delaware and steve wilmington is in the southern border with a closer look at conditions on the ground. let's start with you, what is going on? >> reporter: 19 senators, republicans made it into the border, touring on foot and in gunboats. they saw the facility and donna, texas, a holding facility that has gotten some negative attention for overcrowding conditions. many senators in a fiery press conference later today criticized conditions inside donna and said there should be a change back to trump era policies. here is ted cruz. >> this is wrong and a direct consequence of policy decisions by the biden administration to start building the wall and return to catch and release and end the stay in mexico policy. >> reporter: number of democrats and biden officials toward a different border facility. they made the claim the surge has nothing to do with who is in the oval office, they are life and death and that is driving people to make the long march to the us, not any policies. one thing that cannot be argued are the numbers, looking at numbers of unaccompanied minors in the month of february alone, the border into the us, almost triple the number of unaccompanied minors crossing over. griff: thanks, steve. alicia: the biden administration's firing almost every member of the homeland security independent advisory council including several trump allies as the president faces mounting pressure to address the border surge. mark meredith is live in wilmington, delaware where biden is spending the weekend. >> reporter: president biden is getting updates what is going on at the border but republicans say if that was the case, more would be done to stem the surge crossing into the united states. they are seeing a large number of migrants coming into the country, this is predictable because of the weather this time of year and the economic disruption many latin american countries find themselves in. the white house is working to address migration issues with several countries including mexico. >> there are capacity issues in mexico we are in discussions with them about addressing and not in a position to accept and take the families, that is part of the diplomatic discussion they are having. >> this week the white house announcing vice president kamala harris will lead administration efforts to address what is going on at the border but a spokesman told reporters the vp has no plans to visit the border, no word when president biden may make a trip down there. he does plan to go but no indication when that should happen. there are reports we could see donald trump make a visit himself in the next few days or weeks. what you were talking about at the top, homeland security department shaking up an independent advisory committee, the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas dismissing members with trump ties saying the department needs them to advance the mission. griff: joining me as republican congresswoman and member of the house infrastructure committee, beth van dyne. thanks for taking time on a saturday. let me get your reaction to vice president harris spearheading? >> what was happening, you can start making policies without knowing the consequences of the policies. i was able to tour the kay bailey hutchison center in dallas earlier this week and we had at capacity 3 and a half days to create the center. it is very stark and very sterile and at capacity 5 days later and 2300 children in it. we are looking at 13 to 17-year-old males, unaccompanied minors with no idea, the administration had no idea where to put these kids so they are sending them thousands of miles from their families into these decompression centers where you have 2300 cots set up in one huge room, kids being identified, 50 pods where they are lined up to go to the bathrooms and outdoor plastic enclosed showers, no sunlight and this is a direct result of biden's open border policies, for a 100 day stop on deportation and at the same time, and immigrations and customs from doing their job. >> the latest numbers on friday, 18,000 unaccompanied minors in custody and a direct result in the trump era policies, is it your opinion the new administration should have anticipated seeing this happen given president biden was vice president in 2014 when they saw a similar crisis. >> i was on the border, i saw kids in cages and when you go down there they have so many more in these detention centers and they got 700% capacity at some of these centers, kids are showering once a week, they are sending them by bus, by plane to other places around the country but the biden administration has no plan and if they did not foresee that this was going to happen surely they should be able to come down to the border and see it firsthand and stop the policies they have created. >> you are traveling with the texas delegation, where are you going and why are you going? >> we will go to eagle pass and see firsthand how it is happening and talk to people who have feet on the ground witnessing this firsthand, whose responsibility it is to process these folks through and talk to them. that needs to happen right now. anyone who is considered the czar of this crisis needs to see it firsthand. >> another topic since you are on the infrastructure committee i have to ask your thoughts on pete buttigieg saying they will raise money for infrastructure? >> we can at all the taxes we want but until we have an infrastructure bill, $1.9 trillion we passed, what they claimed was covid relief but only 9% had to do with covid relief. with extra money on transportation, worry about increasing people's taxes, adding more money to what they are paying when they can barely afford it now. >> thank you for taking time, report back to us to let you know what you found. >> let's bring in democratic washington state congressman and chairman of the house armed services committee adam smith, thank you for being here. i want to put up some numbers here first, we can take a look at some official numbers, the recent number of migrants taken into custody. you can see there has been such a growing number, more than 78,000, february more than 100,000, october and february almost 400,000 and take a look at the video we have, 19 republican senators went to the border, to cruise, you can see the conditions. what are your thoughts on what needs to be done now? >> you are not showing me the picture. i can't see what you are showing. this is an enormous crisis and has been a crisis for a number of years and every president has had to deal with it, president obama had to deal with it, donald trump in office in 2019, we all remember the surge in numbers but the incredible desire people south of the border to come to this country put an anonymous a lot of pressure and it is an enormous public policy challenge. i agree with the congresswoman, to see how to handle it and make sure we are handling it in as humane a way as possible but involves policy not just in the us, new mexico and latin america to stop what has been happening for years and is an enormous public policy challenge without question. >> you are not able to see that video but with the video shows clearly is you have people laying side-by-side on this incredibly tight, packed and getting worse. this can't wait for a policy change or congress, something the president could address with executive action regardless of what is happening in other countries to deal with what is happening in our own? >> possibly. every president has struggled with this, the demand outstrips what we are able to handle. either they are