arthel: hi everyone i am arthel neville played through the big stores were prone here at this hour, record high gas prices and rising inflation continuing to drag down president biden s pole. approval rating below 40%. also a firefighter killed several others pulled from the rubble. the burning building and philadelphia. lasting for hours. an l.a. district attorney being criticized after the shooting death of two los angeles police officers. critics say the suspect s out of jail because of his soft on crime policies. we have live fox news coverage chad on the arrest the crew on capitol hill. breanne is in los angeles on the follow-up for those police officers killed in a line of duty. jonathan on the death of a firefighter in philadelphia. first will go to lucas and tomlinson. his life at the white house president facing first we have to ask how is he doing after falling off his bike this afternoon? bumpy roads for the president not figurative but literally. he fell off his
president biden continues to defend his performance on the economy. why fact checkers say the numbers don t add up. the spike in crime could be worse than we think. we ll look at a new report that finds 40% of the country s law enforcement agencies have failed to report crime stats to the fbi in 2021 leaving us wondering what the real picture is. we begin with team coverage of another primary election night. mark meredith is in south carolina where there s a split decision to the two g.o.p. representatives who face off with two trump challengers. and bret baier joins us live in studio tonight to kick off our coverage on what would be a bellwether special election in the texas border district. very interesting one, brett. reporter: shannon, good evening. this is a really big deal. as we go to the big board here, i can tell that you this texas election, a special election in texas 34 which is a district that is essentially 84%, 84% hispanic. there s theboard i said would real
that decision will come next week or this week coming up on thursday and friday when eu leaders will vote on it. ukraine needs all 27 countries to agree on that vote to become a candidate state. meanwhile, fighting continues in the east. 80% under russian control right now. it s the remaining holdout in the luhansk region of the donbas. also we are just learning russian whistles and last 20 minutes russian missiles have hit a fuel depot in the eastern ukrainian town. that s according to the regional governor there. but in the east you mentioned that is where the real fighting is concentrated. and the ukrainian state russians are using ten times the amount of artillery rounds they have. the military aid that ukraine got from the united states and germany this past week is deafly coming at a time when they need it. will send it back to you. arthel: will take it back here
were pretty favorable today. a lot of energy in this campaign as you can tell. we ll just see what happens. we feel good. and we feel very strong. reporter: and, shannon, brown said this evening he spent time thanking supporters that heading into today s election day. shannon? shannon: hillary, thank you for your coverage. in south carolina tonight, a litmus test of former president trump s ongoing influence over the republican party with one trump endorsed candidate taking down incumbent tom rice who you ll remember voted for impeachment while congresswoman nancy mace held off her challenger in the palmetto state. mark has more. reporter: good evening to you, shannon. results are taking time to come in. in the myrtle beach area of the state, we saw the donald trump-endorsed candidate