First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Start by the beginning of next week. Reuters News Agency Says hamas has received a draught proposal from Gaza Truce Talks in paris which includes a 40 day pause in all Military Operations and the exchange of Palestinian Prisoners for israeli hostages at a ratio of ten to one. As negotiations between hamas and israel continue, President Biden has said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in gaza during the muslim holy month of ramadan. Heres the us president speaking late on monday. Reporter can you give us a sense of when you think that ceasefire will start . Well, i hope by the beginning of the weekend. I mean, end of the weekend. My National Security adviser tells me that were close. Were close. Not done yet. And my hope is by next monday well have a ceasefire. In the hours after that statement, President Biden also appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on nbc, where he said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in the ga
us regulators have opened an investigation into openai, the microsoft backed startup behind chatgpt. the federal trade commission says it s looking into whether the ai chatbot could put consumers reputations and privacy at risk by publishing false information about them. open al s ceo sam altman says they will work with the ftc, saying, we protect user privacy and design our systems to learn about the world, not private individuals . michelle fleury in new york has more. the artificial intelligence company openai is facing a probe by us regulators. the federal trade commission, or ftc, sent a letter to the microsoft backed company asking for more information about its privacy and data security practices. the agency also wants to know if the ai tool harmed people by generating false information about them. since its launch, there has been a lot of noise about openai. this is the service that generates convincing human like responses to user queries and is expected to dramatic
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i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we re learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutting dow