the marine's name was collins. he pulled over to help a driver in an accident and that's when police say he was struck and killed. >> bill: donald stopped to help a driver of a van hit by a red tow truck. video shows the driver of that red truck fleeing the scene. garrett tenney has the story from the midwest bureau. what happened? >> inside that minivan that was hit early saturday morning was a mother and daughter who marine veteran helped pull out of the car and get to the side of the highway for safety only to have a suspected drunk driver run into the van and almost into that mother and daughter. if it weren't for trey shelleding them with his own body. he leaves behind his wife an a two eared daughter. ice confirms the driver of the car, a 33-year-old was in the country illegally and is now being held on an immigration detainer. so far she is charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault with a vehicle. trey's family is speaking out for the first time since his death and his widow says she has never been more proud of her husband and forgives the woman who took his life. >> each time she gets to wake up in the morning, i pray that she asks the lord to forgive her and she sincerely mean it and not just mean it but get to know him. because i don't want her to go to hell. >> a lot of faith and inspiration coming from that family. a gofundme for trey's wife and daughter has raised more than $30,000. bill. >> bill: more to come. we'll watch this story. we'll see how it develops. thank you. garrett tenney there with us. >> dana: hunter biden's growing legal challenges are taking their toll on how people perceive him. voters think he did something illegal. mark meredith live with the polling. hi, mark. >> good morning to you. now that a special counsel has been appointed to oversi the hunter biden case it will drag on more months if not years. new polling shows where people think today about this case involving first son. fox news finding among registered voters 50% of people think something illegal did happen. those numbers up sharply from earlier this year when only 8% say nothing seriously wrong occurred. until recently the details of the case against hunter were kept under wraps because it was under investigation. remember he was going to plead guilty to failure to pay taxes just last month but that deal fell apart after a federal judge raised questions about the circumstances surrounding the plea deal. now not surprisingly the polling also shows political leanings also line up when it comes to this case with only 19% of democrats feeling like something illegal happened. those numbers are lower compared to republicans who feel the first son should be prosecuted. republicans continue to criticize the attorney general merrick garland and his decision to appoint david weiss as special counsel. they have growing concerns how the case has been handled from the start and whether or not president biden personally profited from son's overseas business deals. >> the american people need to know whether their president is crooked or not. we need to know there is an election coming, he is the sitting president. certainly he would want his name cleared if anybody would, i would think. >> the white house continues to brush off most questions when it comes to hunter biden or that possible talk about an impeachment inquiry being launched within the next few weeks. the timing is very much up in the air, dana. it is likely we won't know what steps congress is planning to take next until they get back from their summer recess. >> dana: mark meredith at the white house. thank you. >> i think putting america first means putting all americans first and yes i'm using the republican party as a vehicle to advance that agenda, not as a professional politician but as a successful businessman, outsider and yes, somebody who is a member of that different generation. >> 37-year-old vivek ramaswamy gaining ground in our latest fox polling right before the big debate next week. here is what we found. donald trump still has a clear lead at 53%, down a couple notches. but clearly over ron desantis he has a lead 16%. what we found right now and why we talking about vivek ramaswamy. you say vivek as in cake, how you remember his name. 37 years old. two months ago he was in single digits in the polling. at 5%. he has more than doubled that at 11%. big picture now. how do all these candidates stack up against joe biden? at the moment this is what we find. joe biden's lead among these match-ups as of now, he leads nikki haley. he leads tim scott, he leads ron desantis, he leads ramaswamy and he is up three points on donald trump. however, there is a caveat. the margin of error is 3%. could go either way between trump and biden. they are essentially tied in polling as of today. karl rove to analyze. good morning from austin, texas. what did you learn from our numbers, karl? >> well, first of all remember we -- things in a primary the end to change dramatically sometimes and vivek ramaswamy has got the mo, no ifs, ands or buts. will he be john carey 2004. the leader was howard dean and john kerry began to move up in the polls winning iowa and new hamp hampshire. it was a little bit of a surprise. he hung on. on the other hand, her man kane in 2012. it came and went. the question will be in the debate next week, this is a good poll for vivek. the question is, is he going to be able to build on it by a performance in the debate that says to people he really is exciting, new and different and i'm all for him? >> dana: what's interesting, karl. this is the question of your second choice for gop nominee. what i think is interesting in march desantis was 52%. now down to 37%. ramaswamy was at 0 but now up to 22% and pence was at 16 and now at 11. so both pence and desantis lost some with second choice preference and ramaswamy picked those up. what does