day to all those who are irish and everyone else who wish they were. we are monitoring texas right now with the drone view you will see only here on fox. meanwhile, 400 miles north in dallas, the governor getting ready to give an update on the migrant kids the state is holding and overflow facilities there. sandra: president biden told those migrants, do not come over to the u.s. but in cities like war as mexico, that is not stopping thousands from making the dangerous journey, cartels and smugglers also taking advantage of this situation. the new york post slamming the bite administration for refusing to call the situation there a crisis. despite the fed s warning that the u.s. is on pace for the most border crossings in 20 years. the homeland security chief speaking about that in hearing today, taking a dig at past administrations. a crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter fut
border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
suspect says he has an issue with sex addiction. authorities said long was apprehended last night after a brief manhunt. appears he was en route to florida at the time, possibly to carry out additional shootings. when we hear president biden address this incident, he ll be speaking at a virtual meeting with what is a tradition in this country on st. patrick s day, ireland s prime minister. they ll be commemorating st. patrick s day. normally, this event is inside the white house. for covid reasons and travel restrictions, it is not being done this way, nor was it done that way last year. nbc s chief white house correspondent kristen welker is standing by, awaiting remarks from president biden. todd winter is covering this, as well. blayne alexander is in atlanta. kristen, this is a mostly ceremonial event with the irish prime minister. what do we expect to hear from the president? reporter: well, i think we can expect to hear him address the shooting off of the top of this
desantis in florida. all you need is a quarter of the people that just supported trump to sign a petition and it appears they have done that. he failed miserably. he locked on the largest for the economy in the world and let out prisoners and now gavin newsom will be held accountable. brian: here we go, that s a look at our road and that is philadelphia. ainsley: this is our oc wagon. yesterday brian said he thinks the anchor who says hello for should decide the song. brian: i was hoping that would be a new tradition i mean, if you went to the other side of the album. ainsley: if you will suggest it, you should know it. brian: but i don t know every song. i focus most of my youth with the base city rollers. i thought they would have long jevity but they did not and they left with their mullahs. if you google base city rollers you will know what i mean. so great to be with you all. brian: you should ve seen at lawrence s face when he walked in. like he was headed to