moment. we will talk to tom homan about that. sandra: alert to a city in mourning. a wake is underway for one of the two new york city police officers murdered in an ambush last weekend. and funerals for both officers are scheduled in the coming days. hello, sandra smith in new york. great to have you here. it s great to be with you, i m in for john roberts, a solemn site. fellow officers carrying the casket of 22-year-old jason rivera into st. patrick s cathedral this morning. he and his partner were ambushed inside an apartment last week after responding to a mother s call for help. as funeral services get underway, attention now turning to manhattan s far left d.a. and the soft on crime policies. now alvin bragg says he will attack gun violence at every angle. deadly and dangerous start for the nation s police officers. 24 have been shot and four killed since just january 1st. brian will kick things off outside st. patrick s cathedral. is the public allowed inside?
looming over it all the latest and boldest example of chinese spying on u.s. soil. bill: that s the chinese spy craft shot down over south carolina. the military is in the process of recovering debris as we speak. crews combing through search area the size of 15 football fields. they ve already apparently pulled some pieces from the water and taking those to the f.b.i. lab in quantico for analysis. dana: republicans are pummeling the white house to allow the air ship to spend days over military sites. the president, through the national security advisor directed the military to refine and present options to shoot the balloon down immediately. to collect the bull balloon. we took maximum precaution to prevent any intel collection. i was in close coordination with the united states strategic command and we provided counter intelligence messages out of our intelligence shop across the entire department of defense and interagency so that we could take maximum protective m
letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
that number is only expected to grow and so it should soon surpass last year s record. matt finn has that story for us, matt. john, the got a ways are they migrant to intentionally invade authorities for there often times involved in those high speed pursuit we see on it daily or weekly basis. we work to his most recent example human smuggler from dallas, texas led dps troopers on a high bead chase u.s. route 77 in rural kinney county. that smuggler lost control and crashed into a ranch. the driver and passenger belt, five illegal cuban immigrants including a 4-year-old child were turned over too u.s. border patrol the driver and passenger were charged with human smuggling. in the rio grande valley texas dps and u.s. border patrol agents pursued human smuggler they are for the driver in illegal migrants bailed out of the car, run and hide underneath the house. agents had to chase them through thick and dangerous brush in the dark than it ultimately rest of the driver and fo