were traveling in. bill: they pulled the u.s. citizens from the wreckage of the vehicle and toss them to a truck bed and haven t been seen since. dana: they were driving a white minivan with north carolina plates. you can see it is riddled with bullet holes. the group is said to be in mexico. one could have cosmetic surgery. they believe cartel members have mistaken them for drug smugglers. dana: the white house is working with mexico to bring them home. according to bill barr, it s the cartels that call the shots. mexican government is being held hostage by tens of thousands of parra military members of terrorist organizations that control mexico. it is close to a failed narco state at this stage. they are sitting next door producing mountains of poisonous drugs and killing over 100,000 americans a year. we are sustaining the same damage as we would in a major war from these groups operating right beyond our reach. bill: william la jeunesse from los angeles has t
minutes we expected the state department will give an update. and on capitol hill republican submitters will give their first response to president biden s pitch to save medicare by raising taxes. all of that coming up this hour. plus . we bought the elites! we ignored the chatter. we did it our way. the florida way. we won t back down, and i can promise you this. you ain t seen nothing yet. speak to governor ron desantis has his critical rivals on notice there is a whole lot more his team says where that came from the governor gave his state of the state address, spring training swings into florida, baseball lovers but washington post columnist has a major problem with that he is now calling on them to take a stand against ron desantis attack on diversity. the governor s team responded, we will have that coming up with will cain. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into our two in this busy tuesday i m john roberts good afternoon. gillian: good to be with
the community in smoke and forced families to evacuate. bill: fears of an explosion had crews conducting a controlled burn of toxic chemicals. officials gave folks the okay to return home. dana: the governor insists it is safe to breathe the air and drink the water but people who live there say it feels anything but safe and voiced their concerns last night. [inaudible]. i don t know what to do other than to provide you assurance for don t lie. i understand. we re doing all that can be done to look for the source of potential bill: representatives from norfolk southern, the company that operates the train that went through town in early february. they were scheduled to be there last night but they pulled out at the last minute we re told citing fears that residents could become violent toward the company. dana: it made people angry that they said that about them when they just wanted to ask questions. pete buttigieg was not there. they re wondering why he is
the hour. growing pressure on president biden to finally speak out about the chinese spy flight and three other objects shot down from the skies over north america. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for the president to be more transparent about the decision to shoot down the objects and the growing threat from china. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. how are we doing? dana: fast hour. bill: i m bill hemmer. president biden so far keeping silent about the airborne objects shot down over the weekend. that was last weekend as lawmakers demand answers. the white house now considering plans for biden to give a speech on the topic before heading to poland on monday. secretary of state antony blinken will have a possible opportunity to meet with china s top diplomat later this week in germany. his first chance to de-escalate the tension face-to-face. mike pompeo saying it is time for the biden administration to
tracks and crashed and fire from it burned for days, releasing those killer chemicals into the air. norfolk southern train corporation and the transportation secretary pete buttigieg failed to show up. the city s mayor says buttigieg is missing in action. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. new problems we re hearing from people that we ve been interviewing in focus. they waited too long to evacuate people and let them go home too quickly knowing how bad it was. now thousands of people are living in fear. i mean even the governor says he is going to drink bottled water. problems are building. people are having trouble breathing. their pets are dying. thousands of dead fish in the local streams. still transportation secretary pete buttigieg seems to have lost his ability to speak on this disaster. the community wants to know where is pete? emotions running high at the so-called informational open house. they re telling us that everything is fine. we re