hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. we re following the breaking news out of morocco where more than a thousand people were killed after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck late friday. it was the strongest to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter was located in the high atlas mountains just southwes southwest. rescuers are struggling to access the areas after roads were damaged. hospitals were filling up, prompting patients to wait outside as hospital beds were moved onto the streets. more than 700 people are in critical condition. and with intense aftershocks expected in the area, officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i heard people screaming. everyone went out of their houses. the street is full of people and women screaming. that s what happened. even now people can t go back home because they re still afraid. toi want to bring in ben wedeman for more. the destruction is devastating. looking at some of t
good morning, everyone. it s the top of the hour. we re so glad you re with us. it s a busy morning on the global stage. global stage and domestic as well. it s crazy how much news is happening this first week of september. kids are back in school. the news is back. it is september 6th. secretary of state antony blinken is on the ground in ukraine. he will meet with president s zelenskyy. we will see the first televised hearing in the georgia election subversion case. after former trump and all 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty. what the judge decides could have a major impact on trump s very busy calendar. also mitch mcconnell will talk behind closed doors about his health with the senate republican conference after two freezing incidents in just two months. the capitol doctor says the senator shows no sign of stroke or seizure disorder. 200 law enforcement officers are searching for the etscaped murderer a week after he broke out of a prison near philadelphia. the
increasing the risk of infection. it points to the lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food, and aid, causing al shifa to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility . they also said they saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and were told more than 80 people were buried there. the who is now drawing up plans for a full evacuation of the hospital. the organization says they were able to spend one hour inside the hospital, gaza city s largest, in a mission co ordinated with the israel defense forces to ensure safe passage. it comes after hundreds of people left gaza city s main hospital, where the israeli military has been conducting raids this week. some medical staff claimed israeli forces ordered the evacuations, something the israeli military denies. meantime, a possible hostage release deal is being reported by us media. the washington post is reporting that israel, the united states and hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and chil
to let a half million people who are not american citizens stay within the united states. there are rules. we ll get into it. another aggressive election year action by biden on immigration after three years of biden doing nothing or potentially making things worse with his policies. i m harris faulkner and are you in the faulkner focus. border security and immigration are top concerns among voters. we know this. sometimes they ratchet to first place above the economy. we ve seen that. the most recent fox news issues tracker shows former president trump up by 18 points on the issue of immigration. president biden s announcement comes on the heels of his singular executive action earlier this month aimed at tightening our southern border it has not done that in my estimations and video and people you talk to at the border, it is making it worse. here is republican congresswoman kat cammack in focus from yesterday. in the wake of this biden executive order, it was really
if something like that happened during one of these extreme heat events, all of us in the air conditioning would stop, and we would have a massive, it would be a massive consequences. we would have what one infrastructure expert i talked to called a heat katrina, referring to hurricane katrina. it s clear that local state and federal aid programs need to do more to mitigate heat related risks. what are some things that can be done in a short term? well, there s a whole range of things. you could start with simple things. cities are much hotter than the rural regions around them, so a lot of the efforts focus on how to cool cities off. some of the cities are more planting of street trees so that you have more shade, more green spaces for people to get to, opening of cooling centers so the people who don t have air conditioning have cool