wave after wave of drone and rocket attacks against united states military men and women stationed in the middle east. the enemy, iran-backed groups paid and trained by iran and hitting us at will. they have struck 52 times. we ve now hit back three. the third time by the united states marks a significant escalation in the biden administration s retaliation. however, is it effective? i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a defense official is telling fox news six iran-backed terrorists were killed. the pentagon yesterday announced u.s. war planes hit a training camp and safe house in syria. the response only after look at the map dozens of hits on our troops. remember i gave you the number. 52 so far. that changes every few hours. sadly. and all of this since october 17th. four of those attacks came after the most recent u.s. strike, retired four star general jack keane weighing in. the focus certainly changed. this is the third strike and this time the
morning in mexico, bringing heavy rains and leaving at least three people dead. the governor of texas announced a disaster declaration there as gusting winds and rain from alberto lashed the coast, triggering a dangerous storm surge that has flooded neighborhoods with several feet of water. meantime, today marks the first day of summer, and a dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the country. right now, 65 million people from the midwest to maine are under heat alerts, with temperatures soaring as high as 20 degrees above average in some areas, and more record highs expected. out west, the sweltering heat is fueling 29 wildfires as firefighters work around the clock to battle the blazes. in mm new mexico, the fires killed two people and destroyed more than 1400 structures. joining us now sam brock in surfside beach. how are conditions there today? reporter: good morning. right now the offshore winds continue to blow in from the gulf. as you can tell by how i look now, and
i m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days in our administration, we ll have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. that s weeks ahead of schedule. the president says eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors had received a vaccination. today 65% of people age 65 or older have received one shot. 30% are fully vaccinated. he continues to believe there will be enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. so the white house says that s part of the reason why it s finalizing plans of sending millions of doses to mexico and canada. that vaccine important to note is not approved for use here in the united states. our first priority remains vaccinating the u.s. population and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step. we have seven million release able doses of astra zeneca. we re working to finalize plans to lend them to mexico and 1.5 million to canada. so the bottom line, charles, president
are being told, we will go there live when it happens. another fox news alert now. house minority leader kevin mccarthy and a dozen other house republicans are going to visit migrant facility in texas amid the escalating crisis at our southern border. meanwhile, the bad and white houses deploying emergency officials from fema to help with the surge of unaccompanied minors despite the president denying there is a crisis. fema goes where there are disasters. u.s. border patrol reportedly is holding more than 4200 migrant children in short-term facilities. nearly 3,000 of them held longer than the 72 hours legally allowed. house speaker nancy pelosi is blaming former president trump s policies for the situation and echoing biden and calling it a challenge, not a crisis. what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that in the children s interest. so this, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what is righ
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. They have 200 sets of remains. Thats a small portion of the roughly 7,700 u. S. Service members missing in action during this brutal korean war from 1950 to 1953. You wonder in the 55 there is only one set of dog tags. Some have estimated so many Different Countries fought in this war. Some think it could be a french. Australians had a major presence. You dont know unless they allow us to go what we know some much these military sites were and some of these battles took place, you dont know what they gave us. Ainsley several thoughts came to mind when i was watching the ceremony. It happened our time 4 00 a. M. I thought how wonderful that the south koreans are celebrating our veterans our heroes or at least honoring them. 70 years later and our forensic teams are able to piece this back together and figure out who these marines belong to.