preventing the surge in the first place. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies, they are enriching, they are empowering the drug cartels in mexico who make money off the people that they assist in smuggling them into the state of texas. the cartels make money off of these migrants that you and your viewers see on tv. they also tell me about the escalating number of people coming across the border. eric: for more on how president biden plans to try and stop this, david spunt is in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend at his house. reporter: president biden and his team not calling this a crisis at least publicly, they are calling it a challenge. this is quite a big undertaking though for the department of homeland security and fema, to be part of this. it shows that the administration on the border especially when it comes to an influx of unaccompanied children. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas
denying the allegations against him. i did not do what has been alleged, period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. and i never would, right? let s start with the new allegations coming from a former reporter, cnn s polo sandoval is following the latest developments. what are you hearing? reporter: fred, you re referring to jessica bateman, the latest in a growing list of women who have come forward recently with these allegations of sexual harassment and assault against new york s governor andrew cuomo. as you mentioned earlier, these are accusations that the governor continues to deny and continues to refuse to step down over, instead saying that he wants the investigation to proceed. but she s recounting when she was a reporter, she s now a reporter in miami. basically she self-penned a piece, a first-person piece in new york magazine in which she recounts multiple occasions in which she alleges that she
coverage and we ll start with david spunt tracking president biden and his reaction to the border crisis from wilmington, delaware. we ve got griff jenkins tracking conditions on the ground from the southern border and we ll turn to griff first, a closer look from mission, texas. hi, griff. hey, gillian and kristin. we re down on the border in mission, texas, part of the rio grande sector. what s happening at this moment see this white bus coming through the border wall in the distance about a mile is the rio grande river where we re apprehending record number of migrants. this is the 13th bus i ve seen since i ve been here today. it s full of migrants that have been processed and we have exclusive photos, i want to show you where that bus just came from. these photos from here show that the processing center, a temporary processing center has been set up outdoors, you can see in the photo, the white buses, you can see migrants all over the place, they ve had to set up a po
more states are easing restrictions. the standard for normal cannot be zero cases. in oklahoma the standard for normal is freedom. you wear your mask not because your governor tells you to. you wear your mask because you want to protect yourself, your loved ones. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world this is new day, friday, march 12. 6:00 in new york. president biden is targeting july 4th as the day that america can start feeling a sense of independence from the pandemic. in his first prime time address last night the president pledged to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by may 1st. that s just seven weeks away and a month earlier than the last projection. but first president biden is pleading with all americans to buckle down until then to beat the virus. putting dates on it is really interesting. really interesting to have an actual finish line t
the country remains divided in terms of its willingness to stay the course on mask wearing and social distancing for the final month before the vaccine has been distributed. president biden is expected to preview what a return to normal will look like here. he ll also address the grief of a nation consumed for one whole year. the anniversary marks the day for many americans, the grim reality, from the washington post, quote for most people march 11th was when the crisis first became real. it was the day of a high-profile diagnosis, and official decidingation of pandemic. schools closed, streets emptied and commuters stayed home. we didn t know it then, but the virus had already infected thousands. over the next 12 months, leaders bungled opportunities to quell its spread. case levels rose, fell, rose again. hope endured and more than 525,000 people lost their lives. dr. anthony fauci, who has become a household name, first for his beleaguered attempts, acknowledged today