Florida's high-speed passenger train service suffered the first fatality on its new extension to Orlando on Thursday when a pedestrian was struck in what appears to be a suicide, officials said. Overall, it was Brightline's 99th death since it began operations six years ago. A northbound Brightline train headed to Orlando struck the 25-year-old man shortly before 9 a.m. near the Atlantic Coast city of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said at a news conference.
won t help as you well know congressman, they say that physical barriers would help. they don t think they re the number one priority. they don t want it as much as the president does and they list other things that he ignores but you can have both. you can do money for physical barriers and still have other priorities. and there s different barriers, there s pedestrian barriers, there s vehicular barriers, there s the urban areas like in san diego and el paso and mostly it s fencing. texas has the rio grande river. that s a pretty good barrier and that s a different situation and it s private property owners. president bush never thought about putting up a wall in texas or more fencing in texas but he put it in new mexico and arizona and california. you ll see a lot of push back in texas and understandably so. he did think about using the
priorities. we have approved money for physical ware barriers. vehicular barriers. pedestrian barriers. there s certain amount of wall mostly in the urban areas in san diego and el paso. texas has the river. that s a good barrier. and that is a different situation. the private property owners. it s a different situation in texas. it s interesting president bush never thought about putting wall in texas. he never thought about fencing in texas. he put it in new mexico and arizona and california. so i think you ll see push back in texas and understandably so. he thought about using the declaration of national emergency to justify getting people working on cat katrina fixes. for lower level of pay. but he withdrew it. we don t have precedent out of that situation. we were heading towards it. congressman cohen. thank you very much.
to put it into perspective, there is zero miles of wall. there s not one section of barrie barrier which is wall. there s roughly less than 800 miles of barrier. half of that is vehicle protection so the vehicles can t cross, but you can literally walk right across it. so there s less than 400 miles of actual pedestrian barriers and that is built in the easiest places. all those barriers cost $7.1 billion to make. so where is trump going to start to begin this $5 billion wall to cover the rest of the 1250 miles that have virtually no barrier whatsoever? so i point all this out to tell you it s just raw politics and it bears no resemblance to the reality of what s really happening here. don t politics usually have some give or take? jim vandehei, i know it s just tweets, but i am sensing, as
greatest military in the world. i called up the military. we re not letting them in. they ought to go back now. now, do we them to apply and come in legally, absolutely. [cheers] on the southwest border today, dhs secretary kirsten nielsen described what the u.s. military s role will be in border enforcement. we have asked for engineering support, logistic support. engineering support, of course, that would include vehicle barriers, pedestrian barriers. we make that request to the department of defense. in addition, the pentagon will provide planes and hospitals, medical and command and control facilities and temporary housing for customs and border patrol personnel. the white house is also discussing possible executive or regulatory action to stop illegal migrants in the caravan from either crossing over the border or staying in the united states. a white house official telling fox news the administration is considering a wide range of administrative legal and legislative option