being controlled by the cartels and smuggling drugs. the family of bruce willis revealing he has been diagnosed with ftd, a form of dementia. his condition has gotten first. but first this. president biden: make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. bill: president biden finally breaking his silence. we ve been waiting for ten days on those aerial objects shot down by the military. says the last three do not appear to be connected to beijing or any foreign surveillance campaign. meanwhile a hobby club out of northern illinois fears its silver coated party-style balloon may have been shot down by a side winder missile over canada. the missile costs a lot of money. the balloon not so much. sandra: estimated cost $12 of the balloon. bill: the missile upwards of $4 hundred grand. dana has the day off. welcome, i m bill hemmer. sandra, welcome back to you. sandra: i m sandra smith. president bid
country as police investigate what may have motivated these murders. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes have been rising sharply since the pandemic hit. let s get the latest from ryan young live this morning in atlanta. good morning. good morning. eight people killed. that s a number that so many people are astonished by. we know police were able to use surveillance video which tied all these scenes together. it s an investigation that still is ongoing. a shooting rampage at three spas in the atlanta metro area tuesday leaving eight people dead and one wounded. police apprehending one suspect. 21-year-old robert aaron long of woodstock, georgia. video evidence suggests it s extremely likely the same person is responsible for all three shootings. georgia state patrol troopers performed a pit maneuver which caused the vehicle to spin out of control. he was taken into custody without incident. reporter: the first shooting took place outside of atlanta at young s asian mass
democratic leader jeffries in his home district of laredo, texas. it will be a whirlwind visit. first meeting with federal, state and local leaders touring a cbp facility and finishing with a bird s eye view, aerial guide of the region. where close to 17,000 migrant encounters have been logged this fiscal year. the trip comes one day after republican house speaker kevin mccarthy and freshman gop representatives were at the arizona/mexico border. mccarthy dismissing claims that things are secure pointing to the steady flow of people and drugs coming across like this cache ceased this week. like this drug fentanyl. tomorrow there will be 300 more. that s equivalent of an airline crashing. if an airline crashed in america every single day, by the third day the entire nation would wake
and you have people that have been there for 60 days. in sweltering heat. sleeping on concrete floors. i was with women who have not showered for 15 days. and i asked the doctor at that cbp facility, did he think this was a public health violation? a human rights violation? and his response to me was that it was probably unsavory and unpleasant, but it was debatable as to whether or not it was a public health threat or a human rights violation. what i saw has haunted me. it is unconscionable. and it is broken. a new poll shows most americans, 74%, believes there is a crisis at the border. but they disagree along party lines on why. 63% of republicans think the
respectfully, the private contractors that are dealing with some of the are housing the immigrants that are coming through, that s not the cbp facility. oh, absolutely. the cbp facilities you re touring are the government ones where it does seem the most acute and worst humanitarian crisis are taking place. absolutely. that s one of the things the agents said to us as we went through. they said go see the hhs facilities. go find out where the children are, because they don t know. they are literally handed hundreds and thousands of people all at once, and the facility that we were even in, they said we can only really house, it s only built for 106. and it wasn t built to house children. right. they said look, we weren t trained to be social workers or medical care workers. we were not trained to deal with this situation. and that s the problem that we haven t actually dealt with the thing that created the crisis, which is this continuation of the separation policy that is