it say about some of the other candidates in the race that are not even in that picture? >> right. tim scott and nikki haley primarily. look, these polls are a measure of how much name i.d. you have. that's why they change rapidly is because they aren't based in necessarily deep opinions about the candidates. it is what have i heard recently? vivek has been on fox news, for example, and he has gotten some good coverage there. he has been an energetic campaigner with a novel message. you heard it. i am a different generation, america first candidate and successful businessman and outsider. that's a good elevator speech. so again, though, let's be careful about putting too much in these polls because remember, rudy giuliani was leading at this point. jeb bush was leading at this point in 2015. rudy giuliani was leading at this point in 2007. these things have a way of playing out but what it really says is the debates on august 23rd and september 27th are going to be very important to the republican contest because they will be the way that people get to know these candidates particularly if donald trump doesn't participate. a way for them to get to know the alternatives and make judgments about who they like. >> bill: that's a big point there. let's go to iowa. a little bit of what we picked up this past week at the fair. roll this. call for number three. >> i think trump is the only one to get us out of the mess we've gotten into. so i'm going to support him all the way. >> i like donald trump. i voted for him. this time around it's iffy. i guess. >> i would like to get a candidate that can succeed in beating biden at any cost. >> i do think that president -- former president trump needs to back away. >> bill: the theme of that was trump and what -- how you feel about him today. karl, if you were donald trump, would you show up at that debate in milwaukee next wednesday? >> i would even though there are dangers. if he shows up, he will be attacked by everybody in one way, shape or form. some will be hard and direct, chris christie. some of them will be glancing blows. some will be trying to move around him. i would show up if i were him. this is where you get the demonstrate i'm the leader and will remain the leader. if he doesn't show up this will be people who say to themselves didn't he tell us and mock joe biden for not debating and hasn't he said he is the world's greatest debater and maybe there is something that he doesn't want to talk about? and doubts will begin to grow. doubts are growing. we have now got depending on what poll a majority of republicans who say if he is convicted of something in one of the four lawsuits for indictments, they won't vote for him. he has to find ways to assuage those growing concerns and show up at the debates. >> dana: that's what we are paying attention, karl. >> bill: thank you, sir, nice to see you. talk again. karl rove in austin. next hour we'll talk to former governor of north dakota, doug burgum. he wants to make a mark for himself. he qualified for the debate. he has got something going. >> dana: i like his coat. the barn coat in the picture. my favorite picture of all of them. >> bill: back to weston county. >> dana: fulton county district attorney is requesting a march 4th start date in the trial of donald trump and 18 co-defendants. the timing is right into the political calendar one day before the former president competes in super tuesday in 2024 presidential race. that's when voters in more than a dozen states go to the polls. >> we aren't leaving this building, dana. we'll be here. >> dana: until when? >> bill: week after week. if you look at the calendar for how the contests are set up in the new year, versus the expected trial dates, we ain't going home. >> dana: that's fine. great to be here with you. how do you take your coffee? >> bill: i like a latte, whole milk, vitamin d. >> dana: i don't drink coffee. >> i think it's all over. these guys just took the initiative after being in the situation for so many years and seeing deaths. >> bill: fox news hitting the streets of chicago taking you inside the gang violence plunging the city into chaos yet again year after year. stand by. >> dana: meanwhile called chronic absenteeism plaguing american schools. what sander's is doing to get her students back on track. plus this. >> i spent twice as much on tuna a couple days ago that i was expecting to. and i feel like that is more what i am worried about. >> bill: democrats touting the economy but voters say they are feeling the crunch. gas prices and more and inflation, where is it? maria b is here on the story that won't go away. >> dana: you have a good walk-on. ♪ i'm sholeh, and i lost 75 pounds with golo. i went from a size 20 to a size 6. before golo, nothing seemed to work. i was exercising for over an hour every day. it was really discouraging. but golo's so easy, the weight just falls off. which hotel? 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with mortgage rates not seen since the great recession, gas prices climbing to ten month highs and credit card debt in the highest in history. is bidenomics working? let's bring in maria bartiromo. gas prices are up. we can show everybody here. everybody that's filling up already know it. a year ago 356, today 3.87. >> i think the more the administration tries to undermine fossil fuels by pushing the climate change agenda the more we're seeing the opposite happen. creating more pressure for americans. the policy of the administration on oil over the last year has been to use the strategic petroleum reserve and use that oil, which is supposed to be for emergencies, and now we're down. use that oil, take it out of the reserve and now down to the lowest levels since the 80s. administration wants to start buying oil and gas to fill it back up. guess what? they have to now get charged the highest levels in ten months