anderson, we have been working actually a couple scenes tonight. bouncing back and forth between the two. first, here at the laundrie home just about an hour and a half ago, there were reports of shots fired. ten police cars came racing down this street. two officers went inside. they had gotten a call about shots fired from an unknown number. they came here, checked it out. no evidence of shots fired so all was well. earlier in the day, we were at the carlton reserve where they had been searching for days now for brian laundrie. the nothing port police say they are just as committed now. their drive is just as strong to find him as on day one. they have been searching the swamps, the woods, the marsh, very deep water in that area as well and they have all kinds of tools they are really using. they are using swamp buggies, air boats, atvs, drones, they have officers on foot, as well. they will continue, anderson, to search through the weekend trying to find areas where they think he
scenes tonight. bouncing back and forth between the two. first, here at the laundrie home just about an hour and a half ago, there were reports of shots fired. ten police cars came racing down this street. two officers went inside. they had gotten a call about shots fired from an unknown number. they came here, checked it out. no evidence of shots fired so all was well. earlier in the day, we were at the carlton reserve where they have been searching for days now for brian laundrie. the north port police say they are just as committed now. their drive is just as strong to find him as on day one. they have been searching the swamps, the woods, the marsh, very deep water in that area as well and they have all kinds of tools they are using. they re throwing everything at this. they are using swamp buggies, air boats, atvs, drones, they have officers on foot, as well. they will continue, anderson, to search through the weekend trying to find areas where they think he is more likely to be i
heat advisory. today in fact much of the area is. and there are still so many people without electricity, more than 400,000. that more do we know about efforts to restore power today? well, if i look at the good news, the good news is that most of the city of new orleans has had the power restored or will have it restored by the end of the day tomorrow. there will be a few pockets. but otherwise the city s pretty good. it s outside of that. it s the other parishes, those that were hardest hit by the storm, and also those that are more remote where their communities are more remote. getting to the damaged equipment in some cases it s going to require electrical teams to get on air boats and get out into the swampy areas to try to restore. and that s why that work is projected in some cases to take to maybe the end of the month, erica. tough to hear. there are new questions about just what is considered to be full regimen of the covid
behind me there is mexico. i m standing on the u.s. side of the rio grande. the river here is only about 50 yards wide, as it winds its way past laredo and in places a few inches deep. one of the only ways to patrol it is via airboat. and we joined the patrol as they cruised the river doing at times almost an impossible job. border patrol agents are using every tool at their disposal, air boats among them, as they try to turn back the tide of illegal immigration that threatens to swamp our southern border. in the laredo sector alone they ve seen more than 130% increase in the number of apprehensions of immigrants crossing the rio grande this year compared to last. on this side of the river, the mexican side, those who want to cross watch and wait on that side, the u.s. side border
patrol agencies watching and waiting. and there aren t enough of this to come every inch of the 136 miles of this sector and that s where these air boats can make a real difference and they do. but inevitably they can t stop everyone from making it to the north side of the river. when we encounter them, it s a foot chase on the ground. it s a vehicle pursuit, but you know, from us or from our partner agencies. so the smuggling organizations are driving that. so it s dangerous? it s dangerous, right. the mayor of laredo says he s had enough and accuses president biden of breaking promises. we want the cavalry to arrive. we ve been waiting months now for that and unfortunately, we haven t seen much of that. in a recent debate in the texas state senate, one democrat summed it up this way. when a nation cannot define its border, it ceases to be a