bullets. he went right over the top of them and was hit. what a fine man he was. as for the investigation into the assassination attempt, video shows the shooter, thomas crooks, lurking outside the rally in an hour before he tried to assassinate the former president. we re told at this point, police identified him as a person of interest for wearing a backpack and holding a golf rangefinder, which measures distances. but crooks was not yet considered a threat at that point, according to several lawmakers, 19 minutes before the first shots were fired. crooks identified as suspicious and then a search commenced. a secret service source tells fox the shooter hid his air 15 style gun somewhere before the rally began. the question is where the first time authorities spotted crooks with the gun he was holding it on the roof. as for crooks to phones, the fbi has gone into both of those phones. the 20 year old apparently had photos of president biden and the former and government o
first, we are going to talk about new bombshell reporting from a new book on donald trump s final weeks in office. this one is pretty crazy, because it s donald trump and members of his administration who were concerned he might spark a war in order to try and stay in office. we will get to that. we begin tonight with the california recall election. results are coming in very shortly. polls actually close a little later on this hour. we are going to get to exit polling information that we have available. we will get to that as well. this is actually the sixth time that gavin newsom was trying to be recalled. apparently, that is a theme on the right. of course, the other theme that they have been working on is the idea that they can t lose elections. when they lose elections, they actually still win. they win elections whether or not they actually are counted the winner in the results. we will talk about that tonight. i want to go ahead and bring in our panel. karen bass, a
tapper. we start today with our national lead. at any moment president biden is expected to speak after touring storm damage in new york and new jersey. the remnants of hurricane ida killed at least 50 people in the northeast. you see him here earlier today in new jersey. this afternoon president biden pointing to the recent string of extreme weather as a sign that climate change is already here. and also using that opportunity to pitch his massive infrastructure plan as necessary to combat climate change. but as cnn s jeff zeleny reports, a battle is raging inside his own party on how to get it done. reporter: president biden offering hugs and compassion, surveying storm damage today. thank god you re safe. reporter: a week after hurricane ida s deadly wrath struck new jersey and new york. a first-hand look at neighborhoods devastated by floodwaters where residents are still sorting through what s left of their ravaged homes. the losses that we witnessed today are pr
new york and new jersey that federal help and tens of billions of help is on the way. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. what we re chronicaling here is a president saying that i m here and so is the federal government. he will be speaking shortly about the kind of aid he s talking about. let s get the read from alex hogan in manville, new jersey. alex? hi, neil. it s such a painful day for people in this community that are starting to pick up the pieces after losing everything that they own. as you mentioned, the president was here today in manville, new jersey. he met with state and local officials touring this area and needing many of these residents. he talked with people, stopping by to give them hugs and spoke with a woman and talked about what it was like for her when she came home. probably 2:30, 3:00, the houses on fire. thank god you didn t come back. yeah. we were not near the house. nobody was able to come back yet because the waters were so h