amendment. now effecting millions of students and colleges across the country. justice clarence thomas, who has acknowledged affirmative action helped him, against the policy now, describing a color blind constitution. justice ketanji brown jackson, the court s first black woman justice, calling the decision, quote, a tragedy for us all. saying deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. tonight, president biden, again saying this is not a normal court, when asked a question today at the white house. you ll see the moment. terry moran at the court. mary bruce in the studio with me. and rachel scott on how this immediatelying bes an issue in the race for president. also tonight, more than 130 million americans under air quality alerts tonight. millions more suffering from that intense heat. growing more deadly today. the smoke from the canadian wildfires now blanketing 23 states, from wisconsin to the northeast. washington, d.c. and detroit with the worst air
the mess. todd: quite the sight in the big apple. you heard of boston tea party this is new york pizza party. give us pizza or give us death. todd: if you can t take the heat, don t touch their oven. you are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. carley: i m carley shimkus. president biden shutting down claims he knew about his son s oversea business dealings tying him to millions of dollars of chinese cash. [indiscernible] no. todd: brooke singman here with exclusive reporting. brooke: president biden denial as white house goes on defense about hunter biden attending the state dinner with his father amid political interference and investigation into tax affairs which led to hunter pleading guilty to two tax charges and one gun charge. listen. hunter biden wasn t the president s son, would he have invited someone who just reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors? couple of things. that is his son, it is not uncommon for family member
it all started with yevgeny prigozhin accusing russian forces of firing on his mercenaries in ukraine. prigozhin says his forces have crossed from ukraine and taken the city of rostov and have seized military facilities in voroneszh which is on the way to moscow as well. there s increased security in moscow with so called anti terror measures introduced. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. these pictures have come into us at the bbc. a spokesperson been cited by the ria news agency. there have been some questions as to weather putin was still in the kremlin. a spokesperson says he is working there. we have verified that this is at a town called pavlovsk in the varonezh region north of rostov on the road towards moscow. you can see smoke billowing across the area. we don t know the cause of the smoke. we d
the families of the hostages of course notjust those directly involved, but the families of the 130 or so hostages thought to still be held in captivity. hamas has done this thing before, trying to put pressure on the israeli government to call a cease fire in order to release the hostages safely. but this episode has been particularly distressing and i think brutal. these videos were released in three trenches the first videos show just the three hostages speaking, it wasn t clear when the images were taken. the second video which was released this morning showed the three people again, but suggested that their fate wasn t known they might be alive, they might be dead and people might know tonight. and tonight, a third video has been released showing two of the male hostages apparently killed. now the video says they were killed in an israeli air strike it is impossible to verify that claim, and these are very distressing. most of these are very distressing. most o