Government not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy moments ago saying that government will not shut down as a midnight deadline approaches. This as the house has gavelled in for a rare saturday session and a lot of questions about that deadline. Welcome to Fox News Live, im griff jenkins. Youll Jacqui Heinrich and aishah is on capitol hill. There are a lot of them, why dont you start off. Good morning, good afternoon to you, theres been a lot thats happened this morning and now were all here outside the House Floor Waiting For A vote to take place on a brand new continuing resolution, which would fund the government, this one is 45 days long. It does include disaster relief. It does not include ukraine aid and it does not include Border Security. Lets look at the house floor together as we await this vote. This is coming up under a suspension rule.
never had on the border. it is going to get much worse. what you are seeing now is very bad. record numbers, but it is going to get much, much worse. we had very few people coming in and we stopped human trafficking. when i say stopped it, made a tremendous dent never made before and drug trafficking. we did a lot of things. all of that is now eroded. harris: also stunning new numbers today show border agents encountering an average of 565 unaccompanied minors every single day that s up from 313 children per day just last month. trending higher. there are now more than 4200 migrant children in custody. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will be with me to talk about it later this hour. plus the escalating battle over the filibuster on capitol hill. it could, in fact, change the government that we know in america in an amazing way depending on your point of view, not good. first, casey stiegel is live along the southern border in mission, texas. casey. and harris, ea
speaker, the first time the speaker has been down there as speaker and you had joaquin jeffries and other democrats with him on the texas side of the border. so, they were within 24 hours of each other and so you thought, could one overstay the other and maybe they could talk about how to deal with it. anyway, casey stegall in mission, texas with the fallout from this. hey, casey. hey, neil, yeah, as we talked about yesterday, both sides are calling each other out for saying this is nothing more than a political stunt by coming to the border and frustration is mounting with boots on the ground as lawmakers do visit the region from both sides of the political aisle, yet, no real solutions are ever introduced, no real framework is introduced to really help fix the problem. just this morning brand new video from the fox flight team drone, showing a group of about 50 migrants being taken into custody over in eagle pass, that s part of the del rio sector.
the situation that they say has never been this bad. take a listen to rancher laura allen. it s not like that anymore. these are not the same crossers. for the first time in my life i m 50 plus years old. for the first time in my life, i ve had people come up to me and ask me to cam immigration. ask me. that s their transport. that s their transport out to where they want to go in the united states. if we go to our fox flight team drone, you can see here over the rio grande this is the area hit so hard in eagle pass, part of the del rio sector. they had 967 migrant encounters in the last 24 hours. you see these shipping containers with the razor wire. that is a makeshift wall erected by texas governor greg abbott to try to step the flow. that s why he handed the letter
another sunday and another large group to start the day. about 200, 250 in size, may be larger spotted by the flight team drone as we started our day to day. the video shows them crossing the rio grande river which is very low right now because of the record heat and little rainfall. entering the u.s. illegally before being processed by the national guard and federal agents. records are not just being broken, incidentally, in terms of apprehension and drug seizures, but search and rescue crews as well. cbp says it is 47% increase from all of 2021 for search and rescue operations. sometimes it is deadly. here in the del rio sector alone, agents have recovered the bodies of more than 200 migrants this year. a body just pulled from the river not far from where we are just today. over in nogales arizona, agents