i mention i m not supportive of title 42 because it essentially stopped all legal asylum seekers wanting to come to our country from having that opportunity to seek asylum. and so, in the absence of anything, title 42 was supported. but now that it s being lifted, there are some concerns from residents who live directly on the border who are concerned and fear that many migrants could continue to go into harm s way, crossing dangerous roadways, and going into the infield of the community. yeah, seeing the images of people, hundreds of them, sleeping in your streets. that s not good for the migrants. that s not good for your residents either. and you noted a difficulty in accessing resources, so i want to ask you about that, because the secretary of the department of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, he says this is a hemispheric problem that requires hemispheric solutions. the united states has sent billions of dollars to central america to try to stop this
this deal, along with employees from the fdic and the treasury. but what does this mean for customers of first republic bank? well, the first thing to note is your deposits are safe here at first republic. also, all 84 branches that have opened across the country today are now jpmorgan, and finally, key here, the fdic will continue to secure deposits. but the big question now is where do we go from here? are we looking at other bank failures, or is this the end of the line? ceo jamie dimon spoke about it this morning on the media call. listen here. this is getting near the end of it, and hopefully this will help stabilize everything. the american banking system is extraordinarily sound, you know, and obviously, if going forward you have recessions and rates going up and stuff like that, you will see other cracks in the system, but that s to be expected. the system is very, very sound.
saying small children were found covered in blood, though somehow not wounded. translator: i miraculously managed to escape. there were ten of us that survived. 15 of us were there, and of the 15, we lost my 9-year-old son. my wife as well. and two people who died were protecting my 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter and my 1-month-old son. they protected him with a bunch of clothing. so, the murderer wouldn t kill him too. another family losing someone to gun violence. ed lavendera is joining us from
$229 billion worth of assets. first republic, now the third bank to fail in just the past seven weeks. and happening right now, an attorney for the former president continues to cross-examine e. jean carroll, the woman accusing trump of assaulting her in a new york city department store in the 90s. ahead of today s testimony, the judge in this civil case denied trump s request for a mistrial. jim? all right, we have exclusive new reporting on china s airship program. these are the first images, never been seen, obtained from a private company by cnn of a chinese military blimp caught on satellite in a remote desert based in northwestern china. the pictures, we should note, are from november 2022. that s, of course, three months before a chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of south carolina after crossing the entire continental u.s. cnn s alex marquardt joins us now. first, tell us who took these pictures and what the significance we think are. these are images that w