moment. we will talk to tom homan about that. sandra: alert to a city in mourning. a wake is underway for one of the two new york city police officers murdered in an ambush last weekend. and funerals for both officers are scheduled in the coming days. hello, sandra smith in new york. great to have you here. it s great to be with you, i m in for john roberts, a solemn site. fellow officers carrying the casket of 22-year-old jason rivera into st. patrick s cathedral this morning. he and his partner were ambushed inside an apartment last week after responding to a mother s call for help. as funeral services get underway, attention now turning to manhattan s far left d.a. and the soft on crime policies. now alvin bragg says he will attack gun violence at every angle. deadly and dangerous start for the nation s police officers. 24 have been shot and four killed since just january 1st. brian will kick things off outside st. patrick s cathedral. is the public allowed inside?
john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
a stunning look at a now 5 hour standoff that has halted all movement on the golden gate bridge in san francisco. protesters there have clogged the bridge and we re learning now about how they did this. some of them are chained through the cars because initially you think 1 of the just arrest everyone they re obviously endangering everyone on the bridge and should be taken out of the area so we will take you live there and the left-hand side of your screen its getting more and more crowded as i watched over the course of the last couple hours. another huge protest of people wanting free palestine and anti- israel. their clock in the wall street area and we will take you there live as well. look at what happened in chicago this is o hare airport. protesters blocked the road on the way into airport to the extent that passengers had to climb out of their cars and cross the street with their suitcases in order to get into 1 of the busiest airports in america to get on their fligh
It s not your job to predict the future, what s your best guess? do you think title 42 is going to become ineffective on monday? right, so, good afternoon, gillian, thanks for having me on. we are waiting to see what s going to happen to title 42, lifted or extended, but regardless of the fact we are seeing record numbers every month, as you saw earlier with bill reporting on the ground there, we are seeing immigrants coming across along the southern border by the hundreds throughout the border. and with that, it causes a chain reaction. now you have to deal with human smuggling, high speed chases, the got-away, single adults trying to avoid apprehension by traversing through areas of vast terrain or private ranches. so we have to deal with all the elements, different events on a consistent basis all because of the fact anticipation of lifting of title 42.
Off the planes, they say good luck getting any information. but to go back to the a.g.s making that point, lack of transparency, getting information from this admin is hard. yeah, absolutely. and when you talk about all the videos we have been showing of all the mass i.c.e. releases, keep in mind i.c.e. still has not produced its fiscal year 2021 annual report. that fiscal year ended september 30th. almost four months ago. and it s the first time in a decade that annual report has not been ready by the end of the calendar year, and makes you wonder what s going to be in the report now that we are finding out that i.c.e. has just been mass releasing migrants apparently all over the place. we have shown it in brownsville and san antonio, two spots, hundreds of people between both locations in a matter of two days. you have to wonder what s going to be in that report, if and when it is finally released. sandra: bill reporting there from the border for us, as you have been bringing us