Surrogate his Homeland Security secretary to the u. S. Mexico border to see the situation. This is a stop that a lot of people on both sides of the political aisle are saying that this is a stop that the president should be making. The president says he is not interested in what he called photo ops. The republicans tweeting this picture of a photo meeting with a student in texas. The caption says, hey, girl, im not interested in photo ops. We will discuss the political fallout shortly. First, though, we are joined from new mexico where jay yonsen toured a temporary detention facility where 400 women and children are. The president was not there. The president wants to send a message to the immigrants and the countries from which they are come for you come here you will be detained and you this be deported. That is the administrations focus right now, expedited repatriation. And its a temporary housing facilities that are allowing them to hammer home that message. Once the undocumented
Outbreak in western africa. Three weeks ago on this program when we last covered the spreading Ebola Outbreak we already knew it was the worst ever since we learned about the virus in 1976. Now, the cases are spreading and the death tolls are mounting. Heres where we standed. As of friday, the centers for Disease Control report 1,093 medical cases 786 confirmed as o ebola infections. We learned this morning that a senior liberian doctor has also died. The first in that country. The eebola virus, according to the cdc spreads mainly through direct contact with blood and other bodily fluid and indirect contact with objects such as needles. It includes headaches, fever, joint and muscle aches, weakness, vomiting and profuse bleeding. There is no cure. There is no vaccine. Ebola kills up to 90 of its victims and quickly. And in western africa, the current outbreak is spreading. We learned this week that the virus reached nigeria, the african conttinents most populous nation. The World Healt
Backyard. The politics lead. Who allegedly smeared this democratic senator with prostitution allegations . Before you think vast right wing conspiracy, the senator suggests it may have literally been a communist plot. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com breaking news in our world lead. It is coming to a head in israel. We have a flurry of reports of rockets fired by the militant Palestinian Group hamas into israel. Hamas furious after a Palestinian Teen was burned to death last week. His death believed to be revenge against another atrocity committed against three israeli teens abducted three weeks ago and murdered. Israels Defense System was able to intercept three rockets. Did any get through . Lets go straight to our own ben wedeman stand buying in gaza city. What is happening there, ben . Reporter what we are seeing occasionally, jake, is that a nearby mosque is boasting about rockets being fired at jerusalem at tel aviv and other israeli cities. What they are leaving out of their an
The flood of unaccompanied kids into this country. Kids mainly from honduras, guatemala, el salvador, lured away by human smugglers arriving by the hundreds in the United States every day. Tonight in austin, texas after an airport meeting that almost didnt happen because of politics, the president met with Texas Governor rick perry. He said hes interested in solving the problems, not in photo ops. The pop ticks surrounding this, lawmakers he believes fairly or not have been putting politics first and had a clear warning for anyone thinking of sending their kids north. While we intend to do the right thing by these children, their parents need to know that this is an incredibly dangerous situation, and it is unlikely that their children will be able to stay, and ive asked parents across Central America not to put their children in harms way in this fashion. Now right now, there are more boarder patrol agents and surveillance resources on the ground than any time in our history, and we d
Im john berman. And im michaela pereira. We want to start looking at this storm threat off the east coast. It could very well become a hurricane by the fourth of july. Chad myers joins us now from the cnn Weather Center and just seconds ago we got a new advisory from the National Hurricane center. How big is this storm and wheres it going . Its 40 mile per hour right now. That means it is Tropical Storm arthur. It was tropical depression number one for a while. The storm to the northeast of miami right about there making onshore waves across the east coast. Because the storm is going to stay off shore for most of its life, that will be the main threat. This rip current activity all the way up and count down the east coast that will take people as they are trying to swim in this water this week and this weekend will rip them out into the ocean. I need you to wear a life jacket. You got a lot of red flags up and down the east coast, a lot of life guards saying stay out of this water. Its