you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. after days of violence, israel and the islamic jihad agree to a cease-fire. we ll go live to see if the peace is holding. plus, the latest from the u.s.-mexican border and the latest fallout from trying to house migrants in cities. a hug 42 years in the making. he reunites with his sister after he discovers he was stolen as a baby. reporter: live from cnn news center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5 a.m. here in atlanta, noon in israel where a cease-fire with islamic jihad appears to be holding.
comcast business. powering possibilities™. officials were bracing for a surge at the number of migrants at the u.s. southern border following the expiration of title 42.
much. meanwhile, here in the u. s-1 person was killed and a dozen injured as a tornado ripped through texas. it knocked down trees, power lines and damaging houses. they say it was a category ef-1 with wind speeds up to 110 miles per hour, more than 170 k kilometers per hour. they have restricted nonresidents from entering the area. the. migrants may have gotten the message from the white house that the u.s. southern border isn t open now that title 42 is expired. shortly after the regulation ended, a top homeland security official said there was no substantial increase of migrants at the border. the long lines have tapered off dramatically. officials from the texas border area say they have yet to see the massive surge. listen to this. we re starting to see more order on the border. an orderly process of migrants not coming in it at the numbers that they were. the numbers that are crossing
say they re not fully informed about how many migrants are coming, for how long they will be coming, what the situation will be for them long term. the other is not necessarily xenophobia but definitely a lack of information or misinformation because i think many people might be afraid, depending on what they ve heard in the media, that people might be coming who are potentially criminals or some type of lower elements where i don t think many people realize is migrants who have gone through processing at the border have been screened by the federal government. they have been vetted by homeland security before they re allowed into the country so we are not looking, based on people s prior records, at people with violent history or criminal records being resettled in local towns. it is a lack of communication
now are under the capability and capacity of border patrol and cbp and law enforcement on our border. right now we are within capacity and we re logistically doing well. for more on the story, here s cnn s paolo sandoval. reporter: here on the u.s.-mexican border there s a feeling among stakeholders that the chaos they expected didn t necessarily play out. that s according to one senior cbp official. according to customs and border protection who has cited in a recently filed court document says the ten-day average currently stands at about 9,000, which is well below what is expected. there is concern and projections that suggest the number could go up to as many as 14,000 in the coming days or weeks. there is a number that is critically high here, and that is the daily custody average, which is the total number of migrants that are in the custody of customs and border patrol. that number still stands at