Dont look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among president ial candidates that make that a primary start. Why tim scott shows this time to do it. Scary numbers are probably the reason. Kevin corke has more. Kevin . Griff jenkins. I apologize. Look out, kevin corke. Neil my bad. Ive covered the border forever. Theres a reason why tim scott isnt just going to the border for a photo open. Hes going there because the situation is not under control. Sources tell me that Border Encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. Cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels tightener that grip on the border. Heres senator scott. As president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. We have the power to do that. Just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying yesterday Border Patrol ag
she lost her husband in combat when her youngest was three weeks old. these families have given up everything for us and i hope before people go out and celebrate, which i think today needs to be a day of celebration. we are a free country and need to celebrate their service and what they have done and remember them. i hope they take time to dedicate to what today really is all about. todd: that spouse had a three year old, one year old and a three week old and then i just finished with that panel of gold-star parents and you heard us joking, not joking but talking about how stories hit harder when you are a parent. you are about to experience it and understand what that is and listening to cheryl rex, the mom we just interviewed saying what she s going to do today. go to the grave site of her son to be with him. just think about that for a moment and think about so many parents. regardless of the war, who got that call, got that telegram, that no parent wants to get. the c
requirements. i have to go to some place happy. i had to go to a low crime area because there is nothing worse than getting carjacked in a golf cart at 6:00. i had to go to a place where there is pleasant weather. and that is why, ladies, welcome to the villages friendliest hometown. steve: how much fun is this. yesterday i got messages from all of my friends who said steve, you know what? you said you are going to go somewhere in america and make breakfast for somebody so my friends could call and say hey, i will make sure that our kitchen is clean. and so when i was coming up yesterday, a bunch of people said hey, steve, my kitchen is clean. there are 145,000 people who live in the villages. and we might stop by any one of their houses exactly two hours from now. [applause] and you guys are not off the hook. we might go to your house. we might put you in the golf cart and say let s go to their house. and then i m going to make them breakfast from our brand new simply ha
[bell] steve: i m just waking up the folks here at the villages. say hello to captain newt. now are you, captain? very good. steve: thank you very much. how great is that? okay. so, everybody knows that yesterday thank you very much, sir. i said somewhere in america i was going to be showing up and knocking on a total stranger s door to make them a breakfast from our brand new cookbook. [cheers] steve: look how many people love cookbooks. actually, they just love fox & friends. [cheers and applause] right? they love fox & friends. we were looking for a place that was safe, obviously. we were looking for a place that is friendly. hello, how are you? [cheers] steve: remember this guy right here, peter, we stopped by his house last time four years ago. this was also the man we named our son peter after. actually, the interesting thing is, ainsley and brian, i would say that about half of the people who i have spoken to so far have referred to me as peter doocy. h
i m john berman in ft. myers, florida, and the storm has intensified again. 85-mile-per-hour winds, heading towards the carolinas. this after tearing the destructive path across florida. it is expected to make landfall in south carolina around midday, somewhere between charleston and myrtle beach. it could produce life-threatening floods there in the carolinas. this is already liskely the largest natural disaster in florida s history. i m standing in the middle of some of the damage, in a marina where the boats have been washed up on to the shore here. parts of florida have been seriously damaged. as of this morning, 19 storm-related deaths. that number will almost certainly rise. in ft. myers beach, some of the destruction is breathtaking. i had a chance to have an aerial view of it, take a helicopter ride over, and there were sections that were just washed away. the pier, the large pier there, you can see it almost better from air. that s just been completely washed away. a