good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
new year the new record at our southern border bridge sources tell fox news there have been at 286,000 migrant encounters in december. about is the highest monthly total ever. meanwhile president biden is spending the week vacationing in the u.s. virgin islands. critics say should be here handling the border crisis with more urgency. hello welcome to fox news live i am rich edson eric shawn and arthel that will have the week off. molly: i am molly line by the president for us to usher in 2024 to the caribbean sun his poll numbers are underwater. a new fox news poll finds more than half of voters surveyed, 53% said 2023 was a bad year for them personally. two thirds said it was a bad year for the country. lucas and thomas what is traveling with president biden he is in sync st. croix with mon all of this, lucas also under the caribbean sun, to you for quickset is right. president biden bringing in the new year despite a record number of migrants on the southern border. molly
seeing is not that, and this is chaos. so enough is new. a delegation of dozens of republican lawmakers headed to the southern border over the coming days as over a million migrants have crossed in the month of december with thousands more making their way from south and central america. now since october 1st border patrol s encountered nearly 800,000 people along that border making this highest record quarter, the highest quarter on record. welcome to this special edition of fox news live. with i m gillian turner in washington. mayor eric adams says his city is reaching a breaking point as a result of governor greg abbott continuing to bus migrants from his state up north. bill melugin is in los angeles with the latest developments. hi, bill. reporter: hey, gillian. as the number of crossings continues to shatter all records out there, fox news has obtained an internal alert sent out by border patrol s tucson, arizona, intel unit which warps agents some illegal immig
interference. meanwhile, g7 leaders injapan announce new sanctions against moscow. here, what stamp qualify for the final of your oblique and violent clashes marked the end of the match. and one other headline belief in a god plummets in uk who would talk to the author on a new report today. let s start this half hour with a different story because the brother of the tv presenter philip schofield has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy. to him at found guilty of 11 offences last month. ginny reports now from exeter. his brother set the crimes were despicable and disowned his sibling in the statement. timothy schofield arrived in court in the glare of intense media interests at his trial last month, he admitted that he had watch pornography with a teenager but insisted this victim was 16 and consented. he denied there was any sexual abuse but the jury found him guilty of all charges. during the hearing, the court heard a statement from the v
first, in nebraska, on the floor was a bill to ban abortions at six weeks. but the republicans who have a 32-17 seat majority over the democrats could not pass it because one of the cosigners of that bill ended up abstaining. we re going to tell you why he did that in a moment. then in south carolina, a near total ban also failed. it s the third time the gop has tried to pass this bill down there since roe was overturned. this time, all five of the chambers female lawmakers struck down the quote human life protection act, including three republicans. here s two of them. maybe i m confused about this legislation. or maybe the men who wrote it know more about pregnancy than the women in this chamber or across this state or the country who can actually get pregnant and give birth. women don t have sex just so they can go have an abortion. just like men, i don t think, have sex to get pregnant every time. abortion laws have always been each and every one of them about control