joining me from washington nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. how were they able to track down this man and apprehend him? same thing i think, they got on to him because of facebook posting postings, he s 20 years old, asher kahn from spring texas. he and a friend planned to travel to turkey then to syria. they were in touch with someone they identify as a foreign terrorist fighter facilitator saying i want to join isis can you help? i want to die as a martyr. prosecutors say his friend did make it from texas to syria with kahn s help and assistance of the facilitator in turkey. he was living in australia at the time and didn t get to turkey but his family tried to keep him out of syria by claiming his mother s health was deteriorating and that deceived him into coming back to texas. this was postings by this friend
for increasing numbers of border patrol and ice officers, but i would not cry fire to suggest that our border patrol agents are not on the job. they are on the job. i have spoken to them. i have been on the border, i have been on the rio grande. i have been on the border at night. so it s a great chance. you just got back from the border. a lot has been made of president obama s decision not to go to the border to see this crisis first hand. i want to play you a video of something two of your democratic colleagues had to say. this is what they said. take a listen. it s one thing to talk about it, read about it and write about it, but it s another thing to see for yourself. he is shown playing pool in colorado, drinking a beer and he can t even go 242 miles to the texas border? does he video a point.
killing fields, scorching desert lands. this is where they law up and rest. reporter: there are signs hundreds are crossing here, this rancher just found two bodies on his land last week. i ve been trying to get some attention to relate the fact that there are people dying. reporter: for 35 miles in 100-degree heat, no shade, no water, just the desperate fight to stay alive. durham set up this water station to make sure immigrants don t die on his land. this year, they re finding bodies of more children, like this 15-year-old who made the journey from guatemala, he died in texas headed to find his brother in chicago. his dream, says his brother was to come here to earn money for our sick mom. a dirt plot at the edge of town is where more than 100 unidentified immigrant mothers and fathers were buried.
shooting spree north of texas. he is accused of killing six people including four children. casey stegal is live. reporter: there is conflicting information as there typically is in crime stories like this. on the scene initially police told the reporters, the man, the suspect, was the father of the four children he shot and killed. now there are reports surfacing he wasn t their father but was related. they believe the suspect had been married to a relative of one of the victims. happened in spring texas. a northern suburb of houston. this man, ron haskil cent to the wham and opened fire.
cameras. the rules are being demanded to be reversed without delay according to senator mccain. contain. if a member of congress can t visit a facility in their own state. the people of arizona elected me. i am not supposed to carry a cellphone with me? you have overstepped your authority and i want those instructions revoked as far as members of congress are concerned and i want to done today. next guest went to mcallen, texas. congressman, tell me what you saw there. you thought they were deplorable conditions. nothing like you have seen in