reporter: coming back to our live shot, you can see the tsa lines behind us not so bad. the airport estimating the lines at 15 seconds. pretty typical for a saturday, ordinarily a very slow travel day. mike, i will bet you good money it will be a far different scene a week from today. no doubt about that. jonathan, thanks very much. a new immigration policy now in effect along the southern border. the department of homeland security now sending asylum seekers back to mexico while their cases are being processed in the u.s. there are some concerns however, the move could result in more illegal smuggling attempts. jeff paul is live from our los angeles bureau with more. hi, jeff. reporter: hi, mike. the trump administration announcing some asylum seekers will be sent back or have to wait in mexico while their claim is processed. at the moment, this only applies to the port of entry san diego, the location where many from the migrant care caravan traveled r the last you few months.
immigrants rescued from scorching hot tractor trailers. border agents busting 64 people in five separate incidents over the weekend. final americans also arrested for helping them sneak across the border. in the last two months, the agency prevented 42 smuggling attempts. more than 400 people detained from those trucks crossing the southern border. a democrat is jumping his party s ship. new york assembly man slamming a senate minority leader chuck schumer over his recent attacks on president trump. he wrote on facebook, quote: senator chuck schumer, as a fellow democrat, i ask you to work to restore sanity and honesty to our party so can i feel good about supporting it fully. until then, i m afraid out republicans have my support. the lawmaker says schumer left out vital information in his fundraising emails about the economy, peace with north korea and low unemployment. take a look at this insane video. a man reminding us why mixing fireworks with drinking is not a good idea.
let me bring you up-to-speed on what we know at this point. 38 people were discovered in a tractor-trailer. eight of them now confirmed dead. all of them males according to authorities. what we also know is that overnight, a walmart employee contacted a police officer after being approached by an individual who was believed to have been in the back of that tractor-trailer rig. police and medics arrived finding dozens of people suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration and 17 are being treated for life-threatening injures in south texas last night in the triple digits so you can may imagine inside that tractor-trailer it was extremely hot and we were told the refrigerator unit was not operating at the time. authorities saying that all signs seem to point to a human smuggling operation at this point. while this is tragic, this is, sadly, not new. we have seen these kinds of situations before, these kinds of smuggling attempts where
this was made by an aryan brotherhood member in the security housing unit. this was destined for an officer. you can see how he hone it had down on concrete. i mean this is incredible. the squad is also responsible for screening any suspicious mail entering the institution. there s approximately 5,000 pieces of mail that come and out of our mailroom daily. that s not counting the newspapers and the magazines. the trafficker that prepared this particular envelope, they knew that all the mail that comes into the mailroom is opened by a machine. they cut the top. what this person did this they took small doses of black tar heroin and put it along the glue fold of the envelope and simply sealed it with a greeting card. jim dejenet is a member of the squad and he has witnessed smuggling attempts, some nearly impossible to detect. okay. we will take that with us. the traffickers on the street, they took
they say that a hillside collapsed sending mud over hundreds of homes and it is feared that the death toll could top 1,000. rescuers are trying to reach victims. former president jimmy carter got a get well telephone call from president obama today. he is spending the night in a cleveland hospital for and upset stomach and became ill after flying to cleveland to promote his new book white house diary. he will celebrate his 86th birthday this friday. and huge drug busts at the san diego border. customs officials say they seized 1,300 pounds of marijuana this past weekend alone. it is worth $700,000, and they were seized in different smuggling attempts. they found it hidden in engines and vehicle seats and spare tires and roof compartments. i have been the border, and they are so creative that the agents