we re starting with jeff in del rio. what are you seeing? a few seconds e saw a family cross the rio grande here and basically intercepted by texas dps out here who will and them off to border patrol to be processed, but it s a stark contrast to what we saw just a week ago. nothing compared to that, that s when we saw thousands upon thousands of mostly haitian nationals crossing the bridge and camped out for several days, building makeshift tents, as they figured out what the next step was, that camp has now been cleared out, but as far as for the estimated 30,000 who crossed the border near del rio in the past two weeks, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says so far 2000 have been flown back to haiti and 5,000 could be held and released and another 8,000 they say went back to mexico, but he says, assuming they will all show up, 12,400 will have their cases heard by an immigration judge. some have been returned to haiti, indeed. others have been moved to diff
in for fredricka whitfield. president biden and the first lady are set to depart the white house, they re going to have a full day visiting areas of northwest florida hit by category 3 hurricane idalia last wednesday. they ll be taking a helicopter tour and meting with residents impacted by those flash floods and powerful winds. aerials like suwannee county included in the president s disaster declaration. residents rf access to federal funding, president biden is calling on congress for additional money to replenish fema s disaster relief fund and as costs mount from natural disasters from florida to hawaii, cnn s isabel rosales is in live oak where we expect to see the president and first lady jill biden in a couple of hours. isabel, morning. the people you have been speaking to, what do they tell you is their greatest need right now? reporter: they re telling me that power is a huge concern. now, in this area of the big bend live oak, suwannee county, it wasn t necessari
fails to begin the process of trying to get rid of the house speaker who is a member of her own party. we have been following this for from the beginning. georgia s marjorie taylor greene triggered motion late this afternoon to vacate. it is immediately rebuffed by her colleagues. 10 other republicans voted to continue that effort. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is at capitol hill right now with the latest. a lot of drama but kind of as we expected. good evening, chad. good evening, bret. a lot of drama but we kind of knew the outcome for the second time in 8 months. there was an effort to kick out the speaker of the house. in october, it was successful. today, it was not. the house has just voted to kill this resolution by marjorie taylor greene. the vote was 349 in an effort to table this, to kill, this to put this off the table. there were 47 members who voted in favor of it. in other words, they wanted to advance to an actual vote to remove the speake
and samuel ljackson stars in the latest king kong movie. we ll get mark kerdmode‘s take on that and more in the film review at 5:45. good evening and welcome to bbc news at five. the education secretary justine greening has been heckled by headteachers after she defended government plans for more grammar schools in england. she was addressing the conference of the association of school and college leaders. she insisted that grammar schools help disadvantaged children, but the union s general secretary said there was no evidence that they raise standards or improve social mobility. 0ur education correspondent gillian hargreaves reports. peter woodman at the weald school might be a head teacher, but he still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it and partly because it saves money for the shcool. the only reason we can survive is we are carrying forward money from last year, if the government stick to their pledges with the cash flow and budget, we will b
watching, if you have questions, we know lots of you do, send them my way. we will get into them through the hour. e mail, find us on social media and the hashtag is bbc os. ever since she became prime minister, theresa may has said there will be no early election. well, she s changed her mind. earlier she explained her reasons why. she s changed her mind. earlier she explained her reasons whyli she s changed her mind. earlier she explained her reasons why. i have just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election to be held on the 8th of june. i want to explain the reasons for that decision, what will happen next and the choice facing the british people when you come to vote in this election. last summer, after the country voted to leave the european union, britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership. since i became prime minister, the government has delivered precisely that. the prime minister went on to a