general has been impeached, including some votes from his fellow republicans in texas. he is temporarily removed from office. he s been suspended from the office of the texas attorney general while a trial plays out in the senate. that just happening the last several minutes. we wanted to give you that information. more on that on the other side of the hour, including more on the debt talks in washington. so stay with us for that. in the meantime, $4.3 billion. that s what new york city officials estimate it will cost to handle the influx of migrants pouring into the city by july of 2024. more than 70,000 migrants have already passed through intake facilities and nearly 45,000 are still in the city s care. with such a heavy strain on the city s finances, officials have asked the state supreme court to suspend parts of the city s right to shelter law. what can you tell us about that? yeah. in the face of the numbers that you just shared, we re seeing two key things from new york
it s easy to love a car you can trust. it s easy to love a subaru. the migrants are putting a huge strain on new york. the city will spend more than $4 billion to help asylum seekers by july 2024. right now more than 44,000 migrants are in the city s care. more than 70,000 have passed through intake facilities. polo sandoval is there. they ve asked the state supreme court to suspend shelter laws. what does that mean? reporter: the concern among city officials here is that 45,000 number, which is the total number of asylum seekers, roughly, that they re still caring for, will continue to increase.
covered that children in no way that i would argue that no one else had. there was an expose on cbs about emergency and take facilities about little boys complaining that they were getting feathers and bloody enron chicken in joe biden s america. suicide watch list. in bags. where is msnbc? i thought you guys were great humanitarians. we cover it here on outnumbered. we cover kids crossing the borders. this is joe biden s america where illegal immigrants cross the border, children languish away in intake facilities, and 50 migrants die in the biggest mass tragedy that we have seen. good job, humanitarians. emily: district attorneys have raised that alarm. they say that these children are the ones being absolutely overlooked, sexually assaulted, background checks that people need to go under.
the city of beaumont, texas, still without safe drinking water days without harvey. more than 100,000 people ed to line up for bot lds water. cnn s kaylee hartung is live. any progress there? reporter: alisyn, the water in the natchez river still too high for the city to assess the damage of the two intake facilities. the good news is a temporary fix has water returning to faucets here, a collaboration between a private company and the city. it s a very welcome sight to see that water flowing. you can t drink it. the boil notice is still in effect for the water you see. with that in mind people do need that safe drinking water.
that s about to change. the city announced news residents have been waiting to hear. let s get out to beaumont, we are outside the water treatment facility. katie, what have you learned? reporter: the water and rivers are too high for a full assessment of the damage to the two intake facilities here at this treatment plant, but the good news, we are just learning of six pumps have been installed. six pumps from a private company, tiger industries, are now pumping water into this facility to be treated and then sent out to the city of beaumont. there s changes in pressure. there will be interruptions to service when you get the water. boil it. it s one step in a temporary fix to a problem that s been so big to so many. i want to bring in colonel paul owen, southwest division commander for the u.s. army corp. of engineer, landed on the ground from galveston. they have six pumps here, those yet not installed.