here, south of the border in miserable conditions, how do we handle that crisis? it needs to be considered no doubt about it. >> take a listen to what the former chief patrol agent had to say about the situation? >> there is a monumental issue at the border overwhelming capabilities at the border because our systems are shutdown. unaccompanied children, takes away from the ability for effective border security. >> roy was from the tucson sector and we he reports that donald trump is interested in heading to the border but we haven't heard the current president or the vice president, and americans live along the border. >> no question the biden administration is taking this very seriously, the homeland security secretary has been to the border, the administration is talking about this the whole time. it would be appropriate for the president and vice president to go to the border. whether the president and vice president go to the border or whether donald trump goes to the border that is not going to change the policy the needs to be changed to address this crisis so i hope we are focusing on the broader crisis. >> while i have you here i want to talk about foreign policy. what should the us role be inferior when you consider russia is trying to expand its power? >> we want to stop isis from presenting a threat to the region. there are broader challenges, chaos in syria under the assad regime. there are a lot of problems but one of the things i hope we learn about the us can't solve every problem. we have to work with our partners to protect our core interests and our core interests are making sure violent extremist group called isis doesn't reconstitute, take territory and threaten and work with the iraqi government to try to maintain their stability and reduce iranian influence. it is not an easy part of the world. alicia: thanks for your time. much more on president biden's agenda tomorrow on fox news sunday. chris wallace talks to white house press secretary jen psaki. check local listings for time and channel. howard kurtz looks at the impact of the biden administration limiting press access to border facilities that are housing migrants tomorrow on media buzz at 11 am eastern. griff: subpoenas into top cuomo aids as workers make their voices heard about the scandal against the governor. alex hogan live in new york city with the latest. >> reporter: many protesters gathering against andrew cuomo who faces several investigations, outside new york city office demanding impeachment, some of them would be subpoenaed over harassment claims. according to the wall street journal she helped handle new york's pandemic response and earlier this year told democratic lawmakers she worried the nursing home death toll data would be used against them. new york republican leaders wanted into investigation whether this time last year governor cuomo gave testing priority to family members and others like the president of region are on, the pharmaceutical company that came up in antibody cocktail the reduced hospitalization. in a letter state senate minority leader robert bork wrote these actions would be agree just during normal times but particularly unconscionable because they heard early on during the pandemic and accusations as well. >> if this is true, transported these samples during a crisis when our first responders were restrained, he felt this was a priority, gross abuse of power. >> reporter: talking to the attorney general's office, she was asked about melissa derosa's work, and they were few and far between. andrew cuomo has denied many of these accusations and apologized about others saying he is sorry if it makes people feel uncomfortable. alicia: a chance of severe weather this weekend as many are cleaning up from storms that hit earlier this week. charles watson is live in alabama with the latest. >> reporter: it has been a long couple of days before the communities affected by the tornado outbreaks across the south including this alabama neighborhood where you can see there is significant damage. this home behind me and a few others in his neighborhood had the roofs ripped off, holes punched into the home where you can literally see into someone's bedroom. there are trees down and power lines down but the community is coming together to clean up. you can see this group out here from the church of highland who have been out here since 8:00 local time, moving large trees, cleaning up the debris that was tossed all over the place and offering support for the people who were affected. >> you never want to disaster to happen, it is not something you would want to happen to anyone but we have always done our best to make sure our church doesn't exist inside the 4 walls of the church, that we go out and help people when they are in need not just after a disaster but throughout the year. >> reporter: these volunteers are in communities all across alabama, they try to gather, when gentlemen we spoke to, doesn't matter if you are democrat, republican, black or white, the community is coming together to get this cleaned up. jillian: charles watson. griff: a new lawsuit over a gender transition cake. weight until you hear what they are telling fox news after the break. — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 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alex: it was and it's a combination of incompetence and not have a plan in place if you want to make changes. hypocrisy because obviously we heard so much about policies in the trump administration and kids in cages all along and shocking lack of transparency. a lot of that is solely within their control and and how they respond and has put the president in a position where he will lose people in the left who was disappointed in his policies. he's going to lose people in the middle because of the incompetence and he may even lose the media because of a lack of transparency. i've seen more legitimate transparency in shooting wars where reporters are embedded than they provided to the american people around what's happening at the border and it's a real problem. griff: laura, let me let you weigh in on how you think. you can respond to that and also how you think the biden administration is handling this so far? >> well, let me first say that this is an enormous logistical challenge and issue president after president, under obama, under president trump, we are at the point where we are seeing the -- the -- every year a seasonal surge in migration anden increase in children because the trump policies kept the children in mexico. i live in a border community, those children were in migrant camps very dangerous in tijuana so biden changed the policy and when a 15-year-old girl knocks on the united states' door is accepted and she's cared for and september safe. now there are a lot of 16-year-olds crossing and that creates logistical challenge. you give biden enough time, he can handle that. he handled it with the vaccines and handled making sure paychecks got to american pockets with can recovery act. i do think it's a tremendous challenge for president after president and biden is no exception. griff: let me go to the transparency point that alex brought up and i agree with you, laura, this is an unbelievable problem. i just came out of tijuana. before i was in juárez and mataromoros in the last two weeks. but the administration refused, president biden to call on peter doocy at the white house. let me play you an exchange with peter doocy and jen psaki. >> we noted starting at the end of the campaign and into the transition