elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
yes, mr. netanyahu is undergoing a medical assessment in hospital, but said to be well. a statement from his office says the prime minister suffered slight dizziness earlier in the day and his personal doctor advised him to get that checked out. the initial assessment was that he was dehydrated. according to some earlier local media reports, mr. netanyahu was fully conscious as he entered the hospital and he walked into the emergency room and he has not been incapacitated in any way as prime minister. now, israel is currently in the midst of a heatwave and from the prime minister s office that he spent the day exposed to some of the hot conditions at the sea of galilee. he s 73, israel s longest serving leader and served multiple times stretching over 15 years. his current government took office last december. now, he had some suffered some political troubles on tuesday, yet, more protests about the divisive justice bill. tens of thousands of israelis taking to the streets th
if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. the u.s. military becoming a political football for the house gop as they unleashed their anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, anti-woke agenda on a spending bill flooding americas fighting forces. instead of focusing on killing people employee stuff up, and having we are focused on dividing people up by race. i don t want someone who doesn t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button. i couldn t help but pull out my pocket constitution, i couldn t seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in afghanistan. and one house republican in particular under fire for a shocking racial comment. we are going to dive into that this hour as well. plus, a defying president biden finding a new way to forgive the student loan debt for nearly 1 million people in this country. and as actors hit the picket line i m gonna be talking to thei
fine. a lot of you will say, neil, don t talk. anyway, we ve got more on what s happening on the price front, where are that that s all going down for the time being, but the real trouble for much of the country and up to a third of all americans is this heat wave that s gripping a good part of the country. fox weather s robert ray in galveston, texas, where it s particularly hot. welcome, my friend. reporter: neil, good good morning to you. happy weekend, happy saturday. galveston island just off of houston, the gulf of mexico. and look at that, neil, this big seawall, 20-foot seawall, jetting down. it was created after the 1900 hurricane that still killed more people in america than any other natural disaster. it is scorching here this morning. temps expected to be in the mid if 90s, dripping as i speak right now. gulf of mexico temperatures above average, and that is concerning, definitely, as our tropical storm season is about to heat up in august and into september. in
insurrection at the capitol. what s new signs, the next possible terminal indictment for trump is in georgia. we are going in-depth on it all coming up. and later, like a war zone, a parkland parent who walked the school turned crime scene for the first time since 2018 massacre joins us live to talk about the traumatic visit. all of these stories and much more is ahead. and good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today show with millions of americans reaching their boiling point over the brutal heat baking much of the country for yet another day. 84 million americans are under heat alerts stretching from the pacific northwest all the way to right here in miami, florida through tuesday. that is more than 3200 miles of people just sweating it out and trying to stay cool anyway that they can. the valley of the sun is definitely living up to its name. phoenix is sizzling and temperatures topping 110 degrees, for a 15th straight day. but that is nothing, com