Is there water in this thing when your family to the financial future im evan perez at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn President Biden fires up the base in a politicized state of the Union Address. But will it be enough to rally . The nikki haley voters who are now up for grabs. And beating expectations. The new february jobs report showing a much higher jump than expected ill speak to the Labor Secretary about that in just a few moments. And later, a tire comes off, comes flying off. A United Airlines flight during takeoff damaging cars in the Airport Parking lot hello. Im wolf blitzer in washington. And youre in the cnn newsroom President Biden is taking a victory lap after his fiery state of the Union Address a cnn poll finding more than 6. 10 viewers had a positive reaction to the speech last night. Over the course of 66 minutes, the president sought to assuage concerns about his age and contrast his vision for america with Donald Trumps Maga Movement President Bid
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
brag decided to charge him with manslaughter. penny s attorney said his client risked his own life to protect others when neely was are hasing passengers. jordan neely has quite a long rap sheet criminal pass and mental health struggles. controversy around his killing sparked ten days of protests in the new york city some of it turning violent. when the neely family speaks, we ll bring it to you live. border agents, cities, towns, the entire nation ready for a siege of a surge. a tidal wave of illegal immigrants. title 42 is done. the administration facing overwhelming criticism. a federal judge has dealt a serious blow to what looked like a plan from the biden administration. the fox flight team over brownsville, texas right now. this is live showing what officials are up against. a steady stream. tens of thousands of people massed along the border and now they are beginning to cross in in numbers we ve never seen. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. tit
brian: matt is live, the sun is up, what are you seeing? here in el paso, they have been seeing 2000 migrants per day crossing here and historically el paso has been very busy. 265,000 migrant encounters here this f fiscal year. this is the sacred heart shelter. the big question is what el paso and will southern border will look like today since title 42 expired last night, a few hours ago. a statement from mayorkas. starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using lawful pathway will be ineligible. the border is not open. if you do not not use available entry, you will face criminal prosecution. in addition to title 42 expiring last night, a judge in florida blocked parole with condition program in which the biden administration wanted to release migrants while awaiting processing. now that judge ordered migrants cannot be released without a court date, which prohibits catch and release. here in el paso, migrants have been coming from mexico and vaen. a sh
be open. they are lying. to people who are thinking of making the journey to our southern border. bill: this comes as a federal judge has blocked the mass release of migrants already in custody. new york post with a front page on the biden border policy it says surrender. dana: matt finn live in el paso with the latest. what is it like there today, matt? within the past couple minutes we walked right up to the edge of this border gate or wall and saw a group of a few dozen migrants, as we have seen so often, they are lined up systematically, placed on a bus for processing. the group of migrants we saw this morning appear to be all single adult men. there were no family units or women or children in that group. cbp tells me in the el paso sector it is seeing 2,000 migrants per day crossing into the united states. so far from where we re standing this morning we aren t seeing any major rush or uptick which might make sense as perhaps migrants try to make it into the u.s