by my cohost harris faulkner and kayleigh mcenany. hosts of kennedy on fox business, kennedy, and in the center seat, fox and friends cohost and author of the president of the freedom fighter, brian kilmeade a brian kilmeade. thankfully no one was hurt in the early morning arson attack and the suspect is now in custody but while police don t know what the motive was the crime is just another sad example of the senseless attacks plaguing cities run by democrats who have instituted some controversial policies. here is new york city s police commissioner dormant shape. it s the same old song in terms of what we are seeing, we are seeing mental illness, disregard for common decency. but when you have mass amounts of people put back on the streets that have traditionally been held in jail, we see some of that permeate here as well. that s just a fact and it s a fact that people don t want to talk about. emily: it s just a fact that people don t want to talk about it but we are
to torpedo it with a filibuster just 12 days out from when the u.s. is expected to default on its loans. the crucial question this morning, what are senate democrats going to do about it? right now they re huddling behind closed doors with senior white house officials. this hour we re tracking a change that could help thousands of americans get out from under crushing student loans. how teachers, social workers, and members of the armed services could get their debts cleared. and we re also dig spoog a brand new report that shows just how effective vaccines are at preventing covid deaths. in fact, listen to this. vaccines prevented 39,000 deaths among medicare recipients in just the first five months of this year. the report coming as we learn two-thirds of americans are now fully vaccinated. we ll get to that in a moment. we re going to start this hour with the high stakes standoff over the debt ceiling. our correspondent is with us. our white house correspondent monica alba
resisting opposition calls to quit after being fined for breaching lockdown rules. a whole life sentence is handed down to the islamic state group sympathiser who murdered the mp sir david amess. outside court, police read a statement from his family. it breaks our heart to know that our husband and father would have greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship and would have been anxious to help. how sickening to think what happened next. it is beyond evil. the mayor of the ukrainian city of mariupol says 21,000 civilians have died there amid growing signs russia could be about to capture the key port. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. the soaring cost of fuel and food has pushed inflation to a 30 year high. it stood at 7% in the year to march, up from 6.2% the month before. prices are going up faster than wages, and there s pressure on the government to do more to help people who are struggling. and the cost of living is expected to rise even further because these
more than 250 people have been killed in floods in the south african province of kwazulu natal. some areas saw a month s worth of rainfall in one day. and of rainfall in one day. here in the uk, a sitting minister and here in the uk, a sitting minister quits after borisjohnson is found guilty of having broken the law. welcome to the programme. we begin in the city of mariupol. the russian military has been trying to take it for weeks. now, it says over 1000 ukrainian marines have surrendered there. ukraine denies this and maintains it still holds the city. we can t independently verify either claim, but this was the russian defence ministry s announcement earlier. translation: 1026 ukrainian military from marines 36th brigade have - voluntarily laid their arms down and surrendered. there were 151 wounded among those from the 36th brigade who received immediate medical assistance and then were taken to mariupol hospital for further treatment. but an adviser to the mayor of mar
plus, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is proposing a prisoner swap with russia after capturing an ally of vladimir putin. we ll have more details on that just ahead. first, let s begin with cnn s jason carroll, in new york, you ve been following the story since it first broke in this broadcast some 24 hours ago. what is the latest on the police search for the person of interest, frank james? reporter: well, at this point the investigation is still very much focused on finding frank james, finding anyone out there who knows him, and might know where he is. a little bit more information about james, 62 years old, investigators say that some of the items that they found here at the scene of the shooting including keys to a rental u-haul van, they believe belonged to james. that u-haul van found not far from the scene at just a few miles from here, at a subway stop, that u-haul rental van rented in philadelphia. apparently james has addresses in philadelphia and wisco