Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, February 12th, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. On to the Senate. Airspace closed, beautiful clean coal, and your Olympics update. That's all coming up. And Bill is going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, the House passed the Save Act, where it's now onto the Senate, where Mike Lee said there are 44 supporters of it.

It will need 50 to pass if the Senate forces a talking filibuster.

The bill says that you must prove you are a citizen to register to vote and bring a photo ID to the polls,

and mail-in ballots must have a copy of your photo ID as well. Mike Johnson said that we are hoping

some Democrats come to their senses and do the right thing, otherwise you have a lot of explaining

to do. Only one Democrat in the House voted for it, even though over 70% of Democrat voters

supported. That one Democrat vote, by the way, the one Democrat in the House who voted for the

Save Act is a Democrat from Texas who Trump pardoned back in December on bribery charges.

We have a mess of reports at the moment, but Sean Duffy, our Transportation Secretary,

and some officials from the White House say that Mexican cartel drones breached U.S. airspace

prompting a temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, which shut down the El Paso airport.

Some sources are saying the shutdown was prompted by the Defense Department's use of a new

counter-dron technology, and they shut down the airspace because of risks that it could pose to

our aircraft in the area. The Trump administration has warned for months about Mexican cartels

using drones at the border to surveil border agents and smuggle drugs. The director of the

counter drone program at DHS testified in front of Congress that U.S. officials detected more

than 60,000 drone flights

within 500 meters of our border just in the second half of 2024. That's 326 flights a day.

The president signed an executive order directing the Department of War to enter into agreements

to purchase electricity from coal power plants to power military operations. The President said the purpose

of this executive order is to ensure that we have more reliable power and a stronger and

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