new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. claudia: this is a special edition of america s newsroom. the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s. central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.
bill: arthel good to be with you as well. thank you for joining us on this memorial day weekend which also means of course the nations beaches artificially open coast-to-coast. many of them already pack that you can see. people on the east coast in particular got to be on the lookout for sharks after multiple recent sightings. arthel: we have live team covered cb cotton is at rockaway beach in new york. but first we ll go to charles watson. he is live on the busiest airports in our country. hartsfield jackson there in atlanta. charles i see a lot of people behind you what is happening there? or so yes a lot of people. the great american getaway is certainly in full effect. we are expecting big crowds this weekend. we are certainly seeing them at hartsfield jackson international airport as waves and waves of people both the tsa checkpoint to try to make it to their flight so they can get to their holiday destinations. aaa said they are expecting a lot of people as i mentioned
donald trump, president biden dismisses concerns about his age. i can t even say the number. it doesn t register with me. the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not is not something that i think is likely. meanwhile, donald trump keeps his focus biden and the general election. he is grossly incompetent, has no idea what he s doing. are biden and trump in a co-department relationship? do they need each other in order to succeed in 2024? i ll talk to vivek ramaswamy, a republican entrepreneur running for the nomination. disney versus desantis. disney sues governor ron desantis accusing him of retaliating against the company. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political. republicans are distancing themselves from the issue as the battle escalates. i do worry if this happens too many times, businesses that areallying about coming to florida are thinking maybe we don t want to go there. and border surge. the biden administration are
some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. let me give you anybody who doubts that contact my office. i ll give you a copy i ll give you a cop yf of the proposal. oh, yeah. it was on last night. good morning, everyone. here we are in washington, d.c. live on capitol hill this morning. some republicans jeering and booing and heckling the president. but biden punched back during last night s heated state of the union. we ll break down the key take aways. and we re going to speak to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who were there. plus this. children rescued from the rubble but countless people remain trapped and buried alive. more than 48 hours after the catastrophic earthquake in turkey and sear yachlt we ll take you for the search for survivors. the death toll is near 11,000. also, we have updates in memphis. the five police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols have now been accused of beating up another young black man just days before. we l
this so-called woke indoctrination agenda. i really take offense to the continued use of wokism referring to the democratic party. john: not just coming from the classroom but also disney. a cartoon under fire for what it s telling kids about race, such as pushing for reparations, not just for slavery in the nation s past, but also what s happening right now and wait until you hear why the show is telling kids that abraham lincoln was no hero. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. hi again, sandra. sandra: a lot of tense moments in that education hearing as democrats suggested parents concerned about woke lessons were worked up about nothing. we ll show you how republicans are responding. john: and the controversial disney cartoon may help prove their point. it s all ahead after a fox news alert. sandra: a bust at the southern border putting new perspective on a jaw-dropping statistic as we learn from border that enough fentanyl has been seized