Dont look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among president ial candidates that make that a primary start. Why tim scott shows this time to do it. Scary numbers are probably the reason. Kevin corke has more. Kevin . Griff jenkins. I apologize. Look out, kevin corke. Neil my bad. Ive covered the border forever. Theres a reason why tim scott isnt just going to the border for a photo open. Hes going there because the situation is not under control. Sources tell me that Border Encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. Cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels tightener that grip on the border. Heres senator scott. As president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. We have the power to do that. Just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying yesterday Border Patrol ag
year of campaigning. now it is time to vote. one week from tonight, we could know who won iowa. donald trump is about to raise from the courtroom to the campaign trail and pack again as his rivals are hoping to pull off an upset. also tonight, the missing piece of that alaskan airlines plane that blew off at 16,000 feet in the air has now been found. more planes are being grounded for inspections as one major airline says they found something. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it has been one week now since defense secretary lloyd austin was admitted to the icu. tonight, not only do we still not know what exactly sent him there, we don t know why his staff didn t tell the white house for days that he was even in the hospital. nonetheless, in intensive care. the lack of transparency from a top u.s. military official, especially while the u.s. is dealing with multiple crises around the world, has resulted in some calls for austin s resignation. the top republic
happening now, an urgent crisis in sudan where thousands of citizens remain on the ground as a new cease-fire is announced. we ll have the latest on what the biden administration is doing and not doing to help civilians escape after u.s. diplomats were evacuated. also tonight, a major shakeup over at fox news, primetime host tucker carlson is out. stand by for new details on the timing of his exit and the potential impact on fox and the republican party. president biden is finalizing his 2024 campaign plans on this, the eve of his expected announcement. most americans don t want him or donald trump, for that matter, to run again. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation. out of country the state department and others were working very hard to secure a cease-fire between the warring parties. first of all, perhaps indeed primarily. in osh der to evacuate the large numbers of people who want to get out of
florida as well as tens of thousands of electric crews from all over the country. we do not have a complete picture of fatalities or injuries across florida as of yet. one death has officially been reported so far. we expect to hear more from authorities soon. almost 3 million people are still without power. it weakened to a tropical storm ian but back to a hurricane this afternoon as it heads for south carolina. the mayor of charleston, south carolina, is asking his city to shut down tomorrow. correspondent steve harrigan kicks off our coverage, charlotte county florida with the latest. good evening. good evening, bret. help is pouring into florida from across the country but still in pockets like this one it is largely neighbor helping neighbor. after going across florida s peninsula, hurricane ian north and along it led to coast. the numbers are staggering. more than 2.6 million floridians without electricity. rainfall totals approaching 2 feet in some places. heavy wind
call, it does send a signal that democrats are very galvanized behind that. and we can t wait until the 11th hour before the general election to get out the vote. so, i know of social conservative organizations that are getting bus tours ready, get out the vote efforts, volunteer groups to galvanize the pro-life community to get them out to vote. early on in the general election process. but this was certainly an opportunity for us to realize that democrats are just as motivated about this as we have been on supreme court justices for the past decade. so, both sides are really looking at that is an opportunity to buckle up and get out the vote. let me bring someone else in the conversation, cnn political commentator paul welcome to the conversation. harry enten you know, data as i call him, cnn numbers crunchers, he s an he crunch these numbers for us. he said democrats have now outperformed biden in 2020 and each of the four house special elections since roe was overturn