and here at the white house, any time that the president has an event where he's given a list of reporters to call. fox is the only member of the 5 networks tv pool that has never been on the list in front of the president and i'm curious if that is official administration policy. >> we are here having a conversation, aren't we? do i take questions from you every time you come to the briefing room? griff: alex, you're in communications, what do you say is going on here? >> i think it's clear what's going on here and, again, it's a mistake. one of the arguments coming from the biden administration was that they were going to change the tone and the interaction not only with the american people but with the media and instead to, again, start with these kinds of heavy decisions about cherry-picking who they are going to call on and, jen knows there's a meaningful difference between her answering the questions and the president answering a question and chosing who he calls on. we will see how it plays out over time and hopefully they correct some of that but the combination of that along with the lack of transparency around things like the border, we will show it to you when we are ready, is a bad way to start in this regard and i think the media at large should try and hold them to account on that. one day it could be peter doocy and the next day it could be their folks. so i think they need to address this and change course. griff: laura, what do you say, can you defend the administration choosing to not call on our own peter doocy at the presidential press conference? >> well, i think if any news outlet under the trump administration you would have a long list as well. i understand being frustrated at not getting called on but if you want to talk about transparency generally, jen psaki is one example, doing press briefings on the regular which is a change from the previous administration, being open about information and sharing that information, having multiple press conferences across the different departments to make sure that reporters have access and can get their questions answered. so i don't agree that the biden administration is not been transparent. i think that they worked really hard to ensure that they broaden media access so the american people know what's going on. biden did incredibly well in press conference and answered tough questions some of which peter doocy would have asked. questions about the issues on the border. tough questions that didn't necessarily fit in line with what he wanted to talk about which are the tremendous success that is we have seen in the first hundred days with respect to the pandemic and the economic crisis. so i think we are doing okay on media access overall. griff: hopefully peter doocy can get to ask those questions. quickly, filibuster, you will hear about that. you can see, we can put up on the board here, democrats have used filibusters more than republicans over the obama-trump administrations, but i want to play for you in the way back machines what i call it which is what obama and biden were saying about being for the filibuster before biden is against it. watch. >> the filibusters is not stopping nominee or bill, that's why the founders put unlimited debate in. >> what they don't expect for one party be it republican or democrat to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. griff: just a few seconds, alex, i will go to you first. >> changing the filibuster is the worst idea since court packing as was pointed out by then senator biden. the senate is designed structured to preserve and protect minority rights. it is a huge mistake to do this and i would argue it's being talked about from a position of weakness. the way to get things done is to convince voters that your ideas are the best, not to change the rules so you can do it without -- without that support. griff: just a few seconds. i have to give laura a chance to weigh in. laura. >> i will just say this, the voters are with democrats and president biden on the stimulus and the republicans voted against it. there are for universal background checks, 96% of people and the republicans are against it. no one should be able to send an e-mail and stop an infrastructure bill from getting passed and americans getting put back to work. no one should be able to send that e-mail. not a single senator and so this filibuster needs to be reformed for the work of the american people, doesn't hit gridlock in the senate floor. griff: we will have to leave it there and pick it up when the issues comes up again. thank you for taking time. >> thank you. >> thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ alicia: miami beach is under a state of emergency as the city enters another weekend of spring break. the vacation hot spot facing number of restrictions following swarms of tourists and unrests throughout the city, jonathan live with the latest. hi, jonathan. reporter: hi, there, alicia, standing on ocean drive, you can see it's a mellow afternoon. people cruising the streets. we expect it will get busier as we go into the evening hours. but so far this weekend the crowds have not been as large or as rackous as they were during previous weeks. 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. curfew in the entertainment district after 10:00 p.m. police are limiting car traffic to the island. they're limiting it to residents, hotel guests, delivery drivers and people traveling to work. the neighboring city of miami is called up additional officers to make sure unruly tourists don't take the party to their neck of the woods. >> we will not tolerate any kind of rowdy behavior, breaking personal property, hurting people, lawlessness, that's not going to be tolerated in the city of miami and we just want people to know that. this is not going to be something that will create national headlines. reporter: many island residents and workers say the restrictions are necessary to discourage fights and property damage that have occurred during past weekends. but many spring break tourists say the 8:00 p.m. curfew is way too early. >> you know how much we paid for a hotel room just a night? $481 for a night. a night. and now -- it's not even that we have to go home, we have to go inside the freaken hotel at 8:0. this is not right. reporter: this weekend miami beach police are actually adding officers to the residential areas. last weekend there was a problem that when the curfew was instated at 8:00. many people moved out of the entertainment district and into those residential areas causing some damage and frightening some of the residents there. so police are out in force to prevent that from happening this weekend, alicia, back to you. alicia: jonathan sierre. griff: president biden facing slew of challenges as china defies in u.s. and strikes a deal with iran. retired four-star general jack keane next on what's at stake. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is one of the most powerful men in the world, destroying cyber threats with a vengeance. yeah, i'm an i.t. manager. i'm just using sophos to block cyber threats. we'll probably never know how he does it. i just... 