meanwhile, the biden administration is still denying there is a border crisis preferring to call it a, quote, challenge. with officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including a new influx of young children. we have live team coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is in wilmington the, delaware, covering the administration s response, but first we start with griff jenkins who s down on the border in mission, texas. griff? reporter: hey, eric, good afternoon. we are here in the rio grande valley sector, mission, texas, part of that. and let me just show you the proximity to which we are to the border. you can see as we come around the wall, a hole in the wall, the levee in the distance about a mile two two miles is the rio grande river. that is ground zero where we see migrant after migrant, as well as some single adults. they are just coming in an overwhelming number that the border patrol agents here can t deal with. and it s not just the of
preferring to call it a challenge and officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including an influx of young children we do have fox live team coverage on this. david spunt is in wilmington, delaware covering the biden administration s response to the border crisis. but let s begin with griff jenkins on the ground in mission texas so griff, tell what you say you re seeing there. good afternoon arthel we re just seeing what it looks like as this sort of epicenter of the entire border surge because right here in mission texas part of the rio grand valley they re seeing more traffic than they ve seen in a long, long time and let me sort of take you to our drone team in the air and you can get a sense really for this situation. where we re standing along a border fence a mielg two miles off the rio grand river that s where so many of the migrants are coming and walking ultimately to peacefully surrender to border patrol to claim asylum some families so
allegations. they went on to write that the governor has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of new york. earlier today, the governor said he will not resign, and then he dismissed politicians who believed his accusers. people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to counsel cancel culture, and the truth. politicians who don t know a single fact, but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are, in my opinion, reckless, and dangerous. because those politicians cuomo is referring to include at least 24 congressional lawmakers. if the majority of the new york delegation now calling for his resignation, including prominent democrats like representative alexander because jo cortez, jamaal bowman, house oversight chair carolyn maloney, and judiciary committee member nadler. at the repeated against the governor and the manner in which he responded had made it impossible for him to continue to govern at this point. a seventh accuser came forwa
families of seniors who died of covid-19 in nursing homes. a letter from a group called voices of seniors saying it is clear that you put your own political reputation and personal profit above the well-being of our most vulnerable family members. the cuomo administration has denied any wrongdoing. same goes for the michigan governorship of gretchen whitmer who tells an nbc reporter she s proud how the state handled the pandemic, but the nbc report goes on that covid positive patients were placed as fox news @ night s negative patients. did end that practice after the first six month of the pandemic. the reporter claims whitmer s policy compares from new york cuomo, instead whitmer incentivize the process by taking homes to take patients who contracted covid-19. where defends what you said by saying that there was a national strategy. the quarantines will continue plus facts are that nearly half of debts were happening in nursing homes. and as for former president trump,
growing list of bipartisan lawmakers and the family of seniors who died of covid-19 in nursing homes. a letter from a group called voices for seniors saying, quote, it is clear you put your own political reputation and personal profits above the well-being of our most vulnerable family members. the cuomo administration has denied any wrongdoing, same for the democratic administration of gretchen witmer who told local nbc reporter she is proud of how her state handled the pandemic. the nbc report goes on to detail how covid-19 positive patients were placed in the same facility as covid negative patients. the report explains, quote, the policy different from andrew cuomo because witmer didn t force them to reside with covid negative patients. but incentivize the process by paying homes, she she defends what she did by saying there wasn t a national strategy. the facts are that european studies show half of the deaths were happening in nursing homes. on march 16th of last year d