with oil. that's really what's happening. oil prices are elevated and that's keeping inflation elevated for a lot of the essentials, food, fuel, shelter. >> bill: opec cut production. i don't know when they'll reverse themselves. in chicago you have $0.60 a gallon in two weeks. the interview fred smith did with bret. he was in the oval office in barack obama and as the story goes as he tells us he said what about your approval ratings? and he showed him a chart and said you can follow my approval ratings and they will mimic the price of gasoline in america and that will determine whether my approval number is good or not. >> a great point. another point in step with that is just the essentials that we use every day. it is hot out there now, right? you have the air conditioner going. refrigerant coolant in 2020, 20 pounds was selling for $45. the same 20 pounds today $270. expectations are it will go above $5 hundred. you are jamming up the a.c. know it will cost you. >> dana: it shows the inflation under the biden administration. you are familiar with this chart. it was up and has come down. the rate of inflation. but yesterday or two days ago the president said it's going down and it is going lower and it will be fine. everything will be fine and i thought is he sure about that? >> look, it is sticky but he has to give credit where credit is do. it is well off the highs. a year ago we were talking 9.1% consumer prices inflation. now at 3%. it is much, much better today. having said that the components within the consumer price index are what's called sticky. in other words, they don't reverse and stay down. so you are seeing because of the cost of transportation, oil, gasoline, because that's elevated, you see things like rent still expensive, shelter in terms of buying a home. look at 7.1% mortgage rates. people are walking away from a mortgage now because they recognize every month it will be so much more expensive and fuel. fuel, food, shelter, the three essentials. >> dana: what about eggs? >> i do look at them. it's something we all buy. it is not as bad as it was but still up year-over-year. the last inflation report they were down but you are still talking about from levels that we were talking about up 70% a couple of months ago. eggs are still very expensive in the category of food that's still elevated. some things are off the highs but still an issue. >> bill: he made a reverse course in the past week about suggesting the name was not good or appropriate. what was behind that? >> basically the inflation reduction act was not intended to reduce inflation. it was intended to get money toward the climate change agenda. he was talking about it's more about an alternative for growth, he is thinking growth is in solar, growth is in wind. all of the climate change components. and so he is right. republican said that from the beginning it won't reduce inflation. it didn't. that's not is what reducing inflation. the federal reserve has raised interest rates 11 times and it's slowing the economy and it's taking inflation down. that's what is happening with inflation. the problem that the federal reserve has is as it is trying to rein in inflation it is up against the tsunami of more spending. the president still wants more stimulus out there trying to forgive student loan debt. >> dana: they called it the inflation reduction act to get joe manchin to vote for it. it couldn't be passed as a greatest climate giveaway in the universe. >> bill: now he is against it. >> his promises weren't kept. >> dana: #never forget. >> bill: another bump hike in the federal reserve? 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>> we're talking somewhere around $2 billion worth of materials just sitting down there that was either allocated or purchased. these are contracts that we continue to be able to pay every month. >> in fact, the u.s. army corps of engineers estimates the government is spending $160,000 every month, bill, just to store those unused supplies. pretty unreal. >> we've seen it. just sits there in the desert. casey stiegel thank you in el paso, texas. >> dana: here is something we think you need to know about. chronic absenteeism is on the rise in schools across the nation. more than a quarter of students miss at least 10% of the 2021 to 2022 school year. that's about three weeks of school. that's the average. many people are missing a lot more than that. that amounts to a staggering 6.5 million students. the trend could have lasting implications on them and on us as chronically absent students are more likely to drop out and lots of consequences from there. arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders joins us. education is a big focus of yours. i wonder if you have seen an issue of absenteeism in arkansas and from other governors and what should be done about that? >> it is absolutely become a problem. it is another one of the awful things that we saw as a result of the lockdowns that came at the hands of covid. it is one of the reasons we vowed here in the state never to shut our schools down again because a lot of those students that went home never came back. it is also the reason that we've made education our number one priority. we lost a lot of ground during that two-year time frame and we were already students across this country were already vastly further behind than they should be. we have passed the most comprehensive education reform package here in the state of arkansas in our state's history, possibly anywhere in the country because we know what a critical thing education is to put every student on a pathway to success. we are focusing heavily on this and know this is the best place we can spend our time and money to help give our students opportunities to move forward. >> dana: when the nation's report card came out former secretary of state condoleezza rice, a product of great