First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there s a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people o
trump s legal team says the president is expected to turn himself in early next week according to district attorney alvin bragg s office. quote. we contacted mr. trump s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the manhattan s d.a. office on arraignment supreme court indictment remains under seal. guidance will be provided when the arraignment it date is selected. fact that the grand jury indictment remains under seal means we don t know the exact charges. bragg has been investigating trump for alleged payment made leading up to the 2016 lengsdz. that includes $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about another 150,000 paid to model karen macdougall allegedly that is. the former president has denied all of these allegations along with affairs with both. all the while bragg has been trthrust national debate. saying in part this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg