>> sandra: breaking news out of capitol hill where a pair of border security hearings is set to guinea moment now one day after the border patrol warned of a crisis that has hit its, quote: breaking point. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. any moment now the house and senate holding dual hearings on what the trump administration calls a crisis. seeing a surge at the border today. and take a look here. more than 240,000 apprehensions have already happened this year marking a massive 97% increase from just last year alone. warnings now that the worst is yet to come. >> so, without a consequence, without being able to deliver a consequence to these individuals for illegally crossing our borders, the border patrol has no reason to expect that this trend will decrease, in fact, we believe it will increase. >> bill: so mike emanuel we are waiting on that hearing live from the hill now.