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>> and it was not 'til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. >> the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it's all backed up. this is insane. >> i don't know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. >> john: begin "america reports" with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. >> sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it's a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices.

the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a ripple effect for travelers, already is. flight aware showing more than 7,000 u.s. flights are now delayed and more than 1100 others have been canceled. >> john: just one thing on top of another. the disruptions follow a massive travel meltdown over the holidays. left thousands of passengers and luggage at airports. ken christianson will join us in a moment. >> sandra: begin with steve, live at hartsfield jackson in atlanta. everybody is talking about this. >> we were here over christmas with those delays, and now the sense of anger, full ground stop this morning for more than 90 minutes, that means all flights shut down across the u.s. that has been lifted but airlines are trying to play

catch-up, and when you talk to confused or stranded travelers, they are fed up with flying. >> really unexplainable. everyone is dealing with it from coast to coast and you hear the same story. i really thought because of the holiday travel that was the main issue, but i mean, clearly it's still happening. >> failure in notams, lets the crew know about changes at airports before they take off. it's not clear what caused it. administration officials say there's no evidence that it was a cyber attack, but around here in the world's busiest airport, still strangely quiet, empty lines, it's a long way from back to full speed. back to you guys. >> sandra: steve, thank you. john. >> john: aviation consultant ken christianson. never an out like this before

and the full-time we had a full ground stop was on 9/11. do we know how it happened yet? >> we don't know, but similar outages like in l.a. when there was a fire, atc outage and the radar outage, so they have back-ups to work around that. but without having the system, it's safest to keep everybody on the ground until they get it fixed. >> john: even the white house did not know what was going on, and a contradiction between what president biden thought might be going on and karine jean-pierre thought was going on. the president. >> we don't know. we'll find out. >> john: we don't know if it was a cyber attack, he said. but karine jean-pierre tweeted the president has been briefed on the faa system outage. there is no evidence of a cyber attack but the president directed dot to conduct a full investigation into the causes.

the system has not gone down like this before, would this be vulnerable to a cyber attack and could it have potentially been what's behind it? >> i can't actually speak to if it's subject to a cyber attack, but i guess, you know, it could be. i'm just not familiar enough with this particular system. but you do have -- you have the reboot systems, trouble in the past with radars, and other information systems. cyber -- the saber accounting for passenger reservations with american airlines, that has gone down in the past. these systems are used every day, 24/7/365. when they go down, it's very disruptive. >> john: as we saw today. that is an understatement. >> clearly, yeah. >> john: my understanding the servers are fairly old and may be in need of an upgrade. >> well, that's sort of

government-wide. government's information, or systems are usually far behind what you would see in a financial system and financial system is probably at the leading edge of where systems should be, using systems of this magnitude. so i think the faa, transportation, should look to the financial system and the experts there to upgrade their systems to get it going. because a lot of money lost today, revenue, and a lot of irritated passengers. >> john: it's only the safety of millions of people who fly across this country every year. why would you upgrade your system? speaking of the airlines and systems and where things are today, let's take a look at where we were in terms of flights canceled and delayed four years ago, in 2018. there was 70,348 flights canceled. 2022, 139,683 flights canceled,

in terms of departure delays, 2018, 843,815, that grew to over a million in 2022, despite the fact the airlines got nearly $80 billion from the american taxpayer to keep themselves afloat and stay current. what's going on, ken? >> i'll tell you what's going on. the age got increased from 60 to 65, so a lot of the airline pilots that would have normally left the airlines wound up staying in, but that's for five years, and then there's a mass exodus going out. it was a perfect storm between that and the pandemic so what the airlines did, because they had less crew, was they parked a lot of airplanes and those of us who travel you notice the planes have been more full. so they parked some airplanes and the planes they were flying were more full. so if you have a weather delay or mechanical, that's the difference between like a direct flight and a nonstop.

a direct flight could be in st. louis and then it comes to dallas-fort worth and then on to miami. so that would be a direct flight, a person from st. louis does not have to change planes. but if they have mechanical or the crew runs out of crew duty day or don't have enough staff, you get the delays and a domino effect by the end of the day. >> john: we thought the epic southwest meltdown over christmas would be felt for a while. appreciate it. >> thanks, john. >> people know i take classified documents or classified information seriously. and i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. >> sandra: president biden breaking his silence over classified documents from his time as vice president that were found at his private office.

