to panic about this crisis. in moments, i ll speak with one leader in hard-hit el paso as people swarm the border to cross over illegally and now you have the cold setting in. people starting fires, people warming themselves by them and sleeping in the streets. it s an untenable situation. almost 2.4 million encounters this year. 2.4 million have crossed the border in this year. so that includes tens of thousands who ran by the border patrol and got away from them. remember, that s all before title 42 has expired, can will happen in just a few days. let s go to bill melugin who is live at the border in eagle pass, texas. hi, bill. martha, good afternoon to you. border patrol in el paso are totally overwhelmed right now. they have more than 5,000 noncitizens in their custody. all the local shelters are over capacity and hundreds of migrants are just being released
by border patrol to the city streets every day. the still has still not declared a state of emergency. take a look at this footage fox news shot last night showing the ongoing situation there. what you re looking at are over 1,000 migrants that have crossed illegally in to el paso and they re waiting at the boarder wall, waiting for border patrol to let them in so they can be processed. they re almost all from nicaragua. el paso has been getting more than 2,000 illegal crossings every day. all the local shelters are totally full. mass street releases are in effect and the local shelters say they have never seen anything like this. take a listen. we have never seen anything like this. i ve been the ceo 25 years. in years past, we would get maybe here s a group of ten cubans. something like that. now all of a sudden the border patrol is seen as many as 500,
east, millions more are bracing for snow, rain and floods this week. bill karins is tracking it. bill, how is this all going to play out? good evening, lester. we still have a blizzard to go, a severe weather outbreak and ending the week with a nor easter. so let s get to the blizzard first. we re worried about portions of five states, especially travel on interstates 80, 90 and 25 through areas of wyoming. that s going to be really treacherous as we go through tomorrow and then right through the middle of the week. one to two feet of snow. winds could gust up to 65 miles per hour, which could cause snow drifts up to five feet throughout that region. and at the same time we re going to be dealing with a severe weather outbreak to the south. definitely going to have straight line winds. we also could have isolated strong tornadoes in areas of central louisiana. and then we end thursday, friday with a nor easter. lester, it looks like rain right now for the big cities on the i-95 corri
homeland security secretary mayorkas and the f.b.i. director christopher wray facing some tough questions on capitol hill right now. they are in a hearing and we re monitoring it. republican lawmakers say mayorkas scapegoated the border patrol chief for the crisis it created. criticism pouring in over the president s meeting with china s leader. we have to wake up to china and provide the deterrence. i don t believe this president is capable of doing that. harris: others are saying president biden is showing weakness on the world stage. former secretary of state mike pompeo in focus next. upfronts for appraisal or termite inspections. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday. life. doesn t stop for diabetes.
mexico, but right now this is a very big issue for us. rachel: absolutely, i ve seen in texas, even though the governor of texas has tried to do everything he can without federal support the border patrol is simply a processing unit. they re doing nothing. they re basically social workers. they re doing nothing to protect the border. they re overwhelmed. you see in policy it has real consequences. what we ve seen in new mexico is, you hear about texas all the time, governor abbott, what they try to do, hear about governor ducey, rachel you never hear about new mexico. they sweep it under the ruling. we see higher and higher violent crime that is the reason we ll win this race. we have pa governor who is tone deaf to the main problems of the state of new mexico, the crime issue, border issue, schools, we re 51st in education, rachel this rolls into one. a failed governorship. rachel: mark ronchetti, a lot of people are counting on you to