i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we re learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutting dow
the bookings for several dozen rooms. dozens of people. one couple from florida saying the cancelled room reservations couldr could cost them $20,000 as they try to find room revocations for their guests. they said it s upsetting how they are treating the american people. i agree with that. i think it s insane. i know you were married not too long ago. one of these couples had people flying in from all over the world. people from more exotic places. but how would you deal with this? this is not a trivial thing. tomi: this is the greatest nation in the world. if this happened to me i would be livid. i m already livid for the american people dealing with this. this isn t just wedding couples, this will be in every city, every town, every suburb. you can t have 6.5 million people coming in, 80,000 in one week. they have to go somewhere. make no mistake, this will be catastrophic and it will affect communities that are underserved. a lot of these illegals will be there and sucki
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
republicans are demanding the fbi handover internal documents at noon today. a whistleblower claims those documents will show then vice president biden accepted money for policy decisions and we re waiting to learn whether or not the fbi has indeed met this deadline. republicans also announcing explosive new information about the biden family business dealings during a news conference a short time ago. they say information obtained from a subpoena by the biden family, financial documents show that the family received millions of dollars in foreign cash. and reveals that hunter set up more than 20 different companies, 15 of them after his father became the vice president. watch. instead of being honest with the american people, president biden is claiming since the 2020 election his family has not received money from china. that was a lie. in 2020, and he continues to lie to the american people now. the committee is concerned about a complicated, suspicious network of over 2
great state of iowa. a brewing battle over who has the harshest vision from america. trump and desantis prepared to do it out in a fight for the gop nomination. plus, the greatest ongoing shift towards authoritarianism, if they work literally wrote the authoritative study on the subject. also, the harsh realities, now that title 42 is history is easy to forget, this is a humanitarian crisis, there are enormous hurdles for those arriving at our border by the books. we are going to show. you and holding a line on reproductive rights in south carolina. one of the woman fighting to keep an ultra restrictive abortion ban from becoming law is with us. this is american voices. . we begin this hour with the humanitarian crisis at our southern border with mexico. as the u.s. struggles to meet the reality of the growing complexities of migration. this new reality demands every imagining of our immigration system, a system meant for the realities of past decades. new data from the dep