i looked and i seen the sun this morning, bright red. oh, my god, what s going on? when you look high up the buildings, looks pretty rough. looks way different from now than yesterday, way different. completely agree. i feel i have a blocked nose as well. slightly irritated. a little concerned about my kids going outside, but so, for once i ll actually let them stay on their devices. sandra: begin with the smoky skies that have become an air quality emergency for millions of americans and officials are warning things may only get worse in the coming hours and days. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. john, hello. john: if you have some masks left over from covid, might want to dig them out. smoke is blanketing the eastern u.s. triggering air quality alerts in big cities like new york and philadelphia, and more than a dozen states. outdoor activities have been canceled at schools across the region and tens of millions of americans are advis
the school closures - these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse practice. he said, mom, i just don t know what to do, that s the last thing he said. it is heartbreaking. we human beings are social beings. we naturally want to be communicating and collaborating with each other. the place that used to bring people together whether churches and synagogue or whether it was volunteer organizations in your community or whet
closely. we ll keep our eye on those earth cams and the cameras that we have set up all over the city, all over this area where it continues to get worse and we will continue to report on it. john. john: a little anecdote, my son s lacrosse practice was canceled tonight, the girls are a go, everybody knows the girls are tougher than the boys. all right. former vice president mike pence set to speak with voters in iowa any minute now after officially launching his bid for the white house this morning. joins an ever expanding list of 2024 republican hopefuls. chris christie and the north dakota have also launched presidential campaigns in the last 24 hours. former vice president pence will join us for an exclusive interview on america reports coming up. we will also hear from our panel on the race for the white house in just a moment. but first, we take you out through the power of television to ankenney, iowa, where the former vice president will speak in 5 or 6 minutes.
the school closures - these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse