this despite her repeated pledge. we re not cooperating with ice and we re a sanctuary city. we re a city that is a sanctuary city. we have immigrants from all over the world who call chicago their home. we re a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. chicago police department will not cooperate with ice. chicago has been a welcoming city and a city of immigrants since its founding. proudly so. the crisis at the border growing more deadly by the day. border patrol confirming at least nine migrants have drowned trying to cross the rio grande into texas, garrett tenney is live in eagle pass, texas. what have you got? the last few days alone. those deaths prompted the border patrol to issue an extreme warning asking migrants not to cross illegally due to strong currents in the river after getting a lot of rain with potentially more on the way. despite that warning, large groups of hundreds of migrants continue to cross over the weekend including some with young children. former
good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m jose diaz, picking up another hour of coverage on nbc. president biden traveling in milwaukee this hour. stop one of a battleground blitz, he will also be heading to pennsylvania, where the senate race is critical for control of congress. more on his message in moments. plus, travel headaches this labor day, as millions of americans take to the roads, and air. i woke up to a text message saying my flight was canceled. they were steady. what you need to know on the busiest labor day since before the pandemic. right now, u.s. immigration policy is in the spotlight. nine people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in the waters of the rio grande as they tried to cross into the united states. what is happening at our border? we begin this hour with the unofficial kickoff of the final sprint of the 2022 midterm campaign. president biden is now on his way to milwaukee, wisconsin, where he will take part in labor day festivi
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
republicans hope will win their party control of congress. we are going to hold the majority in the house because we have a plan to fix the problems are countries facing the other side has only a ploy to win back power from shelves and rip away our constitutional freedom, reproductive freedom, it has awakened millions of voters. if democrats want to make abortion the main issue when every poll we have seen says that the economy and the cost of living is the number one issue, good luck to them trying to defend their extreme position. i guess he hasn t seen all the polls. meanwhile we are still being the key decision that could be made any moment, as a judge determines whether to grant trump s request for a special master to review what it was seized from mar-a-lago. earlier today both sides the aisle gave way to trump s handling of the documents. the process for declassification. the president is in a very different position than most of us in the national security
through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs burting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: you saw a few of them, back to school photos we ve been asking to send human, patriotic back-to-school photos for the nation s and them that we do every saturday and sunday on fox and friends, keep the photos coming, friends@foxnews.com. i had to look down, it is september 3rd, is that right? it is on the banner. how are you doing? rachel: it is not labor day yet. you are in a light colored suit. i love that you took advantage of that. pete: today and tomorrow. rachel: there was a dog at the beach, back-to-school photo, stop spangled banner, it is still summer. and pete, it is too. will: if there s any questions. pete: visually remind you al