that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants and two texas counties issued disaster declarations in preparation. today, however, there s no evidencef a rush at least not an immediate one. this video from the u.s.-mexico border is probably the besteds of that. on the left you saw the it was yesterday with migrants camped outside it, on the right the border as it was today. there s a lot of theories where those people went. we ll get to that in a moment. a source tells cnn according to a count by border patrol around 2,300 migrants were in custody this afternoon. that s slightly lower than earlier this week. nevertheless the administration is still preparing for more migrants seeking asylum. i.c.e. is adding 5,000 detention beds. there s also political chaos and the biden administration saying it s trying to sabotage its effort on the border after a federal judge s ruling in florida. reporter: after title 42 ended late thursday night some migrants discovered they didn t make it in
the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
the so-called war on woke is heating up. tonight, we re learning arkansas s republican governor, sarah huckabee sanders, may soon be signing a bill that would impose restrictions on direct shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal still needs to make its way through the state house to the governors desk. her spokesperson telling the post, the proposal is not about banning anything but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. unquote. cnn has reached out to governor sanders for comment, and we re still waiting to hear back. that s not all, her first month in office, she issued an executive order to prohibit critical race theory and arkansas schools. she also banned the term latinx, in official documents. and it s not just her, across the country more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn now to new york times columnist nicholas kristoff, he has a new piece out o
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showing the threats congressional leaders faced as they fled the capitol during the january 6th riots. the exclusive video is from filmmaker alexandra pelosi. she is the daughter of house speaker nancy pelosi and was shooting a documentary on the day of the insurrection. the video shows speaker pelosi and other congressional leaders as they sheltered at ft. mcnair, a military base in the washington, d.c., area after being rushed away from the capitol mob. they are still trying to penetrate the building and it s not a safe thing because we are trying to figure out how to get this job done today. we talked to mitch about it earlier. he is not in the room right now, but he was with us earlier. and he said we want to expedite this and, hopefully, confine to just one complaint and then we can vote and that would be, you know, then just move forward the rest of the state. while that was happening at the same time vice president pence was holed up at an underground loading dock