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[00:04:17]KW World News coming to you live here this evening. There is a lot going on in the world. So hold on folks because we're about to shock you. The biggest thing of the day is the fact that a bus from New York headed to North Carolina plowed into a bunch of cars that were almost stopped on interstate 95 just south of Washington DC.

[00:04:41]It killed a bunch of people. And well, the Chinese operator of that bus, well, guess what? He doesn't speak English.

[00:04:49]And he got his driver's license from New York. We're going to give you the story about the bus and then we're going to go in depth into the crooked Democratic states that are issuing people that don't speak English CDLs and killing Americans on our highways.

[00:05:09]that took place uh in Virginia earlier this morning. A huge crash from a bus.

[00:05:15]It struck multiple vehicles. Take a look at the picture here. Unfortunately, killing multiple people and injuring dozens. For more on this, we want to go out right now to Fox 5 DC's Bob Barnard joining us here with the latest in this tragic accident.

[00:05:32]Oh, it's just awful. Mike, we are outside Stafford Hospital here in Stafford, Virginia, just south of DC. 12 of those who were injured in this crash were brought here. We're told all of them were treated and basically released as patients, although they were cared for here until they could make arrangements to continue on their journey to North Carolina. That's where the bus involved in this crash was heading to from New York City to North Carolina. There are about half half [clears throat] a dozen other patients at uh Mary Washington Hospital. That's in Fredericksburg, Virginia, just south of here. Some of them, we're told, in life-threatening condition. Um, sadly, four members of one family were killed in this crash. They were from a town called Greenfield in Massachusetts.

[00:06:16]That's in North Central Mass.

[00:06:19]Sky Fox over the scene this morning, I 95 in Stafford County, mile marker 146 near Quanico, Virginia. You can see the bus there where it finally came to a stop in the median. It had been traveling southbound on 95 from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina. You can see the tracks of its tires, a long path of flattened grass through the median after it left the highway.

[00:06:42]>> It just comes flying up the side just barely missed us. He's in the ditch.

[00:06:47]>> One passing motorist shot this video right after the crash just after 2:30 this morning. You can see people being evacuated off the bus. One police officer there on scene almost immediately. I wonder if they their brakes went out or something.

[00:07:01]>> It missed us and it could have been us because we had just hit that lane and [clears throat] you know I'm like we just we just dodged you know dodged a bullet but man when I hear people that actually I was hoping that nobody actually died.

[00:07:17]>> Stafford County fire officials say five people were killed, 37 injured in the crash. Four people in one SUV died at the scene. A couple in their mid4s, a 13-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy. A passenger in that car, which caught fire, was critically injured and flown to a hospital in Fairfax County.

[00:07:37]>> So, we've got an approximately 25-year-old male that was found uh as a passenger rear seat in an SUV that had heavy damage and three fatalities in the same vehicle. Uh patient was found alert and responsive. Virginia State Police say the crash happened as all traffic approaching a construction zone was slowing in the southbound lanes except the bus. For first responders, it was chaos and carnage. Katie Brady is with Stafford County Fire and Rescue.

[00:08:07]>> Some of the things that I know our providers saw um are probably going to, you know, stick with them for a while.

[00:08:13]Um and we do have those channels and avenues for support that we will be working on with them. The bus is operated by ENTP Travel out of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. All they would tell us is that they're cooperating with the authorities. The interstates southbound lanes were closed for a time, reopening as the day progressed.

[00:08:34]You see, that's what they told you, folks. They told you, "Oh, it's just owned by this bus company." But you see, we know more than that. Hey, Jack. Uh tell us all about this bus accident and what uh the bus company is known for.

[00:08:55][music] All right, here's the full breakdown of that deadly bus crash on I 95. Early yesterday morning around 2:35 a.m. a charter bus slammed into slowed traffic in a work zone on southbound Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia near Quantico. The bus was heading from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, carrying about 34 passengers. It failed to slow down, hit a Chevrolet Suburban, which then pushed into an Acura SUV and four other vehicles. One of those cars caught fire. Five people were killed.

