border patrol s union. i also spoke with several local sheriffs and a ranch owner who said migrants are on his property all the time. people, of course, come across, and they cross our fences, and they start pulling them down. so now we re just, we ve resolved it by we re just using barbed wire fence. we did have a lot of problems with people showing up at our headquarters, you know, people asking for water and help. maria: the head of the i rio grande border patrol, chief brian hastings, told me his team has uncovered 70 pounds of fentanyl, 100 pounds of heroin, 1,000 pounds of meth and 40,000 pounds of marijuana just in the last few months. he said these hard narcotics make their way into the interior of the united states. later on the blackhawk chopper with the governor of texas and the heads of the department of
border patrol s union. i also spoke with several local sheriffs and a ranch owner who said migrants are on his property all the time. people, of course, come across, and they cross our fences, and they start pulling them down. so now we re just, we ve resolved it by we re just using barbed wire fence. we did have a lot of problems with people showing up at our headquarters, you know, people asking for water and help. maria: the head of the i rio grande border patrol, chief brian hastings, told me his team has uncovered 70 pounds of fentanyl, 100 pounds of heroin, 1,000 pounds of meth and 40,000 pounds of marijuana just in the last few months. he said these hard narcotics make their way into the interior of the united states. later on the blackhawk chopper with the governor of texas and the heads of the department of
behind bars, arrested for allegedly planning to join islamic state on their honeymoon. jaelyn young and muhammad dakhlalla arrested at a mississippi airport with tickets that would have taken them to turkey from there they allegedly planned to cross the board for in syria. seven people injured when a blackhawk chopper crashed near japan in apparent emergency landing there. the pentagon calling the incident a hard landing. the military helicopter conducting a training mission an the time. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. this amazing video of a fiery art installation is going viral. collect this out. 80-clip shows a blazing ladder climbing 160 feet high into the sky. the sky ladder, as it s called, sky ladder, fireworks by a chinese artist created as a tribute to his grandmother for her 100th birthday.
firm in cairo when isis kidnapped him on july 22nd. developing news now overseas. a u.s. military helicopter has crash landed off the island of okinawa in japan. 17 people were onboard the flight, seven of whom had to be hospitalized after the blackhawk chopper had to perform a hard deck landing on the u.s. navy ship red cloud. okinawa is an island 900 miles from tokyo that houses most of the u.s. military forces stationed in japan. nbc s kelly cobiella is following the story for us in london. kelly, any update on the condition of those injured? reporter: hi, frances, nothing so far from u.s. pacific command but the japanese government said today that two members of their special response unit, a group of japanese who were onboard and training with the u.s. military, were hurt. one has broken bones, the other cuts. but we have no details beyond that, no details on the other five.
inside their homes that were quickly dealing with rising water as well. and for those people they had an option i m told to get out. some of them did not know they needed to move as quickly as they needed to move. certainly in this situation where people are driving and they can see where rares are being overtaken by water. sometimes it s hard to tell just how fast that water will rise. look at all the people on the part of the road that is dry. you can kind of understand you re driving along and it looks like you can make it through, then suddenly you can t. but a blessing for those people tonight. because we saw them and that water was coming up it was pasted windows, on to the rooftop of the pickup truck. and we re told it s a blackhawk chopper that pulled down got down very close. we could watch it happen. and then they were rescued off the top of that pickup truck. we ve watched several of these this afternoon and now on into the evening. now back to live pictures. they re setting