Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. The mayor of el paso, texas think resources are strained as his city continues to be overwhelmed. Migrants per day are crossing into el paso. A new spike coming from venezuela is that country remains rattled by crime and severely unstable economy. President biden facing fresh scrutiny for his Border Policies just this past week he approved work permits and deportation protections for nearly 500,000 venezuelan migrants. Fox dues Team Coverage david spunt has the latest from the White House Former acting dhs secretary chad wolf is standing by with his analysis and Griff Jenkins is on the ground in the border. Lets begin with griff in eagle pass, texas. Good evening jon. It is indeed a never ending stream of migrants. More than 2000 migrants had just passed our cameras. In fact a group are passing just behind my camera man now. But jon, as we take a look at our drone the flight team more migrants are trying to cross this Dangerous Ri
civil fraud trial in new york. what she told the court about his money. house republicans subpoenaing the president s son hunter and brother james as they escalate their impeachment inquiry. how the white house is firing back. the u.s. drone shot down off yemen. rebels taking responsibility. and just in the, the new u.s. strike in syria. what the pentagon is saying tonight. the massive explosion add a texas chemical plant. a plume of smoke rising into the sky. the nearby evacuations. the major manhunt for a former national guardsman. what he s accused of doing on january 6th. and the national zoo saying farewell to its three biggest stars. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from the republican presidential debate in miami. good evening, everyone, from miami. and the stage of tonight s debate where a narrowed field of five republican hopefuls will make their case. each trying to gain more traction against former presiden
good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. just a few minutes from now, ivanka trump will return to the witness stand in the fraud trial where her most used phrase has been i don t recall. and moments ago, we learned about a new legal maneuver from prosecutors. plus, with his daughter on the stand and republican rivals headed for the debate stage, donald trump looks to take back the spotlight with one of his signature rallies tonight. and a big blow to glenn youngkin s brand as virginia voters thwart his plans for a gop takeover for the legislature. what could it mean for presidential ambitions. breaking news in the hunter biden saga, the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, sending the president excuse me. let s go to our nbc reporters. excuse me one sec. apologies for that, lindsey. let s begin in new york city. we re outside the trial in lower manhattan and from what we re seeing from ivanka today, stylistically she s
maybe pandas will return to the national zoo at some point. tom, thanks. that s going to do it for us. katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur. it might have been a rocky week for president biden in the polls, but democrats are doing just fine at the ballot box. so what gives? in virginia, republican governor glenn youngkin failed to get gop control of the state house. democrats there held on to the senate chamber and regained the house. how much of it had to do with youngkin s bet on a quote, reasonable 15-week abortion ban. in deep red kentucky, democratic governor andy beshear was able to win a second term, beating out his trump-backed rival, daniel cameron. was it abortion that helped keep beshear in office or was it trump who helped keep cameron out? in reddening ohio, it is clear voters roundly rejected republican efforts to restrict abortion, voting to enshrine the right into the state s constitution. all of it great news for democrat
we fought the good fight. we didn t win. reporter: hundreds of thousands of government employees who had been furloughed returned to work. back to critical medical research programs, to national parks even the panda-cam at the national zoo. we will begin to open our government immediately. reporter: this country went without a shutdown for 17 years until it shut down under president obama. the last two were in 1995 under president clinton. it is particularly unfortunate that the republican congress has brought us to this juncture because we share a central goal balancing the federal budget. reporter: the first shutdown