seeing is not that, and this is chaos. so enough is new. a delegation of dozens of republican lawmakers headed to the southern border over the coming days as over a million migrants have crossed in the month of december with thousands more making their way from south and central america. now since october 1st border patrol s encountered nearly 800,000 people along that border making this highest record quarter, the highest quarter on record. welcome to this special edition of fox news live. with i m gillian turner in washington. mayor eric adams says his city is reaching a breaking point as a result of governor greg abbott continuing to bus migrants from his state up north. bill melugin is in los angeles with the latest developments. hi, bill. reporter: hey, gillian. as the number of crossings continues to shatter all records out there, fox news has obtained an internal alert sent out by border patrol s tucson, arizona, intel unit which warps agents some illegal immig
at the southern border as cbp sources tell fox news that december saw the highest monthly total of migrant encounters ever. this comes as another caravan of thousands of migrants is heading towards the united states just three days out from a new year. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m molly line. mike. mike: good morning. i m mike emanuel. bill and dana are off. new numbers from the southern border reveal agents stopped more than 276,000 migrants in december smashing the previous record of nearly 270,000 set back in september. that figure does not include the migrants who weren t caught known as gotaways. all of this as sanctuary cities say they are buckling under the surge of migrants arriving from the border. molly: we have fox team coverage on this. garrett tenney is live in chicago with the latest on the migrant crisis there. go to william la jeunesse on the record breaking numbers. to put that in perspective the population of pittsburgh is 300,000
in northern gaza and starting new offensive in the southern part of the region. idf is moving into the southern part while the u.s. tries to help the two sides bring an end to this war. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro, a lot going on that we will start feeling at home, we ll get into it with cory mills in a moment. carley: first trey yingst has an update from tel aviv. trey: israeli forces say they are close to completing high-intensity phase of this war in gaza. much has been in gaza jabalia neighborhood where troops from 551st brigade evacuated a group of civilians in a building. weapons were found at that school according to idf. difficult fighting taking place in southern gaza. death toll is rising with total of 137 killed since the ground operation began. they discovered new tunnels in gaza city used by hamas leadership. take a listen. from this infrastructure, they other than able to move and
will: welcome to a special edition of jesse watters primetime. i m will cain in for jesse. we start with a fox news alert. a major blow for the democratic party. the supreme court today shot down special counsel jack smith s appeal to fast track trump s january 6th case, handing trump a christmas gift: time. jack smith, the overzealous prosecutor with a scraggly beard, tried to leapfrog the lower court of appeals and force a quick decision on the question of whether or not the former president should be granted immunity from his federal charges. why? to make sure donald trump spends the month of march stuck in a courtroom. trump, who s already been out of commission for the last two months over his fraud case in new york, will be taken off of the campaign trail. again, meaning no rallies, no fund-raisers. he will be forced back into the court the day before super tuesday when trump is supposed to be on the ballot in 16 states. it s been the biden campaign strategy all alo
former president donald trump and did it just open the flood gates for more candidates to dive in. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. first to jacqui heinrich at the white house on the back and forth of infrastructure amid a backdrop of controversies. jacqui? hi, neil. with this new divided control of congress, passing new legislation is going to be much more difficult for the president than it was when democrats controlled both chambers. ahead of any 2024 announcement, which could come sometime after the state of the union, the president hasn t been laying out an agenda other than promoting bills that he signed in to law like he did in baltimore, touting the trillion dollar infrastructure law. he talked about a tunnel that would be replaced and completed about a decade from now. it will have up to four tracks total allowing trains there to move at more than 100 miles an hour. this is 150-year-old tunnel. you wonder how in the hell it s still standing. we re going to in