so what is known is that title 42 is going away today. what is not, what happens immediately after. the biden administration is preparing for a surge. cnn is live in texas. and more of the same or moving the needle around new hampshire and around the country after a fiery donald trump town hall, and what republicans and democrats are saying. and now, britain has delivered long range missiles to ukraine, and so what are the likely targets? all of that on cnn news central. let s start with the big change coming down the pike. since 2020, a special policy has been in place allowing the u.s. border officials to immediate expel the migrants trying to get into the united states. that policy is going away. for weeks, the biden administration has been preparing for a tidal wave of the migrants once the policy lifts. rosa flores is in el paso once again for us, and rosa, you were able to ride along with the national guard to get a sense of what things are looking like, and wha
that make it into the court, they are deny and there is already a backlog of 2 million cases in the immigration court, john. and as we said, the title 42 expires at midnight tonight, and the countdown is on, and little more than 12 hours from now. so what is going on at the white house with this deadline so fast approaching? cnn s priscilla alvarez is there, and what are they doing there? are they war rooming? what are they doing? they are looking at the numbers, and they know white house officials and administration officials know it is a challenge not just for days, but weeks. it is a challenge for two reasons. one, the reason that you heard from rosa, the humanitarian concerns, but also because of the logistic, and this is not just going back to the decades old protocol, but processing people, an unprecedented number of people, and that going to be
him to answer. hang tight for one second. back to kristen at the white house. we are getting new information on essentially the strategy from republicans, from allies of the president, when it comes to this sessions testimony, what we might hear this morning and this afternoon. can you walk us through the war-rooming of it. i think, hallie, we re going to see a similar response to the onweaw in the wake of james comey s testimony. there will be a few additional points. in particular, they ll point to the fact that jeff sessions agreed to testify in an open hearings. of course, that came after some back-and-forth. but they ll highlight that and try to make a virtue of it. they ll focus on a couple key points. one the fact that james comey reiterated a number of times that he told the president he wasn t in fact under investigation, the fact that he says he was never pressured by the president or anyone else to drop the broader russia probe. and the president, the white
where republican votes have yet to be counted. the question, this is the biggest one of all, up here. cleveland, only 33% of the vote, cuyahoga county there, let s just move over to lorraine county, 45% of the vote. it s a democratic area, but trump is running reasonably 51-44, trump is running stronger. it s a blue collar area. we ve talked about this all along, lorraine, ohio, you re talking about your trade message, your immigration message. trump running stronger there, as you pull it back out, let s talk about 2016. this is fun. this is but that s it s starting to inch out a little bit. i want to pull this over. make sure we have the full count of the vote. as you look at it through, it s he s starting to pull away in ohio. pulling away almost 200,000-vote lead right now. and that s significant. you get in the 200 to 300,000 vote lead and you re coming to here and saying, okay, what have i got left? she might have 100,000 there, maybe a little bit more, but do you ha
reporter: it went very well, wolf. but you can get a sense how anxious a period this is. we do have some late information. the seismic tests that were preparatory, those have been completed and at this hour, the crucial well pressure test was expected to begin after that replacement cap was put on. bp officials and the incident commander admiral allen have gathered here at the war rooming and i spoke with him about it. the commander said these are some of the most critical days in the entire operation. admiral thad allen says if they measure it for six hours or more, then this well is not strong enough to hold the seal cap. the final effect of this will be an order. how much pressure are you feeling knowing that you have to make that call and it could determine the pressure of this. that could would be input