[00:09:35]All of them were in the passenger cars that got hit. The victims were a family of four from Massachusetts, a 45-year-old man, a 44 yearear-old woman, their 13year-old daughter, and 7-year-old son, plus a 25-year-old woman from Worcester, Massachusetts. More than 40 others were injured, with some in critical condition. The bus driver himself was also hurt and taken to the hospital. The driver was Jing S. Dong, a 48-year-old man from Staten Island, New York. He's a naturalized US citizen originally from China. He got his commercial driver's license, his CDL, in New York in 2024. Transportation Secretary Sha Duffy has been very vocal about this, pointing out that Dong reportedly does not speak English.

[00:10:21]Federal law requires commercial drivers to be proficient in English so they can read signs, communicate with authorities and handle emergencies safely. Charges against him are pending while investigators look into his actions before the crash. Now about the bus company, it's E andP Travel, Inc. based in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. They only started operating in late 2023, run just four buses with 11 drivers.

[00:10:49]According to FMCSA records, they had a satisfactory safety rating with only one injury accident in the two years before this crash. So, on paper, they looked okay. But this incident is obviously a massive red flag. This whole thing is shining a huge spotlight on how some states, especially New York, have been handing out CDLs to drivers who may not fully meet federal standards. A federal audit found over 50% of New York's non-domiciled commercial licenses were issued illegally, wrong expiration dates, poor verification of legal status, all kinds of problems. New York has issued tens of thousands of these.

[00:11:29]The feds are even threatening to yank millions in highway funding over it.

[00:11:33]This tragedy is bringing all that to the forefront. A family wiped out, dozens injured, and now serious questions about whether the system let an unqualified driver get behind the wheel of a passenger bus. That's the full story so far. The NTSB is on scene investigating, and we'll keep watching for updates on the charges and any findings about the licensing process.

[00:11:56]>> All right, now do some research. How many states are known for giving people that don't speak English CDLs?

[00:12:11]Got it. Here's the research on states known for issuing CDLs to people who don't speak English. Federal law has always required commercial drivers to be proficient in English. They need to read road signs, communicate with law enforcement, and handle emergencies. But enforcement has been weak in several states for years. The states most frequently called out are California, New York, Illinois, Washington, and New Mexico. California is the biggest offender. It allowed CDL skills tests in up to 20 different languages. It's been heavily criticized and was specifically threatened with losing federal funding for not enforcing the English proficiency rule. New York got slammed the hardest in audits. Over 53% of their sampled non-domiciled CDLs were issued illegally. That's the one tied directly to the Virginia bus driver who didn't speak English. Illinois has also drawn attention because a huge percentage of their recent CDLs went to non-domiciled foreign drivers. Washington and New Mexico were formally warned by the Department of Transportation that they could lose federal highway safety funding if they didn't start enforcing the English requirement. Other states that have offered CDL knowledge tests in Spanish or additional languages include Colorado, Connecticut, Arizona, and Florida, but California and New York stand out the most in the current crackdown. The Trump administration has been pushing hard on this since late 2025, threatening to pull funding and forcing states to tighten up. A lot of these lax practices were tied to issuing non-domiciled CDLs to immigrants without properly checking language skills or legal status. Want me to dig deeper on any specific state? No, I want you to shift gears. We're going to go over to what China and Russia are doing around Japan and the Russian buildup of equipment in the islands just north of Japan.

[00:14:12]>> [music] >> All right, shifting gears to the rising tensions up north around Japan. Russia has been steadily militarizing the Kural Islands, the chain they control, but Japan claims as its northern territories. They've deployed Bastion P coastal defense missile systems on several of these islands, including Paramushia in the north and earlier on Matau and Iturup. These systems fire supersonic Onyx anti-hship missiles with a range of around 300 m, giving Russia the ability to threaten ships and control key straits in the region.

