that hearing is young way right now in texas. the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing on protecting the southern border. democrats were supposed to be there before they backed out suddenly earlier this week. the hearing comes after more than 1,000 migrants rushed across the texas bridge and smugglers are going to new depths to hide things in plants even as they try to evade the border. we ll have the latest from the border coming up. sandra: from the hearing as well. we begin with this fox news alert as the stock market right now in the u.s. has fallen to its lows of the session over growing fears on whether the president can meet the moment to protect the u.s. economy. big questions are looming at this hour. we will dig into it. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. john, good to be you. john: always something. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. credit suisse their shares heading to an all time low, trading te
russian fighter jet crashed into an american drone forcing the military to ditch it in the black sea. john: it marks the first direct encounter between the two countries since putin s war began a year ago. a whole lot of questions that demand answer as america reports rolls into its second hour. i m john roberts in washington. here we go again. sandra: john, here we go again. lot of live events expected this hour. we ll be watching for them. we re gonna bring you that news conference live right away. attorney general kellogg is standing by. he said he is fired up. he will be here to react to what we hear from that news conference. first this fox news alert. john: massive selloff continuing on wall street as investors get more skit tisch about the banking industry. painful inflation showing no signs of letting up. there could be more trouble for the banking industry on the way. right now fear is growing that switzerland s second largest bank, credit suisse, could be on t
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its transpo
german chancellor lived in the shadows of hitler s regime, referred as god s rottweiler. years caused him to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world with zero carbon footprint. putting solar panels on its rooftops and bringing in electric mobiles including a popemobile. he was the pope when sex scandals came to light and he spearheaded towards a zero tolerance policy. it was too little too late for some but cardinal ratzinger who ordered the response to the scandal including a special downstairs handle cases extending and in some cases eliminating the statute of limitations for victims and as pope apologizing. i am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured. and i assure them as their pastor i do share in their suffering. reporter: one of his first acts after being elected pope was to condemn a popular church figure for sex abuse. something that had not happened sooner because of masseyal s w
it s december 31st. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. good morning. good to be with you. i m amara walker. thank you for spending part of this final day of 2022 with us. we re following breaking news. pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. his health had been faming prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the first time in modern history, pope benedict resigned, which paved the way for pope francis to take control of the catholic church. cnn cnn s deana gallagher has more. a german childhood, he lived in the shadows of hitler s nazi regime, he was referred to as god s rottweiler. years caused accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world to go with a zero carbon footprint and bringing in electric vehicles including a hybrid popemobile. he was cardinal and pope dur the year whence the catholic church sex scandals came to light. it was too little too late for some, but it wa