. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. welcome to the best day of the week. your favorite. nobody it is likes saturday. even if you have to work, saturday is pretty cool. good to have you along. here is what we re watching this morning. i have to admit it is nice to be able to breathe one more time, but we can t let our guard down because we still know it is coming. city leaders and workers along the u.s. mexican border say they are bracing for an influx of migrants after title 42 expired this week. the concerns from officials and the legal challenges the white house is now facing after letting the policy expire. guilty on all counts, an iowa jury convicted daybell in the murder of her children. and what her family had to say after the verdict. we all just want to new explosions reported in eastern ukraine. we ll take you there to the frontlines as ukrainian troops work to
extradition to the u.s. the rally in iowa has been canceled due to weather bridport governor desantis is in the early presidential caucus state today. first let s go to bill melugin live at the border in brownsville, texas. bill, what is the latest there? brian coming in brownsville for the many cities that declared a state of emergency. brownsville sink thousands of illegal crossings every day this week. massive numbers and as a result of that border patrol i did mass releases. take look this video which are right here in brownsville. large group of migrants mass release walking on the bus terminal here ngo they get assistance with her travel documents. large majority are venezuelan right we caught up with one who said his release in the morning. i m elated and extremely excited. i was released this morning i made it. the mass illegal crossing here in brownsville officially got plugged up because with the state of texas dead. take a look the drum drone team shot to see a g
released, why they re here. all of those details are not going to end up in any database any time soon in many of these cases. we re told this is because in part the administration wants to avoid images of overflowing centers, videos, photos that can can t get out there of overcrowding because it s clear from the news conference, there s sensitivities around how all of this looks. more and more are coming before title 42 lifts. we re all going to take a chance. we ll see. we re all going swimming there. so we re all going to risk it and see what happens. so as the click ticks down now, a reporter asking the dhs secretary about the president s comment that the border is about to get chaotic. given the fact that you ve had nearly two years to prepare for this moment, how can chaos be the expectation? i have said for months and months that the challenge at the border is and is going to be very difficult. we have spoken repeatedly about the fact that that difficulty may
the concern, tens of thousands more aren t far behind. the biden administration on defense. the homeland security secretary saying they re prepared. now armed troops patrolling across the rio grande. families making desperate, dangerous river crossings. is social media playing a role in the number of people coming? plus, the crisis playing out beyond the border. with shelter in short supply from california to chicago and new york. our team on the ground. just breaking, a manslaughter charge is on the way for the subway rider who put a homeless man in a fatal chokehold. when he ll be in court. seven million at risk of severe weather, including tornadoes. we ll tell you where. the man suspected in the disappearance of natalee holloway set to be extradited to the u.s. what he is accused of, and why now. the new crackdown on power plants that run on coal and gas in the race to stop climate change. more pain for peloton, recalling more than two million exercise bikes.
what are you going to do tomorrow? can t top that. you can. bring it. see you tomorrow. cnn news central is now. that music. new reaction this morning after the town hall with former president trump. what democrats and republicans are saying and how this might shift the race for 2024 in surprising directions. key economic data just into cnn showing inflation is cooling. weekly jobless claims have ticked up to the highest levels since october 2021. title 42 ends today so what happens next as thousands of migrants are said to be waiting just across the southern border. we re following these stories and more. this is cnn news central. okay. so what now? this morning we are getting fresh reaction to former president donald trump and his appearance on a cnn town hall last night. president biden wrote, quote, it s simple folks, do you want four more years of that? a super pac backing florida governor ron desantis put out a statement called it, quote, an hour o