[00:14:47]They've also built new bases, barracks, and air strips on these islands, some as close as 14 mi from Japan's Hokkaido. On the naval and air side, Russia and China have been running repeated joint bomber patrols. Russian TU95 nuclearcapable bombers regularly link up with Chinese H6 bombers, often escorted by Chinese J16 fighters and sometimes Russian SU35s.

[00:15:14]These flights go through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and around Japan's islands, including between Okinawa and Mako Island. They've done multiple large-scale joint missions with one in December 2025 involving eight Chinese J16s and lasting around 8 hours.

[00:15:32]Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has been extremely busy responding to this. Over a 9-month period in 2025, they scrambled fighters 448 times to shadow aircraft entering their air defense identification zone. That's roughly 1.6 times per day on average. While it's not exactly twice a day every single day, it's a very high tempo with the majority against Chinese planes, but a significant number against Russian ones, too. This combination of Russia beefing up the islands right off Japan's coast with advanced missiles, plus these regular joint bomber flights with China has Tokyo on high alert. They're treating it as a clear show of force and a growing security challenge in the Northwest Pacific. That's the current situation with the Russia China activity around Japan and the buildup on the Kural Islands. Want me to go deeper on any part of this?

[00:16:27]>> No. Now, let's talk about Russia and what's going on in Russia. The fact that their spring offensive has failed. The Ukrainians appear to now have the upper hand, and there are multiple reports of Russian troops retreating in several areas along the uh front with Ukraine.

[00:16:53][music] All right, here's the latest on the situation inside Russia and on the Ukraine front. Russia's much hyped spring summer 2026 offensive has largely stalled out. According to multiple assessments from the Institute for the Study of War and other analysts, Ukrainian forces have blunted most of Russia's advances across the front line.

[00:17:15]Russia's daily rate of territorial gains has dropped dramatically down to just a couple of square kilometers per day in the early months of 2026. And in April, they actually suffered a net loss of territory for the first time in a long while. Right now in late May, the picture is even tougher for Moscow. Over the past four weeks, Russia has lost around 100 square miles of ground in Ukraine. Ukrainian counterattacks and long-range drone strikes have been hitting Russian logistics hard, taking out supply lines, ammunition depots, and equipment far behind the front. This has forced Russian units in several sectors like near Lyman and Kansk to pull back heavy equipment and ammo to safer rear areas. Reports show Russian assaults losing momentum in places like Kyansk with some units being redeployed because they can't sustain the pressure.

[00:18:08]Ukrainian forces have been making targeted gains in areas like the Prosovk direction around Costian Tenevka and in western Zaparisia. While it's not a full-scale collapse, the momentum has clearly shifted. Ukraine is inflicting massive casualties, over a thousand Russian troops per day on average, while Russia's recruitment can't keep up.

[00:18:29]Inside Russia, the strain is showing.

[00:18:32]The economy is feeling the heat from all the sanctions and war spending.

[00:18:36]Recruitment is getting harder, and even some Kremlin insiders are reportedly calling the war a dead end. Putin is still pushing hard with missile and drone barges on Ukrainian cities. But on the ground, his forces are grinding into Ukrainian defenses at enormous cost for very little progress. The bottom line, Russia's spring offensive has not delivered the breakthroughs they wanted.

[00:18:59]Ukraine is holding strong and hitting back effectively, and there are clear signs of Russian forces being forced into local retreats and pullbacks in several hot spots along the front. It's a tough situation for Moscow right now.

[00:19:12]Want me to zoom in on any specific area of the front? Actually, I want you to talk about what the folks in the Baltics are doing. So, NATO has an exercise going on right now. The US is moving 5,000 troops out of Germany into Poland, repositioning them closer to the NATO Eastern Front. Bellarus is threatening with nuclear weapons. Um the uh folks in Estonia are worried about Russia trying to take the northeast corner of their country. Give us the full rundown on everything that's going on.

