gillian: 4:00 a.m. thanks for having me. i m gillian turner and this is america s newsroom. the threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. bill: third grade is a critical benchmark. those who can t read are four times more likely to drop out of school. gillian: memphis, tennessee, 76% of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. only 1% of those students were held back a year. bill: at problem chronic absenteeism. more than a quarter of students are missing at least 10% of the school year. it puts them of greater risk of dropping out. the governor from arkansas sarah huckabee sanders with us yesterday. we have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda teaching our kids to hate america an
stronger ties and present a united front against china, russia and north korea. the faulkner focus and i m john roberts in for harris. the setting for the summit camp david. president s retreat in the woods of maryland. historic grounds have witnessed major strides in american diplomacy. national security council spokesman john kirby with this. this is the culmination of months and months and months of work not just by the united states but by south korea and japan to improve their relationships. they are operating more together. they are communicating more together and looking for ways to deepen their own cooperation because they see much of the same things we see in terms of the threats and challenges. so there is a lot of common interests, common shared goals here that we will pursue. john: he referred to the decades of disagreement between japan and south korea. one headline says president biden looks to cement a fragile truce. mike pompeo says the true gamble is th
to flow along with millions of illegal immigrants. the cartels threatening our national security reaping billions in profit. a non-stop surge turning every state into a border state and making it a critical issue on the campaign trail. wars against the mexican drug cartels. they are foreign terrorist organizations. when i m president that stops. they try to break into our country with fentanyl. that will be the last thing they do. they will end up stone cold dead. no nation can survive unless it controls its borders. even more concerning is the humanitarian crisis this is causing in cities across america as these immigrants land in those cities with no means and no legal way of making a living. dana: fox team coverage. madison in new york city. plans are underway to build something for migrants. bill melugin is in mission, texas. a major update to a cartel story we brought to our viewers last week. let s get into the photos which we showed last week showing several ar
i will always ask is any of this shady? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying that david weiss is not the man for the job. they point back to the five years weiss has already spent looking into hunter biden s alleged tax and gun crimes. we sent a letter. i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. this appointment is camouflage and it is cover-up. i think it s disgraceful. david weiss was the u.s. attorney handpicked to lead this investigation who spent the last five years covering it up. this is a joke. not only did weiss drag his feet for five years and try to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with the president s son, he also let the statute of limitations run out. harris: critics are accusing the white house of avoiding questions on all of it. karine jean-pierre, the white house press secretary, last held an official press brief
disaster in state history. confirmed deaths at 55. we re told that number will likely grow. none of the fires right now is fully contained. not one. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. those fires have left a wasteland of obliterated neighborhoods and landmarks and think about the economy there with the businesses knocked down. they don t know when they can get in there and when tourism will be an option again. the historic city of lahaina, once hawaii s royal capital, is charred ruins now. survivors stunned at just how fast hurricane dora s winds helped the flames to spread. people are found in houses in a huddle. there was nowhere to go. beyond any other tropical storms, 100 times, covid, everything for our small town. people lost everything, homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. there are still people missing. i have never seen something ravaged so fast. harris: take a look at the video. look at the sheer scale of damage. rescue crews now c