try to fill remaining positions. will also today president biden signed an executive order on abortion access following criticism within his own party. he s not doing enough to protect reproductive rights. white house correspondent peter doocy is following it all tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, mike. president biden s team pored over today s jobs report and filled up part of a speech with some numbers they think prove that things are going well and the president deserves credit. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. the reason to believe the president thinks that unemployment rate low and steady at 3.6%. recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. but more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled as hundreds of thousands have decided to stop looking. the labor force participation rate dropped another two tenths percent the labor force 300,000 people. fewer out there availabl
isolated to the chicago area. we have fox team coverage tonight. molly line is in boston covering the surge and independence day shootings in major cities around the u.s. but we begin with senior correspondent mike tobin in highland park with the latest on the tragic fourth of july massacre. good evening, mike. police say he dressed like a woman to avoid identification. he wrapped rifle in red blanket. from that roof top, he fired 70 rounds in rapid fire succession. the weapon is now described as similar to an ar-15. a high powered rifle. it was discarded on the roof. he then blended in to the crowd and fled to his mother s house before escaping all the way to madison, wisconsin and then returning to where he was picked unjust six miles from this location. authorities did have run-ins with him back in 2019. first a suicide threat. then a threat to hurt others. the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time. there was no law enforcement action to be
the best job in the world but them s the breaks. the 140 days has past since my wife has been able to speak to me. d.e.a. has interdicted fentanyl, counterfeit pills in every single u.s. state and territory. it s everywhere. when it comes to these sky high gas prices, drivers are mad about it i m mad about it the president is mad about it oil company executives are thrilled. it s not like there is some group chat with 150,000 gas station owners on it. we are going and begging saudi arabia for oil while we are exporting our own oil around the world. we see an extraordinary, extraordinary group of americans up here in this stage. another action-packed week in american politics. monday on special report, the ceo of one of the largest simi conductor manufacturers in the world joins to us discuss the worldwide push for more microchips. join me this weekend for fox news sunday. we have a stacked lineup.
illegally into eagle pass. border patrol in del rio sector reported it was the biggest group they have encountered. and, mike, on top of all of this, mexican authorities announced yesterday what they say is the biggest fentanyl seizure in history. they say they seized more than 1200 pounds more than a half ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the northern city of khan, that s enough legal doses of the drug to potentially kill up to 270 million people. we ll send it back to you. mike: staggering number. bill melugin live in eagle pass tonight. bill, thank you very much. mike: tonight we continue our series on the poisoning of america with an absolutely appalling story. a florida couple behind bars tonight after their 9-month-old daughter ingested fentanyl. correspondent phil keating is in miami with the story.
[siren] according to the d.e.a., it only take as tiny amount of fentanyl to kill you, just two milligrams. it s often added to cocaine, adderall and xanax. that s what admittedly happening to alexis burnett and her boyfriend sage freeze who told jacksonville investigators that he crushed and snorted xanax the night before which had been mixed fentanyl. somehow that got into the body of their 9-month-old baby girl who had to be rushed to a children s hospital after she stopped breathing and her lips told blue. a urine test of both parents also revealed fentanyl in their system. the baby survived. circumstances that we have to be here. florida first lady casey desantis held a round table he wednesday gadd son county with the state surgeon general and the department of children and families about the fentanyl crisis. nine people in that county overdosed and died from fentanyl over-the-fourth of july weekend. fentanyl overdose now is the leading cause of death in the united states