florida governor ron desantis is ranged to fly 50 people from texas to martha s vineyard off the coast of massachusetts. this is all part of the campaign to protest the biden administration s immigration policies. but the white house says she s governors are using the migrants as political pawns. those taken to martha s vineyard are receiving shelter and help at a u.s. military base. miguel marquez has more on their journey. referee: after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha s vineyard, nearly 50 venezuelal migrants were given a warm sendoff, embracing each person as they boarded buses. then ferries and onto the next part of their long journey. their unannounced rival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send them to sanctuary cities by surprise. free to the alien but certainly not mandatory. and that way they re able to go and these sanctuary jurisdiction cans put their money where their mouth is. r
buendias. the defiant response from gop governors and how this could factor into the november midterms. plus, sticker shock. mortgage rates jumping to the highest level in a decade. what that means for buyers and what it says about the market. tropical storm fiona closes in. when conditions will start to deteriorate and the potential impacts to the island. plus, procrastinators take note. was this headline written for me? travel experts say this is the time to book holiday flights . good morning and welcome to your new day . it s saturday, september 17th. whitney, do you feel that? it s the weekend. it is the weekend. it s almost the end of summer. it is. we re grateful to have you here with us this morning. we re grateful you re making us part of your saturday. up first, a lot to get to. but we start with the political battle over immigration heating up. florida s governor doubling down on his plan to relocate migrants from the southern border. he arranged f
welcome to your new day . i m whitney wild. i m boris johnson. why officials are telling people to stop coming to the site. the white house is slamming the bussing of migrants to the democratic-led states as a cruel, political stunt. how they re planning to fight back even as gop governors vowed to continue sending migrants elsewhere. plus updated covid booster shots are rolling out across the country even as the world health organization says the end of the pandemic is in sight. we will be joined by a doctor with all you need to know heading into autumn. sad news for theater fans. broadway s longest-running show announcing the final curtain. it is a brisk autumn morning. saturday, september 17th. we are grateful to have you starting your weekend with us. welcome, whitney. thank you for having me, boris. plenty to get to this morning and no shortage of news. we begin with the battle over immigration and the migrants caught in the middle. florida governor ro
thousands of unwilling undocumented immigrants redirected his state s latest d.c. busloads from union station to the naval observatory, which happens to be the residence of vice president harris. that the migrants were not forced to get on these buses and planes, they were apparently asked and consented and that they were fed did not stop critics from calling the stunt inh inhumane. you might say did they know where they were going? did they did where they were going when they first came into the country? as to the question of whether these relocations are fair, this year an estimated record 2 million undocumented migrants will cross the border seeking asylum. to date texas has sent 11,000 immigrants all of them will to new york, d.c. and chicago and arizona has sent 1800 plus to new york, new jersey and interestingly to florida. desantis point is that it s easy to declare yourself a sanctuary state or city when you re thousands of miles from the border. u a but if you talk
17 hours. it was actually longer not that long ago. earlier today king charles and prince william took time to personally greet some of the mourners shaking hands and thanking people for waiting in line for so long to honor the queen. all this is happening as cnn learned about a major royal flub. prince harry and his wife meghan, the duchess of sussex, were invited to a reception tomorrow at buckingham palace by mistake. a royal kerfuffle. more on that in a moment. jasmine wright is live outside the white house correspondents dinner, and anna stewart is in that crowd in london. jasmine, president biden among the hundreds of world leaders that are headed to london for monday s funeral. what are we expecting to see from the first couple while in the uk? reporter: yeah, the president and the first lady leave the white house here very soon. i am not sure if you can pick it up in the mics, but on the lawn you can hear the sound of mash even one waiting to take the president a