i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh no
from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
an answer that did make sense. we came with his initia story, i heard that this was a good area. really? there wasn t a good area close to home? well, then, nick gave them another answer you wanted to - he wanted to get out of hi area, he looked at the local gym at the area and did martia arts with police officers, h felt like they would recognize him. and when he said that, di it s impossible? no it wasn t possible a all. and one other thing remember how when police arrested him they found jewelr in his pocket? turns out it was fake.
things like we acknowledge china s claim or we don t challenge it but never come out and said taiwan belongs to china. that s the core of this issue. nancy pelosi is putting herself at risk, you heard peter doocy ask the press secretary china says they ll murder the speaker. what do you have to say about that? there wasn t a good white house response. the white house keeps saying china shouldn t be upset or react this way but they have good reasons to be upset, sandra. sandra: very interesting. we note the recent chinese incursion into taiwan airspace. we put it into this chart so our viewers can see the spike we ve seen. the chart goes back a couple of years, michael. it does show the mumber of incursions and military aircraft entering taiwan s air defense identification zone spiked in april. you can see the tallest line there. they are building up for something. to your point, the white house is warning china not to over
with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no reason that this visit should escalate tensions in any way whatsoever. bill: no reason to escalate. beijing seems hell bent on doing that. a propaganda video shows off military muscle threatening a response to a reckless provocation. there are multiple angles on this story. team fox coverage. alex hoff live from the white house with more. let s start overseas with greg palkot with us today. let s begin there. hello. tense times indeed, yes. if the reports are correct and all goes well speaker pelosi could be on the ground in taiwan in about an hour 20 minutes time. she wrapped up the second stop in her asian trip earlier today meeting with officials and others in the malaysian capital.