Bill it is 2 00 in New York. It is 9 00 p. M. In haifa, israel. Any moment now we are expecting a briefing from The Pentagon as u. S. Officials warned that iran and its proxies could hit israel within the next 24 hours. Right side of your screen, Northern Israeli Port Town of haifa, that is a direct shot from lebanon to the north of the Hezbollah Terror Group located there. From New York, im Bill Hemmer, and aishah, good afternoon. Aishah bill, good to see you. Im Aishah Hasnie in washington, sandra and john are off today and this is america reports. Here is where the Lay Of The Land is at this hour. The last couple of hours, iran rejected europes calls to refrain from any retaliatory attacks. They said please dont do it, and iran called it a excessive request. Bill then The Pentagon is bracing to beef up military assets in the middle east, and there are many and more coming, by the way. Guided Missile Submarine and speeding up the arrival of another aircraft carrier. Aishah the questi
time right now. so that is yet to materialize. we ll see. so much breaking news. welcome, everybody, happy to see you this weekend. we re trying to get to the bottom of exactly what s going on there. what we know without doubt is that the russian assault not only in mariupol, but the eastern and southern part of the country is running very strong, and a record number of sorties over the past 24 hours. let s get the latest from matt finn. matt. reporter: neil, it s just a dire standoff at the steel plant in mariupol. vladimir putin said he would stop bombing that plant and instead barricade it, basically forcing the people inside to starve or surrender, but now ukraine says russia has resumed bombing on that plant. an estimated 2,000 yaiben marines ukrainian marines along with civilians have been holed up in tunnels underneath the plant, and now we re getting some of our first glimpses. new video released by the ukrainian military appear to show women and children hiding i
pulling governor desantis off the 2024 campaign trail. to avoid straining security resources in the storm ravaged areas, it looks like he will not be meeting the president today. we have live fox team coverage rick fox weather multimedia journalist katie byrne on the ground and live overt florida congressman michael wall standing by. first lucas tomlinson light at the white house. lucas, what more can you tell us about what we expect for the president s tour today? president biden and the first lady landed in gainesville just a few minutes ago. there airborne on marine one and touring the devastation in live oak which is located about halfway between tallahassee and jacksonville. before leaving for florida president biden spoke to reporters on the ramp at andrews. [inaudible] i do not think he is going to be there. we are going to take care florida. now a spokesman for governor desantis had the governor will be in dixie company today which includes harsh she would be 20
going on here, but we ll see. right now we re seeing millions of holiday travelers desperate to get out this weekend no matter the price. wallets are taking a big hit as americans hit the road, the skies and stores. welcome, everybody. glad to have you, happy weekend. i m neil cavuto. obviously, we re all over the fallout of this presidential visit to florida, the ramifications of that storm. we ve got fox team coverage with lucas tomlinson following developments at the white house where the president will soon be departing, max gorden in cedar key, florida, where emergency workers are still digging out. let s start with lucas. reporter: hey, neil. what s going on here is hurricane and disaster politics, as you mentioned. president biden and the first lady expected to leave the white house in the next hour to go to live oak, florida, located halfway between tallahassee and jacksonville. and as you mentioned, he will not be meeting governor desantis. here s a statement the f
classrooms. lauren green is live in the new york city news room on parents running low on patients. lauren good evening. absolutely. good evening, trace. well, migrants buffed up to democratic cities like new york are finding their sanctuary city status comes with a hefty price tag. since last year the city s public school system has enrolled nearly 19,000 migrant students with roughly 500 in the past week alone. according to the empire center for public policy, that could end up costing big apple taxpayers over a half billion dollars. and tensions over the migrant crisis have been boiling over with hundreds protesting the city s plan to turn a shuttered catholic school into a shelter. if they could see what we re seeing on the ground, i know that they would know they would understand this is a poor location for these migrants. it s in the middle of a residential community and they re going to keep coming out and protesting against us. parents also expressed outrage t