[00:19:56]All right, here's the full rundown on what's happening in the Baltic region right now. NATO has several exercises either just wrapped up or ongoing in the area. They just finished Open Spirit 2026, a mine clearing operation off Latvia's coast with ships from eight nations. There's also exercise Sword 26 involving nearly 15,000 troops from 11 countries across the Baltics, Poland, and Finland, focusing on rapid maneuvers, drones, and AI enabled warfare. NATO is also ramping up its command structure. They're assigning the German Netherlands Corps specifically to defend Latvia and Estonia to get reinforcements there faster in a crisis.

[00:20:37]On the US side, the Pentagon is pulling around 5,000 troops out of Germany, but President Trump announced those forces are being sent to Poland instead. This is being framed as strengthening NATO's eastern flank by moving American forces closer to the Russian border, though it created some confusion and mixed reactions among allies. Bellarus is ratcheting up the pressure with joint nuclear drills alongside Russia. Just last week, Putin and Lucenko oversaw exercises practicing the use of tactical nuclear weapons, including Iscanda missiles stationed in Bellarus. Lucenko says it's purely defensive and they're not threatening anyone, but it's clearly meant to send a strong signal to NATO and Ukraine. Estonia is particularly worried about its northeastern corner around Narva and Idu County where the population is mostly Russian speaking.

[00:21:28]There's been hybrid activity including online chatter about a so-called Narva People's Republic that echoes the separatist playbook Russia used in Ukraine. Estonian officials are watching this closely as a potential destabilization tactic, and the whole region is building defensive lines, anti- drone systems, and border fortifications. Overall, the Baltics are on high alert. They're boosting their own defenses, hosting more NATO exercises, and pushing for faster reinforcement plans because they know they have very little strategic depth if Russia ever decides to test Article 5.

[00:22:04]The combination of nuclear saber rattling from Bellarus, Russian hybrid moves, and NATO's efforts to plug gaps is making this one of the hottest flash points in Europe right now. Want me to expand on any specific part of this?

[00:22:18]>> Actually, what I want you to do is look into the Ukrainians attacking Russian convoys moving across the southern part of Ukraine to uh resupply troops in Crimea. and the fact that so many of these resupply vehicles have been hit by the Ukrainians that the troops that are in Crimea are pretty much almost cut off and not being supplied adequately enough. So go into that because this is a turning point in the war with Russia and Ukraine.

[00:22:58]>> [music] >> All right, here's the deep dive on Ukraine's campaign against Russian supply lines to Crimea. Ukraine has launched a major sustained drone campaign targeting Russia's land corridor to Crimea. They're hitting the key R280 P280 highway that runs from Marorpole through Bedans, Melopol, and onto Symphol in Crimea. This is the main overland route Russia uses to move fuel, ammunition, troops, and supplies between occupied southern Ukraine and the peninsula. Ukrainian units like the 41 to Nemesis Brigade and defense intelligence drone operators are using mid-range drones to strike fuel tankers, ammunition trucks, supply convoys, rail hubs, and even repair teams far behind the front lines, often over 100 km back.

[00:23:52]They're destroying dozens of vehicles, forcing Russia to abandon highways and try dirt roads, which Ukrainian drones are also picking off. The impact is significant. Russian troops in southern Ukraine, particularly around Kerrison and Zaparisia, rely heavily on this narrow land corridor coming out of Crimea. The constant hits have created real shortages of fuel and ammunition.

[00:24:16]In occupied Sevastapole, authorities have already started rationing gasoline, limiting sales to just 20 L per vehicle because of these logistical problems.

[00:24:26]Russian military bloggers are openly worried, saying this kind of systematic logistics degradation looks similar to what happened before the 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kerosan. The Institute for the Study of War notes that these strikes are limiting Russia's ability to move reinforcements and sustain their positions, slowing down their offensives. This is a big shift.

[00:24:49]Ukraine has moved from occasional deep strikes to a deliberate logistics lockdown strategy, and it's clearly hurting Russia's ability to support forces in Crimea and the South. While it hasn't completely cut them off yet, the pressure is mounting and the supply situation is getting tighter by the week. This is definitely one of the most important developments on the southern front right now. Want me to expand on any specific part of this for the show?

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