include this week s san antonio tragedy. welcome to fox news live i m gillian turner in washington. happy fourth of july weekend to you and your families. well, texas governor greg abbott is slamming the biden administration in a new exclusive interview on fox news live over their inaction at the border. hey, claudia. reporter: good morning to you, gillian. not only is the governor blasting president biden for, quote, not lifting a finger to address the chaos there at the border. he s bracing for the number of illegal crossings to grow even higher following last week s ruling by the supreme court that will essentially allow asylum seekers to stay in this country while they wait for the courts to hear their case. governor abbott saying, quote, the supreme court s decision upholding dhs s termination of remain in mexico policy will only embolden the biden administration s open-border policies. but the president s point people on national security are cheering the ruling saying
more and more people getting in the water and we are reporting more encounters between sharks and people and off the cape it s something maybe little bit different which is we have been protecting seals and protecting white sharks, seal populations are increasing and that means so are the white sharks that eat the seals. in the summer when more people are in the water and the sharks are moving north because the temperatures just right and there s lots of food, that s where you can have more encounters. unfortunately in most of the world shark populations are really way down from what they used to be, but as we start to bring populations back in some places, we have to find ways for sharks and people to coexist. gillian: yeah, i have to point out while the increase is proportionately dramatic, 200 some, up to 800, it s still statistically pretty insignificant, likely near to die in our own boat than
swimming with a shark, right? absolutely. the drive to the beach is more dangerous than getting in the water, the rift currents and those other things that can be dangerous, yeah, swimming problems, so you want to be careful when you go to the beach. at cape cod and some of the places where big sharks and white sharks are coming come back,that s where you neede careful and pay attention to local advice. you heard in the report there s a lot of effort and lots of technology we can use to make sure that we can know if shark are in the area and we need to pay attention to the local advice. gillian: if that fails, i want pro tips, if you re in the ocean swimming and you see a shark nearby further away, what are you supposed to do? well, most sharks are small and aren t a issue. they are predators. i would only say stay calm, keep an eye on the shark and get out of the water. it s just not worth it. especially with big sharks like white sharks, tiger sharks, bull
it and, rich, i just think we need to send phil keating out to try mermaiding. i feel like it s only fair because i m not going to do it because i don t want anybody watching me on camera try to make rich: zero gravity mermaiding. alicia: i think he would be up for sure. absolutely. gillian: border officials are struggling with out of control migrant crisis this week 53 people died after being abandoned in a locked tractor trailer with no water, no air-conditioning, just outside of san antonio. the perpetrator suspected human smuggler, he s now in police custody. this fiscal year alone 518 migrant have died at the u.s.-southern border increasingly desperate people there are braving the blazing texas heat to cross into the u.s. that number by the way does not
sharks, these are the dangerous species, you don t want to be in the water with them and you want to get out but there are some other things that you can do if you not want to have an encounter. stay out of mirky water, don t swim where people are fishing or you see lots of fish or seals that might be things that sharks are looking for to eat because one thing that sharks do is find their prey really well, so if you see shark s food, maybe stay out of those areas. gillian: mike, i apologize to you, i told you that we were going to talk about sharks and are awesome and people don t need to be terrified and important to the ecosystem so i m going to bring you back to do that as soon as possible. until then, happy july 4th, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, happy july 4th. gillian: you bet, russia has seized control of strategic city in eastern ukraine after months of grueling fighting. now could this change the trajectory of the war? national security expert to break it down