and russian media reports a car explosion has killed the daughter of an influential russian philosopher and key putin ally. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. a tropical storm warning has been lifted for far southern texas, but rain from that system could spread into oklahoma and louisiana through midweek. strong winds are expected as the storm moves further inland. meanwhile, more than 12 million people across the southwestern and central u.s. are under flood watches. in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas, the risk of flash flooding is high, with these areas expecting heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. in new mexico, residents are doing what they can to prepare for the worst. water backs up into our yards and also so far we made almost 50 sandbags. we have some that we made last year, but we re making more to prepare for that rain. an
administration s immigration policy. before we begin bussing up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. in the last two weeks texas has sent roughly 1,000 migrants to new york and since april they ve sent 7,000 migrants to washington, d.c., where the mayor has asked for help from the national guard. joining me now is the former acting secretary of homeland security under president trump chad wolfe. thank you for being with us. what do you think of this policy? do you agree with what the governor of texas is doing, loading them on buses and just dropping them off in new york and washington without much of a plan in terms of dealing with those municipalities? they re just handing them over. this is what dhs has been doing for 17 months. they re sending them into communities all over the country whether it s in new york, it s
many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan
crossing into our country customs and border protection sources tell fox news there have been more than 2 million encounters at our southern border since the fiscal year began in october. box team coverage senior correspondent casey stegall s live in the border parties in eagle pass, texas will start first with alexis mcadams 1900 miles away in the newsroom and here new york with the latest round of the migrant buses arriving in manhattan. just the past couple weeks hundreds of migrants have been dropped off right here in new york city. to see this buses pulling nearly every other day. another round of buses from texas mexico border pulled into temperate look here you see the people walking off of the buses here and new york after 24 hour journey to the big apple but just after 7:00 a.m. this morning three buses pulled right into the new york port authority dropping up a wonder to 39 migrant sprayed texas governor greg abbott directing those buses to new york for the past s
last week at sparks widespread outrage when charges were downgraded in the suspect was released without bail. governor hopeful is claiming credit for his rearrest. her refusal to repeal bill reforms biz criminals back on the street in the first place. alexis mcadams is live in eric city with more, alexis. there was a lot of anger here. everyone was waiting to find out what happened next. in the ex-con walked free. the innocent victim is still in a coma though. after the outrage were talking about new york s governor stepped in and said the convicted offender had clearly violated its parole, listen. quickset person is now in custody. that is at my direction. people of new york need to know that as their governor i will stand up and protect them. the guy was out before he was rearrested. police tell us 55-year-old was caught on camera punching in the fact of the head last week with the video is pretty hard to watch there for the guy had no clue a person was even behind him