seen along the southern border. we have fox team coverage of the ongoing border crisis. aishah hasnie on capitol hill looks at a tough day of questions for the president s homeland security secretary. first, senior correspondent mike tobin is in he ll pass, texas again tonight. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. today we saw for those working the front lines of border protection the job is becoming more chaotic and dangerous, even for those protecting the border from a distance. a coast guard helicopter lands at the puerto rico trauma center carrying agent from the air and marine operations arm of customs and border protection. one dead, two wounded are a an exchange of gunfire with a suspected drug smuggling vessel 14 miles off the coast of puerto rico. one suspect also died. the other injured and taken into custody. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas spoke today about the peril border agents face. the difficulty of this job cannot be compared to the difficulty that our frontli
half million people are being affected by a combination of heat advisories along with excessive heat warnings and watches through wednesday. we have exclusive video tonight showing hundreds of migrant apprehensions in the rio grande valley. one group contained more than 100 unaccompanied children, which is rare. correspondent bill melugin shows us this evening from la joya, texas. in the dark of night, a massive group of more than 250 migrants crosses illegally into roma, texas this morning surrendering themselves to border patrol. mixed in with this group a staggering 138 unaccompanied children and minors, no parents or guardians anywhere to be seen. between october and april, cbp reports there have been more than 85,000 of these unaccompanied children encountered at the southern border. that s enough to fill the entire capacity of the dallas cowboys football stadium. the illegal crossings in the rio grande valley are nonstop.
agency reports griner will be held at least through july 2nd. she has been detained on drug smuggling accusations since february. that s when russian authorities stopped her at a moscow airport. they said griner was carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. the state department has classified her as wrongfully detained. russian opposition figure lexy nastled has been transferred to a security prison. that value did i s allies were alarmed when he discovered he had been moved to undisclosed location. earlier this year he was sentenced to nine years in prison u.k. troops have been pushed to the industrial outskirts of the city by the russian scorched earth policy in that area. tonight senior correspondent mike tobin visit a high school
here is senior national correspondent rich edson. there are options to sell but it s like just throwing it away. it would be cheaper than selling it. this one ukrainian farmer is among countless others who are unable to sell their crops and earn a living. there are more than 20 million tons of grain stuck in silos near ukrainian ports courtesy of a russian blockade. global food prices are already increasing. and the united nations warns of worldwide food shortages next year if russia continues its siege. the blockade by the russian navy has created a global crisis that we cannot solve by ourselves. and nato is closing its eyes to the problem. u.s. officials say russian invaders have also destroyed ukrainian farming equipment and pilfered their grain. the new york times reports the state department sent a cable to more than a dozen countries, largely in africa warning them that russia could be trying to sell them stolen grain. countries there are already
affecting children. correspondent mike tobin is in lviv tonight with that good evening, mike. good evening, bret. it s up to about 2.5 million refugees driven over the western border of ukraine. about 10% of them stop here in the city of lviv. but especially for the sick, just because they have escaped the fighting does not mean that they have left their troubles behind. in time of war the most vulnerable face the greatest suffering. melania is a cancer patient from the town of dnipro which was bombed today. she is being treated at a hospital in lviv in the west away from most of the fighting. the chernobyl hospital is named because it originally treated victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. now the hospital treats pediatric cancer patients. kids with kidney failure get dialysis here. kids needing dialysis face a unique risk during this war. they need their blood cleaned