the dirty pavement this morning, spread across about two city blocks here in downtown, el paso. i have now spoken with many of these migrants and they tell me they plan to leave texas for various cities across the country including denver, new york and orlando, florida. and texas governor greg abbott sent another bus load of migrants from this state to the naval observatory in washington, d.c. yesterday. not far from vice president kamala harris home after title 42 ended last thursday. governor abbott says he will continue sending migrants to cities like d.c., chicago, and new york. and now that a fresh week has begun after title 42 expired. border patrol sources tell fox news migrants encounters over the last few days have drastically fallen. the united states border patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before title 42 ended at midnight on thursday. it is still early. we are in day three. and
begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. great to have all of you back here tonight. tonight, new information about the chokehold incident in new york city subway that killed a 30 year old man. graphic video shows the 24-year-old suspect with his arm wrapped around jordan a least neck after one witness said that he had been, quote, acting erratically and ranting about being fed up and hungry. he was taken after this to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. omar has been covering the story all day. so omar, where do things stand? there are new charges right for the suspect. so what is going to happen? now people are calling for charges, that is why we have seen some protests, that video has obviously circulated pretty widely and i think people see that chokehold happening for an extend
3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
good evening. , tonight in the eyes of a federal giardia of his peers to donald trump, the once president of the united states, is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll at a department store in the 1990s, and then defaming her about it last year on his social media site. the jury took just under three hours to reach their verdict and reward carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment, we will be joined by jessica leads, testifying during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s. her lawyers neither put on defense, nor called him as a witness, leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of trump s testimony. they heard the access hollywood tape in which he says that stars can get away with women and heard them during the deposition, doubling down on that. historically, that s true with stars. it s true the stars that they can grab women by the ? if you lo