education herself, was dismayed about these numbers. put them on the board. the averages going down in reading and math for 13 years. the same for 8-year-old and other subjects weren't good, either. secretary of state condoleezza rice called it a national humiliation. we have also been talking to mississippi and focusing on the amazing gains that they've put forward. former governor phil bryant said when you came on board as governor you said let's do something similar. how soon do you think you can see results in arkansas? >> i think we'll see some movement after this first school year. literacy is one of the most critical foundation kind of data points that we know drives a student's long term success. states like mississippi have made significant strides. arkansas has taken a lot of the success they have, implemented that and gone above and beyond what they were able to do there in terms of legislation and investment in resources and dollars. we've taken our teachers from being the lowest paid in the country to top five overnight. and we're going to continue to invest in places that we know are proven and evidence-based solutions to really help our students be successful. we want to make sure that every single student in arkansas has access to a quality education and the arkansas legislation is a great start and i think we'll see results even after this first school year. >> dana: a little bit of controversy right now. an accusation the arkansas education department removed credit for a.p. african-american studies course. what the naacp and let you respond. the arkansas state conference of the naacp is appalled at the recent decision of the department of education the mock a decision at the final hour to do away with a.p. african-american studies. is that really what happened there? >> absolutely not. one of the things that we have talked about so much, dana, the point that you made a minute ago about the staggering numbers we're seeing across this country, we have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing, and american history. and we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. it is one of the reasons that we put into law banning things like indoctrination and crt. we want our kids to receive a quality education and make sure every student has access to it and a pathway to prosperity and that's exactly what we're doing here in the state of arkansas. >> dana: a judge hearing arguments on something that you are taking initiative on. that is children and social media. judge has looked at the social media safety act looking and seeing. i did wonder is it all social media or youtube, does that come under this as well? >> the focus is a starting place. right now we are seeing just an enormous increase in the number of students, particularly those ages from 9 to 16, major increase in anxiety and depression and suicide. largely driven by an increase in social media use. we're not saying that a student or child can't have access, we are just saying they need parental permission to do so. we have to do a better job of protecting our kids and fighting back against big tech. we know it is addictive and we know it is causing harm to our kids. not only as a governor but as a mom i won't sit back and do nothing while we're watching a national crisis take place and not step in and do more to protect our kids. that's exactly what this legislation does. >> dana: china last week floated the idea of allowing two hours per day on a smartphone for their children. what do they know? last thing you have not endorsed anyone in the gop primary 2024. are you sticking to that? no news to make today? >> no news to make today. my focus has been strictly on arkansas and continue to do the best job i can here as governor. we're off to an amazing start and i will continue to keep my focus right here at home. >> dana: thanks for coming on. good to see you. >> bill: good stuff. new career. traffic comes to a halt when a woman points a gun at everyone in her way. that's when a police car swings into action taking her down. we'll show you the rest of this coming up in a moment. pink floyd and artificial intelligence. how the classic rock song is leading the way to an extraordinary medical breakthrough. ♪ veteran homeowners to combat today's rising prices. lower your monthly payments with the three c's: pay down your credit cards, pay off your car loan, consolidate your debt with a va home loan from from newday. 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how would you explain it simply? >> well, when we put electrodes like an ekg-type electrode on the scalp, you can get brain waves. now these signals are scattered and hard to interpret. sort of like a bunch of pieces of puzzle that have no meaning. using a.i. researchers were able to put all the data together and reconstruct the lyrics and the melody of that one line of that pink floyd song. that's a breakthrough because it is applying a.i. to interpret a foreign language of brain activity. >> bill: we can never do this before, is that right, doctor? >> right. never done before. now, there has been a study looking at mri movement and they've been able to string together sort of a stream of words but there is a lot of errors. but there has been some activity in this field. >> bill: here is what i want to do. play the clip. it runs 15 seconds. to our audience, listen carefully, all right? they point out in the piece that it's not identical but you can understand it if you listen closely. go ahead and roll this here. ♪ now, doctor, we listened to that during the commercial. i heard it after the second time. for our audience i want to play it one more time for that key verse there. ♪ >> bill: roger waters must be going what was that? okay. you could hear it? >> what we're hearing here is basically an interpretation of brain activity. and the researchers actually said if they would