that s without their parents. casey stiegel has more from the border city of eagle pass, texas. what can you tell us this morning? good morning to you. here in the del rio sector of texas those apprehensions you talk about with unaccompanied minors absolutely through the roof. so far for fiscal year 2021, a 122% jump here just north of us in the big bend sector, they are up 141%. and then along the entire southwest border you see there a 64% jump in the number of children detained compared to the same period last year. the fox news flight team drone is back in the air with us today. a look at mexico this morning across the river from eagle pass, texas. as the white house has this to say about the situation on the ground. it is still a difficult time, a difficult journey. we aren t encouraging people to come. we also believe differently from the past administration we won t turn away kids who are under 18. word this morning out of brownsville, texas where city officials
two big stories, the cdc saying it s okay to open schools in america. it s a big deal with a teachers unions in major cities saying they don t want to do it. dana: what biden s chief of staff said last night at odds. bill: a huge part of the first covid bill that has about $130 billion in schools in america. you wonder what sort of leverage the unions and white house are working on? dana: at some points the parents will say enough. we also have the issue of three weeks from the capitol hill riots and getting a little bit more information, not enough. but we had the capitol hill police explaining yesterday along with a briefing from the army and the general from the national guard explaining why they were not prepared. bill: the major headline that they knew there could be a problem two days before the riots happened. dana: one of the things they didn t want to do is create a perception that they had had in the summer and that led to a really bad situation. bill: w
continues. new year s celebrations are being scaled back or canceled altogether, and businesses are closing because workers are forced to quarantine. all this as we see an increase in hospitalizations in children just days before schools reopen for the holiday break. gillian: fox team coverage, dr. marc siegel joins us in a moment. mike: but we begin with steve harrigan in atlanta, home of the cdc. steve? mike, more of these covid records are being set, but yesterday almost half a million new cases, almost double the amount that the previous single day had cases, 50 states have set records for new cases. the cdc says hospitalizations are lagging behind the new case numbers, that they are comparatively low. but just a short time ago six atlanta hospitals said they were suffering a staggering surge of covid patients, both adults and children, almost all of the nonvaccinated. for the surgeons and doctors on the front lines who have to deal at this, it really does seem like
seven-month-old baby. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 8:00 a.m. here in uchain, and russia is pummeling ukrainian rail hubs and supply lines as it ramps up its assault on the east. you are looking at a railway bridge that was blown up on friday. we have been able to geolocate it, and verify the authenticity of that video you are look at near the donetsk region and a senior u.s. official tells cnn russian forces are making incremental advances there. meantime, another mass gave was discovered friday in the key suburb of bucha. 900 civil yaps have already been found dead in the kyiv region in the wake of russian forces pulling out. russia s focus is now on the eastern donbas region. moss coy s aim is to kill everyone living there. have a listen. translator: only if ukraine will stand, will they live. if the russian invaders succeed in realizing their plan, at least in part, they will still have enough artillery and aircraft to destroy the entire donbas just as they des
equipment that is being promised and indeed delivered from nato and from the united states and other nato countries coming to this arguably the most important battlefront in terms of the ukrainian defense against the russian invaders. so they re going after those very important railway lines with these bombardments. i have to say on top of that, though, the railway bridge that links leman to the other side of the donetsk river was also blown today. it s not clear, though, jake, whether it was the ukrainians or the russians that blew it because we do know that the ukrainians do have a tactic of blowing bridges in order to slow russian advances. they are going to use in all probability the donetsk river as a line of defense if it comes to that. there have been very substantial troop movements among the ukrainians on the ukrainian side throughout this region over the last 24 hours. and clearly an effort at least at re-enforcement is under way. a lot of movement of troops. a lot