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thank you so much for being here today. >> great to be here, alicia. alicia: let's begin with this china-iran deal. two powers that don't have our best interest at heart. what do you make of this and where does the u.s. stand? >> well, they're coming together because of national interest here. iran as we all know has been under significant crippling sanctions for most of the four years of the trump administration and those sanctions are largely in place here. so they need revenue and that's what this is about. and they're going to use their oil, mining and other industries to get that revenue from china. china has a huge strategic interest in the middle east. so our viewers understand that china is completely dependent on middle east oil, over 60% of their consumption comes out of the middle east. so that is why they're interested in this relationship. it guaranties them a flow of oil from iran obviously. but also china in a general sense worldwide has a basic principle that it uses, alicia, and that is economic dependency gives them political influence and an ability to achieve the geopolitical objectives and they do that worldwide and they are doing that with the iranians here. because the middle east is so significant to them strategically, china also has relationship with iran's opponents and enemies in the region. that is principally saudi arabia and the uae. and that all has to do with the flow of oil. so that is what's bringing them -- bringing them together here. the implications for the united states certainly is it reduces the impact of our sanctions on iran and reduces the incentive for them to come to the negotiating table and work out a better and improved nuclear deal. we will see what materializes as a result of it. alicia: and the biden-harris administration has said that china -- they consider china to be the biggest threat, however, north korea on thursday launched -- test fired two short-range missiles and here is what the president had to say about that thursday, take a listen. oh, sorry about that. okay, so what the president did say on thursday was that they are consulting with their allies and partners and that there will be responses if they choose to escalate it and also saying that he's prepared for some sort of diplomacy but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization and we got a response from north korea just this morning, calling his words a provocation and encroachment on its rights to self-defense. and also saying that they are planning to expand, your thoughts. jack: well, what's taking place here is kim jong un is dealing with a new administration. he was very frustrated with the trump administration because he thought by playing the card of potential of nuclear denuclearization, that he could get significant sanction relief and economic assistance. the trump administration saw through that, as a result of the fact that they recognize that kim jong un was just gaming them. so he's back to gaming again. this is a playbook that he's used in the past and his father has used and quite frankly before the trump administration quite successfully and what is that? fire missiles, create rhetorical belligerent attitude that appears to threaten our allies in the region and threaten the united states of america. if you recall in 2017 he fired three icbm's that could reach the united states. he did a nuclear weapon's test and huge rhetorical belligerent language. what should the united states do? well, first of all, we have a lot of sanctions on them and many countries frankly while they say they're imposing the sanctions, they don't do it in full earnest and other countries pull away a little bit. we have to go back and check every single one of those and mange sure that they are doing what they say they are doing and the second thing is go to the un, president biden, and lay out before the un security council which includes russia and china the fact that they are back-dooring economic assistance to north korea on a regular basis. we have the evidence of it. put it in front of the un security council and russia and china voted in sanctions in violation of it. let's shut that door. alicia: i'm up against the clock, we really appreciate your perspective today. thank you. >> great talking to you. ails as funerals are held for some of the victims at the shooting families remembering those who were killed coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ if you're 55 and up, t- mobile has plans built just for you. switch today and get 2 lines of unlimited and 2 free smartphones. plus you'll now get netflix on us. all this for up to 50% off vs. verizon. it's all included. 2 lines of unlimited for only $70 bucks. and this rate is fixed. you'll pay exactly $70 bucks total. this month and every month. only at t-mobile. it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what 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urging against gatherings and are monitoring the number of people coming to visit. and griff, just my question is, if next year i wanted to go, next year, how do i time it? griff: this is a big deal, right? i'm wearing my green tie i could come up today but in the local radio you're hearing warnings from the national park service spokesman, okay, people, this year we can finally go and see it but in limited numbers, please do not abuse this right to go down there. essentially if they see too many people violating the social distancing they are going to close it and once they close it they will not reverse it. this is such a treat. it's also time to get your allegra or claritin out because that's what spring brings in the nation's capitol. i have a park that i go near it where you can see in the distance, gorgeous day here today and a beautiful sight to see. of course, last year it was entirely closed. we had to do the cherry blossoms virtually. alicia: yeah, so beautiful. one of these 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into the country. welcome to fox news live, i'm alicia acuña in denver. griff: and i'm griff jenkins in washington. it's good to join you. we have fox team coverage on all of this. mark meredith in wilmington, delaware where the president is spending his weekend and steve harrigan in mission, texas. steve let's start with you and get a look at what you're seeing. >> griff, 19 republican senators toured the border on friday. they were on foot right along the river and gun boats behind me patrolling the river and they visit center that has come under quite a bit of criticism for overcrowded conditions. afterwards the senators held a fiery press conference attacking conditions in which migrants are being held. here is senator cruz. >> all of us today witnessed the biden cages. what is occurring here on the border is heartbreaking and it is a tragedy. you know, as we standby the banks of the rio grande we have army of cameras here. we requested that media accompany us in the facility, the biden administration said no. steve: no cameras allowed with the republicans or the democratic lawmakers who visited a different hhs site, a number of administration officials saying it doesn't matter who is president, that desperate families from central america will still make the journey north in order to try and survive. one thing that's not up for debate is the numbers. in the past month in february, 100,000 crossings attempted in the southwest border. that is up more than 20% over the previous month. if you look at the same month one year ago, the number of attempted crossings has tripled. griff, back to you. griff: steve harrigan along the u.s.