this happened at 3:30 yesterday at an open air shopping center 30 minutes north of dallas. what was first confusion for shoppers led to a terrifying reality. one man rushed to the scene, knowing his sister-in-law was on site. my wife and i actually went over there immediately and we picked her up and i just saw i mean, if i would have to he s guess 1,000 to 2,000 people had that were standing in the hot sun, it was 92 degrees. it was people were just crying, hugging, being united with loved ones. it was something i ll never forget. the trauma is not going anywhere but the rampage was put to an end according to police by an officer responding nearby and jumped into action. our rescue task force teams found seven deceased individuals on scene. we transported nine individuals to the hospital to area you traa facilities. of those transported, two have since died, three are in critical surgery and four are stable. at 3 3:36 our officer was at the premium outlets at an
record numbers of migrants crossing the u.s. border, a dire humanitarian crisis. the lead starts right now. with border crossings at an all-time high, the biden administration warns times ahead will likely get even worse now that a key immigration policy that had been used to turn away migrants has expired. the scenes at the u.s.-mexico border today as we learned of two u.s. migrant children who died in u.s. custody. all this as the debt crisis intensifies. we won t in some cases be able to pay our troops. the impact as the nation gets closer to defaulting and not being able to pay its bills. plus, surrendered. a u.s. marine veteraning himself in on manslaughter charges after holding a new york street artist in a deadly choke hold on a new york city subway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re going to start today in our world leader with theen anxiety and uncertainty at the u.s.-mexico border. record numbers of migrants are entering the u.s. including near
and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
christmas the night before christmas and all throughout the country, good luck for those trying to travel anywhere in the country. more than 11,000 flights cancelled or delayed in the u.s. just today. bad for travelers that can t get off the ground. bad even if you re not traveling because that package you re waiting for might not get to you. fed ex and ups say they are worried and close to 1.5 million americans are without power. fox on top of a country frozen in place with mike tobin in chicago where they re used to flight cancellations but nothing like this. madison alworth in newark, new jersey with a lot of travelers that have had it with this. max gordon in new york where major flooding worries are adding to all of this. fox weather meteorologist steve bender on just how long we re all going to have to deal with this. so forget about who will see a white christmas. the race is on for millions of americans who are having a devil of a time getting anywhere before christma
declared a public emergency. in massachusetts, a military base now converted to migrant housing. mercedes schlapp, joe concha and juan williams are standing by. first to peter doocy. good afternoon. in the press room, they talk about these flights in serious terms. we heard about the president. he was trying to laugh off the idea. saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. any comment to migrants to delaware? he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what that is what they re doing. and so we re always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. even though she says they re happy to have conversations, she adm