have put the electrodes closer together they would have had more electrodes on the scalp of the patients having surgery listening to this music. they think they could have gotten a better signal. in those that had closer, that had more electrodes and closer together, they could get a better sort of interpretation of that, more pristine, precise sound. >> bill: elon musk has a company called neuro link and talking about tellpathic typing with monkeys. is that what this is, too? are we about to go into a brand-new world of all of this quickly? >> that's exactly what it is. neuro link and other companies are looking at how you can think a cursor to move, a technology that exists. people who cannot speak are able to move a cursor with electrodes on their brain on their head and they can move a cursor and they've been able to type that way. this is taking it to another level. the hope is, of course, here, bill, is that we'll be able to develop speech decoders for people not able to speak for medical reasons. the other output is we might be able to better pinpoint this form of musical intelligence. the researchers of this study said we can localize where musical intelligence is more precisely on the brain map. that's important. >> bill: wow, extraordinary. thank you, doc. new world. >> thanks. >> bill: brick in the wall. dr. marty makary. >> for the record, i don't recommend -- we don't need no education, i'm not a big subscriber to that. >> bill: noted. see you soon. thanks. >> dana reads sports. >> bill, you cannot take your eye off this guy even for a second. >> bill: show me. >> here goes. stole home. fell asleep. one of the most exciting players in baseball with a straight steal of home, wow. >> bill: wow. >> dana: his name is fernando. he catches the baltimore or orioles. the padres won last week. the coach said i kid with him about being a witch who rides it around the basis. >> de la cruz is faster. that's a good idea for baseball. really hard to steal home. >> dana: i know. >> bill: when the pitcher is on the mound. >> dana: really hard. >> bill: really cool. big rats in the big apple. massive rodents leaving new yorkers on edge. is the city doing anything about it? 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(we did it) start today at godaddy.com >> dana: new yorkers are fed up with their furry neighbors. not the dogs. the city held its first anti-rat day in harlem. putting the rat problem into scale. >> we've had rats the size of crocs running up and down the street, like a croc shoe running up and down the street. >> dana: there is a rat czar in the city. >> bill: she got a big job. all of a sudden in the commercial break in my building they had a rat problem. they filled it with 2 1/2 feet of concrete and put soil back to plant the shrubs again and it worked. there is an idea for the ras. innocent bystanders are caught in the crosshairs of all the gang violence in chicago. big job there. there are people trying to find a solution. >> bill, the development started out as a part-time cease-fire. start evidence out as a social media post. local publication picked it up. alderman chimed in and the gangsters to the violence interrupters who work with the gangs it is viewed as a potentially dangerous development. the 9 to 9 agreement applies to rogers park, the north side. it is a cease-fire from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. the first problem people on the street have with it, it is a permission slip to start shooting at 9:00 p.m. ralph edwards is a violence interrupter saying the biggest issue is dominant gangs on the north side were not involved in negotiating or designing the cease-fire. they don't know the people who created it and they aren't going to respect it. >> when they look at it they'll be who did this and who said this? they would laugh it off. sometime they might intentionally go against it and do something during those hours to let whoever know that we're not honoring this. >> the area we're talking about is north of wrigley field. not a hot spot for violence the way and west and south sides are. contributing factor is there already is a cease-fire. they call it a no slide agreement. dominant gangs are the vice lords who stay to the east of broadway and the other gang who stays to the west. the no slide agreement says they can't start trouble over social media and can't shoot each other and go across broadway. leadership in the north is respected. the agreement has held for three years. the concern goes right down to the gangsters is the idea of the 9 to 9 agreement could shake things up. >> bill: we wish them the best of luck. important stuff. reporting on it for too long. mike tobin on the streets of chicago. >> dana: hard for the moms and dads as kids go back to school get nervous on the walk to and from school and hopefully get them to agree to this. >> bill: that neighborhood he is talking about is right there. >> dana: you know exactly where it is. you visit chicago. a great city. it has a lot of troubles and we'll continue follow that story. the next hour here. let's get back to politics. >> what it really says is the debates on august 23rd and september 27th are going to be very important to the republican contest because they will be the way that people get to know these candidates particularly if donald trump doesn't participate. >> dana: karl rove last hour as a brand-new fox poll shows five republican candidates are this close to having a strong chance of defeating president joe biden. biden is leading the rivals by only a single digit. when you consider the margin of error it looks like a dead heat there. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: second hour now. i'm bill hemmer. race for the white house heating up ahead of the first debate which is in six days being held in milwaukee. you'll see it only here on fox. former president trump maintains