the president saying that he takes the matter seriously but we are now learning those documents reportedly contain top secret intelligence on iran, ukraine and the united kingdom. putting it bluntly glass houses, and iran and ukraine. david spunt, david, so how are doj officials reacting right now to this document probe? >> well, doj officials unfortunately are not commenting and they typically don't comment on cases like this. we wish we could find out more, we want to hear more from attorney general merrick garland, but garland is facing an increasing amount of pressure here because he is in an uncomfortable position right now. we are not talking about something dealing with donald trump or hunter biden, we are talking about an issue dealing with his boss, president joe

biden. merrick garland appointed a u.s. attorney based in chicago to investigate the classified documents found at biden's private office at the penn center in washington, d.c. in november, some six days before the midterm elections, but did not disclose that until media reports this week. >> what's so surprising to me is this came out before the election. why does his department of justice treat people differently? every time we find out something before the election dealing with biden's family it's pushed under the rug. >> so we have learned the investigation took several weeks and now garland has the ball in his court and a big decision to make. much will depend on the level of classified documents, how it was not discovered for so long. garland has several options. he could charge biden, current or former aides, appoint a

special counsel, find wrongdoing without prosecuting anybody or say nothing indefinitely. the president says that he and his team are fully cooperating with the investigation. >> i don't know what's in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. >> on the surface the case sounds like the mar-a-lago documents case. many aspects that make these cases completely different. the big issue here is in the mar-a-lago case former president donald trump rebuffed efforts to get the documents for more than a year, that's why you saw the fbi go in there. officially no comment from doj as far as a special counsel is concerned, but the attorney general has a big decision to make and when i said one of his options is just hope it goes away, i don't think it's going to go away, sandra. >> sandra: safe to say at this point, david spunt, a big panel coming in, garrett ventry is

here, former senior coms adviser to chuck grassley, he'll weigh in, and harold ford, jr. >> john: differences between this and mar-a-lago, but for so many people in the president's part to dismiss it out of hand would seem to be contradictory at best if you are trying to look at whether or not you apply the same standard or double standard. >> sandra: fair to say. >> john: california bracing for more life-threatening storms, deaths of at least 17 people. they continue looking for a 5-year-old boy who went missing earlier this week. william is live in los angeles with the latest on the storms. look like you finally got a break from the rain. >> john, always seems we are talking either flood or famine, but i want to show you this

drone shot because i think it illustrates what is happening statewide, right. so, we are getting 500% more rain than normal so creeks, rivers, streams are overflowing. southern california as you mentioned probably good until saturday, that's our next storm. but millions remain under a flood watch. others are digging out and cleaning roads because of landslides. the sierras expect seven more feet of snow while the bay area another ten inches of rain this week, making conditions worse. 100,000 without power, roads turned into rivers, the death toll as you said, 17. >> we have had less people die in the last two years of major wildfires in california than have died since new year's day related to this weather in california. these conditions are serious and they are deadly. >> in central california as you

mentioned, 5-year-old kyle don disappeared when his mother tried to drive through a swollen creek. in santa barbara, evacuation have been lifted but they saw 400 service calls yesterday for rescues, people stuck in their cars. some lifted out by helicopter. the national weather service reported 32 mudslides in southern california. up north, pg&e, 5,000 workers trying to restore power because of high winds and downed trees. over here in l.a., we had a sinkhole swallow two cars. they are trying to repair it before the next storm comes again on saturday. bottom line is, john, that's the irony of living in california, right? we complain about not having enough water and then when we do get it, 90% of it is generally lost to the ocean. bottom line is, you know, we are not building any new dams because of litigation and regulation. we are having trouble building

reservoirs, and the state is about 30 years behind schedule turning storm water into ground water and that's the bad part. back to you. >> john: apparently the existing reservoirs are doing well, but so much of the water is going out to the ocean. california could use it if there was a way to retain it. william, thank you. tune into fox weather for the latest forecast in your area or download the app for free right on your phone. plus, as storms dump massive amounts of snow on sky resorts, talk to lauren burke from mammoth mountain. they will be skiing through july. >> sandra: i like the promo picture with the ski goggles on. damar hamlin has been released from a hospital in buffalo. it comes a little over a week

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>> john: newly sworn in republican congressman george santos says he will not step down. it comes after top republicans in his district urged him to resign. the embattled santos has admitted to lying repeatedly about key details on his resume'. more than a dozen nassau county officials appeared at a news conference and said santos cannot effectively represent his constituents. >> these are not embellishmentes, they are lies, and george santos is a fraud.

