The u. S. Carried out another round of Air Strikes on iran backed MilItia Groups in iran and syria. Jillian Lauren Blanchard joins us live from washington wIth the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The Air Strikes near the border of syria and iraq, this is new video, the moments when the strikes were carried out in the middle of the night at three locations, wiping out facilIties were told were used by iran backed milItia for operational needs and weapons storage. Pentagon officials say the strikes were defensive against facilIties that were used to launch attacks against u. S. Assets in iraq. Officials say they do not expect a lot of casualties. According to reuters the MilItia Group said in a statement that four milItants were killed in a strike and they viewed to retaliate. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby called the strikes necessary. He said the unIted states took action designed to limIt the risk of escalation but to send a clear deterrent message. President biden d
Growing and easy to spot. Any amounts of harm is unacceptable. But i also want to make sure this doesnt drive hysteria. And the olympic champiOn And what does that time look like 51. 0. Thats a new World Record. First woman ever under 52 seconds flat. Ainsley straight to a Fox News Alert new video this morning of u. S. Airstrikes hitting Iraq And Syria . The rockets wiping Out Facilities, Fox News has learned we are used by iranian backed initiatives to launch attack at united states assets scattered throughout iraq. Four militants were reportedly killed is in the trike that we november. Iraqs military has condemned the strikes as a are breach of sovereignty. Brian thats probably a wink and nod. He didnt. This is the second time he has ordered airstrikes in the region since he has taken office. Remarkable to see how much more positive Nancy Pelosi is about the whole thing. Great, good idea. They took direct action. So people on the same side you could do the same thing if you were Pres
sandra: thursday. john: chicago public schools shut down for a second straight day as teachers stay home, like groundhog day, kids are left further behind. i m john roberts. sandra, good to spend thursday with you. sandra: friday eve you usually call it. billions to keep necessary resources to keep the schools open, improved ventilation and other safety measures. that does not seem to be stopping some school leaders from shutting their doors. john: hi, gillian. gillian: public schools taken $130 billion, to keep schools open during the pandemic but a lot of schools are shuttered. chicago, $1.8 billion in federal covid funding, milwaukee 504 million, atlanta, over 200 million and detroit, almost 800 million. all these school districts currently closed to students citing the omicron surge. on president biden s first day in office he said that $130 billion he would send schools via the american rescue plan would allow them to reopen. so, not only are those recipient sc
days at 110 degrees or higher. hospitals now filling up with patients with heat exhaustion. some with skin burns from the pavement. two women hikers dying in the heat. and overseas tonight, tourists racing to evacuate the fires in parts of greece. mola lenghi in fphoenix. also breaking tonight, the justice department just a short time ago now suing texas after governor abbott refused to remove a 1,000-foot long floating barrier across the rio grande. the barrier forcing migrants into deeper water and then through razor wire along the banks 0 of the river. the disturbing images showing a police officer unleashing a canine on an unarmed suspect who had his hands in the air, despite another officer yelling, don t do it. the new york serial killer case, and police on the scene of that home outside new york city. what they have found in the suspect s home, a vault, and what was inside. aaron ka ster ski reporting again tonight. overseas, the images coming in at this hour
the way he s characterizing this bill? yes, he is lying. members of the house caucus like congressman roy and bishop are still struggling to come with a strategy to actually block the deal tonight. and there is also a divide over whether to oust mccarthy as speaker. as for the republican leader he says he s not concerned about losing his post and can t seem to understand what all the fuss is about. i m not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. it is the largest savings of 2. 1 trillion that we ve ever had. a quick refresher share of what is in this deal over this memorial day weekend. it would replenish our near empty treasury with borrowed cash by suspending the debt ceiling for two years. it also includes caps on federal spending, more work requirements for food stamps and cuts to irs funding among other things. neither party got everything they wanted, something the senate republican leader noted on the floor earlier as all of this gop infighting plays