billion. now the fate of his controversial program is in the hands of the supreme court and we could find out any moment how the court has ruled on this. we ll bring it to you as it happens. the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway van der sloot is on his way from peru to the u.s. facing federal charges he tried to extort holloway s mother on information where her daughter was buried. her body has never been found. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. joran van der sloot is in u.s. custody on a jet filled with f.b.i. agents heading for birmingham, alabama where he will remain in federal custody for the duration of the criminal proceedings held there and then returned back to peru to serve the remainder of a 28-year sentence for the murder of a 21-year-old woman in lima. dana: we spoke to the federal prosecutor who filed the u.s. charges against van der sloot is 2010. i ha
flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in
the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? reporter: we re hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and it s probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments that s likely to get us there. one of the things that s holding this up is people like senator lindsey graham who are unhappy about the way they see defense spending capped in the current bill. he s upset with his own party for negotiating this. here s what he had to say about this. watch. i blame myself for not being more involved and more active because in my wildest dreams, i never believed that the republican party would take the biden budget that they ve attacked for a year and celebrate it as fully funding. reporter: and look, graham is not the onl
i didn t have to do anything. i just missed you, it was scary for all of us. thank you. we are glad you are back, we are glad that the child is okay. she is good! and we are glad that indication is now over. i am back. we are happy. thank you to you, chris, and thank you to all of you at home for joining us. this hour. it is a rare moment when reasonable people are in agreement with my fellow ceo mike lindell, the prominent election conspiracist. but that is where we are. kevin mccarthy and the gang released 44,000 hours from january 6th to exclusively fox news. well, we are not going to sit back and let that happen. why have all the fights that we got, why would you pick ongoing on going and telling mccarthy he can t be with tucker? well, because fox, number one, fox is going to sift through it and only put it what they want. you heard that correctly. my pillow ceo and election denier mike lindell is furious that speaker of the house kevin mccarthy for gi