distribution hub for meth but now it is. meth seizures in new york have increased 1300 percent since 2021, according to the d.e.a. bill? bill: matt finn, thank you, in southern california tonight. breaking tonight, also twitter is now suing the billionaire elon musk in an effort to force him to go through with his deal to buy the company. musk in his legal team maintained thesome giant is withholding information related to the number of bots and spam accounts on that social media platform. twitter calls that reasoning invalid and wrong. we may find an answer in court if it comes to that stocks were off today over a global recession worries. the dow dropped 193. s&p 500 slipped 36, and the nasdaq was off about 108 points today. president biden will have a full plate as he heads to the middle east a bit later this evening. concerns over iran s march towards a nuclear bomb is on the table. tensions in israel s west bank and those high oil prices are
are killing americans are coming in from overseas. what we have to do is stop them from coming in every way that they can including building a wall at the southern border. brian: seizures of fentanyl increased 46 468%. meth seizures 438%. that shows the blizzard of drugs are still coming. in but does it also show we are getting better at stopping it? what it shows is that there is more and more drugs coming in addition to people like customs and border patrol, border protection, border patrol as well as the state local and federal law enforcement really trying. and just to be clear you know 468% increase on fentanyl coming. in that is just between the ports of entry along our southern border. 400 pounds of fentanyl which as you know just a few grains can kill a human. it s so critical that we do everything we can. brian: people say a lot of it comes through the port of entry that s where we get it. it doesn t mean it s not
we re the tinch family, and we are usaa members for life. to begin your legacy, get an insurance quote today. . dana: breaking news. warning about america s drug crisis. the dea saying methamphetamine is flooding into our country, $12 million recently worth in a shipment of frozen strawberries. joining me now, derrick from the dea. look at the meth seizures in 2017. doubling 347,000. meth just keeps going up. yeah, meth has been a problem forever. a lot of people are not talking about meth. they re talking about opioids
well, david, i can tell you as a member of the appropriations committee but importantly as a senator from montana, we have a national crisis. we need to see more members of congress spending time on the southern border. i was down the southern border from 2:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. a month ago shoulder to shoulder with our border patrol, saw first-hand the flood of illegal immigrants coming across that rio grande valley sector right near mcallen, texas but the issue for montana is the illegal drugs. the meth is killing us in this state literally, corner to corner in our state it s breaking apart families, our communities and in fact, our meth seizures in montana doubled by our u.s. marshall two times year-over-year. this is a crisis and that is what i support president trump and what he s trying to do here to secure the southern border. david: by the way we re seeing on the right side of the screen
authorities made a historic drug bust, seizing 15 tons of pure methamphetamine, equal to half of all the meth seizures in the world in 2009. now here is the first look how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,890 after adding six points yesterday. s and p. up a point, nasdaq gained 11. in tokyo, the nikkei fell 5 points, the hang seng dropped 226. thursday s upbeat unemployment report could help stocks continue higher today. the number of people seeking unemployment fell near a four-year low last week, a sign strong hiring may continue in the coming months. in europe, an agreement on debt restructuring moves to the greek parliament which must pass unpopular budget cuts before financial ministers sign off on a bail out deal. exports from china fell in