administration is responding to it. we begin with matt. edward, day after day, we watch as so many of those migrants cross in to the united states right here in eagle pass, texas. we re seeing something unprecedented. the state of texas is bolstering its border here. these cargo containers were brought in before christmas and now over the past two days, we have watched as the national guard has put razor wire on top of those shipping containers. governor greg abbott s office tells us that its taking unprecedented action to enhance its border safety strategies. that s something that we re witnessing in real time here in eagle pass and also to the northwest in el paso where the national guard installed two miles of fencing along the border there. we have new video of yet another large smuggling bust. texas dps says 18 illegal migrants including a child were being smuggled inside of a tractor trailered. the driver was arrested for human smuggling. texas dps says people from al
brief weather window, but not for long. that dry spell for many today, replaced by wetter weather over the weekend particularly tomorrow, then showers follow, some of the wettest weather perhaps wales and the southwest. that s where the met office have won it out for further concerns for flooding but ahead of that at least we ve had drier weather, hazy sunshine for the rest of the day but it time the rain is gathering, light and patchy to start with but you can see waiting in the wings something more significant. it s still relatively mild, average is around 6 7 this time of year and temperatures won t drop below much of that tonight but the rain, once it arrives, its stock for 6 10 hours. it looks set to clear from northern ireland later in the night, temperatures dip back to 7 degrees but for most it sits a mild night and rather grey and dreary start to our saturday. it might be a while before the rain reaches the far south east and east anglia but for most of us if it s no
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
chairwoman betty thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from the secret service. not just texts. the text messages themselves, in many cases, are gone. interesting. but there are other forms of investigation, like teams messages and emails, other forms of communications. we have received probably about 800,000 pages, at least, of material. now, the hearing comes just after the committee secured one of its most high-profile interviews yet, ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas is expected to sit down with the panel in the coming week
bipartisan panel is set to return for a blockbuster presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. we ve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the vice president and the congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what we re going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. earlier this week, chairman bennie thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from t