aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
it could threaten t the east cot powerful waves and powerful as well as. swells. could florida be in the storm track again. for answers all the models so far chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has been monitoring the storm from the fox weather center in new york. good evening, rick. rick: good evening, bret. not worried about florida at all they had enough with idalia. category 4 storm last night it went to a category 5 storm. went from an 80 mile-per-hour hurricane to 165 mile-per-hour cat 5 hurricane in about 12 hour period. unbelievable strengthening that s because it went over very warm water and upper level environment strengthening. notice as it most forward in its path here water temperatures cool down just a tiny bit. in some cases a little bit below average. one of the only spots below average anywhere in the atlantic basin is from some water that got pulled up from hurricane franklin about a week and a half ago. that hurricane moved over and pulled up the cooler w
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