-mexico border at ground zero in mission, texas. steve, thank you very much. alicia. alicia: and griff, president biden is defending his immigration policy vow to go set aside space for unaccompanied migrant children. this is growing number of republicans calling the president to visit the southern border. mark meredith is live from wilmington, delaware with more on how the administration is responding. hi, mark. mark: alicia, good afternoon. president biden insists his administration is doing all they can to address the surge of migrants coming into the u.s. or trying to reach the u.s. i should say but republicans say it's the policies coming out of washington that are creating what they see as a crisis. the homeland security department saying they are on track to see at least a 20% -- 20-year high in terms of migrants that have try today reach the u.s. and this is something that the white house says they do have a strategy and the border is closed. still the white house says it's trying to find enough room to house all of the people now in the government's care. >> just in this past week, we've taken steps to bring a number of new facilities online from fort blitz to san diego convention center, 1400 beds. the 3 sites alone provide peak capacity and additional beds. steve: vice president kamala harris was tapped this past week to kind of handle what's going on in the border but her spokesperson told reporters on friday that right now there are no trips planned. we are hearing the possibility that former president trump could make a visit down to the border some time soon but no plans announced on that. but as we've also heard from a number of lawmakers afterwards, steve was talking about, after seeing the facilities for themselves, they say it's the administration's own policies that's responsible for what's going on from california to texas. >> this is being driven by biden and the far left and vendetta against trump. they talked about in the campaign trail and -- mark: now this weekend the homeland security secretary is reshaping an advisory committee that's responsible for telling the homeland security department of a number of issues that they're monitoring, ideas, things of that sort. we know a number of member that is had ties to the trump administration decided they'll no longer be on the committee. they are being forced out but some members will be staying. the homeland security department says this is routine as leadership changes happen but the change certainly getting a lot of attention this weekend, alicia. alicia: mark meredith from wilmington, delaware. thanks, mark. griff. griff: drug seizure are spiking by 50% this year with mexican drug cartels finding new opportunities amid the t ongoing border crisis. with us now is a dea special agent richard sánchez. he's in charge of the mcallen district in texas. i had the fortune to meet him a few weeks ago when i was down there. agent sánchez, thank you for taking time. >> hey, good afternoon. thank you guys for having me on. we appreciate it. griff: since i visited you a week and a half ago, you had made even more drug seizure. i saw the picture you sent me which is 187 kilograms of cocaine. tell us exactly, there you can see it on the screen, tell us what was that specific operation and why it is that we are seeing cartels catalyzing on the opportunity right now. >> well, first off, the seizure occurred march 24th and received information from a concerned citizen regarding potential illegal activity in residence in texas and as a result contained research and located the cocaine. griff: agent sánchez, talk to me about the opportunity the cartels are seeing now in what the combination of both a surge but also the fact that in 2020 drugs were piling up along the u.s.-mexico border. >> well, in 2020 we had a record seizure year in collaboration again with our federal, state and local counterparts. dea initiated two successful operations. one is operation crystal shield and the other one was operation python. both operations were significant to dea not only in our area of mcallen, however, worldwide and as a result in the mcallen and houston field division we seized over thousand pounds of methamphetamine. we had over 20 divisions within dea domestically. so -- that seizure and those seizures represent a small portion of what we have here in the houston field division. griff: small portion but the numbers are stunning. let us show you the houston division stats. 9500 pounds of methamphetamine, 155 of fentanyl, 400 pounds of heroin, 3400 pounds of cocaine and you see the numbers there. it's quite shocking. are you concerned that we will see an increase in these numbers? >> well, what you're seeing, griff, those are kilograms, those are not pounds. so you want to multiply the 9,000 by 2.2 which is gives you well over 20,000. and, yeah, it's concerning and it's alarming. and what's most concerning and alarming is these drugs are destined for ohio, chicago, for new york, for atlanta, they don't remain here in our area. and those are the communities that are heavily impacted especially when it comes to the overdose situation that we are facing today. griff: cbp put out some numbers here recently showing to see -- theseizures increasing 78% fm january to february, some 76,87r in fentanyl making up 33% of all drugs seized. that's certainly concerning, speak to me, if you will, about the combination, anomaly of the multitude of drugs that you're seizing. >> so, yes. cbp along with the border patrol and dea and all our federal, state and local counterparts that makes a good percentage of -- seizures that we have. we experienced 600 in fentanyl seizures alone. in the last year 100% increase in methamphetamine seizures as well as cocaine seizures. again, those are significant seizures specifically when it comes to fentanyl because the -- the amount that it can take to kill you and commingled with the other drugs is a devastated effect in our communities. griff: dea agent, special agent in charge in mcallen, texas, thank you for taking time and i know that you will be there when cartels come. we will check with you as the year goes on. >> thank you. griff: alicia. alicia: governor's cuomo top aide among officials subpoenaed by the new york's attorney general office as part of probe of sexual harassment accusations according to the wall street. alex hogan with more details, hi, alex. alex: a group of protestors met outside new york governor cuomo's new york city office calling him to step down amid all of the scandals. now involving one of those scandals we know that the -- as a result of the sexual harassment claims, member of cuomo's administration are receiving subpoenas, among them top aide de rosa and the attorney general asked about interactions of which she said she had few. governor cuomo faces even more scrutiny this week after report that at the start of the pandemic hi gave pretrial -- hee preferential access to his. received tests from the state after someone in the household became infected. a regeneron spokesperson explaining to ensure he did not pull the risk to research team who were actively working on new covid-19 treatment. still as far as the govern o's actions, critics are calling for another investigation. >> this begs the question of how many donors have also got to cut the line on testing or how many donors have cut the line on the vaccine distribution, that's something that we don't know yet. alex: the new york attorney general's office saying the claims are troubling and doesn't have the jurisdiction to look into it but calling on the ethics committee to open another investigation. alicia. alicia: alex hogan in new york. thank you so much. for more insight of the legal trouble andrew cuomo could be in we will bring fox news contributor. andy mccarthy. thank you very much for being here today. we have these