alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i m sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a invasion, but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi warned president biden not to play with fire, meanwhile russia publicly standing with china on this matter. john: fox team coverage to kick off the hour. the rising red threat. begin with jacqui heinrich, live on the north lawn. jacqui, new information about how the chinese might respond to pelosi s visit? sure do, john, concerning suggestion from state media that the chinese could shoot down
to them but they lost ask el phone service. there s no electricity, no water, and he has not had nothing for two days and it s like they are just out in the dark. it s sad. actually a bridge got washed out where he lives, totally washed away. people lost a lot of stuff. that s sad. what was going through your mind when those days went which and you were not hearing from him? it scared me, it really did. you ve got people like that you love, your cousins and you can t get ahold of them. it s scary, it really is. and you are talking about this bridge that washed away. did that hamper efforts of people trying to get into the areas to save them? a lot of people they can t get to. to this today they can t get to them. they don t know how many people, people don t have phone service, can t call nobody, it s really sad, really is. what was the conversation like with your cousins when you got to talk with them today. like i said, he has not had
you re in the middle of a global pandemic. it s not exactly easy and that can lead to significant impacts. yeah, good point. tell me this. how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this, even if these aren t government actors and they might well be? but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem that vladimir putin and his government isn t acting against them. how significant is that? it absolutely gives them air cover. so a lot of these criminals in eastern europe and in russia and other places, their governments don t lock down or crack down at all on their actions. the mind-set is as long as you re not attacking our companies, you re not breaking our laws, therefore we re not going to get involved. because ransomware operations are very easy to get into, it s kind of cheap to start off in, and the payments can be, you know, multi-million dollar payouts on each company they target, and your home government isn t willi
manufacturing. so disruption to them is very difficult to catch up for, especially if you are in the middle of a global pandemic. it s not exactly easy, and that can lead to significant impacts. yeah. yeah. good point. i mean, tell me this. how how how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this? even if these aren t government actors, and they might well be. but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem, you know, vladimir putin and his government isn t acting against them. how significant is that? it, absolutely gives them air cover. so a lot of these criminals in eastern europe and in russia and other places. their governments don t lock down or crack down, at all, on their actions. the mindset is, as long as you re not attacking our companies, you re not breaking our laws. therefore, we re not going to get involved. and because ransomware operations are very easy to get into. it s kind of cheap to start off in.
and state officials, and without the right coordination how does that hamper efforts on the ground? oh, you re asking a great question. first of all, what i m seeing so far is coordination is excellent. it s just what we re looking for. what we train for, how we revamped fema, that whole federal side of the system to work with the state and local government. and i m very pleased at what i m seeing. and it is so critical, because if it doesn t work, you see what happens when you have a katrina where that relationship simply was not there. and through the whole system, from the local to the state and state to the federal government. so what i m seeing in this disaster, which is a tough one, this is going to be a difficult, difficult recovery and a difficult response. so i m very pleased to see what s happening so far. i just hope that it continues as this whole thing plays out. arthel: yeah. definitely the residents there need this, the coordination to