that raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from today s pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato s strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. success. a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can t say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president s biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. and pose a reasonable threat to the sa
washington, d.c., and martha s vineyard. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it s unamerican. it s reckless. the white house says the migrants were misled about where they were being taken and what would be provided once they arrived. we get more from cnn s priscilla alvarez. reporter: dozens of migrants are set to spend the night on martha s vineyard, sent there by florida s governor ron desantis as part of his promise to send migrants to democratic cities. our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state. it s better to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. reporter: on wednesday the republican governor sent 50 migrants all from venezuela on two privately chartered planes to martha s vineyard. every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. reporter:
afternoon. counsel. every single find some former official or current official in possession of these documents. where is it going to end? ultimately, any decision made by attorney general staying silent on the subject. least publicly. john? john: we will hear something else next week. david spunt for us at the you. stocks were mixed today. dow 16. the s&p 500 nasdaq fell 71. d just flat. the s&p 500 nasdaq was so, pretty considered.
let s get a check on cnn business this friday morning looking at markets around the world. asian markets closed down. covid-19 outbreaks still dogging construction and manufacturing. europe also a lower tone early on. here on wall street stock index futures down here after this ominous warning from fedex raising new alarms about the economy. fedex parking cargo aircraft, closing offices, reducing sunday ground operations. fedex grappling with higher fuel and labor costs and package delivery weakness in asia. dow fell 173 points. s&p 500 nasdaq fell by more than 1% each. retail sales rose by 0.3%. unemployment dropped to a 3-month low. gas prices dropping again, now $3.69 a gallon. mortgage rates are highest since 2008. freddie mac averaging 6.02% this week, up from last week and more