mounting investigations and we heard of all of the subpoenas by the wall thestreet journal. >> on the one hand the latest information that we've gotten about preferential treatment this is the least one in terms of public policy. but it's a big problem for him because it's a black and white violation of the ethics laws. so, you know, there's mirkiness about the sexual harassment allegations in that they're obnoxious and appalling but only one of them so far rises to something that would be like a criminal assault on the -- under new york law and the numbers on nursing homes death, that's mirky because i think that is going to end upcoming down to information that they can seal rather than positive lies that they told and harder to proven material omission of positive lie. but the ethics thing where he gives preferencial treatment especially for his family is something that people can easily wrap their brains around and a clear violation of the ethics laws. alicia: do you think time is on governor cuomo's side. they keep saying let the investigation play out and nothing against investigations but what this does do is extend the timeline? >> i do. i think time is his allies and that's why you're seeing his allies in the new york state assembly, we are going to look at everything and take a look long at the nursing homes and at the sexual harassment. they want to look at bridge safety which doesn't look to me that it has anything in that that we know by now that would be impeachable conduct by the governor. they're happy -- throw this into the hopper, the way the investigations work he'll be on the fifth term by the time they get to the rainbow if ever. he would be delighted -- they get to say we want to aggressively investigate and he gets to say governor so the impeachment effort never really becomes anything serious. alicia: does this put more pressure on the new york state assembly to take some sort of action or attempt some sort of movement on this? >> it does because -- and this is the thing that's tough for people to understand because we always have our attention kind of rivetted on washington and so we know there are democrats and republicans. we know who the players and if you tell us what party they are, we can tell where they're coming from. in new york you have a dynamic, woke progressive extreme left of democratic party in new york and they are in a struggle with what you might call establishment democrats in the old clinton mold of which the most representative is the governor. and the pressure that's on the assembly is obviously not coming from republicans. it's the -- the progressive element against the establishment democrats and that's -- that's where the pressure is mounting. alicia: quickly while i have you here. i want to hit on the boston bomber case because the u.s. supreme court has considered whether to reinstate the death penalty for the boston bomber and does this put the president in an unusual situation given that he's against the death penalty. what are your thoughts on this? >> yeah, we are told that president biden doesn't like the death penalty and doesn't like bombing. that's all nice to know but doesn't tell us the thing that we need to know, is he going to tell his justice department to pull the plug on that and my sense is that that will probably happen. they will wait till some period of time when everybody's attention is fixed on something else or people aren't paying that much attention and then i think the justice department will probably dismiss the appeal. alicia: andy mccarthy, thank you very much for your time today. have a good one. >> thank you. griff: police in virginia beach investigating a number of incidents leaving at least 8 people injured after multiple shootings. lauren blnchard live with the latest. >> murder and officer-involved shooting and a car accident all last night left department scrambling on what they are calling a night of chaos. >> what you can see is we have a very chaotic incident, a very chaotic night in the beach. many different crime scenes. reporter: investigation released today virginia police say an argument then physical fight friday night turned into a gun battle. 8 victims had serious to life-threatening gunshot wounds. while officers were managing that scene, police say they heard more gunfire a few blocks away and found a woman who was shot and died on scene. police say an officer shot an killed an armed suspect that was found near the women's body. they do not believe this incident is related to the first fight and shooting all while this was going on a virginia beach police officer was struck by a vehicle and taken to the hospital with minor injuries. thankfully today they were treated and released. >> i'm pretty sure the -- [inaudible] >> people ran away and cars at a distance. reporter: the officer involved in the suspect shooting has been in the department for 5 years and has been put on administrative assignment which is procedure. police are asking for tips and the investigation is ongoing. griff: lauren in washington, lauren, thank you. alicia. alicia: new threat of storms in parts of the south as many are cleaning up from the last round of severe weather. we will have the latest after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ have you ever seen this before? she's so beautiful. janie, check this out. >come here. >>let me see. 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thursday's storms. charles watson with the latest. hi, charles. charles: hey, there, this is a swarm of activity going out here with volunteers that seem to be working around the clock to get to hard-hitting neighborhoods like this one cleaned up. we started seeing the faith groups in redshirts showing up around 8:00 a.m. local time. some of them on school buses with saws to cut down trees, stair loaders to move heavy debris, food, water, you name it and there are hundreds of these volunteers in affected areas across alabama doing the same thing. take a listen. >> it's easier to get larger numbers of volunteers out on saturdays and on the weekend and so we are going to have a lot of people serving in all of the areas today but we don't stop right here and today, we will continue to serve these families in these communities. charles: and alabama may have taken the hardest hit but there are communities across the south from mississippi to georgia that are also trying to recover after that tornado outbreak killed at least 7 people in georgia where one victim was confirmed dead. you could see the devastation as the force of tornadoes that touchdown there just shredded through homes and businesses leaving picking up pieces of their lives. >> we have no idea. we try to move forward making sure they get to where they need to be at and then probably try to pick up the pieces from there. charles: and, you know, the anxiety of all this devastation weren't enough, there's still the threat of severe weather that returns today that could bring along with it large hail, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes, back to you. alicia: charles watson in alabama, thanks, charles. griff. griff: georgia's governor facing backlash over new voting law with president biden weighing in. the governor joins us live to respond right after this break. ♪ ♪ ♪ t of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo if 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damage. ly get to that. first, i want you to listen to president biden bashing your new law, listen. >> it's an atrocity. the idea -- any indication that