>> he's betrayed the public's trust and given insincere glib and insulting answers when asked legitimate questions about his finances and his background. by all accounts he seems incapable and unwilling to take full responsibility for his lies and fabrications. >> john: in response to that, santos tweeting moments ago "i was elected to serve the people of new york's third congressional district, not the party and politicians. i remain committed to doing that and regret to hear that local officials refuse to work with my office to deliver results to keep our communities safe and lower the cost of living. i will not, emphasis on not, resign." >> sandra: president biden has wrapped his trip to the border and mexico, this as the border crisis continues to spiral out of control. our next guest has introduced articles of impeachment against the homeland security secretary over the handling of his crisis.

pat fallon. thank you for joining us. why do you believe mayorkas should not continue to hold this role? >> well, sandra, thanks for having me on. mayorkas is engaged in a pattern of behavior incompatible with his duties as an officer of the united states. violated 2006 secure fence act which requires the homeland security director to maintain operational control of the southern border. another example, his catch and release program and policy which violates the immigration and nationalities act last updated in 2004. he lied to congress, perjury, saying the border was secure when he was caught on a hot mic saying it was chaos and unsustainable and lastly, he knew no border patrol agents whipped any migrants, remember the picture of the haitian migrants, there was nothing untoward that went on and he knew that, emails now show that, and he knowingly misled the american people. he's not fit for office and he should be removed forth with.

>> do you think you are going to get any where with this? >> just yesterday when we introduced the articles, over a dozen lawmakers co-sponsored. i believe the number will grow to 50 or 100, i'm on the oversight committee, chairman comer has said we will hear the articles in the committee, i think we will pass them out of the house. >> sandra: any democrats involved? >> probably not, but i would like to certainly they are welcome to join us. 212 of our colleagues are democrats right now. we would invite them all to come in and join. but obviously really politic probably not. >> sandra: keep us posted on that. meanwhile, we see images like this out of eagle pass, texas, just remarkable that the president paid a visit there and very little talk about dealing with the cartels. bill melugin who has spent so much time on the border joined us on set yesterday talking about how bad it is and how much he has seen with his own eyes. the president certainly didn't.

but brandon judd was on the show yesterday and he teed off on just that, listen. >> president biden has in his authority to stop what is going on on the border right now. he could implement policies and programs and operations. we can stop the cartels. we can get -- we can go after their profits. do everything necessary, we just have to have the programs and operations and what he refuses to give us. >> sandra: why do you believe that is the case he refuses to give them what they need, resources they are asking for to defend our borders? >> we have the money and the resources. what we lack is joe biden's will to secure the border. you can see it with the numbers. i mean, sandra, we never had a month where we had over 200,000 illegal border crossers. the last nine months in a row have been over that mark. this has hit catastrophic catastrophe and bordering on collapse and joe biden will not let the border patrol agents do their jobs. if you instituted the michigan

protection protocols, wait in mexico policy, this would stem the tide. >> sandra: i want to draw our viewer's attention, perhaps you can't see it, but on the screen are live drone pictures, eagle pass, texas, with migrants walking along the other side of those containers that are put up to try to secure the border, and clearly they are able to just walk right alongside of them and then around them. this is what bill was on the program talking about yesterday these are not working, that it's a show, and these don't actually help secure the border. can you weigh in on this, congressman, with your research at the border the containers put up to try to stop the migrants from coming over. live pictures we are watching right now, congressman. >> sandra, we have billions of dollars allocated for building some border walls and the construction companies have been hired, the materials were there, the labor was there, and they

were doing it and as soon as joe biden took office he halted that and he wasted billions of taxpayer dollars. we need barriers, we need walls, we need to say wait, you wait in mexico before, and we are going adjudicate your case for asylum. 99.9% of the folks are economic migrants, not really political asylum seekers and 5 million people have entered illegally, we don't even know who they are, under joe biden's watch. >> sandra: i'm just trying to get some information on what we are watching play out on our screen here. i do not have any specific -- ok, so they are on the u.s. side now, eagle pass, texas. i don't have any information about what we just saw, but certainly saw folks on the other side of the containers there clearly get around them, they were then picked up by a pick-up truck and that is now driving away with the three people who got inside of it. i don't have any other information other than what we are watching on that screen together. final question to you, congressman, biden has accused

