washington. doug. doug: warning about a tidal wave and chaos at the border and numbers keep climbing. we are in excess of 10,000 immigrants per day crossing the border illegally. the surge is already underway and fox learned the administration has organized mass release of immigrants into communitieses once shelters are overcapacity. president biden is bracing for what we are likely to see ahead. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for years. we are making real immigration more streamlined and the direction people know there is a legal way to get here and not a legal way. doug: the secretary of homeland security continues to claim the border is closed and secure. we are taking this approach within the constraints of a broken immigration system that congress has not fixed for more than two decades. when we release individuals, we release them on conditions. the vast majority will be addressed in our border patrol facilities and our ice detention facilities.
will: yet another installment today on our way to easter. pete: making our way to easter. there he is he will be joining us at the top of the hour and at the bottom of the faith and friends concert series and that opening shot clarksville, tennessee just outside fort campbell, so everyone in the 101st airborne good morning, hope you re watching. will: it was an army base of knowledge or i m a new tennesseen? pete: that s army base of knowledge combined with the tennesseen getting his bearings abdomen wanted to show it off a little bit. rachel: we re super-impressed. pete: thank you. will: we have to get to news starting with a fox weather alert. it s now 26 people who are dead after historic outbreak of tornadoes in the south. pete: the path of destruction stretching for more than 100 miles leaving communities in ruins. rachel: fox weather correspondent is on the ground in mississippi. robert, good morning. reporter: good morning to you. the sun is up here this morning in the
d etat. prime minister netanyahu s plans to curtail the judiciary. i will ask ehud barak and tzipi livni about what is happening on the ground and in the nasset. also, china s new foreign minister said this week there would surely be conflict and confro confrontation with the u.s. if the american government continues to speed down the wrong path. i ll dig in deep on the moods in both beijing and washington with kevin rudd, the former prieme minister of australia about to be sworn in as the new ambassador to the united states. also, should silicon valley s tech giants finally pay up for serving news content. they ve already squared off with australia over this and canada is next up. but it all may be too little, too late in the age of ai. i will explain. but first, here is my take. mexico could be entering a golden age. it is perfectly placed to benefit from the growing tensions between the united states and china. parts of the country are already seeing a boom as companie
as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia
we just saw the president s motorcade arrive at the palace. this meeting is after president biden assured the alliance will remain strong and continues to support a two-state solution while saying he does not believe this is something likely to happen in the short term. we are awaiting remarks in bethlehem. the president visited a palestinian run hospital in east jerusalem. here is what he said there. president biden: i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats with iran throughout the region including support for terrorism, ballistic missiles and proliferation to hezbollah. diplomacy will not stop me, only thing that will stop iran is knowing if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force. they are talking about his meeting with the prime minister of israel where the discussion centered on denuclearization of israel. president biden has