this shows us it s a well planned operation that targets america. welcome to fox news live. i m eric a sean. eric shawn, hi alicia. hello. republican grass roots versus democratic big names in the race for virginia governor that many see as a big test for democrats ahead of next year s midterms. polls show the candidates if a dead heat with election day just over one week away. republican glenn youngkin gaining ground on former govern governor terry mcauliffe after seizing on the issue of schools and parents roles in what they teach kids. alexandria huff is in washington with more on the fallout over schooling. merck meredith is in virginia where democratic heavy hitters are trying to rally support for mcauliffe. first, we are live at the southern border in texas as we get more numbers on migrant apprehensions. bill. reporter: good afternoon. that s right. 1.7 million migrant apprehensions here at the southwest border for the fiscal year 2021. that is an all-time recor
glen youngkin is holding one of several events today. mark, let s start things off with you, good afternoon. mark: mike, good afternoon, to you. this was not supposed to be a close race given republicans recent track record in the state of virginia but this race is now neck and neck and republicans tell us they fell energized and believe glen youngkin s decision to campaign heavily on education issues is what s going the pay off at the polls. he s going to be campaigning where we are here in new port news a few hours from now and youngkin a political new comer says if elected he will do a lot to reshape the classrooms in the common wealth. friends on day one we are going to launch the most aggressive charter school program in the history of virginia. [cheers and applause] choice within our public system where a child zip code won t determine his or her destiny. mark: youngkin has continued to campaign on raising teacher pay and vowing to hire more school resource officers
is gaining ground on his opponent. the clear politics average polling data shows him leading by less than two points. with over a week until election day. we begin this hour with mark meredith live in newport where he just wrapped a speech in his meeting with supporters. good afternoon to you, we are here in newport new virginia, we saw glenn yanking as he wrapped up into her all around the state he lost the bus to her yesterday and tried to see much as virginia because as you were talking about the pull show this is a close race you can see the crowd behind me there pretty fired up to hear from glenn he wrapped up his speech a few moments ago. what s been interesting the republican has a shot at the governors manchin that was considered not possible not that long ago but as he said that is not the case anymore. nine days out, nine days out from making the statement that is absolutely going to send a shockwave across america. a statement to say not here, number progressiv
disturbing whistleblower allegations against a transgender hospital. new revelations have come to light. former case manager jamie reid came forward with concern about mistreatment inside the hospital s transgender segment. doctors are pushing the hospital denied allegations and it didn t take long for many media organizations to shoot down the story dismissing the claims as unsubstantiated. msnbc host chris haze tweeted, meanwhile, other outlets conducted dozens of interviews with parents, employees and patients and found no coberation for the first report. dig harder, it is called journalism. the new york times did do digging, in this case, and corroborated some of jamie reid s key allegations as a missouri judge is now weighing the state s antichild mutilation law banning cross-sex surgeries or medications. it appears this whistleblower wasn t alone in how the hospital was treating minors with gender dysphoria. there were claims they were giving out hormones like can
pivotal in 2020, maryland s former republican governor s moves is no labels national cochair, here he is talking about all of this earlier this week. i think we are at a point that we have never been in this country, with two-thirds of the people are not interested in voting for the republican or democratic nominees. if they are the nominees is very likely that no labels will get access to the ballot you will offer an alternative. and if most of the voters do not want number one and number two, we have an obligation to give the number three. mark meredith has more from washington is creating a lot of agitation. mike in some circles there. this ll be fun to watch no matter what. for years they ve tried to gain ground with voters but the group you re talking about says that next year may be different, it is taking steps now to establish itself in multiple states so we can plan to launch something in 2024. they are asking them how they see themselves, but the latest poll s