to billions of dollars of their oil money, which obviously they ve been anxious to get their hands on and there will be restrictions. we will talk about that in a second. let s bring in iranian journalist who is with us but first, we will go to mark meredith reporting live on the breaking news from the white house. mark, what have you learned about this deal? martha, good afternoon to you. the white house is closely monitoring these developments in iran but confirmation five iranian american detainees have been moved from a prison to iran to house arrest. some of these detainees have been in the prison and iran dating back several years. a lawyer representing three families of the five detained broke the news with the lengthy statement today and went on to say, i hope this will be the first step to ultimate release, this is at best the beginning of the end and nothing more. but they were simply no guarantees about what happens from here. as a lawyer representing some of tho
inaction. sandra: the new york city mayor has been saying that for the last year. nearly 100,000 migrants have arrived here. so many that families are now sleeping on sidewalks and in makeshift tent cities that are popping up. that s all expected to cost a whopping $12 billion down the line. gillian: perhaps most surprising is the mayor s lack of communication with the commander in chief. have you talked to the president directly? we had a conversation last year, we communicated with the white house several times. we have a body, a contingent from homeland security here now. gillian: last year? chaos up north stems from the chaos unfolding down south. illegal border crossings are surging in the rio grande valley. bill melugin, what kind of activity is the border patrol seeing today? gillian, good afternoon to you. cbp source tells me as of this morning, more than 19,000 migrants in federal custody nationwide and that all four of their main border patrol sectors ar