minutes from taking the stage in new york where he ll try to leverage the power of his bully pulpit to shove republicans off the fence in the debt ceiling fight. will that help move friday s talks any closer to a deal? and the jaw dropping admission just a day before title 42 is set to expire. in the records of one dhs official, the system is breaking, and they haven t even hit the starting line yet as thousands of migrants cross the southern border, the white house is planning to let some of them in with no court date and no way to track them. so much going on today, but we start in long island, new york, where a freshman republican congressman george santos is expected to be arraigned in court on federal charges just four months into a congressional career that was built on lies about his background and wealth, and according to the government, krm criminal schemes. today the justice department hit him with 13 counts. among them charges of wire fraud, money laundering, t
13 federal charges against a sitting member of congress. george santos accused of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds. so will republicans call on him to resign with every vote in the house critical? santos due to be arraigned at any moment. public pressure campaign. president biden hitting the road and hitting republicans over a fierce budget standoff. in minutes he s making the case for raising the debt ceiling once again without conditions, with potential economic consequences just weeks away. and heroes in action. newly released audio reveals the terrifying moments as officers search for the texas mall shooter. one officer telling the dispatcher i need everybody i got. chilling words as they ask for backup. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. just minutes from now, new york congressman george santos is expected to appear in federal court. he was taken into custody this morning.
our southern border is poised to become more open for trafficking and for drug business. imagine being on the front lines. our border patrol are truly heros out there risking their lives under near impossible circumstances. take a look at the streets of el paso, texas. 150,000 are waiting on the other side of the border to push across. so texas state troopers have done what they can on their own to prepare. they have laid razor wire across areas that are so porous that people can just come right through as they try to protect their state. they re keeping them from crossing the river at those points while we hear this, again, from dhs secretary mayorkas. watch. let me be clear, the lifting of the order does not mean our border is open. in fact, it is the contrary. martha: really? okay. lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety very much on the front lines of this. he s going to join us in just a moment with an update of what s going on wher
plus, e. jean carroll s attorney says she may sue trump again after comments he made about her at last night s town hall. putin s spokesperson claiming with a straight face that russia is not, quote, waging war. denying that ukrainian towns are being destroyed. is it a sick joke? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re hours away from a major change in u.s. immigration rules. this is what s happening on the ground tonight. hundreds of migrants right now waiting between barbed wire and the border wall. waiting for a chance to cross into the united states. and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands more behind them. in fact, the united nations today saying as many as 400,000 migrants may attempt that journey to cross that u.s. border. the reason is tonight s deadline. at midnight, title 42 is going to come to an end. we have just a few hours here. title 42 has been used nearly 3 million times to turn migrants away from the united states. and there
at least 10 other people are injured. brian: the driver is in custody and facing several charges already. police say they are still investigating and have not yet released the identity of the driver. steve: i was reading in one of the local papers down in brownsville today, and what the police officers there in brownsville said there are three possible explanations for why that suv plowed into those people. the first one? intoxication. the second, an accident. or the third one intentional. ainsley: yeah, one police officer said doesn t appear to be accidental but a judge, judge eddy trivino jr. said it s unclear with the driver lost control or intentionally ran into the group. i guess they will know more after they interview them. awaiting toxicology reports to find out if there were drugs or any alcohol in their system. brian: hit a cu curb, lost control and people were miss his way. defense attorney would have representing the driver. this is going to be unbelievabl