head south to mexico, a migrant caravan is making its way north. the lead starts right now. senior u.s. officials are urging the counterparts to do a lot more to drive down the number of border encounters. a record number of migrants is overwhelming both sides of them order, they are facing a barrage of complaints from elected officials who were usually on his side. we will explain. talking 2024, the latest development to keep trumps name off state primary ballot. they responded to a challenge of trump s eligibility, why is it the merit and their spending so confidently yet so many do not think the economy is doing well? we will investigate the finances and feeling heading into the new year. welcome to the lead, i am beyond got in for tapper. top officials are in mexico looking for help in slowing the surge of migrants at the u.s. border. the pictures show how urgent the crisis has become, we have 6000 migrants around the u.s./mexico border yesterday, that s a drop from wha
today the nation is shaken by new disturbing details on the report of the killing of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. reactions are pouring in, and the horrifying question is could more lives have been saved? there s a little girl named maya zamora. she received five gunshots to her upper totorso. she s still in the hospital after 20 surgeries. she s a miracle baby. she had two that had single gunshot wounds. they likely bled out five, ten, 15 minutes earlier. who is to say who could have survived and who couldn t have. rosa flores is live for us in uvalde. rosa, one of the most maddening details from this report is the amount of law enforcement on the scene, nearly 400, and no one was in charge. what more are we learning? reporter: let me show you and tell you about those failures, because at 11:28 a.m., this is the area where the gunman crashed his vehicle. then he jumped over this fence. this is the fence where he threw the gun, threw the backpack, and
response team announced national guard troops and ventilators are on the way to states. a move reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic. our message to governors around the country is simple. if you need something, say something. the administration preparing to send out 500 million free at home tests in a matter of weeks to help quell long lines that in some cases last not one or two but three or four hours. earlier this week, the president admitted his team is behind the 8 ball on testing. not enough. it s clearly not enough. if we had known we would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. to make matters even more complicated, the fda on tuesday expressed concern about the effectiveness of anti-general rapid tests. nose swab tests that yield results in just minutes. according to early data, those tests are less effective in
thought we would be back here. can i make a comment about that? yeah, go ahead. weds knows we re in a period of great uncertainties. what people can have faith in, you have a team that is devoted to doing everything we can to make sure we re not just generating robust recovery, but one that s reaching everyone, by combining the scientific and economic approaches that i think we have seen yield results. jared bernstein, thank you for taking the time walking us through things. i will ask him lisa herring, school superintendent, about what they re doing. dr. william schaffner is here to answer your questions. plus our will ripley, never sleeping, always live at the