republicans of not acting on the border. he said this quick reaction to the president. >> the first major piece of legislation i introduced was to reform the immigration process, to make it more orderly. our republican friends and some, a few democrats are very critical of what's going on at the border but yet refuse to even look at the detail document i submitted for the congress. >> sandra: you are a republican, congressman fallon, your response. >> shameless, it's lies and spin, and it's just simply not true. you can see it because there was an uptick come january 20, 2021. we had like for instance in april, we had 234,000 illegal border crossings in 2022, sandra. 1258% higher, or 12 times worse than the last april president trump had been in office and in may was nine times worse. this is all at joe biden -- it's at his lap because when somebody

comes and says they want to claim asylum, it makes sense to say you are going to wait in mexico while we hear your case, not have 2 million cases pending. joe biden said de facto border and pointing fingers everywhere, and so much for the buck stops here. >> sandra: mayorkas is pledging not to resign, keep us posted on your efforts to impeach him and we are continuing to watch live images there, those folks were picked up by border patrol and driven to the bus and we will continue to monitor that situation there live in eagle pass, texas, as we continue to cover this border crisis. congressman, thank you. >> thanks, sandra. >> john: you are watching it there unfold in realtime. a desperate search continues for a missing mother of three in massachusetts. police finding evidence that could point to foul play in the case and her husband at the center of it all. brian claypool has something to say whether investigators are on the right track.

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moment, but first we go to molly line in massachusetts, on the story for us, has been since go. investigators have found disturbing signs. what are we learning? >> yeah, the evidence discovered by investigators in this full week since ana walshe was reported to be missing has been sharp and bloody. a hatchet, a hacksaw, a rug with human tissue as investigators scoured the contents of a dumpster taken from the apartment complex of ana's mother-in-law. the blood soaked rug has been sent to the medical examiner's office. her husband remains in custody after a bloody damaged knife was found in the basement of the couple's home. for now, 47-year-old brian walshe is charged with misleading police as court documents give us some insight into his criminal past and relationship with ana. as brian walshe awaited sentencing after pleading guilty to federal charges for selling two fake andy warhol paintings,

ana sent a letter of support to the judge, praising brian as a father and care taking writing brian has been working consistently on breaking the past habits of his family and we are all looking forward to the new chapter of his life. notably used the address of her washington, d.c. home where she works during the week. but soon after accusations were brought to the judge brian had destroyed his father's will after being disinherited and poached from the estate. his three young sons, ages 2, 4, 6, have been taken into state custody. sandra. >> sandra: disturbing details. thank you. >> john: joining us now is brian claypool, and based on the reporting, a bloody rug, knife, hatchet, a hacksaw, police searching a wastes transfer station, brian walshe buying hundreds of dollars of cleaning supplies, searching on google how to dispose of 115 pound

body, alleged lies to police, do you have any doubt what likely happened here? >> john, nice to be back with you. yeah, i mean, the evidence looks daunting for him, and we now have a means and motive, right. she apparently -- she was having her washington condominium set up for her kids to live there. you know, put together three bedrooms, had means, motive, but look, two reasons why he has yet to be charged for first-degree murder. the first is we don't have a body. the first element in a first-degree murder charge is you have to have an unlawful killing so they are searching frantically for the body. it's harder to prosecute without the body. without the body, you have to proof the death through circumstantial evidence and that's the evidence you are talking about, blood, blood on the knife in his home, hacksaw, bloody rugs. they will go into his house, they have already done it i'm sure and get her dna a

toothbrush, a comb that has her dna and try to match that with the blood on the carpet, on the knife in his home. once they have that evidence -- the second reason, they have to process all this forensic evidence, right. and once they do that, and hopefully they can get a match with her dna, then they can charge him with first-degree murder and i've got to tell you, he's got a tough hoe ahead. i would not be surprised if they try to find federal charges to seek the death penalty. can't do it under state law. in 1984, massachusetts, the state death in the state was abolished but i think they will get some fed charges to get the death penalty. >> i saw the same reports that she was setting up her place here in washington, d.c. for her and her three sons. do you think that's evidence of a pending separation here? >> yeah, exactly.

