to lead talks on how to stem the surge in illegal border crossings. those crossings reaching historic proportions with authorities routinely reporting 10,000 encounter a day. the influx is in border authorities, 10,000 in custody right now. so stretched are resources, customs and border patrol had to close two major railway crossings and other ports of entry so they can shuffle agents to busier points along the border. $43 billion in trailed a year are carried on those two rail lines alone. no telling how politically costly an extended closure could be. with congress on holiday, talks for a comprehensive border package have installed, and with them, hopes for ukraine and israel aid. republicans say funding for those embattled nations must be paired with measures to secure the u.s. mexico border. it s a quid pro quo triggering a backlash who fear an asylum and refugee crackdown could hurt the party among latino voters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent guad venegas who s
being old. do that on television, ok? i said to see you do it on television. i don t want to dislike you. i can t help it. sandra: begin with the media writing off ron desantis s bid for the governor even before he joins the primary field. i m sandra smith in new york. a lot of puns off the top alert there, but we do have a hot show coming up. john: yes, no question about that. all right. let s get cooking here. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. after months of speculation, and several visits to early primary states, ron desantis will make it official not with the usual campaign kick-off rally but in a live audio only interview with the ceo of twitter, elon musk. sandra: we are just hours away from that. marc thiessen standing by whether desantis s entry will shake up the race and peter doocy with the naacp growing war with desantis. how will desantis s rollout play out tonight? what are we and anticipating? from hot and humid miami, a bit of a
whoa, whoa 28 points. i would like to do the same. reporter: that would make her a copy cat. she said the same thing when she first laid eyes on patches. whoa. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 29th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. i think the sound we heard at the end of the patches story was the grunt that patches makes getting up i can tup. she can t meow. can you take a cat for a walk? i don t know. here s what we re looking at. more than 0 million are facing severe storms yet again today after residents were faced with baseball-sized hail. what led to the recent collapse of two banks. the concerns now over a third and why the white house says it will not step in to rescue it. we will stand up again and again, and our language will get tougher and we will get madder. antiabortion bills face an uphill battle. they fail in republic
balloon, the pentagon refusing to say whether they re considering shooting down what sure looks like a chinese fly balloon, officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either, meanwhile the balloon the size, by the way of three school buss is meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice missouri today including in columbia missouri this very afternoon, where this exclusive footage was shot. now, the flying about 60,000 feet up 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane and the pentagon said there s another chinese spy balloon currently somewhere over latin america. we ll talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight here to help us figure this out. cnn tom foreman and animal coldnal layton, let me begin with you, tom at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going. if we trust what the military thinks about it where it s been was china, flying coming in over canada and drif
object. plus, florida governor ron desantis cracking down on election crimes. but is there really an election crime problem? guess what? we got the numbers you will come to your own conclusion, and congressman george santos accused of to paying for puppies with with bad checks worth $15,000, seems like they didn t get the puppies i m going to speak to an amish puppy breeder who say they were scammed. good evening, tonight, president biden giving the go head to take down another object hovering over alaska, about the sides of a car, they said it was threat to commercial aviation passenger jets, tonight phil mattingly is reporting one of the main reasons president biden decided to shoot the object down was well, it came less than a week after chinese spy balloon was shot down, we re now learn, the u.s. military is in the process of recovering that mysterious object, let s get to phil mattingly, phil, evening you got new reporting from the white house, you ve been talking to s