attends i .com that s tens i .com. eva longoria searching for mexico tonight at nine on cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom i m jim acosta in washington. details are slowly trickling out. of david, alabama, side of last night s mass shooting. a news briefing last hour provided us with some new information. four people are confirmed dead enforcement caution, though that s 28 people were injured. some critically, at least 15 teenagers were shot, we re told , and several, as i just said a few moments ago. they are in critical condition. the attack took place at 1/16 birthday party. in this community of 3000 people, the heartbreak of this small town on full display this evening at a vigil that just got underway within the last hour. you re looking at some pictures that are just recently come into us here at cnn, and we now know one of the people killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her birthday, phil staviyski dowdell. there he is right there, smiling. he was days away
the people who are outside will likely have to sleep there for the night. where are we? javier calle video, runs the casa del migrant shelter and do that juarez, mexico across the border from paso, texas, and says this is one of about 40 shelters in the city, and that most of the migrants here are from venezuela. the top nationality is venezuela majority, if not all, are part of the skyrocketing number of migrants trekking through the dangerous jungle passage between colombia and panama, known as the dairy and gap, migrant crossings there have jumped from under 620 10 to nearly a quarter million last year. this year, nearly 90,000 migrants have made the track so far, all of them on their way to the u. s southern border. the biden ministrations took notice
migrants could make that dangerous trek to the united states once title 42 ends next month title 42 is part of the federal covid emergency that overrode asylum laws and let the us deport migrants to avoid a public health risk. a larger surge of migrants could overwhelm border towns and facilities, and cnn s rosa flores is live in el paso for us to explain what s happening there now and what s being done to prepare for what might be a new surge. big surge of migrants? what can you tell us? rosa well, jim l paso could be seen a surge right now. let me show you where i m at i m inn near downtown el paso. this is sacred heart church, which is a migrant shelter and all of the migrants that you see out here right now they re waiting to be allowed into the shelter, but i just talked to the priest who runs the shelter, and he says that the shelter is already packed and that most likely all