and that's an important fact, john, to prove he had a reason to murder her. it's tragic to talk about this. let's assume we can't find her body. the prosecutors need this evidence, for example, to show she did not just vanish, right. why would she just vanish. and leave her three kids if she's building bedrooms in the condominium in d.c. for her kids. it also proves the motive again that they are having discord, they are breaking up probably, and that again helps to show that he killed her even though we don't have the body as opposed to her just vanishing for some other unknown reason. >> john: apparently they want to take dna samples from the son to get a direct blood line to dna that may or may not be on the items in question in her home. the prosecutor was quite upset that he had misled, allegedly misled the investigation.

saying these various statements caused a delay in the investigation to the point that during the time frame when he did not report his wife and gave various statements allowed him time to either clean up the evidence, dispose of the evidence, and causing a delay. i mean, prosecutors seem pretty certain that he is responsible for the disappearance of his wife even if they can't, as you say, find evidence that she was actually murdered. >> right, that's a great point. he lie, he said he went to -- and january 1st, that's when we think she might have been killed, he says i went to cvs, to whole foods, they checked surveillance. he didn't go to either place. instead he went to home depot wearing gloves buying cleaning supplies. if that does not show consciousness of guilt, i don't know what will. >> yeah, i mean -- signs are pointing toward him, but you never know until they have this thing locked up. brian, we will continue to watch it with you.

thank you for your thoughts, appreciate it. >> sandra: thank you very much. a chaotic morning, not at my house, we are talking -- we are talking about america's airport chaos. thousands of flights were delayed due to an faa computer meltdown. so, why do new problems keep popping up for the airline industry? we'll ask sean duffy and elizabeth mcdonald. a lot to discuss on that. >> john: and fallout is growing over the discovery of classified documents in president biden's former office. will attorney general merrick garland be forced to appoint a special counsel. >> his job is to protect national security first, not his legal status. these are highly classified documents and so we really do need to try to sort of reverse engineer on who brought them in, why, and who saw them. paying off your car loan and paying off your high rate credit card debt? and still have cash left over to put in the bank?

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reach out any time. with technology i can shut it off if i want to. >> john: you can, and people are like why didn't you answer your call, answer your email. did you get that email i sent you at 3:00 in the morning. >> sandra: you've sold me on it, i'm a fan now. on to one of our top stories, critics calling out the white house for waiting two months to reveal how top secret documents were found at then vice president biden's private office. harold ford, jr., co-host of "the five," and garrett ventry. all right, love having you both here. >> suzanne called me, i would answer the phone. >> i will pick up my phone any time. >> sandra: how do you think your party is handling this, and why is there not more democrats saying we have some serious questions what went down here and when the president knew it

and when he shared it obviously with others. >> i think a lot of democrats are. i think the most important democrat, merrick garland, has to figure out what he does. evidently a u.s. attorney out of illinois, republican appointee, want the optics and looking into this, and i'm one that believes we have to understand the chain of custody, understand the president ever saw those documents, i heard his answer yesterday in mexico. i did not fully understand, i did not fully get that impression. i sense he said i didn't know about them, did anyone else know about them, and when the lawyer found the documents in this secure location was the box open or not open. obviously if the box was open and that suggested someone had some idea what was in the box and maybe even looked at the contents. comparing the two is different. there are more documents here than there were president trump, the documents got there in connection with his role as we know, president trump ordered the documents to be stored at mar-a-lago, and at the end of the day it took a year and a half and police search to get

the documents. >> sandra: let's just deal with what this is. and we are learning reportedly documents involving iran. >> the only reason i'm comparing, you would not have led into the question the way you did had it not been for the fact of the trump -- we should be fair. >> sandra: fair enough. garrett, how the president is responding to the documents, listen. >> i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what's in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. >> what the president said yesterday was really rather unintelligible in the sense of he said you know, the lawyers told me not to ask what the documents were. well, i can understand lawyers saying don't say anything, a potential criminal investigation, but there are two steps to this investigation.

