out. The president is looking at the numbers and realizes something must be done. Watch this. Remember this . How is this cons
To riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on the way to work. We sure did and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed. More than 30 others injured and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter the fog is thick but behind me is where that huge tent is lying on the ground. Families say they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sending its metal poles cras
See the newborn in the onesie, so its kind of hard. Police tell me the babys mother 21yearold rasheeda center. The dad and four other family members were in the Apartment Building around 4 this morning. The 102nd precinct. Officers manned the door outside this Apartment Building, another remainder of what happened. The sentiment in this neighborhood, people are in disbelief. Theyre even disgusted. Neighbors wonder how with six people inside this home no one could have stopped what happened. Were live in queens, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have new information on a wrongway crash on the sawmill parkway. One of the drivers have been charged with dwi. Police say the 22yearold woman was drunk when she drove her car head on into traffic hitting another vehicle in chappaqua. The driver of that other vehicle is in critical condition. At this hour. The unidentified woman who was charged was not seriously hurt. The accident closed the lanes near grant avenue for several hours. New i
Ushering in big waves for long island. Exercise caution there. Buddy system for all of our beaches today. 83 at 3 00. About 84 for a high right where we should be. We are going to see some changes this week. Well talk more about that in a bit. Right now, though, right back to the desk. Our top story this morning, the state Health Inspectors will be back in the bronx looking for legionella bacteria in the cooling towers. Mayor de blasio said the outbreak has been contained but five more buildings tested positive yesterday. The number of cases is 108. There hasnt been a new case in five days but the risk still remains in the bronx. Ilana gold has more from the melrose section of the bronx. The bronx county hall of justice is one of the buildings that just tested positive for the bacteria. But it is possible even more can be affected. Teams from the Health Department will be back in this area testing dozens of buildings. Reporter state Health Inspectors have another tough jobs ahead of th