group of republican governors set to visit the southern border is greg abbott faces off the biden administration as arizona and california see rising numbers of migrant encounters and they step up enforcement on their side of the border. welcome to fox news lives. is going to be a busy second our. lawmakers prepare for the release of the border and immigration reform package in advance of a vote next week. the republican house speaker mike johnson declares the rumor deal dead on arrival. jeff paulison eagle pass on the ground bringing the latest. reporter: it has been a quiet day in eagle pass, we ve only seen a few smaller groups of migrants trying to enter the us pales in comparison to what we saw a month ago in this exact location. it puts it in perspective. 71,000 apprehensions in the month of december for the entire dell rio sector. 17,000 apprehensions down 76%. part of a reason for the drop, texas governor greg abbott limiting access to shelby park and all the r
anita: the chaos at our southern border continuing into the new year. customs and border protection sources revealing to fox news a staggering new record number of migrants entering our country in just the month of december. at the same time, a massive migrant caravan is marching its way through mexico. welcome back, everyone, to a special edition of fox news live. i m i m anita vogel in los angeles. great to be with you and happy new year. rich: i m rich edson in new york. border officials say they encountered a new record of 302,000 migrants in december, and more than double that since october 1st. the unprecedented figures have some democratic lawmakers pushing president biden to address this crisis. as long as people are coming to the border and they are hitting a speed bump and they are being released and waiting for, five, six years for an adjudication, they re going to keep coming. if we don t address that by addressing detention, giving them the quick hearing
of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
nick also nichols for about three minutes. officers also hit him with a baton and pepper sprayed him as he appeared to show no resistance. nichols also cried out for his mom. his home just 60 yards away. president biden spoke with tyre nichols parents before the video s release expressing his and the first lady s condolences. he and the snuck also nichols family called percent protests to be peaceful and most of them were. rich: lucas tomlinson with more on the reaction there, but first, steve heir began is live in memphis, and we want to warn you again video is difficult to watch. with that in mind, here s steve. reporter: rich, we re expecting more protests later in the afternoon in front of police headquarters here in memphis. so far things have been peaceful since the release of that police body cam video footage last night, 7 p.m. eastern, put on the internet for all to see. basically, it shows what looks like a traffic stop at first of 29 years ago tyre nichols.
and appears that fighter jets are in route. when we have more we will get back to you. right now we just know anything but the airman issued and air spaces closed in north lake michigan. going after shootdown in canada, mike, u.s. officials describing mysterious object metallic balloon with payload, on abc senate majority leader chuck schumer used balloons. they probably have been all over the world. i do think senator tester is looking why it took so long for us, our military, intelligence to neglect about these balloons. that s something i support, congress should look at that. lucas: not long after that mysterious object shot over canada and fighter jet shot it down in canadian air space, faa closed air space in montana near border with canada and nuclear missile silos. lifted that flight restrictions, said in a statement radar anomaly caused the possible false alarm. john tester told cbs a short time ago he thinks there may be something out there. the object shot down i