one is to secure the documents, which has occurred, and the second is to determine if there was any breach of security. >> sandra: that was the president making very clear where he stands on this, and then jonathan turley slamming his approach to it. >> in my opinion, the difference between president trump and president biden is this. president trump clearly has the ability to declassify documents, the then vice president does not have that ability to do that legally. presidential records act allows the president to store these type of documents, not the then vice president. so it opens up then questions for now president biden about national security concerns, the reason i say that, documents related to ukraine when you've had biden family members who have been on ukrainian oligarch payroll, that's problematic that republican ares going to look into this congress. the second part of this is political bias. we found out these documents were discovered on november 2nd, a few days before the midterm elections and don't find out about it until 60 days later.

the doj under president biden has appointed a special counsel to look into the handling of documents. i would think president biden as well. >> sandra: and rep comer promising that. >> we want to know what the difference is, and why there was such a discrepancy in how the former president was treated versus the current president. finally republicans are in control, finally we have a gavel, we have subpoena power and we are going to start these investigations as we speak and try to get answers for the american people. >> sandra: here we are in the first few days of this new congress and they are making big promises where they are going to go with this, harold. >> i'm a believe in oversight. when my party is in charge i don't believe it and when they are out of charge i don't believe in it. i hope they get to the bottom of it. if i were in the white house, based on what the president said, i would agree with jonathan. some ambiguity there, they should flood the zone with the fact and what the president was

trying to say yesterday the story will go away. if not, we have to act accordingly. >> sandra: reasonable to wonder why more democrats are not saying based on what we know now, a lot we don't know, have bigger questions about that, and not only that, garrett, seems in some cases with our reporters stopping some members of congress, seems some democrats are downplaying this. listen. >> doj is reviewing classified documents that were found. >> i heard, didn't say he was holding on to them, said they found them there. >> concern whatever classified documents are somewhere they shouldn't be. we see no evidence of deliberate intent or obstruction of justice as we see in the case of donald trump and mar-a-lago. >> this is not mar-a-lago, this is not a refusal of hundreds and hundreds of documents. there is no comparison. >> sandra: i mean, sheila jackson, no comparison, adam schiff, no evidence of deliberate attempt or obstruction of justice. why rule these things out so

quickly? >> again, a clear double standards by the house democrats in the way they responded to president trump's raid. they were calling for his indictment, saying he illegally obtained the documents, and president trump said he has declassified those, and he's allowed to do this. so you are going to see house republicans led by james comer will want to look into this, jim jordan and the weaponization of the fbi and they passed the committee, so it's a big priority. >> would you agree, i hope they do all of that and hope they spin their wheels doing it. when former president trump was told a year and a half ago by the archivist to return all the stuff and would not do it and they went back and forth, is that the same as what you hear with biden? what we know now, there seems to be a big difference. >> big difference is presidential records. there was a case in d.c. where president clinton held on to

eight years of records and the judge ruled classified information he was allowed to do that. >> sandra: see what happens, we got you going and now we have to go. >> if he should investigate it, and if there is wrongdoing, investigate it. i don't fully get the comparison, we shall see. >> sandra: you guys were great. appreciate it. john. >> john: a fine pair there. growing number of school districts across the united states are banning or blocking an artificial intelligence program. they say students can use the program known as chat gpt to cheat teachers wouldn't know. lydia is live in new york city with the story. >> they are alarmed and they are curious about what this artificial intelligence could do to change education. chat gbt generated this essay on the american revolution in just a matter of seconds, and some school districts don't want that tool used by their students. watch. >> we want to make sure that our

students are well-rounded, not taking shortcuts. so until we understand a program and how it could apply, we would rather not have access to it. >> that was an assistant superintendent in clifton, new jersey. it along with larger districts have banned access to chat gbt on school property. other districts, new york city, los angeles, loudoun county, virginia, and baltimore in maryland. >> john: not hearing anything -- >> open a.i., tweeted that chat gbt is great for fun creative inspiration but relying on it for factual query not a good idea. in fact, john, we did find a factual error in the essay about the first reading of the declaration of independence, underscoring problems about relying on the technology in educational settings.

still, a lot of interest generated in this, a lot of buzz here, john. >> john: say what you want about the intelligence of a.i. but cannot get it past lydia hu. >> sandra: new at 2:00, another liberal suburb considering to drop the voting age, children as young as 16 to cast a ballot. is it a ploy for democrats to contribute to their base. that, and a ski resort official on this winter's huge snowfall totals, all coming up as "america reports" rolls into hour two. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no... give us a call.

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