there has been six years of study, all the state department reports have come back in a very positive way. obviously there is something going on here, more than just having appropriate study because the studies have gone on forever. martha: you heard josh ernest moments ago saying they re still studying it. there is process going on. i don t know how many years you have to study but apparently they have to study it. one more quick question. we heard months ago there were at least 100 americans who had passports who had gone to train in syria and in the middle east. do we, are we, how are we doing on that? are we cracking down on the passports? are we getting any closer for the homeland security committee learning who those individual are? we don t want something like what subpoena haing in paris to happen here at home? exactly. we have the opportunity with new republican majority to provide better oversight on that issue. i raised that issue as you know, martha, in the past. my earn
whole conversation. nobody is pouring over the border. the reason we know how many children there are is because they re being apprehended. they re turnings himse thems in. the billions of dollars on border enforcement worked. kids keep coming over the border and no one sees what subpoena haing. i think what happened in the case, it s to the fault of the president. he s been taking executive action because of his frustration and his inept in trying to get something done. he sees the inaction from the republican side. clearly the president s policies have induced and incentivized the rush to the border. i ve heard that quite a bit. i realize it was at the very moment that republicans in the house were going to be forced to admit their failure in leadership for moving immigration reform forward.
denver. that is where we find alicia acuna shivering. how does it feel, alicia in i bet it feels cold, right? awesome, fantastic you can imagine. yeah it is awesome. it is actually pretty dangerous. i m going to be able to go inside pretty soon but hospitals are filling up here in the denver area. that s because the cold, extreme cold can take a hard hit to the body. they have seen people with broken bones from falling. they have had traffic accidents but something as simple as brief skin exposure is leading to frostbite. what subpoena haing, a lot of times people don t even realize until it is too late they re in trouble. what can happen when people live in cold weather states like colorado, they re used to being outside when it is chilly, when it is like 20 degrees. right now as you mentioned it feels like it is about negative 20. it is actually negative 2. we re talking about temperatures that can lead to tissue damage in a the mare of minutes.
firefighters try to control that blaze. we ll get you the latest when we get it. now over to bill. bill: martha, we ll give you a snapshot what subpoena haing in congress for where we believe the vote count stands on syria, this is according to the hill down in washington, d.c. what you re looking at now, out of 100 u.s. senators now, this is on the senate side, some would argue is a easier climb at the moment, you have 26 yes vote, two to one democrats to republicans there. the undecideds right now stand at 55. the no votes already logged on, 19 total, 14 which are republicans and five are democrats. the senate is close. what about the house? 435 members in the u.s. house of representatives. remember we re talking about republicans and democrats who will be at some point, perhaps, asked to vote in the end. you ve got yes votes of 31, okay? 21-10, democrats over republicans. undecided? substantial. much 91 total but the no votes,