competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we re going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we re going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin mccarthy do now? let s bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analy
least a half a dozen targets now largely in eastern syria have been picked by u.s. forces right now where the focus seems to be on getting those that were behind the attacks on those u.s. soldiers, killing three of them and injuring better than 40 last sunday. that was then. the attack is on now. we re told it s a widespread attack zone. but there s some wondering about the sites that were included in this. that these proxy sites, again those sponsored by iran, are the oned targeted. so far no such moves in i ran itself as though some expected. let s get the latest from jennifer griffin, what she s hearing at the pentagon. jennifer? i apologize. we have dan hoffman with us first from moscow. what you know of this right now, what can you tell us and what do you think? yeah, you know, syrian media reports that six targets were struck as many as six or seven may have been killed. take that with a grain of salt. this is the initial forray by the united states. they re hitting t
i m dana perino with judge jeanine pirro, richard fowler, will cain, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. this is a fox news alert: the united states has started carrying out a wave of retaliatory strikes in piers and serie a, five days after a in retaliatory strikes of iraq and syria. let s go right to the national security correspondent jennifer griffin, who has a live update from the pentagon. at 4:00 p.m. eastern, carrying out air strikes on six to seven locations, i am told, in both iraq and syria. the u.s. central command just put out a statement in which they said that 85 targets had been struck at those different locations that were used by the iranian revolutionary guard corps. 125 munitions were dropped. we have heard from u.s. defense officials that two b-1 b lancer bombers flew from the united states to the region and carried out some of these strikes, targeting, i m told, multiple targets inside of the 6-7 locations used b
But first, were going to go live to texas where fox is. Griff jenkins is standing by. Griff, what can you tell us tonight . Hey, laura , good evening. I can tell you there is a sigh of relief in a lot of Pride Running through Border Patrol agents from coast to coast because oropesa was brought into custody by Bortac Agents. They are the elite units of. The Border Patrol. Theyre a unit hav based out ofl paso, but they have agents all over the place. Weector, i in the rgv sector, In Brownsville, about five hours soute clh of where cleveland, texas, where the murders happened and they werencerne concerned that oropesa initially was trying to get back to mexico. Obviously, having been deported some four or five times, being mexican nationals illegally present in the u. S. But what woe know about how it went down,n th im getting some details and well find out at the press conference. But what my sources are tellingl me is that about tim 615 local a in texas, they got a tip abouttm a residen
the southern border is near a breaking point with thousands of migrants there waiting to be processed. federal authorities are reporting a seven-day average of more than 9600 migrant encounters at the border this month, which is among the highest ever recorded. republican tony gonzalez says the resources of border towns already are stretched thin and are being pushed past their ability to handle the unprecedented surge. when there s large numbers of people that come over, border patrol gets overwhelmed. they have to feed and clothe and house these people. where do they go? they go to the local grocery store. just the other day they bought 8,000 loaves of bread, cheese, food to feed these people. guess what happens when you go shopping at that local grocery store? you don t have groceries. joining me is rafael romo on the southern border in eagle pass, texas. just give us a sense of what you re seeing there today. reporter: let me tell you, in the last few minutes we saw