was desperately seeking would have been illegal if this case happened in texas today. a woman found out she was eight weeks pregnant. she fried to find an appointment with the goal of getting an abortion. she thought about the possibility of going out of state but couldn t afford it. the cost of an instate abortion was multiple paychecks. she did get an appointment just hours before midnight last night. when the new draconian abortion law went into effect in texas after our fever dream of a supreme court declined to take action. the law bans abortions after six weeks before most people even though they are pregnant. there are zero exceptions for rape or incest. take that in for a moment. those victims have no way out. think about that. think about that 13-year-old girl raped by her grandfather or if if one finds herself in an abusive relationship or unable to financially care for a child. texas says, too bad. forced birth is now the law of the land. there s no exception even
fatalities are up 15%, so those are all going in the wrong direction. the number of patients are unprecedented and that s in black and white. we have more patients in our hospital now than ever before. this delta variant surge has been particularly intense across the south. one expert says the next few weeks will be critical in determining if that trend takes hold across the nation. we have all 50 states, the district of columbia seeing an increase in cases. the question will be if any of them turn out to be like we re seeing in the south, then we ve got a much larger problem on our hands going forward. if not, i think by the early part of the september, we ll see this curve come down. but in the meantime, it s going to extract a tremendous amount of pain in our society. dr. fauci has a warning about the virus. he said the delta variant could bring about as many as 1,000 to 2,000 cases per day. he said, if we don t get more people vaccinated, the virus will continue t
the city that i was part of for 22 years. chris: now president biden is joining the he debate. this shouldn t be a red or bluish shy. it s an american issue. chris: we ll ask biden senior advisor cedric richmond about the president s plans to combat crime and get reaction from republican congressman jim banks, a critic of the white house policies, and we ll get the view in the frontlines with kansas city mayor, quinn continue lucas quentin lucas. plus if you want to deal with the problem, you can t just deal with the symptom of the problem. chris: vice president kamala harris finally makes it to the southern border. we ll ask our sunday panel about her visit and the rough road ahead for that bipartisan deal on infrastructure. and our power player of the week, a former cia officer on the invisible attack that ended his career. all right now on fox news sunday. and hello again from fox news in washington. president biden released a plan this week to combat the sharp ris
responses from black communities asking why the foremost symbol of american police brutality will be eligible for parole in a decade and a half. but if nothing else, there is now a modicum of closure for the floyd family, hopefully. still, that does not absolve our nation from seizing this reform moment. our law enforcement leaders need to reflect on the growing rifts between police and community. our prosecutors need to guarantee that no one is above the law or below it. and in just a moment, i will talk to civil rights attorney ben crump and george floyd s brother, philonise. about the void of federal action as our republican lawmakers continue to stifle the police reform legislation generated in george floyd s name. of course, even that conversation begins and ends with the vote. and as the chauvin trial saga was closing yesterday, attorney general merrick garland was firing the opening shot in our national war over voting rights, filing suit against the state of georgia o
first, at this hour, vice president kamala harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the united states. hello. i m john roberts in washington, this is america reports. good to be back with you again today. seems like we have a busy news day every day. today is. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. that s where you ll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this currents iteration of the border crisis. you can see border patrol footage from april. shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. the smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. john: critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. the white house says el paso was a perfect case