Asylumseekers. Norah Cbs Evening News begins now. s good evening, im norah odonnell, thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with the dueling visit the southern border by the two front runners in this years election, showcasing the Record Number of migrant crossings that are overwhelming resources along the border and in major cities across the country. President biden was in brownsville, texas, where he issued a political day or to donald trump to join him and pressing House Republicans to help secure the border by passing the senates bipartisan security bill. Now, 325 miles away, trump was in eagle pass, where he took a much different approach, unleashing attacks on biden, democrats, and migrants, but not proposing a legislative solution. A record 2. 4 million migrants were apprehended at the u. S. Mexican border in 2023 and immigration has become the top issue for many voters heading into the 2024 election. Cbss ed okeefe is traveling with the president and he will
Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with the dueling visits at the Southern Border by the two frontrunners in this years election, showcasing the Record Number of migrant crossings that are overwhelming resources along the border and in major cities across the country. President biden was in brownsville, texas, where he issued a political dare to donald trump to join him in pressing House Republicans to help secure the border by passing the senates bipartisan security bill. Now, 325 miles away, trump was in eagle pass, where he took a much different approach, unleashing attacks on biden, democrats, and migrants, but not proposing a legislative solution. A record 2. 4 million migrants were apprehended at the u. S. Mexican border in 2023, and immigration has become the top issue for many voters heading into the 2024 election. Cbss ed okeefe is traveling with the president , and he will start us off tonight from texas. Reporter the
Described as cold blood. Norah. Imtiaz tyab. Thank you. For a look at how the weather will impact the fires in the days ahead as well as a potentially historic blizzard on the west coast, lets bring in meteorologist mike bettes. Hes from our partners at the weather channel. Good evening, mike. Norah, good evening. Unfortunately the weathers not leng matters across the lone star state. We know dry and windy conditions will persist into the weekend. We have fire weather watches and red flag warnings extending from new mexico and texas all the way into iowa through saturday. And heres the major factor in all this. Significant wind picking back up, especially this weekend, where winds may be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. Again, fanning those flames. We expect rapid spread of the fire to continue. The rain thats falling actually falls well to the east of where the Smokehouse Creek fire is burning here in the panhandle of texas. Then our attention turns to the west. Weve got a monste
documents uncovered at his office and the brutal storms in california. flooding, massive rainfall and flooding, tens of thousands under evacuation orders right now. and according to governor gavin newsom 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn s nick watt joins us with the latest along the los angeles river which in normal times is a river in name only. what s the latest, nick? reporter: you re right, anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact, there s usually a homeless encampment in what is the l.a. river. those people about to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren t used to this amount of water. and in many cases the state s just not equipped to deal with it. further north up in santa barbara the floodwater just overwhelmed the sewer system, and that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara. and also, you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn t be driving because frankly they just don t know any better. so wave seen
thousands under evacuation workers right now, and according to governor gavin newsom, 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn s nick watt, joins us with all the latest on the los angeles river which in normal times his river in name only. what is the latest, nick? you are right anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact there is usually a homeless encampment in what is the l. a. river. those people have had to flee to higher ground. you know, californians just aren t used to this amount of water. and in many cases, the states are just not equipped to deal with it. further up north and santa barbara, the floodwaters just overwhelming the sewer system in that ended up with sewage on the streets in santa barbara, and also you know, drivers just trying to drive where they shouldn t be driving because frankly they just don t know any better. so we have seen quite a few rescues, people being plucked out of their cars and when we are talking about drivers also just incre