welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer, losing battle against drug cartel and human smugglers and surge of fentanyl killing americans by tens of thousands. dana: house republicans held a hearing yesterday. they asked if the border is secure. about 10 years ago we used operational control as a measuring stick of our effectiveness along the southwest border. the secretary said we have operational control. based upon the definition you have, no, no sir. bill: reaction from a moment and geraldo rivera is on deck. start doing mission, texas, bill melugin is standing by to begin a new hour. bill, hello. bill: bill, we are learning of a horrible tragedy, an innocent texas grandma and her young daughter were killed after their car was crashed into by a human smuggler. this is 71-year-old maria tambunga and her granddaughter. they are from ozona, in texas. they are both deceased after they were crashed into by a human smuggl
low pressure slowly starts moving eastwards into the north sea but there will be showers pretty widely overnight and it will remain breezy. a frost free nights with temperatures between 4 9 celsius. the weekend is going to be dominated by that low pressure. it might be moving out of the way but still close enough to bring in some showers. more rain on the way for the second half of the weekend. saturday s forecast, another showery day with a greater chance of seeing showers across northern ireland, parts of northern england, the midlands and east anglia. across wales and south west england the weather should become drier through the afternoon as pressure rises with a bit more sunshine to end the day. temperatures for most still on the mild side but the second half of the weekend sees some cooler air arriving across the north of the uk whereas in the south we have low pressure moving in, bringing a zone of rain across parts of england and wales. further north, we will see show
quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
the unions in this country now have the support, whether union members or not, of over 60% of the american people, never before have union been that popular, labor union. or 60% the american people. i think that s important. because they re figuring it. out you are the bulwark against success. you are the ones. and by the way, you know, like all of you, like many of you, i wasn t raised poor. but, i wasn t wealthy. we lived in a three bedroom split level home and in a town called mayfield in delaware with four kids, mom, that, and a grandpa. but we were all right. we could always tell whether things were going. rough we had two sets of bunks in one room. you could hear my dad when he was restless. you could hear the headboard. i remember asking my mom one day, what s the matter with that? she said, honey, we just lost our insurance. people shouldn t have to face that reality in america. it shouldn t be the case. the unions make sure that we didn t have to face that. but the r
describing the fbi as the, quote, fascist bureau of investigation. we ll talk more in a moment about the debate within the former president s circle over putting out the surveillance video or not. but according to reporting in the new york times by cnn political analyst maggie haberman, investigators already have at least some surveillance video from earlier before the raid, which may have actually triggered the search. quoting now, officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at mar-a-lago and saw something that alarmed them. they also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said. tonight s lead story comes at the end of a day that saw a string of related developments, including rudy giuliani going before a grand jury, the outlines of a plea deal involving alan weissle berg, and a declaration of political war f