Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas 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 cant 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 and hate one another. Its one of
The region. if they do that well and build out the partnership it will be a good thing for the american people. gillian: in the lead-up the chinese government has been talking in quite an aggressive way. they don t like the summit is happening. this caught our eye. the foreign minister today urging japan and south korea not to get too close to the united states. he says no matter how blond you die your hair, how sharp you shape your nose you can never become a yuri european or westerner. we need to understand where our roots lie. how is that being received by south korea and japan? i know this guy. this guy is a bad actor their foreign minister who made that statement. those are just antithetical to those of us in the west whether it s europe or those of us who hold ideas of basic human
44% say it s too little. highest number of the three. at the bottom sexual orientation and gender is at 48% in the too much column. that s what we re finding from americans that we polled just this week. gillian: that reading metric, bill, that lydia was talking about is the fundamental key to everything else. if you can t read proficiently in third grade, as you mentioned before, you are probably not going to graduate high school or be able to do math, science or any other academic subject. bill: we ll see what comes up next wednesday on stage in milwaukee. we have this now. gillian: president biden preparing to host the leaders of japan and south korea later today. the first gathering of world leaders during his term at his country retreat. his goal and the goal of all the three countries is to present the united front against the growing military and economic threats posed by china.
There. 111 people confirmed dead at this point. and the search and cadaver dogs will be out again searching for human remains. 60% of lahaina has been combed over at this point. we ve been talking to residents and red cross on the ground and many residents thinking they are taking things into their own hands, guys, trying to do their own thing right now. not trusting the government and officials. meanwhile red cross on the ground trying to assist and help many people. i m told by a federal source last night that they expect these numbers of the dead to go up in the coming days. gillian. gillian: robert wray on the island of maui for us. bill: tough stuff. the idaho murder suspect brian kohberger due back in court today. what his lawyers want from a trial scheduled to begin on october 2nd. nancy grace is here and we ll talk to nancy on that. the battle over transgender athletes in women s sports coming to the great and ancient
yeah, it is just shocking to us as a family and to be honest we re still trying to process what this means for us and the ripple effect this is going to have on our family and jared s children. so it is a very mixed bag of emotions. we feel a sense of peace that we are beginning to receive answers, but we are just ripped apart emotionally with the charges and what this means and how this was planned and calculated. it is shocking and i think it is shocking the world to learn about this story. gillian: it certainly is. kirsten, we know that shanna first became a person of interest to police or a suspect on the tip from the tattoo parlor artist. when did you start having suspicions about her culpability in the murder? the night that shared was