we ve been waiting for you. glad to have you along. good morning. i m victor blackwell. glad to see you this morning. and i m amara walker. happy to spind the holiday with you. more than 42 million people expected to head out this memorial day weekend. we re going to tell you what to expect if you re going to the airport or driving to your destination. plus lawmakers racing to reach a deal. now treasury secretary janet yellen has more. and a plot to kill the queen? 40 years ago when she was getting ready to visit the u.s. the details ahead. all by myself anymore every time i hear that for all these years, i still get chill bumps. the best 15 minutes of celine dion for any of her songs. now she has canceled her world tour for 2024. she battles health issues. health officials say she may never be able to tourn again. we ll have the latest on her condition. first, travel season. experts say it will be a busy one. aaa expects 42.3 million americans to travel 50
this is the faulkner focus. i am in for harris today. so far no splashy events or speeches since the president announced his re-election bid one month ago and one day ago. his rivals on both sides meantime of the aisle already making moves. the president s low profile may be not hitting with voters. a new fox poll shows only 33% see the commander in chief as a strong leader. our own karl rove says it will be tough to change minds. this guy is in real trouble and do we think he is going to get better, people will see him as a stronger leader? only if there s an international or national crisis in which he acts in a way that goes against the type we developed in our minds of him over the last two and a half, three years. i don t see it happening. the president got more competition this week across the aisle. south carolina senator tim scott and florida governor desantis announcing their 2024 bids as biden slogs along. desantis hitting the ground running. he is having a camp
used as a shelter. the senior national correspondent is live with how this could lead to major policy changes. good evening to you. devastation in the city and the search for answers continues after a four-year-old girl houston may manhattan s migrant hotel died thursday. she was found unconscious around 7:30 am on thursday at the stewart hotel and rushed to bellevue where she was pronounced dead. medical examiner s will determine the cause of death. no foul play is expected and the baby was part of a migrant family. those who come here come here for one reason only to participate in the american dream. that dream should not become a nightmare when they hit our shores. it s not the first time there was trouble at the hotel turned migrant shelter previously it was the scene of a wild free-for-all this past january could two people stab during a melee inside the 600 room facility of the death comes during a week which 1/3 minor has died in us custody after crossing the so
[national anthem] will: fox news alert, growing concerns this morning over overcrowding at u.s. facilities across the southern border as migrants pour in at a record rate at the end of title 42. rachel: the top border patrol union calling this worst disaster any agent has ever seen and warns that the worst is still to come. pete: matt finn live in el paso with the latest. reporter: pete, when you re referencing overcrowding, i mean, we re standing in the middle of it right now here in downtown el paso. this is the sacred heart shelter. as the sun has come up, many of these migrants who slept on the streets last night are now waking up. sadly, there s a lot of coughing going on, so some migrants who are showing symptomses of illness. inside the shelter right now, we re told there s about 140 women and children, and outside is overflow, you know, maybe two or three city blocks of migrants who slept outside overnight. i spoke with a few of them yesterday, they say they
jenkins. hi, griff. that surge coming in nine days. guess what? it s already here. that s why border officials are applauding the fact another 1,500 troops will come down here and assist and transport in an administrative role. when you have these surges, logistics are a big part of getting it under control. let s take you to the sky drone, this is brownsville, ground zero for the surge right now. what you re looking at is cam n monument. the blue and white tent. along the road here, the buses pull down and they get the migrants which are coming in droves. more than 2,100 migrants were in this camp right where i m standing. usually they have 200 or 300. we ve been on the river. let s show you migrants, 90% are venezuelan with the split screen. you can see the texas dps officers, the next national guard, border patrol trying to deal with. the other said, there s women and children getting on his crafts crossing dangerous currents. they re coming in unprecedented numbers here