has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency. you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote. you don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. griff: governor kemp, your reaction. >> i don't think the president or his handlers actually compare georgia voting laws to the state of delaware where he's from because we have a lot more opportunities for people to vote early here in the great state of georgia than in delaware and perhaps people will compare those. this bill that i just signed, you know, is expanding the opportunity for people to vote early here in georgia again with even additional potential for people to vote on saturday and sunday. it's further securing the absentee ballot process by simply adding a photo id requirement or number from your id that will actually speed up the absentee balloting by mail process which was very slow after this last election. take the arbitrary part of that away. really it's an election integrity bill but also expands access. so it's kind of ironic that the president would be against that. griff: governor your critics say and president biden calling him jim crow 2.0, specifically the heaviest criticism is that the new law limits voting access to african-americans specifically. what do you say to that? >> well, i can truthfully look in the camera and ask my african-american friends and other african-americans in georgia to simply find out what's in the bill versus the blank statement of this is jim crow or, you know, this is voter suppression or this is racist because it is not. it expands early voting in georgia. it also further secures the ballot with the photo id requirement and i would urge them to do just that and ask themselves who is being truthful to you here, is it the governor and the legislature that just voted on this bill or is it, you know, a lot of the third-party groups that are making millions off of putting the narrative out there or the president that obviously doesn't know what his own voting laws are in his own state. griff: governor for our viewers maybe just hearing the story seeing the two sides of this, what is in this bill that people need to know about, what is most important? governor: obviously we talk about the access side of things. now two mandatory saturdays. you can have the options that counties want to vote on two potential sundays which that is adding access. we are adding the photo id requirement to absentee ballots by mail. we already have that requirement in our law when you go vote in person before the last election, you know, 95% average, 95% of the people voted in person so people are used to using id to vote in georgia so it's not a big deal like people are making it out and if you don't have an id, we will give you one for free. we are addressing the drop-box situation. the left and the outrageous people that are making money off of this are claiming that we are taking away the potential to use a drop box, that was never in the law, griff, it's never been in the state law in georgia. with that with this bill, we are just going to make sure it's a secure process and the drop boxes are monitored and this whole ridiculous statement about water, you can get water if you're standing in line. your county can provide a drink cooler for you to get water but the real question is people that are outraged about that, they should be asking why am i standing in line that long to start with. this bill addresses that with the number of machines that should be at every precinct based on the percent of population that's going to be voting in that precinct to help speed up the election. people should be outraged in these democratic-run counties that they're having to stand in line for 2 or 3 hours here in the state of georgia. that is not the norm around the state. so a lot of these things, there's no truth behind it. they're trying to just -- they just believe that if they say it long enough, people will believe it and they'll send them money and i would encourage people to read the bill, find out what the facts are and thankfully there's a lot of media outlets that are putting good information on what is exactly in the bill and comparing it to states like delaware, colorado and california and other democratic-lead states that have much more restrictive laws than georgia does. griff: governor, one of your fellow legislators, democrat woman was arrested, let away from banging on your door trying to stop it, your reaction to that. governor: well, look, that's exactly what they wanted to do. they wanted to have some sort of scene that would distract from actually what the bill does because you have every single democrat in the georgia legislature that voted against adding access for weekend voting in georgia and requiring a photo id requirement on absentee by mail which we already do and you vote in person. i think they are trying to distract from the narrative and sell the whole sham of something that is not reality. griff: governor, you've gotten off of a tour of storm damage in the state and the time that we have left here, tell us what you saw and what the future holds. government global market action overnight unbelievable. i mean, i've seen a lot of storms even in 2 years that i've been here and the devastation that they leave. i was seeing a lot of the aerial footage last night on the news and none of it does justice to what i saw on the ground. this was enough for tornado, griff, there's only been 10 of them since 1950 and one of them just occurred here in georgia. our thoughts and prayers goes to all of those folks. i will tell you the state response working with the locals along with hundreds, probably thousands of volunteers and people like the red cross and others that are on the ground was heart warming because that community is devastated. i've never seen anything like it. literally houses ripped off the foundation and pulling the anchor bolts out of the concrete was how powerful the storm was but we have a great team over there and we are going to stay there as long as we need. griff: just a few seconds left. are you getting federal support that you need? governor: i haven't heard a whole lot from the feds just yet but the team is on the ground. a lot of that depends on what we see in the days ahead with the dollar amount and a lot of other things but we will get to that part of it but the georgia management agency, the locals, just about every state agency that can respond is responding now. griff: governor brian kemp, thank you very much for taking the time. we will keep georgians in our thoughts and prayers, have a good saturday. thank you, sir. alicia. alicia: miami beach is bracing for another weekend of spring-breakers, the city under state of emergency following overwhelming number of tourists in the area. jonathan sierre, doesn't look that bad yet. >> not that bad yet, the crowds began gathering around dinner time and going into the night although it's not going to last so long tonight because the city of miami beach after all has imposed that curfew. things have been so far less raucous since previous weekends. the city has been enforcing 8:0n the entertainment of this island community and then outside of the area after 10:00 p.m. police are limiting car traffic to the island to residents, to hotel guests, delivery drivers and people traveling to work. those are basically the only people who are allowed to drive on to the island after 10:00 p.m. the neighboring city of miami has called up additional officers to make sure unruly tourists don't take the party to their