agent hiring in over a decade, the first in over a decade, we are in the process of surging personnel to the border including more than 1,400, dhs personnel, and 1,000 processing coordinates and an additional 1,500 department of defense personnel. all of these individuals would allow our law enforcement officers to stay in the field and focus on their critical mission. we are delivering on tougher consequences for unlawful entry including the return, removal and expulsion of more than 665,000 people during the first half of this fiscal year. we are conducting dozens of removal flights per week and we continue to increase our removal flight capability. we are increasing our efficiency and reducing processing times at the border. we launched the cbp1 app which
arizona. compare the new to the existing, and if you re blake masters, 46, that doesn t do it for you. this is just one small installment from one county. so no reason for panic in the masters campaign. but if this continues, then there would be, wolf. certainly would be. mark kelly still ahead. let s go to david chalian. i know you re looking so, so closely right now at the governor s race in arizona. yeah, which is a different picture, because of where the race is right now. obviously kari lake the republican and katie hobbs the democrat are locked in a much closer battle than we see between the two candidates in the senate race. our approximation of how much vote is outstanding in arizona is the same. 665,000 votes we estimate are still out there and uncounted. so hundreds of thousands of votes to still count in the state. but look at this. this is so interesting because it s a close race. kari lake is running a little behind right now, but in this estimate, in this range, kari
of that now. we can be patient and respect the results when they come out. one other thing is that these officials are working under enormous pressure, wolf. they have sustained some incredible threats on their families, on their lives, on their livelihoods. so they say they are trying to move as quickly as professionally, and as accurately as they can, wolf. kyung lah on the scene for us. we ll get back to you as soon as the numbers come out. kyung lah reporting for us. let s go over to dave chalian. what do the candidates need the do to actually win right now in arizona? as you see, we have about 665,000 votes outstanding in arizona statewide. so one of the things, wolf, that we re doing, our team at the decision desk looks at what each candidate needs, what percentage of that remaining unkwuncountede they need to wind. 665 uncounted, an estimate.
received over 50% of the vote triggering a run-off. what we re seeing in arizona and nevada is unconscionable. there are 665,000 more votes that need to be counted. 120,000 votes still need to be counted in nevada. 300 boxes throughout this country and that s what s being counted right now. we got that update from the clark county registrar that they have more than 50,000 ballots that need to be counted. laura: somehow we were able to become the most powerful nation on the face of the planet by voting and calling important races in one day. in recent history, we elected two democrats each to two terms, obama and clinton twice under a system where we knew the winner on election night. fair enough then, correct? now we re seeing a new normal of elections unfold every few years. in a number of battleground
margin only 16,000-plus votes for katie hobbs, but there are 665,000 more votes that need to be counted and why the races are way too close to call. where those are. 400,000 of those outstanding votes are maricopa county, phoenix. 148,000 down in pima county, tucson. we re standing by in the next minutes to bring you press conferences when they happen. now let me show you the situation in nevada where all eyes are on the crucial race there. that is the democratic senator catherine cortez masto against adam laxalt, republican challenger. neck and neck. only 16,000 votes. just shy of that separate the two. give you context there. 120,000 votes still need to be counted in nevada. so that is too close to call and we are expecting more results on that tonight. now, these two races are so crucial, because if democrats