room where john kirby is set to headline that briefing just moments from now. john: the big question, what will he have to say today about beijing setting up a spy base in america s back yard. kirby now admitting what the national security spokesperson said just days ago that china has a spy base in cuba, yes, it s real. sandra: biden administration they have ports on both sides of the panama canal already that can restrict that shipping. they have a space monitoring station in the mountains of argentina, to track our satellites, buying up farmland left and right. john: congressman mike waltz sounding the alarm about the chinese spy base in cuba about 100 miles from u.s. soil. that on top of several other ways china is trying to steal our nation s top-secret. sandra: ukraine s counteroffensive against russia is well underway. the test to see if billions of american dollars to the country is put to good use but it s happening as putin cozy up to russia, and iran sa
forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today bla
close calls. a chinese warship crossed in front of an american destroyer. in the taiwan strait. it won t be long before somebody gets hurt. new fighting around the eastern city of bakhmut and russia is claiming to have repelled a large ukrainian attack in the eastern part of the country. norah: apple s big product announcement and vision for the future. all the new details including the big price tag. this is a day that s been years in the making. bye, love you. norah: child care in america. what can be done to bring down the rising cost of child care? i was struggling to pay everything else. rose zhang is here and she is here to stay in her first start as a professional. she wins the mizuho americas open. this is just amazing. hope you guys enjoy the show. [laughter] norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. we begin tonight with the sonic boom that shook the ground and frightened res
and raising concerns about his age and ability to endure a grueling election cycle. we will watch the news conference live and dig in. fog, the smell, the smog, it s it s like out of like a disaster movie or something. yeah, it s really surreal. this is unbearable, and seems like apocalyptic. definitely have a headache, it s pretty hazy out here and my eyes are burning a little bit. john: people living in the northeast reacting to surreal scenes of smoke-filled cities as smog from raging canadian wildfires drifts to the united states leaving more than 100 million americans under air quality alerts, and the hazy conditions could be sticking around into the weekend. john roberts in washington, and good smoky thursday afternoon to you as well. aishah: coughing here and there. this is america reports, thanks for watching. time lapse video showing how the new york city skyline changed over the span of a few hours yesterday, the skies turning the orange-tinted color
big weekend for peter this weekend coming up. sandra: indeed. i just decided i needed to be here on a friday morning to make it a good weekend. good to be with you. good hour coming up. i m sandra smith. president trump is calling the indictment election interference at the highest level. republicans on the senate judiciary committee are warning the charges raise serious conflict of interest interests for attorney general merrick garland. meantime president biden dismissing these claims that he was paid $5 million in a bribery scheme when he was vice president. bill: here is the new york post summing up today with the headline hail to the thiefs. nancy mace telling us she saw the document from the f.b.i. which contains what some believe is a bribery claim. she thinks, after reading it, it does not look good for president biden. it was very credible and legitimate. i would not brush it off like the f.b.i. has. and it corroborates other information that we ve seen in ot