neck of the woods. >> enjoy the hospitality and enjoy the businesses, enjoy the restaurants but we will not tolerate any disorder and if you're going to come over here to cause problems, to damage property, we will be enforcing the law and we will be holding people accountable. reporter: many spring break tourists complain the 8:00 p.m. curfew is too early but in island workers and residents it's necessary to discourage fights and damage that have occurred over past weeks. >> there were so many people drinking the champagne and he throw the champagne like this to the floor. i mean, come on. if you go somewhere keep the place nice, there's family and there's kids, you have to keep respect for other people. reporter: now last weekend there was a problem after the 8:00 o'clock curfew here in the entertainment district went into effect. a lot of partyers went over to neighboring residential areas causing problems there. so this weekend police are out in full force in those residential areas preventing that from happening, alicia. alicia: well, we will see how it goes. jonathan sierre, thank you so much. griff. griff: 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( ♪♪ ) alicia: president biden is hope to go revive a climate form held by george w. bush and barack obama but skipped by former donald trump. 40 world leaders invited to the event. it would be held virtually aprin meeting on the climate slated for november in scotland. griff: and new attempts are being made to dislodge cargo vessel stuck sideways in is uez canal disrupting route. kitty logan is following that from london, good morning, kitty. kitty: strong winds and tides on the suez canal which are making more difficult to try to free the ship. now there are 14 tug boats attempting to refloat this container ship called the evergreen, the ever-given. salvage experts were dutch company working to release sand and canal authorities say there was a shift day, slight movement but not enough to move this massive ship. tons of water have been pumped out and there's some hope that the stern of the ship is not as firmly lodged as first fear. the ever-given is 400 yards long and right across the width of the canal. this is no easy task. the ship is weighed down with thousands of containers. one option could be to off load those by crane. that will lighten the load. the government has offered equipment and expertise to help egypt to try to reopen the canal. time is absolutely critical now. there were over 300 ships waiting to pass through the suez canal and between asia and europe. one of the world's busiest. 10% of world trade passes through there. alternative routes also open but those can add significant time to shipments and costs are mounting. the pressure is really on now to resolve this with literally billions of dollars of goods waiting to pass and, of course, a backlog is building too, griff. griff: wow, what a maritime traffic jam it is. kitty, thank you. alicia. alicia: with antiasian sentiment on the rise, how one organization is addressing the problem and how you can show your support next. ♪ ♪ ♪ is now a good time for a flare-up? 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>> absolutely. asian, inc operates minority centers with local, state support and folks can visit asianinc.org and seek out our services. we provide the services for access to capital, access to opportunities to sell products and services. we offer that through our website, we offer that through obviously now with the pandemic we do a lot of it virtually but we are open and available to assist diversed communities survive the pandemic and grow and thrive in this economy. alicia: and when we talk. anti-asian sentiment, i also read that business owners are reluctant to come forward and tell authorities, why? >> absolutely. folks, many of the asian american business owners are immigrants where english is not their first language. there is the desire to be anonymous because folks are here and just trying to put food on the table and trying to survive. so -- and folks don't want to be a target more so than they are already. and it's very difficult to try to address such an assiduous problem such as antiate, discrimination and violence but we are encouraging our communities to speak out and we are encouraging non-asian americans join us in speaking out and visiting our website and -- and reading our statement and if you agree with the statement, click on it and share it and if you don't agree with it, tell us why you don't agree. but, yes, this problem is insidious and affects many millions of businesses, there are over 5 million asian-owned businesses across the country and we want to make sure that the problem of anti-asian violence and hate directed towards business owners and what happened in atlanta was absolutely where violence is deadly, it can have a chilling effect on the economy and we as americans, this is not an asian problem, this is an american problem and all americans need to speak out. alicia: and you really hit on, i think, a very important point that it's also going to take non-asians to help fight the problem. >> we are asking folks to maybe a deliberate decision to patronize asian-american businesses. do patronize businesses and let them know that you support them, friends, family and network know that you support asian-americans and asian-americans businesses. we want you to visit stop aap.org and there's way the movement we are asking to speak out. we urge you to visit asianinc.org. we have a donate button. you can help personal safety alarms for businesses and employees. but also, again, read our statement, click on the statement on our homepage and share it and make sure that you let people know how you feel because, again, this problem will not be addressed by asians saying stop asian hate. it would be addressed and it would be put to rest when nonasians join us as well. alicia: thank you so much for your time. such an important message. >> thank you, alicia. alicia: griff. griff: governor desantis is going toe to toe and what he wants to bring back next. ♪ hi guys! check out this side right here. what'd you do? 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alicia: and live pictures coming in from a very rainy bristol, tennessee. you can see the bristol motor speedway here just ahead of tomorrow's food city dirt race and, griff, that's actually, that speedway there, that's actually clay, red clay. 26 -- 23,000 cubic yards brought in. and now it's mud. griff: that's right. well, specifically, alicia, bluff city clay, they call it. the red clay, bluff city just south of bristol there in the northeastern tip of tennessee. being a native tennessean, i know these things. but what's fascinating is they're looking at the first nascar cup series race on dirt in 51 years. all the racers and teams kind of concerned about that, and then you're seeing it's raining on that. now, the race is a 250 laps on a quarter mile trap, so 125 miles total. but, obviously, dirt is going to be the big factor, particularly if you mixed it with this 45 chance of rain that -- 45% chance of rain that's in the forecast. kyle larson and chris bell are favored because they have some dirt . ♪ ♪ arthel: a delegation of republican senators visiting the southern border and releasing new photos of conditions at a facility for migrants. the unfolding border crisis overwhelming resources as the surge of migrants try to cross into the u.s. touching off a political firestorm in washington on how to fix the dire situation. hello, everyone, and welcome to