putin is facing another round of military setbacks. and at our nation s border, the government says arrests have now exceededn just one year. we ll talk to the chair of a congressional hispanic conference, raul ruiz about that and much more. and we begin with our top story this morning, hurricane fiona strengthening to a category 3 storm after devastating parts of the caribbean leaving at least three dead in puerto rico and one dead in the dominican republic. now, the storm is now barrelling up the atlantic taking aim at turks and caicos. next, take a look at the intended path of this of this storm. meanwhile, let s take a look at puerto rico: we re expecting an update later this hour right there after fiona made landfall on sunday as a category 1 hurricane unleashing massive floods. two feet of rain and landslides. the island s power grid ravaged again, four out of five people still without power this morning. over 800,000 people do not have access to running water. th
outlook. get as much support as you can in a situation like that. niagara parks lit up the parks in blue to show support. that s my intention, we are working out the details now. president biden does intend to visit the southern border next week. doing it because is he forced to not because he wants actual solution. most of my movies the machines were the enemy. but today they found ways to use technology as an ally. i am your ultimate companion. one more time steve: yep, one more time. they re going to go ahead and gavel things in today at noon in that building and for one more time they will have another vote. and, you know, maybe we re closer. we don t know. yesterday we thought we might be closer. not the case. anyway, it is a thursday. it is january 5th at 55 degrees down in washington, d.c., a beautiful day. they re going for 66 and it s going to be cloudy. ainsley: that song always reminds you of something. a restaurant in new york and palm be
good morning and officials here have long told us they see trips to the southern border as political stunts. but that s changing. are you going to be visiting the border when you head down to mexico? that s my intention. we re working out the details now. peter: right before president biden took office in 2020 there were about 458,000 border encounters a year. that grew to 1.73 million in the president s first year and 2.37 million in the second year. officials here right on up to the president have said immigration has always been a priority, with the president putting forward a plan shortly after inauguration. it just hasn t been the top priority. that s been the economy the whole time which officials believe polls show people want them putting first like when i asked the president when he was on his way to a chips facility in arizona last month. why go to a border state and not visit the border?
year, and you know, those numbers are going to come in somewhere around 2.3 to 2.4 million arrests, and that is far higher than anything we ve ever seen, and it breaks last year s record of 1.73 million in a single year. and nick, there is 175% increase in people crossing the border from venezuela, nicaragua and cuba this august versus the same time last year. why are we seeing those numbers rise as fewer people cross from mexico and northern central america? yeah, that was one of the interesting things in the latest figures released by the department of homeland security. for the first time, migrants from the countries you listed, venezuela, cuba, nicaragua, now outnumber the number who were taken into custody who came from mexico and central america. that s a really important shift, and the administration is seizing on that and blaming the what it calls the failing
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