central california. they are being transferred to relieve overcrowding at border facilities in texas. this comes, as you can see here, after protests actually blocked three buses from arriving at a federal facility in marietta, california. stephanie elam has much more on this story. usa! usa! reporter: chants of usa gave way to a heated shouting match outside of a u.s. border patrol facility in southern california. they are not born here. they are not born here. go back to mexico. reporter: holding signs that said return to sender and stop illegal immigration, 100 protesters blocked the road as three busloads of undocumented migrants approached the center where the immigrants, detained in texas, and then flown to california would be processed by customs and border patrol. you are disturbing the roadway. reporter: move is an attempt to ease the badly strained border patrol efforts in texas. i just wish america would be
the airport, makes a move on baghdad, the only way out for thousands of americans in baghdad working at the embassy is to be evacuated through the airport by the u.s. military so there s a lot going on behind the scenes here. a lot of reality behind some of the talk that we officially hear from the administration, but who have we not heard from can be a very interesting question. since all of this began, we ve not heard publicly yet from secretary of defense chuck hagel or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin demsey. so far they have not come out to talk about this, why u.s. troops are there and to explain it to both the troops and to u.s. military families. kate? something that the military families will be hoping to hear from next, very, very soon, someone they want to hear from very, very soon. barbara, thanks very much. later today border patrol is expected to bring a group of undocumented immigrant families to a processing center in
military forces are on the ground. let s turn to barbara starr who is at the pentagon for us as always with much more. good morning, barbara. reporter: good morning, kate. here at the pentagon. officials insist this is not mission creep. this is not escalation of force, but let s have a reality check. three times, three times in the last two weeks, the u.s. has now increased the number of forces in iraq to deal with this crisis. it s now somewhere north of 750 and perhaps more on the way. the reality is the center of gravity for the u.s. now is baghdad international airport. why? because isis fighting positions are just northwest of the airport. the u.s. has put troops there, officially saying they are there to protect u.s. facilities at the airport, but with isis so close by, every military official i ve spoken to privately says that the job now is to make sure the airport remains open and secure. why is that? because if isis makes a move on
time you re on television, get asked about that. leadership, leadership. nobody likes to write a check to the united states treasury but president obama wrote a check to the u.s. treasury. he promised to contribute back to the government a portion of his salary from the time of the government shutdown, and you can see $20,000, the president gives that back. i guess good for him for keeping the promise, right? it s all free points for him. good positive coverage, doesn t cost him that much money. won t make a dent remotely in anything or have any impact on the status of the u.s. economy or the debt, but, you know, he can say he s doing it and it sets a bar for other politicians to follow. yeah. i agree. if he hadn t done it, certainly would have been a pr disaster for the white house. i agree with margaret. i guess there aren t ash trays anymore. i don t know how many pentagon hammers that will buy. two, maybe. margaret, thanks. as we get back to you, kate and michaela, i know y
america, tim howard joins us on new day. caught on tape, a terrifying moment. a food truck explodes in philadelphia. nearly a dozen injured. two critically. what went wrong. your new day starts right now. good morning. welcome to new day from brazil. we could have won, but we didn t. we could have had a draw, but we didn t. the scoreboard showed 2-1 belgium, but what a match. we ll take you through all the highlights and the human highlight himself, mr. tim howard, the u.s. goalkeeper, the man of the match. he made history last night, and he s going to talk to us on new day. there s so much to discuss with him about what happened last night and what happens for u.s. soccer going forward, but there s big news this morning. the weather all along the east coast, it s moving, it s getting worse so let s get you back to